Playing and Acting How Engaging!

Team Jordan has been working on creating fun math games that will help our classmates practice their skills. This week, students presented their games to their peers. They included instructions, question cards, and lots of creativity!

How does creating games make you a better thinker?

When you can teach others it shows mastery and true understanding!

A math game called "Field Goal" for the football fans!

The class is captivated as Bob explains the game he created with Jake and John.

Mia R., Isabelle, Margo and Julia work together to present their math game, "Shark Attack."

Team Jordan listens in as Kole describes his groups's game that is outer space-themed.

Everybody loves Jeopardy!

This week we also enjoyed working in small groups to perform a reader's theater. This reader's theater was based on an Algonquin folktale, it tells how after a terrible winter, Glooskap found summer. We are learning how folktales are stories told orally and handed down by generations.   

The students divided the roles in a story and practiced their lines.

 What a great way to become more fluent. They even made props and a setting backdrop!

As always, my players over came their fears and acting in front of their peers.

Thank you Glooskap for finding summer!  

We can recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Great GRIT Gar

We enjoyed hearing about the the importance of GRIT from a former Team Jordan member, Gar Rudnyai.  He is now a 6th grader who is running his own business. He told us about how writing as well as determination has helped him reach many of his goals. 

 Last summer, Gar  was feeling a little bored and decided he wanted to earn some money. Since he loves hockey it made sense for him to build an online business based on floor hockey.  He told us that if you want to create a company it's important to think of something that solves a problem. 

 His problem was being bored and missing hockey.  Other players must feel the same. So, Gar came up with a solution.  

To learn more check out his website.

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Barn Burner Hockey

It was great to see one of my former players achieving success, learning from failures, and setting and reaching his goals.  I'm thankful to Gar for taking the time to come to our class to share how  much Steward School helped to prepare him for success.  I can't wait to see what the future holds for Gar and for all my players!

December Update & Enrichment

What can you look forward to in the month of December? Opinion & Persuasive Writing We will be working on learning the difference between fact and opinion.  We will learn what writer's do to persuade their audience.  We will also examine how persuasive advertisements and write our own. Reading Traditional Literature   We are studying fables, myths, tall tales, folktales and more.  We will work on answering the question-How do made-up stories with imaginary characters teach important things about real life? Multiplication Matters We are working towards mastery of our multiplication facts.  Division is the opposite of multiplication and therefor by knowing our multiplication facts we can divide.  We will continue to develop deeper understanding of this relationship as well as strategies for solving math stories that involve these operations. Thank you for supporting your child at home by practicing with them at home.
One of our math standards is to Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division. We will be able to Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. 1 Social Studies We are going to wrap up our unit on the Wampanoag and Pilgrims before the winter break.  First we learned about each group separately.  Now we are learning about the relationship of these two groups. We have been enjoying reading and discussing the hardships that the Pilgrims faced on the Mayflower.  

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Information will be coming home this week with your child.  We have already begun to blog at school using our new laptops!  Enrichment Click here to get our-  December Enrichment Happy December!