Popcorn and Earth Rangers!

Two highlights of our week were being able to buy popcorn for an after lunch snack and seeing the animals in the Earth Rangers' presentation! There was a lot of interest and many students now want to become an Earth Ranger and be ambassadors for animals!

It was a great chance to see wildlife up close and to hear lots of facts about them.

Well, this weekend gives me the chance to review the students' writing skills in being able to follow the criteria of:

• being able to write using full sentences that show complete thoughts
• mark their sentences with upper case letters and periods
• being able to write in short paragraphs where all related ideas are bundled together
• being able to revise their work so it makes sense 
• being able to check their work for the spellings of words that are high frequency sight words (such as they, like etc) 
• being able to include introduction, three arguments, one counter argument and a tie up

This work also gives me the opportunity to find out what it is that they feel would make a difference to their learning. This whole learning opportunity came about because one child brought in a letter expressing that they wanted to have a special event in the class. That sparked a huge interest in how we can make changes happen and how we do this in the real world. When learning is authentic, students really buy in and work very hard to learn new skills in order to have their voice heard.

I was impressed by how well the students know themselves as learners by expressing that they can be distracted in class so might find a privacy screen helpful or that they want a floor table as they find it more comfortable than working at a table. I will try to honor their requests but I may have to do some creative thinking around having a bird in the class. I am not sure how that would fly with the CBE (ha ha).

Housekeeping:

Tuesday - Please send (non violent) Hallowe'en costumes in backpack (should you want to dress up)

Weekly Dispatch

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