Design Studio 5
November 15, 2014
Driving Question: How can students in Studio 5 build awareness about the problem of hunger and contribute to solving the problem in their community?
Be the Change You Want In The World!
UPCOMING EVENTS!
Harvester's Field Trip--December 3rd from 4-6
Mayor's Christmas Tree Food Drive
EMPTY BOWLS--Full Hearts Fundraising Event
Tuesday, December 9th
Adopt A Family
Winter Party Is Just Around The Corner
CURRICULUM EVENTS
We are embedding reading and writing all throughout the curriculum over the next few weeks. Researching, poetry writing, creating public service announcements, taking notes from committee meetings, and persuasive argumentative writing will all be a part of our building background knowledge about hunger, water cycle/weather, and the Revolutionary War.
Please make sure that you help your student stay on top of doing those personalization minutes at home per earlier newsletters. All students can do iReady on their iPads now if they are finished with Lexia. Don't forget that you can go on and see your child's progress on most of these tools. For reminders on how to access and read the reports, see our class website.
MATH--
We are finishing up Chapter 4 this week. The students have been learning about multiplying with decimals. We will have a chapter review test this week before moving on to Chapter 4 Dividing with Decimals. After we complete Chapter 5, we are going to take a little break from Go Math. We want to do some seasonal activities with data collection and fractions groundwork before we begin fractions.
SCIENCE--
Students are almost done with their Weather Whiz Kidz websites. We have been working had to research, track our thinking, and then present our knowledge in a way that would be meaningful for others. We will also be using it to do a knowledge search later in the week so that we can learn from one another's work.
SOCIAL STUDIES--
Almost all students have finished the Videostorytelling Training Sessions with Mrs. Maynor. We appreciate her helping us learn all the ins and outs of using the cameras, editing, and publishing our work. Our first opportunities to use these newfound skills will be on our Desktop Documentaries for the Revolutionary War. We will be beginning these in the days to come. Students will also be creating Public Service Announcements to promote our hunger unit.