Grand View Elementary
September 20, 2018 • Issue 25
Upcoming Events
September 25: Grand View Elementary Math Night, 5:30 pm
October 9: School Board Meeting, 7:00 pm
October 11: End of First Quarter
October 16: Parent - Teacher Conferences
October 17: Parent - Teacher Conferences
October 23: Flu Shots at Grand View Elementary
October 26: Teacher's Inservice
Around the School
Project-Based Learning, or PBL's, are an important piece of the education your child receives in the Bruneau-Grand View School District. One important piece of PBL's are the Entry Events - events that help inspire students for their projects.
From Edutopia, "In project-based learning, project kickoff is an exciting day -- and for good reason. This is when PBL shifts from planning to active learning -- the moment when students enter the picture. By planning entry events that fire up their curiosity, you'll engage students' sense of inquiry right from the start."
Fourth graders had a fun entry event for their PBL - learning all about recycling! Mrs. Lawrence filled her classroom with many piles of trash to help students see the problem that is garbage, inspiring their very first "trash toys!"
Kindergarteners, First, Second, Third, and Fifth graders all went on a walking field trip to visit parts of our community. Classes were paired together to ask meaningful questions about different businesses and buildings in our community and country, and then had the opportunity to go and visit these places to ask their questions.
A big thank-you to the Fire Station, Snake River restaurant, and City Hall for their generosity and allowing Grand View Elementary students to stop by and visit!
Caught Using Kelso's Choices!
Classroom Corner
Mrs. Spiering (Second/Third Grade): There are a lot of exciting things going on in 2nd/3rd grade! The class started a little bit of science, our first experiment is to see which group can make the longest paper chain with limited resources. We are beginning our Project Based Learning, focusing on how our ancestry shapes the community. We even went on a walking field trip around town to talk to members of our community. We are working very hard to build stamina when reading independently and we practice daily.
Mrs. Malika (Fifth Grade): The fifth graders have been working very hard on covering a lot of ground already! We have been working on finding additive volume of rectangular prisms in math class, as well as working on multiplying multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm. In reading, we have been studying immigration and comparing/contrasting our culture with cultures in other countries. We are also beginning to write narrative stories this year, and will end with publishing a class book. For our PBL this year, we are looking forward to creating our own countries with different geographical elements, governments, and laws!
Student Spotlight
Each newsletter, fifth grade students are going to pick one
primary student to interview for our Student Spotlight!
What is your name?
Aramari
What class are you in?
Aramari is in Miss Davis' kindergarten class.
What is your favorite subject in school?
Aramari's favorite subject is reading.
Do you have a favorite book?
Aramari's favorite book is about owls.
What is your go-to Kelso's Choice for small problems and why?
Her go-to Kelso's Choice is Share and Take Turns, because she loves to take turns with her friends.
Do you have a hidden talent? If so, what is it?
Aramari is good at ballet.
Written by Viktoria
Picture by Clayd
Student Spotlight
Each newsletter, fifth grade students are going to pick one
upper elementary student to interview for our Student Spotlight!
What is your name?
Joshua
What class are you in?
Joshua is in Mrs.Spiering's 3rd grade.
What is your favorite subject in school?
Joshua's favorite subject is P.E.
Do you have a favorite book?
Joshua's favorite book is Dogman.
What is your go-to Kelso's Choice for small problems and why?
Joshua's go-to choice is to Apologize because he likes to make people feel better.
Do you have a hidden talent? If so, what is it?
Joshua can do the splits!
Written by Morgan
Picture by Clayd
At Home
During Community Groups, our students have been learning about a Growth Mindset using ClassDojo's Big Ideas series #1. ClassDojo teamed up with Stanford's Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS) center to produce a series of 5 videos on growth mindset.
What is a growth mindset?
Carol Dweck conceptualized the idea of a growth mindset in her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
A mindset, according to Dweck, is a self-perception or “self-theory” that people hold about themselves. Believing that you are either “intelligent” or “unintelligent” is a simple example of a mindset. People may also have a mindset related their personal or professional lives—“I’m a good teacher” or “I’m a bad parent,” for example. People can be aware or unaware of their mindsets, according to Dweck, but they can have profound effect on learning achievement, skill acquisition, personal relationships, professional success, and many other dimensions of life.
The major differences between a growth and a fixed mindset is that, in a fixed mindset, people have a goal to look smart all the time and never look dumb or less than. In a growth mindset, people understand that intelligence can be developed. Instead of worrying about how smart or good you are at something, a person with a growth mindset will focus on improvement and work hard to learn more. Failures become a thing of joy in a growth mindset, because it means that you are working out your brain.
Questions from Episode 1:
- Why does Mojo want to leave school?
- Can you sometimes relate to how Mojo is feeling?
- What does Katie say to Mojo to convince him not to leave?
- Do you think Mojo can become smarter? Why or why not?
- What subject do you feel frustrated by sometimes?
- Can you see yourself becoming smarter in that subject? How?
Some Questions You Can Ask at Home:
- What was the biggest challenge you faced today? (Ask your child, and then have them ask you the question back!)
- How can you and I think about these challenges in a new way?
- What can we do differently tomorrow if we face similar challenges?
You can watch the video series with your child(ren) by looking up ClassDojo Big Ideas online!
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Phone: (208) 834-2775
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