Sea Dragon's Diary
Week of Feb. 28th
Lin Howe’s Got Talent! Friday, March 4th at 6pm
Lin Howe’s Got Talent!
This time it’s outside!
Singing ★ Dancing ★ Magic ★ Comedy
Variety ★ Acting ★ Music
Family Fun Night TALENT SHOW on
Friday, March 4th!
Gates will open at 5:15pm
Please bring blankets or low chairs to sit on. This will help everyone be able to see our magnificent performers.
THANK YOU ANGEL CITY SPORTS!!
Lin Howe Video
Here's the amazing video that was made about our school when the camera crews were here a few weeks ago...enjoy!
GATE testing with your 3rd and 4th grade
Lin Howe Staff Participates in Sara Wicht Workshop
Highlights of the first of two sessions our staff participated in.
The 4 Goals of anti-bias education, as defined through the work of Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards
- Each child will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities.
- Each child will express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections.
- Each child will increasingly recognize unfairness, have language to describe unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts.
- Each child will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions.
Here’s an excerpt from Derman-Sparks’s and Olsen-Edwards’s work from the National Association for the Education of Young Children if you are interested in reading more.
Here are the “elevator versions” of the goals
- I know and Iike who I am.
- I know how I am the same and different from other people.
- I recognize unfairness when I see it. (And I know unfairness hurts.)
- I believe I can make a difference in the world.
Create four essential questions for a unit you will teach in the coming weeks, using IDJA as a framework. Check in with one another about the EQs you create. (Here’s a primer on EQs for reference.)
The examples racial identity, water, community, and nature were provided during our PD. Here’s the community and nature ones for reference. Use them as models to create your own.
Nature
Identity: From where have my ideas about what nature is come?
Diversity: Why might different cultures have differing views of nature?
Justice: What is the role of bias and prejudice in our understanding of nature?
Action: How do we fight ecological imperialism?
Community
Identity: How do we each take responsibility for our community?
Diversity: How do people in different jobs, in the past and present, impact the way we live?
Justice: Why have people not been able to get the jobs they have wanted?
Action: How can we allocate classroom jobs to make sure everyone is treated fairly?
TO consider diversity, equity, & inclusion in your planning, reflect on these three questions
- Am I representing diverse perspectives and contributions in this field?
- Are my students learning about how this topic can be used to create an equitable society, or how it has been misused as a way to promote oppression?
- Are my teaching strategies inclusive for all learners?
Family resources around Russia invading Ukraine and the Anti-trans proposed bill in Texas
Stair Painting Event- Saturday, March 12th
Stair Painting Event
Artist and Painters Needed
(no need to be professional just detail)
Saturday, March 12th
9am-2pm
Email: Joannakotwis@hotmail.com
PRIDE focus for February is RESPECT- PRIDE Passport and Choice Board
Sea Dragons! This year we’re kicking-off an ongoing PRIDE Choice Board Challenge. Each month you’ll have the opportunity to complete a challenge for that month’s behavior expectation. Please submit your creation to your teacher and remember to include your name and your teacher’s name.
Your submission will earn you a stamp in your PRIDE Passport, be used in weekly newsletters, and be posted around campus! Happy PRIDE!
Vocal Music Update
TK/K/1/2 Vocal Music
Happy February! We have been having a blast this month in vocal music! Since our last vocal music update, all TK, Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students have been practicing and performing the "Queen of the Night Aria" from the opera "The Magic Flute." Ask your student to perform their version of the "Queen of the Night Aria" by clicking on the link here.You can also log in directly to your child's SeeSaw account to view the activity in their "Vocal Music" SeeSaw page and dance along with the activity in their SeeSaw Journal.
In celebration of Black History Month, students are also learning and reading about the famous musician Trombone Shorty, and we have been practicing and performing his piece, "Hurricane Season." Ask your student to perform "Hurricane Season for you by clicking here.
TK/Kindergarten Vocal Music:
Students have been singing songs from around the world, including "Tongo," from Polynesia (you can see a version of the song here), and "Kye Kye Kule," from Ghana. You can have your student practice "Kye Kye Kule" and peform it for you by clicking here.
1st/2nd grade Vocal Music:
In honor of Black History Month, students have been learning the Civil Rights song "I'm On My Way....to the Freedom Land." To learn about the history of this song, you can click here. To have your students make up their own words to the song, and sing you their original version, click here.
If you have any questions about the vocal music program, feel free to reach out directly to Ms. Koplinka-Loehr at:
Danielle Koplinka-Loehr: daniellekoplinkaloehr@ccusd.org
Happy singing!
School Holidays and Adjusted Schedule Dates for remainder of the school year
March 25, 2022 Spring Break-Early Dismissal
March 26-April 10, 2022 Spring Break – School Closed
School Resumes April 11, 2022
April 28, 29, 2022 Target Parent Teacher Conferences - Early Dismissal
May 30, 2022 Memorial Day – School Closed
June 10, 2022 Last Day of School –Early Dismissal
Counselor Corner with Mrs. Nelson
YEARBOOK PHOTO SUBMISSION
YEARBOOK PHOTO SUBMISSION
PARENTS please send photos to our yearbook crew for the 2021-2022 Linwood E. Howe yearbook!
Looking for photos from school events on campus (Halloween parade/APEX/Fire station etc)
Send photos to yearbooklinhowe@gmail.com
Salad Party Update.
For the last two weeks I had the privilege of taking all the students into a garden. We picked lettuce and made it into a salad. The children also got some edible flowers, kale, green onions, cilantro, nasturtium leaves, arugula, and magic dressing in the salad. I got plenty of complements on the salad and several children discovered they love salads (you welcome). We also had a surprise in a garden. Monarch caterpillars decided to stop by for a visit. At one point we had 20. So we should have butterflies coming in soon.
Thank you to all wonderful volunteers that came to help out.Celebrating Black Environmentalists during Black History Month
Celebrating Black Environmentalists during Black History Month
San Francisco Environment is featuring African American Environmentalists during Black History Month. So many people are doing amazing work on environmental issues – from urban and rural agriculturists to environmental justice advocates to naturalists to scientists. Check out their stories here!
Join our next CCUSD Environmental Sustainability Committee meeting on Thursday Mar. 17th, 2022 from 5-6.30pm. Guest Speaker: Doyin Richards on Environmental Justice zoom. https://ccusd.zoom.us/j/87292776993 Contact: sustainability@ccusd.org for details. Everyone is welcome!
Link to previous Dragon's Diaries
Linwood E. Howe Elementary School
Email: caseychabola@ccusd.org
Website: https://linhowe.ccusd.org/
Location: 4100 Irving Place, Culver City, CA, USA
Phone: 310-842-4338
Twitter: @LinwoodEHowe