Children aren't the only members of the H5 family who learn-- Ms. Matthews has a lot to learn, too! At the end of the month, I will have the opportunity to deepen my knowledge of effective instruction when I visit top-notch schools in Washington state with some of my colleagues from Richland 2. This 3-day visit will be followed by a day spent with Catawba Trail's Design Team as we work to improve instruction in our own school. I am so excited about these opportunities and look forward to sharing what I find. However, this does require me to be away from the students for 4 days, from October 29-November 1. I have an excellent substitute teacher lined up, and I plan to spend part of the day Thursday introducing next week's assignments and reviewing expectations with the class. I'm confident that the kids will have a successful, productive week!
Since I will be gone next week, I'll go ahead and give you a preview of this week AND next week's activities. I have also updated the Projects + Assessments page to cover both weeks.
Writing: This week, we are taking the District Writing Assessment, which is a practice for PASS Writing in March. Students will spend 3 days crafting an explanatory essay in response to a prompt. We are also doing our very best to finish revising, editing, and publishing our essays about whether to lower the voting age. This project has taken much longer than expected due to disruptions in our schedule and the fact that writing a well-reasoned argumentative essay is a very challenging task! But they are coming along nicely, and I am hoping they will be finished by the end of the week.
Next week, students will shift focus and enjoy creating a fall collage, then write a sensory description to go along with it.
Reading: This week and next week, we will review and solidify what we've learned about text structure-- stories, comparing and contrasting, and sequencing. When I come back, we will kick off our unit on biographies!
Social Studies: The students will learn about the major Native American groups that were present when European explorers first arrived on the continent.
Since I will be gone next week, I'll go ahead and give you a preview of this week AND next week's activities. I have also updated the Projects + Assessments page to cover both weeks.
Writing: This week, we are taking the District Writing Assessment, which is a practice for PASS Writing in March. Students will spend 3 days crafting an explanatory essay in response to a prompt. We are also doing our very best to finish revising, editing, and publishing our essays about whether to lower the voting age. This project has taken much longer than expected due to disruptions in our schedule and the fact that writing a well-reasoned argumentative essay is a very challenging task! But they are coming along nicely, and I am hoping they will be finished by the end of the week.
Next week, students will shift focus and enjoy creating a fall collage, then write a sensory description to go along with it.
Reading: This week and next week, we will review and solidify what we've learned about text structure-- stories, comparing and contrasting, and sequencing. When I come back, we will kick off our unit on biographies!
Social Studies: The students will learn about the major Native American groups that were present when European explorers first arrived on the continent.
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