Thursday, May 21, 2015

Shhh, Testing in Session 5/19-5/26 Make-up or continuation 5/28-29



5/19-5/29 Blocks 1 & 2 are dedicated to the California State Testing
For GRADES 3/4

Each morning (some mornings will be rotating groups to give students a testing break)

Reward Activities will be allowed on some days to honor the effort students are putting into the state testing.  Students have to have quiet and calm behavior to earn these rewards.


There are 4 tests: English, Math, English Performance Task, Math Performance Task
  • The performance task includes interactive lesson, so it will not all be on the computer (although much is as well).  
  • There is a LOT of reading involved on this test so students may be tired and frustrated.  
  • We are supporting them with this and if you want to follow up at home with praise or rewards that's great!



Block 3 for testing window is as follows:

5/20 Wednesday:  Whole Class Sport Activity
5/21 Thursday:  Dance as usual! (earn an iPad Pass)
5/22 Friday: A Fun Friday Movie & pop-corn

Monday: NO SCHOOL
5/26 Tuesday: OT Centers as usual (earn an iPad Pass)
5/27 Wednesday: Mid-week Movie reward!!!  Great job!!!

Many students may finish, which we will continue to other school activities and if the majority are not done regular testing will resume.  Of they mostly are complete the following two days will be for make-up students only.
5/28 Thursday: Dance PERFORMANCE!!!! 
5/29 Friday: A Fun Friday Movie & pop-corn & the Kermesse school fair!!!





Important dates!!

5/28 Thursday:

The students will be showing off their awesome dance skills so please come and join us for their presentation/performance @ 1:00PM :-)
Our students have been working really hard on their dance skills and the instructor is fabulous! 

We would like to invite friends family and SCOE staff to join us in celebrating their hard work and the end of the school year. Please come join us for our Hip Hop Dance performance May 28th, 1:00 @ FACS (amphitheater). 
Bring your cameras!:)



5/29 Friday (for students):
  1. Your students will be participating in the Kermesse event from 11:45A to 1:30P. The schedule for SCOE students will be as follows:
  2. 12:10P to 12:50P SCOEteachers toassistwithsupervisingtheirstudentsonthefieldduringboothactivities
  3. 12:50P to 1:05P  Please help move them towards the prize tables so that they may collect their prizes
  4. 1:30P  Please escort your class back to the classroom 


Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Just the schedule

Tuesday

 8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, 2 Laps, Stretches
8:50AM Mini Warm-Up Activity -> Pick out a "would you rather writing prompt"
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Math Groups
 

khanacademy progress
table work (operation honing skills)
10:00AM Snack
10:15-10:30 Morning Recess 

BLOCK 2 English Language Arts, 2 Groups
BOY & DOW

11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break
12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Occupational Therapy Centers (Gross/Fine Motors) & Indpendent Projects
Setting the SCENE (MONSTERS) 

ZONES
1:40 Level Rewards (Behavioral reward incentive)







What makes you, you?
What makes you different?




Monday, May 11, 2015

Tuesday->Sub due to meeting...

Tuesday

 8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, 2 Laps, Stretches
8:50AM Mini Warm-Up Activity -> Pick out a "would you rather writing prompt"
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Math Game
10:00AM Snack
10:15-10:30 Morning Recess 

BLOCK 2 English Language Arts, 2 Groups
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break
12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Occupational Therapy Centers (Gross/Fine Motors) & Indpendent Projects
1:40 Level Rewards (Behavioral reward incentive)



Tuesday, May 5, 2015
05/05/2015


 9:15AM BLOCK 1  Math Game



BLOCK 2 English Language Arts

Whole class or can be split into two.

Read Chapter 11 of "BOY" by Roald Dahl.  

Use quote analysis worksheet.  
Work entire time to get class break. 
Depends on level ability (not all will be able to complete)

BLOCK 3 Occupational Therapy Centers (Gross/Fine Motors) 

Ms. Kirsten will be available and have 2 centers set up.  (usually there's an activity center related to fine motor/gross motor & then another related to self-regulation learning with "The Zones of Regulation)

Support Ms Kirsten with one of the centers and the behaviors.  Remind students about the level reward they get if they participate/are considerate. 

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Monday Math games, typing narratives, minecraft learning

Monday, Test Practice, Library, CPs


Morning Meets, Greets
8:50AM Morning Work Activity -> Writing Prompt
9:15AM BLOCK 1  MATH Assessment GAME!
10:00AM Recess
10:15-10:30 Morning Recess 
BLOCK 2 Computer LAB: Typing Narratives Workshop
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break
12:50 Silent Reading & sharing

BLOCK 3 Minecraft LEARNING!!!!
1:40 Level Rewards



9:15AM BLOCK 1  MATH 

Monday, May 11, 2015
05/11/2015



   




















Writing Prompt
Respond to video
https://vimeo.com/125434519



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9:15AM BLOCK 1  MATH Assessment GAME!




All the sights & sounds of a real-life game show—right on your computer! Perfect for math review or extra practice, our game show has more than 200 level-appropriate questions in 11 key categories—from probability & logic to graphing & functions. Simply divide children into teams, select your categories and let the learning begin! The game even features engaging animation & sound effects that tell kids if they have the right answer…hidden bonus questions worth double the points…plus an optional timer that adds extra challenge & excitement! Includes a printable assessment. For Mac/Win.


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  BLOCK 2 Computer LAB: Typing Narratives Workshop

Objective:  Begin a typing drafting of our narrative stories.
Activity: Using our computer lab time, students will use written pre-writing activities, narrative stories, that have already been typed and been comprising a full narrative story.
Assess: work sample, product



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  BLOCK 3 Minecraft LEARNING!!!!
 


Objective:  To understand elements of story and narrative using Minecraft learning, a highly engaging element for students!!!  All grade levels respond.
Activity: Watch a short video that highlights the synchronicity of Minecraft langauge and plots in connection to writing elements.  We will be stopping the video write it as narrative...this brings the idea of writing to story...
Assess: Students will draw or write about 3 things they learned.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/essaymap/

 

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Will nilly (Writing) Weds

Morning Meets, Laps/Stretches
9:00AM BLOCK 1  Counseling Groups & Small group work
10:00 Snack/Recess  
10:30 BLOCK 2 Narrative Writing Continued
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break
12:50 Silent Reading & sharing

BLOCK 3 ART CENTERS
1:40 Level Rewards




9:00AM BLOCK 1  Counseling Groups & Small group work 

                      Small Group Work=Writing/Emotions
Objective: Students will continue to work on narratives while also exploring their own experiences.
Activity: STudents will fill out "sentence finisher worksheet" as well as read "Positive Steps to Wellbeing".  Open discussion engagement.
Assess: Verbal output, writing samples, and engagement level.























10:30 BLOCK 2 Narrative Writing Continued

 Reading Student Narrative Samples:

Objective: Students will be exposed to student examples (2, 3, 4 grade levels) of personal narrative writing and will review the contents of personal narrative using Write Source books.
Activity;  Whole Class, we will read aloud the samples below.  We will also review the process through an interactive discussion.
Assess: STudent engagement and verbal responses.  

The Horrible Day
One morning I woke up and I was turned around on my bed. Then I fell off! I walked downstairs and I almost fell over my dog. Next I fell asleep in my cereal and my brother stole my toast!
Then I had to walk to school because our car ran out of gas. I was late for school, and I got stuck outside in the rain! Guess what? I really didn’t like this day at all.
The Funny Dance
I remember when my dog Murphy was really little. She was only two or three years old. It was on Christmas. My dad put on some Christmas music and Murphy put her paws up in the air and started swirling around in circles. Then she put her paws on my dad’s hands and they started dancing together. It was very funny, and my dad thought that Murphy was a good dancer!
The Sled Run
One day it snowed like crazy! So school was cancelled. I had Amy over to play. We decided to go sledding. So we started to slide down the hill. We sledded for a long time.
One time we decided to go down together. Amy sat in the front seat and I sat in the back. We started to go down the hill. Then CRASH! We ran into a bush!
Amy went flying and I got my feet caught in the bush! Amy looked like a spider caught in its own spider web. I had a lot of fun that day, and I will never forget it!


My Mother
Do you have someone who is great, spends time with you, cares for you, and is an important person? Well, I do, and she has black hair, brown eyes, and a caring touch. That’s my mom.
My mom talks to me about many things. One of the things she talks to me about is what will happen when I grow up. She tells me what to do in case of an emergency. And one day I had a really bad day with my friends, and she told me what to do about it.
My mom and I spend a lot of time together. We play games, bake cookies, make necklaces, and draw doodle tricks. But our favorite thing to do is read. Our favorite book is If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Mom takes me shopping at the mall. We buy toys and clothes, and we eat at the café. We usually get Chinese food or go to a McDonald’s restaurant. When we ride the escalator, my mom pretends to fall back and says, “My shoestring’s stuck!”
My mom always laughs, and when she laughs she sounds like a hyena gone crazy! She doesn’t laugh every day, but when she does, it’s hilarious, and I have to laugh, too!
My mom is the greatest. I love how she jokes around. She is always fun no matter what, and she gives me great advice. My mom is more than a mom; she is like my best friend!







Jet Bikes
Have you ever run a business from a playhouse? My friends and I have. It is a bike shop. We call it Jet Bikes.
One day my friend Trent asked me and my brother Jared if we wanted to build a bike shop out of his old playhouse. Jared and I said, “Yes.” So we went to get permission from my mom to go to Trent’s house and get started.
The first thing we did was get some things out of his garage. We got old, rusty bolts; new, shiny nuts; black tape; wrenches; half-empty cans of oil; and screws. Then we built a new roof for the playhouse. We also had to clean the dirt and leaves out of it.
So far we’ve only worked on our own bikes because not many people know about our shop. We had to fix Trent’s chain a few times. We also had to fix his tire because it would go flat every five minutes. We changed the inner tube and also used some stuff called “No More Flats.” Now it never goes flat!
When we are older, we plan on putting signs up around town and maybe even an ad in the newspaper. We will work on bikes as big as 20 speeds and as small as bikes with training wheels. We hope to have a lot of customers.
Do you think you’ll ever come here with a bike for my friends and me to work on? I hope so because it would be fun to have some customers, and it might be fun for you to have kids fix your bike!



BLOCK 3 ART CENTERS

Origami 
Card making
Fair contest  

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Tues, Cinco De May0! Math, ELA, & Ot centers

Tuesday

 8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, 2 Laps, Stretches
8:50AM Mini Warm-Up Activity -> 
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Math Groups (A+B)
10:00AM Snack
10:15-10:30 Morning Recess 

BLOCK 2 English Language Arts, 2 Groups
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break
12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Occupational Therapy Centers (Gross/Fine Motors) & Indpendent Projects
1:40 Level Rewards (Behavioral reward incentive)



Tuesday, May 5, 2015
05/05/2015




The Mexican peasant army seemed to be taking on an impossible task when it went up against the much larger French army in the Battle of Puebla. Yet the smaller Mexican army emerged victor. When someone does something that looks difficult or almost impossible, we call it "beating the odds." 

Think of a time when you have "beaten the odds" and share it with your classmates.

  BLOCK 2 English Language Arts, 2 Groups
Reading Comprehension Assessment

Objective: to see where students are progressing for grade level reading assessment
Activity: Students will read a passage in partners, then independently. They will then anser some related assessment questions
ASsess: Embedded 
 Block 3: OT Centers & Independent work

  • Zones calming strategies lesson
  •  shoe-tying/dressing practice  
  • picado papel (fine motor/scissors)