The kids are bringing in their presents for their 🎁Secret Cohort Classmate!

It has been so fun to watch them bring them in so carefully and want the fun to be shared!

Everyone will open together on Friday Morning in our Morning Meeting!

 Some Cohort A kids will be bringing home gifts today-- others will get their present when it gets dropped off at school. I will email you if you need to come by the  MCS Main Office to pick it up.

 

Thanks, Ms. Bonzo🦉

 

 Here, Isaac displays one of several pages of similes from the novel that we are reading as a class Literature Circle. His work is a wonderful example of how the kids can construct information and learn to organize their work in their composition notebooks that they can analyze later. 👏

Each day we get to discuss which was their favorite simile. We also put one each day in the Planners.

 

 

The kids of Cohort B had a great time playing together this afternoon.

It has been so different at school that I feel like I haven't been able to show the kids doing their kid things. Being at school matters on so many levels. Learning together takes many forms.

It is good to show you that they are playing and have adapted to all the changes and love to be outside. That makes them feel good and connected to each other.

 

 

Take Care, Ms. Bonzo🦉

 

This is the best part of being together in school-- the kids getting to interact, share, and engage in learning together! They did a wonderful job listening and going through the process of checking for reasonableness and using the math vocabulary. Raise the roof!

 

 

 

 

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!🌎

 

                    It's our 3rd year in the recycling program with Trex.👏

 

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!😁

 

💚Thanks for bringing your #2 and #4 plastic to our school!

 

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.

 

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! ✨

 

Thank you, Ms. Bonzo🦉