Literacy Happenings
1st grade live bird videos
The IT department is trying to solve the live-bird videos on students’ iPads. The best recommendation is to do the following:
- Display for the whole class to watch on teacher ipad
- Borrow a bunch of teachers’ ipads and put in a center
They hope to have a solution, because it is a super cool activity and important to the curriculum. But they do not foresee a solution in the near future.
Expeditionary Learning – Multimedia
- Grade 3, Module 4 – Water Around the World recording a video water PSA multimedia resource.
- Grade 4, Module 4 – Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment recording a video PSA multimedia resource.
Grade 3, Module 3 Literary Classics
Module 3 requires students to think about Peter Pan and the historical context in which it was written, which was in 1904. To make the historical context accessible and comprehensible to students a team (including Advocacy coaches) has created these resources and supports. These are meant to enhance EL lessons, being taught as applicable alongside the EL lessons. Teacher resources to print and student facing slides to display. Please reach out to your instructional coach if you have any questions.
Grade 4, Module 4 Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment
Module 4 uses literature and informational texts to introduce students to gender and racial inequality issues in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, and to recognize how the process of ratifying the 19th Amendment can teach us about how people were responding to gender and racial inequality at that time. To make the historical context accessible and comprehensible from the book The Hope Chest to students, a team (including Advocacy coaches) has created these resources and supports. These are meant to enhance the EL lessons for The Hope Chest being taught, as applicable alongside the EL lessons. Teacher resources to print and student facing slides to display. Please reach out to your instructional coach if you have any questions.
Summer money-making opportunities for literacy
Please reach out to Lindsley Gehrig by May 14th if you are interested in any of these extra projects this summer. I’ll reach out and give more information on the 15th.
- Expeditionary Learning and Forefront
- Looking for one person per grade level K-5
- to upload/build-out all EL mid-unit, end-of-unit, and performance tasks into Forefront.
- You do not need to be good with Forefront, they will train/support us. But it will be detail-oriented.
- Looking for one person per grade level K-5
- Expeditionary Learning- links and online document downloads
- Looking for one person per grade level K-5
- check all links from EL/IL on student iPads, sending any blocked links to IT department for clearance (here is what has been completed so far, if curious)
- Download any online documents/articles kids need into folders, in case those links get dropped by the creators
- Looking for one person per grade level K-5
Reminder: Ordering materials/curriculum/print shop for next year
Please do not go to the teacher hub and start ordering for next year YET. We are in the process of adding more options, but it will take some time to get everything coordinated. Your instructional coach or I will attend an upcoming staff meeting at your building to support you with ordering later in May, please wait until then. Hooray!
Math Happenings
Disposal of Bridges Materials
If your school was not chosen to donate materials, the recycle program will begin at your school in a few weeks. Please hold tight until the recycle program is rolled out at your school. Some items are recyclable and some are not.
Social Emotional & Mental Well-Being
Teachers, here is an activity highlight from Wayfinder you can use for Community Connection or throughout your day.
Kindergarten: I Need Some Space – Students go on an imaginary space journey while learning about boundaries and consent.
1st grade: Mistakes Help My Brain Grow – Students explore how mistakes help us learn.
2nd grade:A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words – Students recreate a simple drawing with their eyes closed, relying solely on the descriptions and directions of a partner.
3rd grade:Cars that Can’t See – Students explore trusting someone while navigating uncertainty through an embodied partner activity.
4th grade: I Can’t Believe My Eyes – Students practice paying attention and problem solving by looking at optical illusions.
5th grade: Someone I Trust – Students engage in a visualization about the experience of feeling safe in a classroom.
This document links EL Module 1, 2, 3 and 4 with Wayfinder’s 20 Minute lessons that teach the skills students need and Collections that go with the unit.
Movement Moment
Yoga for Stress Relief
Seated Chair Flow Yoga
Disney Would you Rather PE with Mr. G
Technology in the Classroom
Step Up to Middle School – 5th Grade Canvas Course
The Step Up to Middle School Canvas course is a great way to help your students prepare for the transition to middle school. This course is already loaded into your Canvas account and ready to go. You should have received an email earlier this week with additional information, including directions on how to access all of the resources you will need. If you have any questions, please reach out Robbie Faith.