Friday, December 13, 2019

Team Aurora has a new blog post!

Happy Friday the 13th!

Luckily, nothing terrible happened here. We hope you are having good luck.

We did decide to eliminate group snack - so, I guess there was a bit of bad luck. We are having a hard time cleaning up snack wrappers.  Please plan to send your student with extra snack for the afternoon or extra money to purchase snacks from the cafeteria at lunch.

Our book club posters are looking beautiful. Pictures will come next week. We began our mini-research projects. Kids are reading non-fiction articles on a chosen topic from India like elephants, wedding traditions, the Taj Mahal and many more.

Next week, we will wrap up our mini-projects, do a few finishing touches on our book club posters and learn a little about map reading. Then we will be done for the year...ha ha.. the 2019 year.

After a day or so of working with students in small groups on their study guide, Ms. Roberge felt as though the majority of the group could use an extra day of studying to prepare for the final assessment. The assessment date is moved to Tuesday 12/17/19. Students took home their study guides today to study over the weekend for this assessment. Some still need to complete this and Ms. Roberge will check it on Monday.

MobyMax expectations are not being met. Over half of our team was unable to complete the hour within the past two weeks. If they need time to complete this, please check in with us regarding afterschool plans. Ms. Roberge has been talking about the importance  of completing this and how to manage time to be able to participate in other activities too. Ms. Roberge have extended this deadline from today to Tomorrow 12/14 by midnight.

We have officially finished Geology! Students will receive their study guides for the assessment on Monday and take the assessment on Wednesday. They will bring home their study guides on Tuesday evening to study from them. The labs went well, although it was quite comical when students tried the jello.

Great job to Aurorians for following the lab expectations and taking the lab seriously, even with how fun it was.

Next Friday, we will have special day of rotations with Odyssey and a holiday concert from our band and chorus members. We will then send all off for happy holidays.

Work due next week:
Word study - we will revisit this week and not have a new one
Mini-research project due Thursday
Math study guide due Monday (assessment is Tuesday)
Geology Study Guide due Wednesday (assessment is also Wednesday)
That's it!

YFT,
KR and CL