Take a Peek at Our Week!

We had a busy week! Ms. Gilmore came in to teach both classes how to use Adobe Spark Page. We are using this platform for our early civilization research. Next week we will have a "virtual museum" to share our projects using the "wander & wonder" strategy to help us record our new thinking. The students are off to a great start!

In writing, we focused on introduction paragraphs and body paragraphs. Students peer edited after both to ensure that they had the proper structure, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation. We will use the peer editing strategy throughout the year. The students worked so well together, and it shows in their writing! Next step~conclusion paragraphs! After our Titanic essays are written, we will go back and work on elaboration, transitions, and vocabulary.

Villa of Hope came to visit on Wednesday to wrap up their lessons! They gave us a TON of resources that will allow us to continue this great work throughout the year. We put together a daily mental health check-in with the strategies we learned to keep us healthy and positive throughout the week.

We have been sharing our feelings and strategies during our daily class meetings. It is wonderful to hear students bounce ideas off of one another and support each other. 

Finally, we caught our first glimpse of SNOW today! Some may say it's too early....but the kiddos always get excited when they see that white stuff out of the window! :-) Have a wonderful weekend!!