Friday, November 14, 2014

Celebrating Our Week...

Celebrating Our Week!
          On Friday afternoons we take some time to reflect and think about our week.  Each of the kids fills out a “celebration” ticket.  Today it was very exciting to see that a lot of the kids were proud of themselves for being able to work through the partial product multiplication strategy in math. 
There has been a lot of growth mindset in our classroom during math this year.  It is great to see that they are starting to have a better understanding of these strategies.  The kids have had to put a lot of effort into learning this strategy.  Many of them have struggled with this strategy, but their ability to stick with it is impressive! 

Character Change
       In reading we are learning about character change.  The kids have been learning strategies that help them think about how a character has changed from the beginning of the book to the end of the book.  It has been helpful to use the story arc that we use in writing to help us think about how a character changes from the beginning of the story, what event helps the character to change, and what traits they possess at the end of the story. 

How Can You Help at Home?
       If you would like to encourage your child to use strategies that they are learning in school at home, it would greatly benefit your child as a learner. 
          While your child is reading, you could check in with him/her and have a discussion about the character in the book that they are reading.  You could also work with your child to have them think about how the events in the story caused the character to change. 
          Even having a discussion about the book that we read in class this week would be great.  Your child can tell you about The Bat Boy and His Violin.  They can explain how Papa in the book changed from being very insensitive toward his son to becoming more accepting of him. 

I hope everyone has a great weekend!    
         




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