Homeroom
We continued to work on communications skills this week in homeroom. This included another round of Story Cubes. As well as some time playing Concept. This is a board game were players have to identify animals using non verbal ques. It's fun and it also allows us to talk about how we listen to each other.
Just a reminder that next week we'll be going to Howell Nature Center from Tuesday to Wednesday. This is our first over night trip. I sent an email out a few weeks ago explaining what's going to be happening as well as what students will need to bring. There is a permission slip that they'll need to have filled out to be able to participate in the activities. I sent a copy home this week. If you need another copy here's a digital version. Please have the permission slip turned in by Monday if you haven't turned it in already. Also, here's a copy of the packing list for the trip. Here's an itinerary for the trip. Day 1 10am - Arrive 10am-12pm - Introduction and preparation activities for the Heifer Global Village 12-1pm - Sack lunch in the lodge. Prepare for overnight in the Global Village. 1-4pm - Hike with gear out to Village. Walking tour of the Global Village. 4pm-evening “The Global Village Experience” – participants cook dinner in the Global Village. After dinner - Sleep out in the Village. One final small-group discussion activity will be provided. HNC staff will leave you for the evening and your time is your own. Feel free to bring games (cards, Frisbee, hackey-sacks, etc.) if you wish. Day 2 8-9am - catered breakfast in lodge 9am-12pm - Debrief activities and discussions in lodge. Global Village program finished by 12 noon. We'll be back at SK around 1:30 for lunch. Math
Monday: We completed another round of Sprints.
Tuesday: We had picture day so math class was abbreviated. Students worked independently for the whole class period. Wednesday: We worked on Word Problem #2. This is a great problem for us to talk about bar models and the importance of keeping them proportional. This is also a good problem to talk about how to find the part of a bar model if you have the whole and another part. This skill is needed to figure out how much money Ben has using the information you know about Sam's money.
Thursday: We completed book checks today. The first few weeks of math are being used to get a baseline for how much work each student generally finishes in a week.
Friday: Game Day! Science
This week we focused our attention on learning about succession and how forest grow over time. Students first learned some key terms concerning succession. We also talked about the oak hickory forest we visited last week as a model. Here's a copy of the document we used for our discussion.
After learning about succession students started researching the different types of forest in Michigan. Here's the instruction sheet for the activity. After taking some time to learn about the different forests present in Michigan students took that information and created posters to hand out around the school. Here's a copy of the rubric we used. Questions to Ask
n 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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