HomeroomThis section of the weekly update is going to get shorter now that we've started OWL. Most of our homeroom time during the week will be spent having those conversations. Which means we do other activities on Monday and Wednesdays. This week in homeroom we spent our time playing Story Cubes. We do have two field trips coming up next week. We'll be going to the Henry Ford Museum on Tuesday and the Ann Arbor Symphony on Wednesday. I sent an email regarding the Henry Ford Museum earlier in the week. Check your inbox for more information. What's Coming Up in OWLWe'll continue to have our conversation on Sexuality and Values. The main focus of the conversation is for students to reflect and think about how they feel about these topics. Both from their experiences and from their family backgrounds. Remember each unit has a HomeLink for you to use at home to continue this discussion. Here's the link to the first one. They can also be found in the OWL section of the website. MathMonday: Book Work Time Tuesday: Word Problem #8 Wednesday: We started doing Number Talks. This activity is a great way for students to talk about how they do mental math. Here's the prompt we talked about this week. Thursday: Progress Check and Conferences Friday: Game Day! Project TimeWe started our new project this week. "People Who Changed the United States". Here's a link to the information sheet if you want to learn more about the project. This week we took some time to practice breaking down events and learning about how they happened. To do this we took an event and listed some of the things that happened leading up to the event and the context about the time period. We then described the event. After that we explored the outcomes and impact of the event. We're going to use this model throughout the project. We also started our first Spotlight lesson. The focus of this spotlight is Law and Government. We spent some time learning about child labor laws and the photography of Lewis Hine. A photographer to captured images of children working during the industrial revolution. Lastly, on Friday we took sometime to learn about the childhood of an activist and about their work as an adult. We'll be using the book Kid Activists: True Takes of Childhood From Champions of Change. Questions to Ask Your ChildIn this section I'll try and give you a few questions to ask your kids to see what they learned this week or some of the ideas they were forming.
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