November 12, 2020

 Fox and Bear Community

November 12, 2020

The children are really "digging" our new unit of study.  For the next several weeks the children will be researching different topics related to prehistoric life before humans arrived on Earth.  Please encourage your child to get creative with these projects.  There are a number of resources under Black Strip Lesson in the Cultural plan.  Please also note that they are not limited to using these resources.  We cannot wait to see what the students come up with to share their knowledge of this time in history.

Making Fossils   On Thursday, November 19th at 8:45,  the children will be participating in making a fossil.  For the experiment your child will need a bowl, I cup of flour, 1/2 cup salt, and 1/2 cup water.  Please allow your child to measure these ingredients themselves.  The children will also need something that they would like to fossilize:  dinosaur toy, household trinket (button; coin etc), sticks, rock, leaves etc.  

ANGEL TREE

Sometimes families need a little extra help with the expense of holiday gifts and this year has been especially hard for so many.  Like everything else, we are trying to be as safe as possible while we support our Ellis family.  If you would like to donate a gift card please find the procedure at the link below. 

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Weekly Overview for November 16-20

Monday: 

*Journal:  This weekend I…                                  Self select a work from each area: Mathematics Small Group Lessons                       *Language *1st year students-expanded notation  8:45            *Prehistoric Research Project                                  *2nd year students-fractions-number line  9:15         *Read 20 minutes             *3rd year students-fractions-number line  9:45

Tuesday:

*Journal:I was digging for fossils and I found____.  What did you do with it?  Language Small Group Lessons                           Self select a work from each area: *1st year students-Visual Thinking Skills  8:45           *Prehistoric Research Project *2nd year students-Visual Thinking Skills 9:15           *Read 20 minutes        *3rd year students-Visual Thinking Skills  9:45           *Math

Wednesday:

*Journal: My favorite dinosaur is ___.  Why?  No live meetings today-Asynchronous learning Today is the best day to catch up on missing assignments and work on projects. Pre-game work-sentence analysis

Thursday:

*Journal: Five things I am thankful for are...                                                                             Self select a work from each area:                                                     Large Group Lesson-Cultural                                   *Math/Geometry Time Line and Fossil experiment                             *Language *Opinion Writing Rough Draft Due (end of day)          *Read 20 minutes

Friday:

*Journal: Free Choice Journal Small Group Writing Lessons                                  Self select from each area: Opinion Writing:  Final Drafts Due/Sharing                *Math/Geometry 1st year 8:45                                                         *Prehistoric research project 2nd year 9:15                                                        *Read 20 minutes 34d Year 9:45

Additional Weekly Expectations:

• Word Study
• Epic Reading
• Khan Mappers
• Amira Reading