The classroom newsletter provides updates on the students' recent activities in third grade class 3-1. [1] The students completed a reading unit focused on fantasy and worked on writing personal narratives as part of a revision process. [2] In social studies, the students began a Midwest unit where they researched and created scrapbooks about individual Midwest states. [3] The students continued practicing math facts and cursive handwriting.
The classroom newsletter provides updates on the students' recent activities in third grade class 3-1. [1] The students completed a reading and writing unit before Thanksgiving break. [2] In social studies, the class began a Midwest region unit where each student researched a Midwest state. [3] The students continue practicing math facts and cursive handwriting.
The document provides updates from a third grade classroom in February 2013. It discusses the Valentine's Day party, current units in writing, reading, social studies, and math. It also outlines upcoming dates and events, including an agriculture field trip and a first grade musical. The student challenge involves solving a packet of brain teasers and puzzles independently.
The class has been working on comprehension strategies like visualizing and analyzing story structure. They began a new writing unit focusing on responding to literature by reading and discussing a novel aloud. In social studies, students completed a Midwest unit by sharing projects on their assigned states. A new science unit explores light through hands-on activities and new technology. In math, students are learning geometry terms and in language arts, they are studying monthly spelling words. The newsletter provides information on upcoming tests and events. Students are challenged to create spinning tops and observe how black and white patterns change at different speeds, relating it to their science light unit.
Carver Elementary is a K-5 school that has been educating students for decades. It offers diverse programs like language immersion in Italian and many after school enrichment clubs. The school teaches a diverse student body and aims to promote cultural sensitivity and unity. The document discusses the writer's positive experience observing classrooms at Carver Elementary, noting how the teachers maintain effective learning environments and engage students through enthusiasm, discussion, and games.
This lesson plan is for a 6th grade English class at Escuela Manuel Belgrano in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. The lesson focuses on practicing the past continuous tense and simple past tense through vocabulary related to holiday activities. Students will review vocabulary, listen to a short story, answer comprehension questions, and discuss their favorite parts of the story. The plan incorporates group work, individual activities, and storytelling to engage students and work on their four language skills.
The teacher provides an update on the various academic activities of her third grade classroom over the past month. She discusses their recent state testing, reading curriculum focusing on iBook novels, writing assignments, grammar lessons on pronouns, new math unit on multiplication and division, science unit on habitats and new classroom pets, and an upcoming student challenge to create a food web. Upcoming classroom events are also noted.
The summary provides an overview of classroom news and upcoming assessments from Mrs. Crandall's 3rd grade class. Students are beginning reading units on different genres and strategies. They are also taking MAP and AIMSweb assessments to guide instruction. In other subject areas, the class is focusing on map skills in social studies, math facts and unit 1 concepts, and creating digital postcards of landforms. The newsletter highlights recent work and provides information on spelling tests, writing assignments, and an upcoming student challenge.
The classroom newsletter provides updates on the students' recent activities in third grade class 3-1. [1] The students completed a reading and writing unit before Thanksgiving break. [2] In social studies, the class began a Midwest region unit where each student researched a Midwest state. [3] The students continue practicing math facts and cursive handwriting.
The document provides updates from a third grade classroom in February 2013. It discusses the Valentine's Day party, current units in writing, reading, social studies, and math. It also outlines upcoming dates and events, including an agriculture field trip and a first grade musical. The student challenge involves solving a packet of brain teasers and puzzles independently.
The class has been working on comprehension strategies like visualizing and analyzing story structure. They began a new writing unit focusing on responding to literature by reading and discussing a novel aloud. In social studies, students completed a Midwest unit by sharing projects on their assigned states. A new science unit explores light through hands-on activities and new technology. In math, students are learning geometry terms and in language arts, they are studying monthly spelling words. The newsletter provides information on upcoming tests and events. Students are challenged to create spinning tops and observe how black and white patterns change at different speeds, relating it to their science light unit.
Carver Elementary is a K-5 school that has been educating students for decades. It offers diverse programs like language immersion in Italian and many after school enrichment clubs. The school teaches a diverse student body and aims to promote cultural sensitivity and unity. The document discusses the writer's positive experience observing classrooms at Carver Elementary, noting how the teachers maintain effective learning environments and engage students through enthusiasm, discussion, and games.
This lesson plan is for a 6th grade English class at Escuela Manuel Belgrano in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. The lesson focuses on practicing the past continuous tense and simple past tense through vocabulary related to holiday activities. Students will review vocabulary, listen to a short story, answer comprehension questions, and discuss their favorite parts of the story. The plan incorporates group work, individual activities, and storytelling to engage students and work on their four language skills.
The teacher provides an update on the various academic activities of her third grade classroom over the past month. She discusses their recent state testing, reading curriculum focusing on iBook novels, writing assignments, grammar lessons on pronouns, new math unit on multiplication and division, science unit on habitats and new classroom pets, and an upcoming student challenge to create a food web. Upcoming classroom events are also noted.
The summary provides an overview of classroom news and upcoming assessments from Mrs. Crandall's 3rd grade class. Students are beginning reading units on different genres and strategies. They are also taking MAP and AIMSweb assessments to guide instruction. In other subject areas, the class is focusing on map skills in social studies, math facts and unit 1 concepts, and creating digital postcards of landforms. The newsletter highlights recent work and provides information on spelling tests, writing assignments, and an upcoming student challenge.
The summary provides an overview of classroom news and upcoming assessments from Mrs. Crandall's 3rd grade class. Students are beginning reading, writing, spelling and math units. Next week they will take MAP assessments in reading and math. Students are also working on centers and recent projects include creating digital postcards and a map skills project. Upcoming events include book orders, school photos, and no school days. The student challenge asks students to complete an ABC boxes worksheet with descriptive words.
This document contains a student's reflections on their practicum teaching experience at a secondary school in Argentina. The summary is as follows:
The student had a rewarding experience teaching English to a group of 15 secondary students. They were able to engage and motivate the students using appropriate themes and building rapport. The student felt more confident, prepared, and relaxed during this practicum compared to previous ones. They enjoyed interacting with the adolescents and seeing some students gain confidence speaking English. Overall, the student felt the experience helped them develop their teaching skills and they are grateful for the support of their tutor.
Mrs. Nawrot's class newsletter provides updates on academics and upcoming events. This week, students will take a midyear spelling test and have a math test on division. The class recently had a guest reader, held a science fair where Nicholas, Gavin, and Shawn placed, and will participate in Battle of the Books. The newsletter also lists important upcoming dates like conferences, field trips, and the end of the third marking period.
This document provides a variety of game ideas that teachers can use in the classroom to engage students and reinforce learning. It begins with an introduction to educational games and the benefits of using games. It then describes 16 specific games that can be adapted for different subjects, including content-related games like Battleship for vocabulary practice and guessing games like Who is He/She? for identifying people. The games are meant to be interactive, help students work together, and make learning an enjoyable experience while still focusing on academic content.
Lesson Plan Secondary School Practicum Class 3 Jimena Benito
The document contains a lesson plan for a 120 minute English class for 15 students aged 14-15. The lesson plan focuses on the ballad "The Twa Sisters of Binnorie" and aims to develop the students' reading, listening, speaking and vocabulary skills. Key activities include a warm up game to review the past simple tense, introducing vocabulary related to the ballad, reading and discussing the ballad, and analyzing themes of jealousy and concepts of beauty from the time period. Cooperative work and communicative language teaching approaches are emphasized throughout the lesson.
PORTFOLIO (Teaching English to young learners)Kamola Azimova
This article discusses two learner-centered approaches to language teaching: Task-Based Learning (TBL) and Project-Based Learning (PBL). TBL focuses lessons around tasks for students to complete using the target language. Lessons involve a pre-task introduction, performing the task in groups, and reviewing language from the task. PBL takes a longer-term approach, basing an entire term or year around a central topic with investigations, collaboration, and a final product. Both aim to make students' needs central and expose them to authentic language use through communicative activities and projects. The article outlines the benefits and criticisms of these approaches.
This document provides the lesson plan for a unit on self-discovery. The lesson focuses on families and introduces vocabulary related to family members. The main activities include singing a song about family members, defining new vocabulary in context, and reading a story called "A New Baby Brother" about a family with a new addition. Comprehension questions follow to check understanding of the story. The goal is for students to learn about and appreciate their own families.
Humanitites inquiry development unit of work Danica Murphy
Students will present their timelines on Anzac Day history and events. They will then participate in a word search and quiz about Anzac Day to test their knowledge. The lesson aims to have students explain what they have learned through presentations and interactive activities.
Lesson Plan Primary School. Class 1. Jimena BenitoJimena Benito
This lesson plan is for an 80-minute primary school lesson about festivals for 11-year-old advanced students. The lesson plan includes objectives to develop vocabulary about festivals, describe festivals, and understand cultural issues. It involves warmup activities to introduce festival vocabulary and pictures. Students then listen to descriptions of Thanksgiving, Bonfire Night, and the Lantern Festival and complete a table. They read a dialogue using present perfect tense and identify grammar examples. Homework includes practicing irregular past participles.
The document is a lesson plan for teaching 11-year-old students about festivals. The 80-minute lesson focuses on teaching festival vocabulary like Mardi Gras and uses activities to help students understand and use the present perfect tense with "ever" and "never". Students will read about Mardi Gras, do vocabulary and grammar exercises, play a game to review irregular verbs, and work in groups to research and present on different world festivals.
This document provides an overview and outline for a Grade 3 science textbook covering four units - Matter, Living Things and their Environment, Force Motion and Energy, and Earth and Space. It includes chapter outlines, lesson objectives, and procedures for lessons focusing on describing and classifying different states of matter, living things, forces and motion, and earth science topics.
1) The document provides a breakdown of the mathematics syllabus for Class 2 for the academic year 2008-09.
2) It lists the units/topics to be covered each month from April to December along with the expected learning outcomes, learning activities, and integrated values.
3) The topics include numbers, operations, shapes, measurement, time, patterns and more. Learning is through activities like games, stories, outdoor visits and using concrete materials.
This document contains a lesson plan for English lessons in Class II for various months. It includes the learning objectives, competencies, suggested activities and teaching learning materials for each lesson. The lessons cover poems, stories and grammar concepts. The activities suggested involve recitation, dramatization, discussions, games and use of technology like PowerPoint. Beyond the textbook, additional activities like observation and collection tasks are also included.
The document provides details on 10 different 7th grade lesson plans covering topics such as adverbs, poetry, free verse, personification, creative writing, brainstorming, book reports, author Chris Van Allsburg, and creating a digital story with Photo Story 3. The lessons include activities such as categorizing adverbs, listening to music snippets to analyze poetry, writing free verse poems, identifying personification in sentences, taking photos to create a story, using inspiration software to brainstorm ideas, doing oral book reports, completing a web quest on Van Allsburg, and designing a digital story with photos, narration and music.
The classroom was very well organized with labeled cabinets and materials organized by subject. The classroom library was also very organized with books sorted by reading level and month. Each student had their own labeled cubby and supplies. The teacher had organized storage for student supplies and her personal items. Student desks, the computer station, thinking maps, vocabulary and strategies bulletin boards, and math tools were all neatly organized. The teacher used color-coded mats and behavior charts to help students. Lessons were well structured and incorporated student participation through calling on students and using interactive technology.
This document outlines the aims, background, texts, and strategies for teaching Contemporary Children's Literature at the primary level in Malaysia. The aims are to develop interest in literature, provide an early foundation, and help pupils understand other cultures. It has been introduced since 2004 for Years 4-6. The current cycle will end in 2014 and be replaced with new texts. Acceptable teaching strategies include singing, listening to passages, movement breaks, and illustrating texts. The overall goal is to make literature fun and motivate pupils to improve their English.
This lesson plan outlines an English lesson for Grade 7 students focusing on the S-LV-C sentence pattern. The objectives are for students to identify, appreciate, and correctly use the S-LV-C pattern. The lesson will involve reading a passage, answering guide questions, identifying examples of the S-LV-C pattern, students making their own examples, and an activity where students ask each other questions using the pattern. Evaluation includes students creating 10 S-LV-C sentences and answering practice questions from the textbook.
This lesson plan guides students in synthesizing multiple texts to develop an understanding of the concept of "monsters" and what they reveal about human nature. Students will be divided into groups, with each group reading two assigned texts. They will annotate the texts and discuss how the texts help answer the essential question "What do monsters teach us about human nature?". Students will then form new groups including members who read different texts to synthesize their understanding across all four texts. Finally, students will generate a brief definition of monsters and human nature incorporating words from the texts into a word cloud. The lesson aims to move students from individual to paired to group work and back to develop
This document appears to be a draft of a grade 3 science textbook. It includes an introduction, acknowledgements, table of contents, and the beginning of the first unit on matter. The first chapter describes the characteristics of solids, including activities for students to classify objects based on properties like color, shape, size and texture. The second chapter will discuss liquids and gases. The textbook is meant to help students learn about states of matter and develop observation skills through hands-on experiments.
The class celebrated Halloween with a fun party where students dressed up and shared treats. They also completed the fourth week of a reading unit on fantasy genres and continued their writing unit focusing on personal narratives. In science, students designed experiments and began creating a video project about the planets. They also took a math test and will begin a new unit on multiplication and division. Upcoming events include parent-teacher conferences and a student-created "Solars Awards" ceremony for their solar system project.
This document summarizes a teacher work sample from Polaris Elementary school which has a very small student population across multiple grades in one classroom. The teacher created a language arts unit on the story "Follow the Drinking Gourd" about the Underground Railroad. Students took pre- and post-tests and completed writing assignments from the perspective of slaves or conductors. While some activities like learning about constellations were effective, the writing assignments did not match students' skills. The teacher reflected on using additional stories and activities to better teach about slavery and increase engagement, as well as finding professional development to improve instruction for their isolated student population.
This document provides descriptions of several proposed classroom activities from various educational accounts on social media. The activities are intended to make virtual learning more engaging for students. They include having students write introductions for fictional new classmates, creating acrostic poems using adjectives from their names, connecting sentences using conjunctions, and guessing classmates' likes and dislikes to get to know one another better. The goal is to foster interaction, creativity, and community despite the challenges of remote learning.
The summary provides an overview of classroom news and upcoming assessments from Mrs. Crandall's 3rd grade class. Students are beginning reading, writing, spelling and math units. Next week they will take MAP assessments in reading and math. Students are also working on centers and recent projects include creating digital postcards and a map skills project. Upcoming events include book orders, school photos, and no school days. The student challenge asks students to complete an ABC boxes worksheet with descriptive words.
This document contains a student's reflections on their practicum teaching experience at a secondary school in Argentina. The summary is as follows:
The student had a rewarding experience teaching English to a group of 15 secondary students. They were able to engage and motivate the students using appropriate themes and building rapport. The student felt more confident, prepared, and relaxed during this practicum compared to previous ones. They enjoyed interacting with the adolescents and seeing some students gain confidence speaking English. Overall, the student felt the experience helped them develop their teaching skills and they are grateful for the support of their tutor.
Mrs. Nawrot's class newsletter provides updates on academics and upcoming events. This week, students will take a midyear spelling test and have a math test on division. The class recently had a guest reader, held a science fair where Nicholas, Gavin, and Shawn placed, and will participate in Battle of the Books. The newsletter also lists important upcoming dates like conferences, field trips, and the end of the third marking period.
This document provides a variety of game ideas that teachers can use in the classroom to engage students and reinforce learning. It begins with an introduction to educational games and the benefits of using games. It then describes 16 specific games that can be adapted for different subjects, including content-related games like Battleship for vocabulary practice and guessing games like Who is He/She? for identifying people. The games are meant to be interactive, help students work together, and make learning an enjoyable experience while still focusing on academic content.
Lesson Plan Secondary School Practicum Class 3 Jimena Benito
The document contains a lesson plan for a 120 minute English class for 15 students aged 14-15. The lesson plan focuses on the ballad "The Twa Sisters of Binnorie" and aims to develop the students' reading, listening, speaking and vocabulary skills. Key activities include a warm up game to review the past simple tense, introducing vocabulary related to the ballad, reading and discussing the ballad, and analyzing themes of jealousy and concepts of beauty from the time period. Cooperative work and communicative language teaching approaches are emphasized throughout the lesson.
PORTFOLIO (Teaching English to young learners)Kamola Azimova
This article discusses two learner-centered approaches to language teaching: Task-Based Learning (TBL) and Project-Based Learning (PBL). TBL focuses lessons around tasks for students to complete using the target language. Lessons involve a pre-task introduction, performing the task in groups, and reviewing language from the task. PBL takes a longer-term approach, basing an entire term or year around a central topic with investigations, collaboration, and a final product. Both aim to make students' needs central and expose them to authentic language use through communicative activities and projects. The article outlines the benefits and criticisms of these approaches.
This document provides the lesson plan for a unit on self-discovery. The lesson focuses on families and introduces vocabulary related to family members. The main activities include singing a song about family members, defining new vocabulary in context, and reading a story called "A New Baby Brother" about a family with a new addition. Comprehension questions follow to check understanding of the story. The goal is for students to learn about and appreciate their own families.
Humanitites inquiry development unit of work Danica Murphy
Students will present their timelines on Anzac Day history and events. They will then participate in a word search and quiz about Anzac Day to test their knowledge. The lesson aims to have students explain what they have learned through presentations and interactive activities.
Lesson Plan Primary School. Class 1. Jimena BenitoJimena Benito
This lesson plan is for an 80-minute primary school lesson about festivals for 11-year-old advanced students. The lesson plan includes objectives to develop vocabulary about festivals, describe festivals, and understand cultural issues. It involves warmup activities to introduce festival vocabulary and pictures. Students then listen to descriptions of Thanksgiving, Bonfire Night, and the Lantern Festival and complete a table. They read a dialogue using present perfect tense and identify grammar examples. Homework includes practicing irregular past participles.
The document is a lesson plan for teaching 11-year-old students about festivals. The 80-minute lesson focuses on teaching festival vocabulary like Mardi Gras and uses activities to help students understand and use the present perfect tense with "ever" and "never". Students will read about Mardi Gras, do vocabulary and grammar exercises, play a game to review irregular verbs, and work in groups to research and present on different world festivals.
This document provides an overview and outline for a Grade 3 science textbook covering four units - Matter, Living Things and their Environment, Force Motion and Energy, and Earth and Space. It includes chapter outlines, lesson objectives, and procedures for lessons focusing on describing and classifying different states of matter, living things, forces and motion, and earth science topics.
1) The document provides a breakdown of the mathematics syllabus for Class 2 for the academic year 2008-09.
2) It lists the units/topics to be covered each month from April to December along with the expected learning outcomes, learning activities, and integrated values.
3) The topics include numbers, operations, shapes, measurement, time, patterns and more. Learning is through activities like games, stories, outdoor visits and using concrete materials.
This document contains a lesson plan for English lessons in Class II for various months. It includes the learning objectives, competencies, suggested activities and teaching learning materials for each lesson. The lessons cover poems, stories and grammar concepts. The activities suggested involve recitation, dramatization, discussions, games and use of technology like PowerPoint. Beyond the textbook, additional activities like observation and collection tasks are also included.
The document provides details on 10 different 7th grade lesson plans covering topics such as adverbs, poetry, free verse, personification, creative writing, brainstorming, book reports, author Chris Van Allsburg, and creating a digital story with Photo Story 3. The lessons include activities such as categorizing adverbs, listening to music snippets to analyze poetry, writing free verse poems, identifying personification in sentences, taking photos to create a story, using inspiration software to brainstorm ideas, doing oral book reports, completing a web quest on Van Allsburg, and designing a digital story with photos, narration and music.
The classroom was very well organized with labeled cabinets and materials organized by subject. The classroom library was also very organized with books sorted by reading level and month. Each student had their own labeled cubby and supplies. The teacher had organized storage for student supplies and her personal items. Student desks, the computer station, thinking maps, vocabulary and strategies bulletin boards, and math tools were all neatly organized. The teacher used color-coded mats and behavior charts to help students. Lessons were well structured and incorporated student participation through calling on students and using interactive technology.
This document outlines the aims, background, texts, and strategies for teaching Contemporary Children's Literature at the primary level in Malaysia. The aims are to develop interest in literature, provide an early foundation, and help pupils understand other cultures. It has been introduced since 2004 for Years 4-6. The current cycle will end in 2014 and be replaced with new texts. Acceptable teaching strategies include singing, listening to passages, movement breaks, and illustrating texts. The overall goal is to make literature fun and motivate pupils to improve their English.
This lesson plan outlines an English lesson for Grade 7 students focusing on the S-LV-C sentence pattern. The objectives are for students to identify, appreciate, and correctly use the S-LV-C pattern. The lesson will involve reading a passage, answering guide questions, identifying examples of the S-LV-C pattern, students making their own examples, and an activity where students ask each other questions using the pattern. Evaluation includes students creating 10 S-LV-C sentences and answering practice questions from the textbook.
This lesson plan guides students in synthesizing multiple texts to develop an understanding of the concept of "monsters" and what they reveal about human nature. Students will be divided into groups, with each group reading two assigned texts. They will annotate the texts and discuss how the texts help answer the essential question "What do monsters teach us about human nature?". Students will then form new groups including members who read different texts to synthesize their understanding across all four texts. Finally, students will generate a brief definition of monsters and human nature incorporating words from the texts into a word cloud. The lesson aims to move students from individual to paired to group work and back to develop
This document appears to be a draft of a grade 3 science textbook. It includes an introduction, acknowledgements, table of contents, and the beginning of the first unit on matter. The first chapter describes the characteristics of solids, including activities for students to classify objects based on properties like color, shape, size and texture. The second chapter will discuss liquids and gases. The textbook is meant to help students learn about states of matter and develop observation skills through hands-on experiments.
The class celebrated Halloween with a fun party where students dressed up and shared treats. They also completed the fourth week of a reading unit on fantasy genres and continued their writing unit focusing on personal narratives. In science, students designed experiments and began creating a video project about the planets. They also took a math test and will begin a new unit on multiplication and division. Upcoming events include parent-teacher conferences and a student-created "Solars Awards" ceremony for their solar system project.
This document summarizes a teacher work sample from Polaris Elementary school which has a very small student population across multiple grades in one classroom. The teacher created a language arts unit on the story "Follow the Drinking Gourd" about the Underground Railroad. Students took pre- and post-tests and completed writing assignments from the perspective of slaves or conductors. While some activities like learning about constellations were effective, the writing assignments did not match students' skills. The teacher reflected on using additional stories and activities to better teach about slavery and increase engagement, as well as finding professional development to improve instruction for their isolated student population.
This document provides descriptions of several proposed classroom activities from various educational accounts on social media. The activities are intended to make virtual learning more engaging for students. They include having students write introductions for fictional new classmates, creating acrostic poems using adjectives from their names, connecting sentences using conjunctions, and guessing classmates' likes and dislikes to get to know one another better. The goal is to foster interaction, creativity, and community despite the challenges of remote learning.
Central Elementary School's vision is to provide a safe, caring environment that meets students' academic and emotional needs. The school's mission is to place students first, use best practices and technology, set high expectations, support all students to reach their potential, and communicate with parents. Upcoming events include a movie night, Santa Shop, and skate night. Classes will be dismissed for winter break from December 24th to January 7th.
This document provides information for parents about Team Initiative at the school. It includes details about volunteering opportunities, teacher contacts, behavior expectations, punch card rewards system, homework expectations, class schedules, and supply lists. The document also summarizes curriculum for key subjects like language arts, math, science and social studies for the upcoming quarter/year. It emphasizes the importance of homework, reading, and practicing key skills outside of class time to improve. Contact information is provided for parents to reach out if any questions or concerns arise.
Mrs. Graves teaches 4th grade and outlines her classroom expectations and policies. She expects students to be respectful and not interrupt each other. The classroom has a zero tolerance for drugs, weapons, and bullying to ensure a safe learning environment. Parents are encouraged to volunteer in the classroom, sign weekly reading logs, and visit the classroom blog. Students will cover topics in social sciences like Idaho history, in science will observe plant growth, in math will learn to add and subtract decimals using fake money, and in English will read stories and analyze characters and plots.
This document provides an overview of the curriculum and schedule for a 4th grade classroom. It discusses the teacher's background and experience. A typical school day involves morning and afternoon routines, specials, and closing activities. Homework focuses on math fluency and reading, and is assigned Monday through Thursday. Standards-based report cards are issued three times a year. Subjects covered include reading, writing, spelling, math, science, social studies, and S.M.A.R.T. time. Several field trips are planned. The classroom uses a 7 Habits approach and has an open door policy for parents.
Mrs. Graves teaches 4th grade and outlines her classroom expectations and policies. She expects students to be respectful, not interrupt others, and contact her or the school if they feel unsafe. She encourages parent involvement through volunteering, signing weekly reading logs, and visiting her classroom blog. The curriculum will cover Idaho history, plant and animal growth in science, reading comprehension, and math including whole numbers and decimals.
Mrs. Graves teaches 4th grade and outlines her classroom expectations and policies. She expects students to be respectful, not interrupt others, and contact her or the school if they feel unsafe. She encourages parent involvement through volunteering, signing weekly reading logs, and visiting her classroom blog. The curriculum will cover Idaho history, plant and animal growth in science, character and plot analysis in English, and math including decimals and money.
Mrs. Graves teaches 4th grade and outlines her classroom expectations and policies. She expects students to be respectful, not interrupt others, and contact her or the school if they feel unsafe. She encourages parental involvement through volunteering, signing weekly reading logs, and visiting her classroom blog. Throughout the year, students will learn about Idaho history, plant growth in science, and develop reading comprehension skills through various stories and independent reading.
The principal of Central Elementary School welcomes parents in a letter. She discusses upcoming events like PTA activities and assessments. The school's mission is to create a caring learning environment where all students can reach their potential. The principal is working with teachers and parents to foster learning. Non-nutritional days and lunch times are listed. Information from teachers provides updates on classroom lessons and activities.
The document provides an overview of the 4th grade curriculum and expectations at the school. It summarizes the core subjects that will be covered including reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. It outlines the reading programs, writing genres, math topics, and daily responsibilities expected of students. It concludes by thanking parents for their involvement and emphasizing that high expectations and teamwork can help all students succeed.
Mrs. Graves outlines her expectations for students in her 4th grade classroom. She expects students to show respect by raising their hands, not interrupting, and excusing themselves quietly. She has a zero tolerance policy for drugs, weapons, and bullying to ensure a safe learning environment. She encourages parental involvement through volunteering, signing weekly reading logs, and visiting her classroom blog. Over the course of the year, students will learn Idaho history, study plant and animal growth in science, and develop reading comprehension through different stories and independent reading.
The document provides information about Central Elementary School for the 2017-2018 school year. It includes a welcome message from the principal, Mrs. Mizell, who discusses the school's mission of promoting learning and academic excellence. It also provides announcements about upcoming events like Valentine's Day parties and fundraisers. Information is given about each grade level, including what subjects they are studying. The school's vision, mission, and motto emphasizing student success are also stated.
Room 204: Reflections on Student Teaching by Nahid Husainguestf3aa5c34
The document discusses strategies for teaching including setting clear expectations, ongoing formative assessments, modeling lessons, allowing student choice and creativity, developing discussion skills, and reflecting on what works and doesn't to improve teaching practice. It also emphasizes making lessons engaging for students through energy, passion, and creative approaches.
The principal of Central Elementary School welcomes parents in a letter providing updates on events at the school. Assessments are being given, PTA is holding fundraisers, and the principal's vision is for the school to provide a caring learning environment where all students reach their potential. The school motto is "Reaching New Heights-Soaring to Excellence."
The document provides information about upcoming dates at the school including Easter, spring break, and report card release dates. It discusses how students recently completed standardized tests in reading and math and will continue working to excel in these subjects. It outlines the reading and writing curriculum for the upcoming month, including reading strategies and a focus on paragraph organization in writing. Finally, it lists some book report due dates for students.
This document provides information about Central Elementary School for the 2018-2019 school year. It includes the school motto, vision, and mission statements focusing on providing a safe, caring learning environment that meets the needs of every child. It lists upcoming events and announcements such as picture retake day, fall break, and PTA meetings. It also provides grade-specific information about curriculum topics being covered in each subject area and ways parents can support learning at home.
This program was created with both teachers and students in mind. It provides whole group instruction to introduce lessons and reading skills using stories brought to life by actors, plots and keywords. Students learn critical thinking skills like making predictions and comprehending what they read. Detailed center plans are provided for weekly lessons, allowing teachers to work with small groups on skills like fluency while students explore materials to build multiple literacy skills. The goal is to foster creative writing using Story Bird, where students create their own stories using the same pictures from the big books.
Second Grade Open House - Shanghai American School, Pudong Campussperobinson
Second Grade Open House - Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus: This slide show outlines the curriculum taught in second grade. It also outlines the units of study, assessment tools, information for parent volunteers, and homework expectations.
Optical illusions trick our brains into seeing things that may not be real by using color, light, and patterns to create misleading images. While the picture we see does not match the true image, optical illusions exploit how our brains process visual information. They come from a Latin word meaning "to mock" as they fool our perception.
Glass is made by melting sand with high heat, shaping the melted sand/glass mixture on a metal bar, then rapidly cooling it by plunging the shaped glass into water to harden it into its final form.
This document discusses chickens and their feathers, how chickens are related to extinct animals, and reveals that eggs were the answer people were waiting for. It explores different facts about chickens that some people may not know or find confusing, such as how much chickens can shed their feathers. The document hopes the reader will not forget that chickens lay eggs after building suspense about an unknown answer.
Dreams are a combination of images, memories, and sensations created when the brain tries to make sense of random signals from the conscious mind during sleep. Lucid dreaming is when someone realizes they are dreaming while dreaming. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep occurs a few times a night for 10 minutes to an hour and is when most vivid dreaming occurs due to eye movements. Sigmund Freud studied dreams and their interpretation. Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams.
Optical illusions trick our brains into seeing things that may not be real by using color, light, and patterns to create misleading images. While the picture we see does not match the true image, optical illusions exploit how our brains process visual information. They come from a Latin word meaning "to mock" as they fool our perception.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document provides an overview of a teacher's curriculum for the school year. It includes the teacher's philosophy of helping students feel successful and fostering a love of learning. The curriculum overview summarizes the subjects that will be covered, including language arts, reading, spelling, math, science, social studies, and technology. Assessment policies and important dates are also mentioned.
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1. Crandall Chronicle December 2012
Classroom News from 3-1
I hope you all had a wonderful Right before Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving break (It seems break, the students filled our
so long ago now.) filled with class pillar with 200 smiley faces
delicious food and fun times (earned each week for keeping
with family and friends. Thank all 6 pillars). They voted on a
you all so much for meeting class reward and decided to
with me at your child’s have a movie party with
conference. I really enjoyed popcorn and pajamas. This,
sharing all of the successes combined with our Solars Award
that the students have had so Ceremony, made for a very
far in third grade. special end to the 3rd trimester!
Please continue to thank the friends and family members who
send postcards to our class. We recently counted 112
postcards from 32 different states and 17 international
destinations! The students really enjoy learning about the
states and locating them on the map.
Visit our class website to see which states
we still need postcards from!
In this issue:
http://ccrandall3.blogspot.com/p/race-across-states.html
Reading 1
Reading Cont. 2 What We’re Studying
Writing 2
Reading
Science 3
Math 3 During the week before and determining an author’s
Cursive 3 Thanksgiving Break, we purpose for writing. They
completed the second unit of carefully decided if the author
Web Updates 4
our Treasures Literacy was trying to inform,
Reminders 4
Program. Throughout this persuade, or entertain us. We
Dates/Events 4 unit, the students practiced continued to work on using
Student reading comprehension context clues to find the
Challenge 5 strategies that include meaning of a word with
generating questions, multiple meanings. The
summarizing, identifying text students were introduced to
as fantasy or reality, poems and poetry features like
identifying facts and opinions, alliteration and repetition.
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Reading Continued
We began our reading unit with a to nonfiction, biographies, and
focus on the genre of fantasy. A autobiographies.
purpose for reading was set for the As your child continues to read at
students, and they had to identify home, please engage in a
parts of the story that were conversation about what he or she
completely fantasy and those that has read. This will help the children to
were realistic. Our focus then turned think more critically of the book.
Writing The second part they were looking for
The students have been hard at work was an area that they thought might
on their writing. During the weeks be lacking focus or showing details.
before Thanksgiving break, the Their job was to then add more
students were working on writing sentences or modify their already
personal narratives for our WEX written sentences to use the writing
(Writers’ Express) writing program. skills they had been practicing in
They selected one of their pieces they class.
had written this year that they wanted The next step in the writing process
to expand upon and improve. The involved the students editing their
students began the revision phase of own work. They whispered their piece
the writing process. Each student was of writing to themselves so that they
responsible for reading through their could listen for missing or extra
journal entry and finding at least two words. They also double-checked for
parts that they thought they could capital letters and correct punctuation.
improve. Since the students self-edited their
The first part they were looking for pieces and they checked for spelling
was an example of something they on their own, you may notice that
thought they did very well. This could some words are spelled incorrectly in
have been a section in which they their final published pieces. Our focus
effectively focused on a single during writing was on their ideas, so
moment or an area where they felt correct spelling was not required for
that they included exceptionally good this piece unless they were our
details that show the reader exactly monthly writing words. I encourage
what they were thinking. They wrote students to take risks with their word
two or three (or even more) choice, which results in them using
sentences continuing to demonstrate more challenging or exciting words
these wonderful writing skills. they may not be familiar with spelling.
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Social Studies culminating activity, the students will be
taking an imaginary train ride through
In social studies, we began our Midwest
the Midwest. As we pass through each
Unit right after Thanksgiving break. The
state, the students who studied that
students have been reading about the
particular state will share important
land in the Midwest and will be learning
information with their classmates through
about the types of transportation that has
a previously recorded podcast. The
been used throughout its history. We will
students will learn about each state’s
also learn about the people of the
natural resources, state symbols,
Midwest and its economy.
manufacturing and agricultural products,
Each student selected a state from the important tourist sights, and other
Midwest that they are interested in interesting facts.
learning more about, and they began
The students are responsible for learning
researching their states in class. At the the states and capitals for the Midwest
end of this unit, the students will have a region and will be tested on them before
scrapbook containing all of the winter break. They need to be able to
information that they learned while on match states with their capitals and
locate the states on a blank map.
our “journey” through the Midwest. As a
Math Cursive
We completed our fourth math unit The students have been working
before break. The students were extremely hard on their lowercase
excited about learning new cursive letters. Our cursive packets
multiplication math facts and are nearly complete. Once students
practicing their multiplication and have finished their lowercase
division skills. The students learned letters, they will move on to the
new vocabulary (factor, product, capital cursive letters. They are
dividend, divisor, and quotient) to working hard to make sure they
describe the numbers that they are are forming each of the letters
multiplying or dividing. We will correctly. I am very pleased with
continue to use this vocabulary daily the time and effort they are putting
during our math lessons. The class has into making their cursive
been practicing multiplication and handwriting neat.
division in number stories through the
use of workbooks, hands-on activities,
and games. Please continue to have
your child practice his or her math
facts daily! We are currently practicing
writing and reading large and small
numbers.
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Class Website Updates!
Visit our class website and check out these recently added items:
Class Pet Adventures
Frozen Clock Graphing Activity
Calculating Grandpa’s Age in Minutes and Seconds!
Race Across the States
Everyday Math Parent Letters (offers homework help) are posted
under the Everyday Math section on the “Learning Links” page.
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MONTHLY REMINDERS
* Remember to send your child to school with
appropriate clothing for outdoor recess. As the
days get colder, this may include hats, mittens,
winter coats, and warm pants. If your child wants
to play in the snow, he or she must be wearing
snow pants and boots.
* Please continue to encourage your child to practice
his or her math facts nightly. Remember, there are
many different math games on our class website!
IMPORTANT DATES & UPCOMING EVENTS
December 21st – Spirit Day (Pajama Day)
December 24 – January 4 – Winter Vacation (NO SCHOOL)
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Student Challenge
This month’s challenge: Create a timeline showing the years
that each of the Midwest states became a state and joined
the United States of America.
You will need to do a little research to find out what years
each of the 12 states became a state and an interesting
fact about each one. You may use the internet, books at
the library, encyclopedias, or any other resources that
might be helpful. (The state quarters have the dates!)
Next, draw a neat timeline using a ruler or yardstick.
Fill in the dates, the names of the states, their capital
cities, and an interesting fact about each Midwest state.
Turn in your neatly completed timeline before winter break!
Don’t forget that names of cities & states need capital letters.
The Midwest states include: The capitals include:
Illinois Missouri Bismarck
Indiana Nebraska Columbus
Iowa North Dakota Des Moines
Kansas Ohio Indianapolis
Michigan South Dakota Jefferson City
Minnesota Wisconsin Lansing
Lincoln
! Madison
Pierre
Springfield
St. Paul
Topeka
Don’t forget to keep practicing your Midwest states and capitals!