Shaelyn biked in with a lot of plastic and taking a rest on the Trex Bench!
She's in 5th grade now, but she knows how important to keep bringing in the plastic!
Yay Kids!!
Rendezvous in 4th Grade
Ms. Cartwright had the kids imagine what it would be like to trade their goods if they were a fur trader, supplier of food, tools or, or clothes. The kids got the hang of trading and making sure they would make it alive to the next season. Some did have to eat their mocassins and that was truly a moment of realizing how much they don't think about food-- a good thing!
Lots of thinking and haggling-- good to see them thinking about the details of the chapter about fur traders. Life long ago brought perspective for today-- Yay for History lessons!๐
Precipitation Collectors set out for 24 hours
We went through the scientific process or steps. This experiment, here at school for the next 24 hours, is to practice how to set this experiment up-- to repeat it. They made sketches to show where the one that they placed into the ground-- luckily not frozen yet!!-- so they can think about where to do it at home. Ask your child which one is theirs.
MCS collects 353 pounds of plastic for October! ๐
It's our 3rd year in the recycling program with Trex.๐
The kids know that capturing this material keeps it out of our landfill or from ending end up in our waterways. This group of kids remembers when the program started at our school-- they were in 2nd grade! That is really cool!
They said they are glad to be doing the job of collecting and weighing the plastic now. We keep the plastic for one month. It gets stored in the school trailer and then taken to the Moscow Recycle Center on the first Saturday of each month. That will be this coming Saturday. Spread the word!๐
๐Thanks for bringing your #2 and #4 plastic to our school!
๐Supporting At-Home Lessons๐ป -- Only 1 Notebook ๐
As the first quarter has come to an end, there is a change needed in order to help the kids with the Hybrid Learning Model. The new way is designed to make the school/home connection stronger so that each student will transfer their work to their proper in-class subject area notebooks when they come to school. They do staple their work in each notebook during the start of the day when they return after 5 days at home already. Now the work will come from one source.
This will be the only notebook that goes back and forth to school and home.
๐The goal is to get more work completed while the kids are doing their online learning and have all their materials with them in class.
Each student will be given a notebook with their name and the label of ALL Subject Notebook. This is the one they work in while at home. The kids will understand that this will help for better organization. There will be plenty of discussion so that they know what to do. (The kids in Cohort B will get their notebook today and the kids in Cohort A will get their notebook on Monday.)
Again, this notebook is for the actual material that they are doing with the online portion of this model. We will keep supporting the kids in their new learning spaces! โจ
Thank you, Ms. Bonzo๐ฆ
Feathered Bonnet-- a sign of service to the tribe
Ashton, Education Outreach Director, explained many of the items in the cases to the 4th graders. She talked about this beautiful Nez Perce artifact that shows how important taking care of each other is in their culture. The person that wore this ceremonial headdress was very important to the people. Each eagle feather represents one act that is acknowledged as service and deemed as honorable.
The kids learned a lot about cultural items and ways today.
Appaloosa Horse Museum
The kids took a lot of notes and sketches on Nez Perce Culture and thought about how indigenous people lived. The notes taken will be used in the Descriptive Writing Paragraph-- our 3rd formal writing assignment for the quarter! Yay!
All the different artifacts were discussed from cradleboards, a massive ceremonial headdress, and parfleches.
We thought it was really fun to be dressed in costumes that represent the U.S. culture's love of Halloween!
Thank you parents that joined us!! It is always special to have you come with us. The kids love it!
Start of School Protocols in Place
The kids are really getting good at doing their jobs, putting away materials, and being ready to start the day. When they are ready, they read. Today they had about 5 minutes! Yay! Everyone is really coming along. ๐
Our next task for all is to get work completed and use the online platforms that are supporting this hybrid model.
Check-in on what your child has done on Moby Max or Newsela.
Thank you, Ms. Bonzo๐ฆ
Pictography by Deak
The scene he created was of a circus. The kids are thinking about Native American Culture and communication. In Morning Meeting, while outside on the basketball court, each student created a 'story without words'. It was hard and interesting. Doing this type of creative work helps the kids connect to the content. We will get to see examples of pictographs--about horses--next week when we go to the Appaloosa Horse Museum.
Getting deeper into Social Studies
We are preparing for our Field Trip Horse Museum.
The chapter in our text does a great job of helping the students think about the life of Native American culture a long time ago. It is by taking facts and putting them in a graphic organizer, such as a chart that allows each to know how geography and the resources made it possible. The kids were reading and doing that today.
Seeking Seeds in our Morning Meeting Activity
We looked around, high and low, and collected seeds. This is a favorite activity to look closely and notice all the different grasses and plants.
Comparing Multi-Digit Numbers
At the start of today, the kids filled in Place Value Charts to compare numbers and review the math symbols and say the math sentence. Look at how proud and fun they feel-- Elliot and Tando can really goof around!
Cooperative Math
We had the kids apply the skills they are learning by doing some timeline work. Thinking is coming along. This was a timeline with sunrise and sunset times from the Moscow Pullman Daily News.
This work was by Mette and Eirene. They were really cooperative!