Saturday, November 16, 2019

Team Aurora has a new blog post!

Hi Team,
This week has been VERY busy (and a little hectic.) We started with bad weather on Monday, canceling afternoon activities and all day Tuesday. This cramped us up for finishing our many many many post-assessments for report cards as the marking period for trimester 1 ended on Friday, the 15th.

We had science projectpalooza on Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Stop by and see the amazingness hanging in the hall.  We do have one last bit of science to finish on Monday and Tuesday.

We also worked for almost four days (or at least some of us did) on our reading post-assessment, which was very hard. We did it though and it is all assessed and in the report card.  Just a reminder that our LA reading and writing scoring on report cards is all assessment based. We do a preassessment before any teaching of the unit, we produce at least one process piece (in reading we had several, in writing, just one), and a post-assessment.  It is not like traditional grades when we were kids. Look at comments and personal development scores for more information on how the student is working in class.

There was also a math assessment on Lowest Common Multiples and Greatest Common Factors.

Next Monday and Tuesday we will need to finish up assessments. It was too hard to cram them all into last week. On Monday, we will have our last science lab on glacial striations and our final science assessment on Tuesday. On Monday, we will write a story in class to show that we can sit down with an idea for a small moment story (true or fiction), make a story arc plan, write a story with a beginning that hints at the problem, tell the story bit by bit (in paragraphs), use dialogue, inner thinking, action, and descriptions, slow down important parts and create an ending which brings out something learned or realized. These can be finished on Tuesday - but the whole thing will be completed at school, in class. Students know about this and are to come to class with an idea.

Word study will resume next week and will be fit into our new schedule. Check it out on the schedule link at the side of this blog.

We also start with new homeroom configurations on Monday.  Do not worry if you are missing your best friend. You will see them at movement break, meeting times, lunch and recess and any time we meet as a whole group.

Due this week:
Science assessment on glacial striations
Science project if you were out on Friday - this must be done on Monday
Writing post-assessment due Tuesday at end of class
Word study due Friday
(there may be a math anti-rust or math menu - see if this blog gets updated)
Moby Max fact fluency 30 minutes outside of class
READ YOUR NOVEL 40 pages per day (some of us have been forgetting to do this)

Wow,
We will try to celebrate on Friday because this is A LOT.
YFT (your friendly teachers),
C&K (Ms. L and Ms. R if you are a student)