Salmon's Week 2 Update
September 12-16th
Peek at the Week
Writing: Subject and Predicate
We will be working to identify and make sure we have complete subjects and predicates in sentence. The questions I teach the students to use:
Who is doing it? - Subject
What are they doing? - Predicate
Social Studies: We will continue to learn about the Southwest and its landscape, economy and history.
Science: We are focusing specific target areas: safety, tools, measurement, experiments, models, and communication in science. We will be practicing this ideas next week in stations and with a short experiment.
Family STEAM Event
There are some exciting offerings occurring at the Belgrade Community Library beginning this Thursday, September 8. These are joint efforts with the MSU science department and great opportunities for our students. The first offering is for teens but next week’s Family STEAM event is for anyone Grades 3-8 with parents. Please check these out at:
http://www.belgradelibrary.org/celebrate-building-with-biology-at-belgrade-community-library/
Working on In Class
Growth Minds: I have the philosphy of a Growth Mindset. I have included a video we watched as a class and a few links to explain this classroom mindset. Please feel free to use some of this ideas at home.
Intro Video for Students:
Article on the Growth Mindset:
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html
Reminders
* Yellow Folders - have your child remove any items in the "Leave at home". The other side "Return to School" is where you will find homework for the night. Thursday all work will come home from the prior week. You will find the "pink" card to sign and acknowledge that you have reviewed the papers. Thank you for doing this additional signing each week.
Contact Info:
Email: jsalmon@belgradeschools.com
Website: jodisalmon.weebly.com
Phone: 924-2050