The first three days of school are in the books! I am so proud of my students for all of the hard work that went into making the first three days a success. This week, we did several getting to know you activities. Some of the most popular included the all about me tangram in which students were tasked with developing their own tangram that would form both a rectangle and a figure that represents them. It was interesting to see the levels of creativity and the willingness each student showed in challenging himself or herself with this task. We also collaborated with one another to complete the cup challenge. Students had to build a structure using six cups, one rubber band, and four pieces of yarn. We also reviewed the IB learner profile traits and reflected on our strengths and weaknesses. I am very impressed with the depth and self-awareness that my students had even with our first reflection. Students have been creating sketchnotes in their reflection journals to document their ideas about how each profile trait is best represented. I am excited to see the growth these students will show on their journey to becoming internationally minded students. Next week, we will begin our instruction. I am very excited to officially begin our first transdisciplinary unit, Sharing the Planet - All's Fair in Love and War. In this unit, we will study how human interaction may lead to conflict and/or peace. This unit is social studies heavy, as we will cover all of the wars in our nation's history beginning with the Spanish-American War and ending with 9/11. For our novel study, we will be reading Refugee by Alan Gratz. If you would like to read the novel along with us, I highly encourage you to do so. We would love to have you continue the dialogue at home with your child. In math, we will begin our study of place value (NBT.1). We will look at the pattern that exists in numbers as you move left and right within a number system in base ten. Finally, this week, in our morning meeting, we will continue to get to know one another. Additionally, we will be talking about choosing a successful seat given our classroom's flexible seating arrangement. REMINDERS:
It's a going to be a week to teach and learn in room 315!
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