Week of 8/17

-Introduced 'Nightly News- Kid Edition' to AM meetings https://www.nbcnews.com/nightlykids

-Guinness World Record- World's Largest Rube Goldberg Machine

-'Why Your Brain Needs Food' video

-Gemstones exploration

-Op Art lines lesson

-Strategy Games (Otrio & Set)

-Visit from past student

-Max's 6th Birthday

**Next week we start incorporating student curriculum and learning plans

Group A

• History's Mysteries- What Does It Mean to Belong to a Group?

• A Kid's Book About Belonging Read Aloud

• Imagine Neighborhood Podcast- Mr. Music Man, Calm It Down Dance

• Dr. Sherri's Emotion Experiment- Solve-o-matic 3000

• Emotion Wheel

• A Perfectly Messed Up Story read aloud, Perspective

• Applying Second Step skills to natural play time

• Google Classroom Math

• Free Association read aloud

Group B

• Inferencing Doodle Notes

• Secret Spot construction

• Apples to Apples

• Cul-de-Sac walks

• The Refugee read aloud, Chapters 1-7 quizzes on Google Classroom

• Google Classroom math assignments

• Comic Book Club

• Newspaper Week 1

• Second Step- Empathy & Respect (Google Classroom assignment, quiz)

• Brains On! Podcast- Opposite Day & Other Paradoxes

• Spanish- Likes & Dislikes

• 'Why we say OK' video (Oll Korrect history)

• Cuban refugee video (on boat, Cuba to USA)