Hi All:
Thank you for all of your support over the past few weeks, as they have been challenging, to say the least. I for one am looking forward to getting back into a normal schedule. One week from today, we will be holding student-led conferences and a PBL showcase night at Southmoor. Using this link, you can sign up for a 15-minute slot for a student-led conference. If no available slot works for you, send me an email -- we will be able to fit you in somewhere. These conferences will be similar to those we held last year. Between 7:00-7:30, then, we will be holding a PBL showcase which will work to explain what we have been doing for our class' projects on climate change. You are welcome to attend that if you don't get your fill during your student's conference! Other than that, here are a few important dates to keep in mind: Important Dates to Remember (or Pencil In)
It's Not Easy Being Green: Our Project Based Learning Unit (Involving Science, Some Social Studies, and English Language Arts) Students have been hard at work on their climate change projects. After our class' seven groups worked collaboratively as groups on their first reports, each individual is now working on a second report that fits in within his or her group's topic. Please ask your student(s) about his or her progress and learning! Ideally, I wanted to complete our second round of reports by the end of this week, but plans changed. As such, I am going to be checking in with groups tomorrow to reevaluate where students are and when we should set our next deadline. It will be moved to the end of next week or beginning of the following week. From there, students will work in their groups to put together their comprehensive reports, and then they will again work as individuals on writing letters to officials of their choosing. I will send out more information as to that after we finish this phase of our projects, but please talk with your student(s) if you wish to stay up-to-date. The Know Brainer Event On April 27, our class, or most of our class, is going to participate in a Know Brainer academic trivia event at Hamilton Middle School. This event has been organized by the optimist club which also helps us with our BUG awards. We will field three teams of five to seven kids, at a cost of $25 per team, and hold several practice sessions over the next few months. The kids are very excited about this, so please stay tuned for more updates and information. Please reach out to me if you would like to help round up money and iron out details. Math Though we did complete our fifth unit since my last update here, not much has changed in math. Look for an update in the next week or two as to new content and objectives. Looking Forward After all of us settle back into a normal schedule, we will be following up our current projects with a choice literature project relating to the books of choice students have been reading throughout the year, and we will also be moving into another science unit on the human body. At some point, probably after CMAS testing, I want to circle back around to our work on U.S.-American history and also build onto the poetry work we did last year. Thinking back to our trip to Balarat, our AmeriTowne unit and trip, our U.S.-American history research projects, and all of the other academic work we have done so far this year, it has been fun-filled and action-packed. I am looking forward to building on that foundation and creating more great experiences throughout the half we have left. Thanks again for all of your support. Parker
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