Week of 9/8

Nervous System

• Steam Explorers Brain Mold (will go home approximately Tuesday of next week)

• Parts of the brain video

• 'Fantastic Elastic Brain' by JoAnn Deak Ph.D read aloud https://www.amazon.com/Your-Fantastic-Elastic-Brain-Stretch/dp/0982993803

Mrs. Wordsmith's Storyteller's Word a Day

• swagger

• grating

• tongue-tied

• vacant

Read Alouds

• Code 7

• Invisible Boy

• Squirrels Who Squabbled

Group A

• Full curriculum implementation (still waiting on a few HWT workbooks that are on backorder, see SeeSaw for specifics on your child's activities)

• Second Step SEL- Self Talk, Ignoring Distractions

• Veterenarian community helpers video (follow up to police officers and firefighters video last week)

• Secret Space nature walk

• Learned how to be good citizens in everyday life and how to carryout good citizenship in their communities

• Learned about health and different parts of the body (muscles, skeletal, various organs)

• Earth, Sun, Moon mini-lesson

Book Purge

• We emptied most of our bookcase and shelves to prepare for the Scholastic book shipment of 75+ books!

Group B

• Full curriculum implementation (see SeeSaw for your child's specific work)

• The Refugee- we are halfway through the book!

• Finished 'What is a Refugee?' History's Mysteries unit by choosing a character trait that the characters in 'The Refugee' exhibit and analyzing why those specfic traits would be useful in their future homes

• Coding using Tynker and Scratch

• Bat Mystery Article of the Day

• Completed inferencing doodle notes mini-unit

• This or That exit slips