Month: March 2016

For Parents — Google Hangouts

Dear Parents:

I hope this finds you well!

just wanted to take a quick moment to advise all of you that many students from our class are using Google Hangouts (a chat room through Google if you have gmail.) This is not something recommended or encouraged by me through our District tools, and it is unmonitored conversation occurring between students. Students are using their private gmail accounts for this and they are doing it after hours, while not at school.

I would recommend that you please check in with your child to ensure they are using this appropriately. While most conversation is no doubt friendly and positive, I think it would be a good idea to check in with them. Please also refer to my previous post on the blog about technology and safe social media practice.

I will also be addressing in class again the appropriate things that can be discussed online. While it is great to talk with people and have a chat online, it is not appropriate, for example, to talk about other people from class who are not part of the chat at the time.

Thank you for your help and support as we teach them to use their tech tools in appropriate and safe ways.

Kind Regards,

Ms. D

February 29th Update

Hi everyone! It’s Vlad here.

Writing Workshop: Today we talked about words that we could use instead of “said”, that could be more specific, as we practiced using quotations. We also did some work on the narrative about the immigrant we chose. We need to use dialogue with quotations in our writing. We also went over the elements of a good story and the story arch.

LA Reading: After recess, we read a lot of chapters in the Lemoncello book. We are almost done! We talked about our last reading power of TRANSFORM. Tomorrow we will finish and then start our lit circle books in small groups.

ART and PE:  After lunch, we drew some buildings from a certain perspective for art, and for PE, we did some physical exercise outside and played some trust games with partners.

ASSEMBLY:  We ended the day by going to a celebration of learning and see some presentations done by Division 1.

For homework:
1.Respond to the question coming up at the end of my blog entry
2.Do some work on the narrative, thinking about the story arch

Reminders:
1.Bring your library books tomorrow for library day!
2.Hot lunch forms due tomorrow

We also received a yellow newsletter today about what’s happening in March

The question: What are the 6 simple machines (the gear is not one of them)?

Have a good night everyone!

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