Friday, August 28, 2020

Week 2: Into the Swing of Things

From the Class bloggers Alex and Ryan:

This was a very fun first full week of school. With a science lab on

Wednesday, and some map labs in geography, we were chock full with

information. Recess was great, with kickball, volleyball, and bobcat pit

being popular. We learned about the elements of a story in literature as

well. The class did a science lab on static electricity, and we had fun trying

to stick our hair up with balloons. We started our first art project on

Thursday. The topic was line art, and we had to trace school supplies.

On Friday we started spelling, with the chaos of trying to make our own lists.

It was a fun week, and we learned a lot!

From Mrs. R:

Student now have over a full week under their belts and a sense of how classes and transitions go. We are getting better at routines and organization with fewer reminders. Students are learning how to think first of others (pushing in chairs, social distancing in lines). We are learning how to make live-stream chapel an important time in our week with prayer focus before and after using our prayer board and Visual Faith bookmarks.

We are learning....

Religion - Law/Gospel

G and T Math - Double digit multiplication/long division, x 10. 100. 1000

Social Studies - Latitude and Longitude

Literature: Using annotation tools in Common Lit as we make predictions

Science: Electricity

Art: Line

English: Prepositions

BOOK ORDERS are due next week Saturday 9/5 in the a.m. I will place orders that afternoon. (see link on the right). Our class code is GV2FP. Please note - Not all books promoted by Scholastic may be appropriate for your child or your family values. Use https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ to check out the content of many books. They also review video games, movies, etc. (link is always in my websites tab).

PTL Parent Night

Note - Amy Maus is a wonderful speaker who was here last year on the topic of spoke to us last year on anxiety. I highly recommend attending.

Please join us to learn some information about how trauma can affect learning and the brain and how schools and families can be informed as students return to the classroom.

Time: Tuesday, September 8th at 7pm

Topic: Speaker Amy Maus - Parent Presentation about Kids, Trauma, and COVID

Where: Virtual via Zoom, details below

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85063512931?pwd=WDA2aVBRWHdqc1NBUE90SG1pUWtwdz09

Meeting ID: 850 6351 2931
Passcode: 103173

*There will be an opportunity for Questions after the presentation. Please be sure that only parents are in attendance, this is not intended for student viewing.

Presented by Amy V. Maus, MSW, LCSW

of West County Psychological Associates

Amy specializes in providing psychological testing, school consultation and presentations on a variety of mental health and school-related issues.