March 26, 2021

 Fox and Bear Community

March 26, 2021

The children have been enjoying our study of birds and a few have even built their own nests. Please continue to encourage your child to complete cultural projects to share with the class.  Many children have been partnering up for these projects and that is all the more fun!

https://www.bookitprogram.com/

You are now able to enroll children in book it digitally.  Click the link above to complete the process.

Now that we mentioned reading, please note that the class has currently read 4,500 books on Epic Reading.

March 27-April 4

We hope everyone stays healthy and has a fun and relaxing break!

The fox classroom is in need of a tall bookshelf.  If you have a shelf that you are looking to rehome or see one that you would like to purchase for our community we would greatly appreciate it!

Want to get started on teaching your child to be responsible? Here’s a list of tried-and-true tips:

1. Ask for their help to contribute to you and the family. It feels good to be of service to someone. It could be preparing flowers for a guest who’s coming to visit, contributing to the menu planning, or straightening the shoes by the door. You want responsibility to be a personal strength, not just, say, knowing the proper way to fold the laundry.
2. Create opportunities for them to contribute to the community. It could be formal, like volunteer work, or informal, like helping someone in the store who dropped something.
3. Be patient. It takes patience to allow kids the time to try to figure out something that is challenging, and it takes confidence in their ability to persevere and tolerate frustration. You also need to take time for training.  
4. Make it enjoyable. No one likes a chore list, but there is often satisfaction in a job well done (or even the process). Put on music and do it along with them.
5. Let them make mistakes and learn from them. Experience, especially experience that’s reflected on, is a far more effective teacher than a parent could ever be.
6. Allow your child to take some risks. Don’t automatically assume that she can’t do something. Using the stove, for example, is something kids eventually need to learn how to do safely, not just be kept away from.
7. Resist the urge to jump in and make it right. Teach children to clean up their own messes, from a spill to a missing homework assignment, and trust in their ability to find solutions to the messes they make. Supporting kids from a very young age to take responsibility for the results of their actions is a powerful lesson.

Weekly Overview for March April 5-9

Morning meeting is now scheduled for 8:00 each day.  All students are expected to attend.  

Monday:

*Journal: During spring break... Math  Small Group Lessons                              Self select a work from each area: 8:15   1st-Addition snake game                          *Cultural  8:45   2nd- Fractions to Decimals                       *Read 20 minutes        10:15  3rd-Fractions to Decimals                        *Language

Tuesday:

*Journal: People think about spring as a time for new beginnings – what is something you would like to start doing this spring? Language Small Group/Sentence Analysis            Self select a work from each area:  8:15   1st -Verbs                                                    *Cultural  8:45   2nd -Using commas                                    *Read 20 minutes        10:15  3rd - Prepositional Phrases                         *Math

Wednesday:

*Journal: And Then story:  prompt on platform Large Group Lesson-Cultural                Self select a work from each area:                                                                 Tree Of Life                                         *Math/Geometry Introduction to Plants                                *Language 8:15                                                     *Read 20 minutes

Thursday:

*Journal: If you could plant a garden of anything, what would be in it? Exquisite lesson                                     Self select a work from each area:                                                                                                           The lesson this week is a mystery.           *Math/Geometry We will let you know the supplies             *Language that you will need on Monday                   *Read 20 minutes

Friday:

*Journal: Free Choice Journal Small Group Writing Lessons                          Self select from each area: Bio-poems                                                       *Math/Geometry  8:15   1st Grade Writing Lesson                     *Cultural-Seasonal work  8:45   2nd Grade Writing Lesson                    *Read 20 minutes 10:15  3rd Grade Writing Lesson

Additional Weekly Expectations:

Word Study

Epic Reading

Amira Reading

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