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Class Update: Week of March 2 nd (week 9, term 2) Spedding Grade 5 PYP The International School of Monterey From MSped’s SEM class on Friday: Using alginate to create hand and foot molds, with 5 th graders assisting younger students. Good morning! I received an email from a parent who was not able to see term 2 grades on PowerSchool. If you’re having a similar problem, or have discovered a workaround, please let me know. I’ll check with our PowerSchool guru, Karen Kushel, about it first thing in the morning. Here’s what’s happening around the classroom this week: The Exhibition Many thanks to all of you who were able to attend our Exhibition informational evening last Thursday. There was quite a nice turnout. We hope it was helpful. You’ll find a link to our GooglePresentation on the Exhibition website here . If you have any questions about the Exhibition, or would like to see something on the website that’s seems to be missing, please let me know. We depend on your feedback. We now enter week 3 of the Exhibition, and it is now time for teams to arrange contacts in the community. Teams are reminded that a formal field trip permission form must be drawn up and signed by all parents of students going off campus. Advanced notice is REQUIRED. While teams are welcome to use my fancyschmancy lavalier microphone, I will be sending my video camera off for repairs, and it will not be available for at least a couple of weeks.

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Class  Update:    Week  of  March  2nd  (week  9,  term  2)  Spedding  Grade  5  PYP                    The  International  School  of  Monterey  

 

 

 From  MSped’s  SEM  class  on  Friday:  Using  alginate  to  create  hand  and  foot  molds,  with  5th  graders  assisting  younger  students.  

   Good  morning!    I  received  an  email  from  a  parent  who  was  not  able  to  see  term  2  grades  on  PowerSchool.  If  you’re  having  a  similar  problem,  or  have  discovered  a  workaround,  please  let  me  know.  I’ll  check  with  our  PowerSchool  guru,  Karen  Kushel,  about  it  first  thing  in  the  morning.    Here’s  what’s  happening  around  the  classroom  this  week:  

   The  Exhibition    Many  thanks  to  all  of  you  who  were  able  to  attend  our  Exhibition  informational  evening  last  Thursday.  There  was  quite  a  nice  turnout.  We  hope  it  was  helpful.    You’ll  find  a  link  to  our  GooglePresentation  on  the  Exhibition  website  here.    If  you  have  any  questions  about  the  Exhibition,  or  would  like  to  see  something  on  the  website  that’s  seems  to  be  missing,  please  let  me  know.  We  depend  on  your  feedback.    We  now  enter  week  3  of  the  Exhibition,  and  it  is  now  time  for  teams  to  arrange  contacts  in  the  community.  Teams  are  reminded  that  a  formal  field  trip  permission  form  must  be  drawn  up  and  signed  by  all  parents  of  students  going  off  campus.  Advanced  notice  is  REQUIRED.    While  teams  are  welcome  to  use  my  fancy-­‐schmancy  lavalier  microphone,  I  will  be  sending  my  video  camera  off  for  repairs,  and  it  will  not  be  available  for  at  least  a  couple  of  weeks.  

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Parents  are  welcome  and  encouraged  to  track  their  child’s  Exhibition  progress  by  monitoring  their  entries  into  Running  Records,  and  by  asking  questions  and  expecting  thoughtful,  knowledgeable,  and  specific  responses.  Parents  are  strongly  encouraged  to  question,  cheer,  poke  and  prod,  and  offer  suggestions/guidance  as  helpful.  However,  students  must  remain  the  center  of  gravity,  assuming  FULL  responsibility  for  the  quality  of  their  team  collaboration  and  individual  learning,  demonstrating  the  attributes  and  attitudes  of  the  PYP.    

 

 6th  graders  Marco,  Niamh,  Alex  and  Keita  help  Jason  and  Ashley  to  understand    

the  details  of  desalination  based  on  their  exceptional  work  last  year.        

   Math  Summative  Tomorrow                          Students  are  reminded  to  look  over  the  Unit  7  Review  and  their  Math  Journal  pages  in  advance  of  the  summative  tomorrow.  The  summative  will  focus  on  exponents,  order  of  operations  (PEMDAS),  drawing  and  interpreting  line  graphs,  and  operations  with  positive  and  negative  numbers.    Looking  ahead,  Unit  8  begins  with  a  review  of  adding  and  subtracting  mixed  numbers,  then  moves  to  the  multiplication  and  division  of  fractions,  and  finding  percents  of  a  number  (problems  which  involve  finding  discounts  like  you’ve  seen  in  the  math  boxes).  

   FLUSH  Much  to  he  kids’  delight,  we  will  continue  reading  Carl  Hiaasen’s  novel  Flush  in  earnest  next  week.  The  challenge  will  be  to  restrain  students  from  reading  the  book  overnight.  For  those  of  you  who  are  loving  the  book  thus  far,  I  suggest  you  consider  digging  into  one  of  his  other  very  popular  children’s  books.  See  Amazon  for  a  list,  several  of  which  we  have  in  our  classroom  library.      

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 Note  Carl  Hiaasen’s  interview  on  60  Minutes.  

   Student  Portfolios  The  kids’  portfolios  are  now  organized  and  up-­‐to-­‐date  <insert  cross-­‐fingers>.  Next  week  I’ll  be  asking  students  to  share  the  portfolios  with  you  at  home.      

   

 Wow,  wasn’t  the  trip  to  the  Symphony  fun!  It  was  fun  even  before  we  left  the  classroom!  Below  Ashley  and  James  are  

interviewed  by  KSBW.  Sadly,  being  without  a  television,  I  never  saw  the  segment  aired.  If  you  happen  to  have  recorded  it,  I’d  love  to  have  a  copy.  

   

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The  Calendar    

MARCH  

MONDAY   TUESDAY   WEDNESDAY   THURSDAY   FRIDAY   SATURDAY   SUNDAY  

2  ExhibitionProject  Week3  

3   4   5   6   7   8  

9  ExhibitionProject  Week4      

10   11   12   13   14   15  

16  ExhibitionProject  Week5  

17   18   19   20   21   22  

23                              Spring  Break  

24   25   26   27   28   29  

30   31            

   

 

 Here  we  see  Chris  experimenting  with  his  new  idea  for  creating  custom  shoes  from  bubble  gum  molds.    

I’ll  let  Chris  explain  the  rest.  

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