Kindergarten: The Kindergarten team
has been busy learning about celebrations! Throughout our planner, we are
looking forward to enjoying some holiday carols, doing some crafts, and
listening to stories of celebrations from around the world.
This week, we learned that Chromebooks
for Kindergarten should arrive to the classroom by December 14th!
As a Kindergarten team, we have decided to keep the Chromebooks at school until
Winter break so we can learn the basics of how to operate them. They will
be sent home with your child December 22nd or
23rd and can be kept at home unless otherwise notified by your teacher.
Considering the amount of materials our little friends are already
bringing back and forth to school each day, we thought it best not to add
more. As always, this is a tentative plan and should we feel the need to
change, we will communicate adjustments as soon as possible.
Lastly, please send your child to
school wearing a mask that fits him/her well on each in person school day.
It’s also important for your child to have at least one extra clean mask
in his/her backpack in the event that a mask change is needed during the day.
Thank you so much for your help with this!
We wish you a happy, healthy holiday
season and look forward to hearing all about your family’s traditions and
celebrations!
Primary: We again would like to start by thanking our
primary parents for your support during the distance learning. We know
our little friends require a lot of help and we see you doing it and we really
appreciate it. Thank you for your patience and hard work.
During our planner, "Let's Build a
Community," we have been learning about different types of communities. Some of the students participated in building dioramas
of urban, suburban and rural areas. Students have been learning
different attributes of communities and how they rely on each other. We
will be moving shortly into the planner, "The Keeping Quilt." Where
we will learn about traditions and different cultures.
During Writer's and Reader's workshop we will be
moving into learning about nonfiction books and learning to write expository
texts! We will be working on writing "All Abouts," and "How
tos!" Make sure when you are reading at home that you are pointing out
different text features in nonfiction books.
Elementary: The Elementary Team will be moving to their next
planner entitled Meeting Our Needs. In this planner students will explore
the basics of economy as well as explore how where people live in our world
influences how they live. Students will explore how people rely on
natural resources in their environment to meet their needs and wants. We
will also learn how we as humans impact our environment in both positive and
negative ways as we try to meet those needs. Students and teachers
are excited to be receiving district assigned chrome books. Elementary
classrooms will be learning how to utilize our new technology for both in
person and remote learning. All classrooms will be using GOOGLE Classroom
as their main learning platform and students will learn how to access, work on,
and turn in assignments on GOOGLE Classroom. We will also explore other
technology-based resources that students will be asked to use.
Intermediate: The intermediate team is plowing through our current inquiry
unit: Location helps engineer growth and development of a society.
We will inquiry how people live together share a common
identity, the ways people adapt to and modify their environment to meet their
needs, how geography impacts migration and settlement, and the commonalities of
all civilizations.
Students are working with partners or in small groups on a
web quest to travel back in time to find out as much as we can about ancient
civilizations. By the end of our inquiry, we will use the knowledge gained to
create a plan for a future civilization on a recently found planet similar to
Earth, just outside of our galaxy.
Last month we wrapped up November by creating a
choose-your-own-adventure style QUEST FEAST. We contributed a mix of virtual
and physical presentations that ranged from playing stick games that Native
American children played to learning facts about the culture of the Wampanoag
people and learning the history of the Dutch oven.
The intermediate team warmly welcomes back students on Wednesdays
and we are excited to focus our time on inquiry-based activities and challenges
to build anticipations and engagement for the school year. Welcome back!
Special Areas: With
the arrival of chromebooks, all students will be joining Special Area Google
Classrooms. Students will have a different classroom for Art, Music, PE
and Spanish. Our team will make sure that all students are signed up in
the correct classrooms during the month of December.
Starting
in January, all Special Area remote assignments will be posted weekly in Google
Classroom. Please check the classrooms on remote days to see if there are
assignments due. Students in Kindergarten, Primary and Elementary will
continue to use Special Area folders to bring assignments back and forth.
Pack your Special Area folder each day and bring it to all specials!
