Famous Last Words
of 5th Grade
HAPPY SUMMER!
Thank you all so much for your kind words and constant support during these crazy times! We truly appreciate everything you have done to help us and your child!
If you need us over the summer, please feel free to send us an email! We will check our email periodically throughout the summer and would love to hear from students and/or parents.
Free Resource for continued education!
The Challenge Learning Group advises:
Guide to Challenging Learning At Home
Our recommended activities are designed to stimulate thoughtful conversations and problem-solving approaches to learning.
Every one of our resources are designed to help young people learn HOW to think rather than what to think. In so doing, they provide a welcome (and often much needed) counter-balance to the many worksheets being sent home from school for kids to complete.
The resources will work best if …
- You set up opportunities for conversation with your child (with you, with siblings, with friends via video chat, with pets …)
- You think of yourself as an encourager and devil’s advocate, rather than an instructor or judge. Don’t answer their questions – instead, question their answers; Don’t praise their first answers – instead praise perseverance and open-mindedness; Don’t help your child to reach the ‘answer’ as quickly as possible – instead help them to explore as many avenues as possible.
You will see ‘dialogue’ mentioned frequently in our resources. When engaged in dialogue, children have the opportunity to deepen their thinking; challenge their own and each other’s ideas; think about reasons; check assumptions; and question and wonder.
Summer Reading
Don't forget that Overdrive never closes. Use your district username and password to download books. https://woodridgeil.libraryreserve.com/10/45/en/SignIn.htm?url=Default.htm
Books For ALL!
The district has purchased a book for each student. There have been some obstacles to getting them out to the kids. One obstacle is that the Woodridge Post Office is currently understaffed and cannot handle the volume of mailings all at once. They will be mailed in groups over the next few weeks. If parents are looking for activities to go with them they can be found at the link below.
The activities are posted on the website for parents here: https://www.woodridge68.org/Page/2166