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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.
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.
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.
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.