Goal Setting, Road Trips and Where I Am From

Goal Setting Conferences -- this week advisors will meet with advisory students and families to review and discuss goals for the beginning of the school year.  Advisors will review assessment data and goals for literacy, math and self-efficacy.  If you have not yet signed up for a meeting, please contact your advisor as soon as possible.

Project Road Trip -- This week we will be starting the Project Road Trip.  Starting Tuesday we will establish teams, create team names and logos, and analyze goals for the project and in what order we will accomplish them.  Students will be using maps, books, travel guides, and websites to research and develop this project. Check the Project Road Trip link for more info.

Sense of Self (5th grade advisory) -- You will be working on your websites in class this week -- completing your "I Am" poem and starting a new page titled "Where I Am From".  Check the Advisory link for instructions.

Oranges, Study Island, and Advisory Update

Project students - here are some updates for this week.

• All students -- Bring an orange to class on Monday -- you need it for a geography demonstration
• 4th and 5th graders -- log into study island -- assignment "Science Pretest" due at the end of this week (4th graders, you need to click on 5th grade to get to the science section)
• 5th graders -- click on the link to your new advisory page -- you will be building a website around the theme "Sense of Self", you can start on the poem and then work on the website this week in class

In projects this week we will be finishing up our introduction to Geography and will soon be starting "Project Roadtrip". Click on the link to "Project Roadtrip" for more details.

Geography and Interactive Notebooks

GEOGRAPHY

Last week students started using internet resources to learn about countries that fit into different "top 10" categories (nationmaster.com). For example - richest, poorest, highest education spending, mathematics literacy... Once students compiled this list then they used Google Maps to find the location of each country and transfer this onto a world map in their interactive notebooks. Goals - using an internet tool, making personal connections, and becoming familiar with world geography.

This week students will continue studying geography ---

The Five Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Human and Environmental Interaction
Human Movement
Regions

and

Map Skills
Different Types of Maps
How To Use Maps

Please click on the link World Geography for more information and resource links.

INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK

Students are beginning to create an Projects Interactive Notebook. This notebook will include space for students to include work from class, as well as space for them to make connections to what they are learning. Each page is titled, numbered, and has a table of contents to keep their work accessible.  Click here for more information about how this type of notebook works.

Daily Schedule for 3-5 Cadre