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Week 13 - Nov. 21-23

11/23/2016

 
We are so thankful! 
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 As we bring our How We Express Ourselves inquiry unit to a close, students worked on a project to showcase their creativity, understanding of communication through images, and how images can connect our global community.  Check out their messages to the world via their blogs!  All links can be found on the About Us​ page of our blog.  
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​We changed our perspective of a clock by cutting it out and making it into a number line and we also make the connection that the digital and analog clocks are a tool of global communication.  
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Students used their understanding of multiplication to solve problems of elapsed time.  
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This text is wonderful tool to learn about the connection and ripple effect of our actions.  It also promotes good discussion as different opinions develop as to who is responsible for the darkness.  
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We made our first attempt using the Socratic method.  This method promotes cooperative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions.
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Happy Birthday Wendy!!
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Ms. Hamilin joined us on Wednesday to lead a discussion on stereotyping.  We discussed the many ways that people can make assumptions or judgements about each other and how that makes us feel when it happens to us.  

We listened to Chrysanthemum, then discussed some judgements that may have happened to us, then we wrote an "I am not" statement.  In closing we wrote a positive affirmation using one word that we felt described us.  This lesson is occurring in other classes and a display of the affirmations will go up in the ES near the office.  

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​Photo Caption Contest Winner:


"Hey!  Don't copy me dude!"
by Wendy

3D's 'Adopted' Family
This holiday season, 3D will work to help a family of 5 in need.  More details on the family can be found in the attached document.  

Food, clothing, books, baby supplies, and any other donations will be collected over the next two weeks with pick up occurring on Friday, Dec. 9th.  

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
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Hour of Code

11/22/2016

 
Dear Parents,
We live in a world surrounded by technology. We know that whatever field our students choose to go into as adults, their ability to succeed will increasingly hinge on understanding how technology works. But only a tiny fraction of us are learning computer science, and less students are studying it than a decade ago.


That’s why our entire school is joining in on the largest learning event in history: The Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 5-11). More than 100 million students worldwide have already tried an Hour of Code.


In the ES, our Hour of Code will take place in the classrooms and at home from December 1 - 13, 2016.  Your child will begin coding in the classroom on December 1 and we are hoping your child will be excited to continue coding when they return home. We will provide a form for you to document your child’s time spent coding at home so we can add it to our goal. Our goal is for our elementary students to complete 705 hours of coding between December 1 and 13.


In addition, we will be holding a Parent Hour of Code Event on Monday, December 5th from 9:00 to 10:00 in the MPR.


Click on our Hour of Code Challenge page on the ES Tech Blog for more information and for some ideas on how to get your kids coding at home.


​Citation:
http://hourofcode.com/us

Week 12 - Nov. 14 - 18

11/17/2016

 
Lots of updates for this week! 

- Swimming starts next week
- Book Fair next week
- Request for holiday decorations
- not to mention all the learning!

Read on to hear all about the happenings in 3D
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On Monday, students were given a 'Kindness Challenge' which will take us up to the December break.  Each day students should try to attempt a random act of kindness to help people, the earth, or other living things. 

This week students finished up their perspective writing.  All the students wrote their own book from a character's perspective.  They summarized the story in beginning, middle, and end.  Students also wrote in first person writing and focused on adjectives to make their writing more descriptive.  

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Swimming starts next week on Wednesday!  The next classes will be Wednesday, November 30th, and Friday, December 2nd.  We will continue the Wednesday/Friday classes until Friday, February 3rd.  



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The PTO is sponsoring a book fair on November 22 and 23 with the proceeds going to our ASW library.  All elementary students will have the chance to attend the book fair with their class. We will have a wide variety of books available including picture books, easy readers, fiction, non-fiction, and popular series. There will be many children’s books in the 15 to 50 PLN price range, with some more or less expensive depending on the vendor. Volunteers will be on hand to help the children choose books and figure out money.   
 
Tuesday, Nov. 22  8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, Nov. 23  8:00 AM - 2:00 PM    
 
Place:  Main entrance and hallway near the cafeteria  

3D students will go Tuesday afternoon as a class, but you are welcome to go with your child before or after school.  

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​Extending our understanding of communication without language, we made our own symbols which connect and are useful in many cultures.  
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In Math, we reviewed time and explored how we could use our understanding of multiplication to figure out elapsed time. 
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Fun with story cubes!!

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Helping our Grade 1 reading buddies to create their own video with the Puppet Pals app. 
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Photo Caption Contest Winner

"Come to momma little doggy!"
By Iza

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We learned how to use Explain Everything to make our own teaching video which explains how multiplication and division are connected. 
Request for Holiday Decorations!
After school on Thursday, December 1st we will be decorating the classroom for the holidays.  There are many things to celebrate this December; if you have any decorations which will help to celebrate an event which is important to your family, please send them in with your child and we will gladly put them up in the classroom.  All decorations will be returned in January. 
HAPPY FRIDAY!!!
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Reading Homework

11/12/2016

 
We'll be replacing the Reading Log homework with a different system.  By Monday of each week, students are asked to submit a reading response to Ms. Sylwia.  This can be handwritten or electronic.  The choices are described in document to the left and attached below.  Students do not need to answer all the questions; they are only prompts to get them started.  Additionally, the length is up to the students.  The only requirement is that they give it a good effort.  
If there are any questions, please email Ms. D. 

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These items were used during our class party before break.  If these are yours or you recognize them, could you please email Ms. D or Ms. Sylwia? 
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Week 11 - Nov. 7-10

11/8/2016

 
This week we explored the various ways we can be creative.  We were surprised to learn that we can be creative in more ways than just art class; we can be creative with our writing, in math, during sports, with the way we dress, and even with the way we read.

We explored and examined images to find out how we can communicate without words.  We also had fun thinking about the different perspectives of image interpretation.    
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This week we explored measurement.  Students worked in groups to list all the different ways we measure and the units we use to measure. 
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​Happy Birthday
​ Camille!!!
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Photo Caption of the Week

"You mean I have to wear this?"
- by Dinis

Happy Independence Day!!!
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Week 10 - Nov. 2-4

11/4/2016

 
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Greetings and welcome back!
We had a short week but really enjoyed sharing all the different parts of our holidays.  We presented to the class and we also posted updates to our blogs, which will soon be linked to the class website.  We began a new unit in Math where we explored place value and how we create new numbers.  Finally we talked more about perspective and creativity and used our skills to create our own ‘Dot’ creation and our own memes.  

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Happy Friday!!!
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    Important Links

    Unit Overview with link to Home Learning Tasks

    ES Tech Blog - a guide to apps and resources
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    Ms. MacKenty's Blog
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    Counselor's Corner
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    Growth Mindset in Maths
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    ASW Library Database
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    Raz-Kids
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