Week of January 23rd, 2017

We have been learning how to be an "expert learner." An expert learner is someone who is motivated, engaged, and passionate about learning. It's not about knowing everything, it's about challenging yourself, making mistakes, and understanding that learning never stops.

Here are the goals we've been working on this week:

Math

- We can use growing patterns and repeating patterns to make predictions.

Reading

- We can identify character traits and give evidence.

Writing

- We can use punctuation (end marks, quotation marks, commas).

Spelling

- We can spell using digraphs and blends.

- We can spell using suffixes.

- We can spell trick words.

- We can identify open and closed syllables.

Unit Time

- We can use coding to create programs.

- We can show what we know about how sound is made.

Other

- We can work collaboratively.

- We can make choices to challenge ourselves in learning.

- We can use strategies to stay engaged and motivated.

- We can make choices to help ourselves as learners.

- We can share how we learn best and what challenges us.

Ask:

- What is Morning Learning Choice? What do you do?

- What type of patterns are you working on?

- What is a character trait? How do you give evidence?

- What are you writing about? How do you stay motivated?

- What is "Scorekeeper?" What did you do to code it?

- What makes sound? How do you make sound effects?

- How did you challenge yourself this week?