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Week 21 - Feb 13-17

2/15/2017

 

Caption Winner: 


"Whoo!  Is that all for me?"
By Wendy

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Parent Tech Connection
When: Wednesday, March 1 from 8:45 to 9:45
Where: Teaching and Learning Center (near the main entrance)

In the Elementary School at ASW, one way students use technology is to create multimedia projects to demonstrate their understanding of new concepts and ideas. In this session, we will explore iPad apps that our students use across the grade levels.

​Join Simon May and Kris Sheehan (with help from our elementary students) for some “app smashing”, as we create media with three or four of our apps and then put them together into one movie. This will be an active, hands-on hour where you will get to see how quick and easy it is to create your own media with the iPad.
Travelling Tales - Round 2! 
This week we dug further into our ‘How the World Works’ unit with exploration into the forms and structures of our Earth.  We recalled a lot of learning from Grade 2 about landforms so that we could list out and describe the wide variety of Earth’s surface.  We used and experiment with Ferrero Rocher to learn about the many layers of the Earth’s core. 
 
All week long we focused on our ‘Caring’ Learner Profile by giving each other Valentines’ on Tuesday, sending out nice notes to strangers on Wednesday, sharing traits about us to find things we have in common, and learning from Ms. Hamlin about empathy. 
 

​In Math we practiced our questioning skills by breaking down questions to find out what is being asked, what clues there are about actions to take, and the best ways to show our thinking.  We also explored the Distributive Property over addition.  Khan Academy was a great help!  The video can be found here: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/pre-algebra-arith-prop/pre-algebra-ditributive-property/v/the-distributive-property
 
We took part in Travelling Tales again and contributed not only our ideas, but also our artwork!
 
Reading Buddies was great fun this week; Ms. Sheehan joined us and we explored digital books and the many ways to interact with our stories. 
 
Friday was great fun as we celebrated mother tongues with our assembly and language practice.  
Happy Friday!!!
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Week 21 - Feb 6-10

2/9/2017

 
Photo Caption Winner: 

"I love you so much!!"
By Harman

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This week in 3D we had many guests! 
We are thankful for Wendy and Qingtian’s family who joined us on Friday to tell us more about one of the most important festivals in Chinese culture, Lantern Festival.  Check out Qingtian and Wendy’s presentations below to learn more.  We were treated to a traditional tasty sweet and made our own lanterns.  All of us were courageous and wrote in Chinese as well!
 

On Wednesday, Ms. Hamlin joined us to discuss empathy, acceptance, and how we all need modifications from others.  We had some fun learning more about each other by discussing the many ways we are connected and how we need different things.
 
We began our new unit this week and began discussing How the World Works with the following questions:
How does Earth change?
What is the structure of Earth?
What is geology?
What is survival?
 
We found out that, collectively, we already know a lot about these questions and we made connections to previous learning!  We’re looking forward to investigating these topics more next week.  
Happy Friday!!
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New Unit - How the World Works

2/7/2017

 
Greetings Parents, 
Below is an overview of our new unit.  We are seeking guest speakers from this field area; if know of anyone who might be willing to visit, please contact Ms. D. 

Additional resources can be found through our library database here: http://aswarsaw.libguides.com/eslibrary


How the World Works
An inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and technological advances on society and on the environment.

Central Idea
Human survival is connected to understanding the continual changing nature of the Earth.

Lines of Inquiry
  • Different components of the Earth
  • Why the Earth changes
  • Human responses to the Earth’s changes

Concepts
Form- What is it like?
Change - How is it changing?
Causation- Why is it like it is?


Vocabulary
Survival
Geology
Mineral
Soil
Erosion
Disaster
Plates
Pollution
Global Warming

At home learning opportunities
  • Discuss key vocabulary
  • Look at the environment around your home (soil, trees, what is man-made, what is nature)
  • Discuss the different careers or roles related to human survival, understanding our Earth, or support with natural disasters
  • Use any recent or past environmental events to discuss human interaction, impact, or relation
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Curriculum Integration
Language Arts
  • building multilingual understanding of keywords related to the unit
  • Apply understanding of information and nonfiction text (including online resources) to research questions and topics
  • Acquire new skills related to persuasive writing and development of complex sentences
  • Further develop reading comprehension     
Mathematics
  • Reading graphs, charts, diagrams
  • Collecting data through observation
  • Organizing data and interpreting results
Skills
Research Skills
  • Recording data: Testing rock samples, observing samples, drawing  observations, language arts note taking
  • Formulating questions: how to develop questions lessons, provocation, videos reflection to generate questions,  
Self-management Skills
  • Safety: science safety lessons
  • Fine-motor skills: using small tools for science  
Communication Skills
  • Writing: note taking, what makes a report, writing observations, reflections
  • Viewing: how to make a prediction before/during video, video reflection, guiding questions to look for within video
Thinking Skills
  • Acquisition of knowledge: experiments, web based investigations relating to rocks and form and change, videos, informational text writing, connecting geography back to home country,
  • Synthesis: how to do a keynote presentation, exploring the layers of the earth, how to write a report, how stages of rock cycle work together.writing- building and bringing knowledge together to create a report, Art-
Social Skills
  • Adopting a variety of group roles

Week 20 - Jan. 30-Feb 3

2/1/2017

 

​Photo Caption Winner: 


"Ah! Is that a mouse?!!?"

by Ariel

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This week we continued with our measurement and explored the difference between weight and mass as well as the different units of measurement.  Using hands-on practice we used our estimation skills to evaluate small items and then checked our estimation with our scales. 
 
As we continued our exploration of different types of energy, we took a field trip to the high school Chemistry lab to visit Ms. Nickie.  She showed us different equipment to use to explore the different ways which light is reflected and refracted. 
 
In writing we continuing our informational writing as we finalize and publish our pieces.  Our reading groups are honing their inference skills as well as predicting what will happen in the story.  
Ms. Sheehan joined us on Thursday to guide us through the many ways to organize our information in our Google Drives as well as Google Docs.  We used the files and documents we created to document our paraphrasing skills as we explored the PowerKnowledge Physical Science website.  http://www.pkphysicalscience.com/
 
Also on Thursday we visited our Reading Buddies and continued our work with our own Travelling Tales story and practiced using the 5-part Story Mountain.  We’re looking forward to our next time creating a story with other students around the world.  
Happy Friday!!
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Field Trip

2/1/2017

 
Greetings all, 
Please find attached a permission form for our upcoming field trip on Thursday, February 9th to the 
School for Blind Children in Laski. The form should be retuned by Friday, February 3rd.  

    Important Links

    Unit Overview with link to Home Learning Tasks

    ES Tech Blog - a guide to apps and resources
    aswestech.weebly.com/apps-and-tools.html

    Ms. Brewster's Blog

    http://msblearningsupport.weebly.com/

    Ms. MacKenty's Blog
    http://asweal.weebly.com/ 
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    Counselor's Corner
    http://aswarsawelementary.weebly.com/counselors-corner

    Growth Mindset in Maths
    https://www.youcubed.org/

    ASW Library Database
    https://sites.google.com/a/aswarsaw.org/asw-library-databases/

    Raz-Kids
    www.kidsaz.com/main/Login
    Teacher = kdunevant1

    Mathletics 
    http://eu.mathletics.com/


    Khan Academy

    https://www.khanacademy.org/

    ASW Website
    www.aswarsaw.org

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