As I mentioned, during this mornings Morning Meeting, today was the last day that we will use Zoom for a call. Tomorrow we will start using the Google Meet platform to host all live classroom meetings and instructions. Please watch the following video to learn about that platform and also some information about what writing will look like starting next week.
Today's Morning Meeting Recording:
Click here to listen to today's morning meeting.
Tomorrow's Schedule and Links:
9:00 Morning Meeting
10:00 Writing Instruction
Change in Writing Instruction and Focus:
As I stated in the video, I used the weekend to reflect about how writing instruction is going and I have decided to do one more week of our books to inform unit and then will switch our focus. The main drive behind this move is the frustration that I felt several kids were having with the distance writing instruction. I spoke with Kaiya, over the weekend, and explained my thought process and will be shifting the focus to students writing good paragraphs based on a variety of writing prompts.
On Tuesdays, I will introduce a prompt and we will spend the writing instruction time to start responses to the prompt. The students can then continue to work on them on Wednesdays. On Thursdays we will review responses and then start a new prompt that will be due Tuesday. You should send completed prompts in after they are finished and have shared them out.
The focus will be writing good paragraphs with correct grammar, use, and mechanic skills. As always, please let me know if you have any questions.
Theme Days:
During Morning Meeting today. the students voted to have a theme for each morning meeting. Her are the themes (and the kid who suggested it) for the remainder of the week.
Tuesday: Stuffy Day (Caden)
Wednesday: Pajama Day (Adele)
Thursday: Costume Day (Leif)
Friday: Wear the Color Blue (Riley)
That is all for now.
Peace,
Tommy
Wednesday: Pajama Day (Adele)
Thursday: Costume Day (Leif)
Friday: Wear the Color Blue (Riley)
That is all for now.
Peace,
Tommy
