Week 12

                                        TWiG5: This Week in Grade 5

To all the students, families and friends of Grade 5, welcome to week 12. We hope everyone enjoyed a SPOOKY weekend.
We are starting to think about trimester projects and it will be a busy couple of weeks. Take a look below for what's happening this week and notice the early release and schedule change this week. 

Reminders

Upcoming and Important Dates:

Monday, Oct. 30 - Early Release Day (All students dismissed at 11:30 am)
Tuesday, Oct. 31 - House event assembly 7:55 am - 8:25 am. Parents welcome
November 5 - 9: Last week of ASA Session​ ​​1.

Wednesday Nov. 1- A MONDAY schedule
Tuesday Nov 7- 5K assembly
Nov 7-9- Visiting Poet Ken Nesbitt
Egypt Culture Field trip coming up, details to follow soon

From the ES library

Digital Intelligence and your Children:

21st Century Libraries for Parents session, October 25, 8:30 am. Join us in the MHS library for a presentation by our Information Services Director, Santha Kumar, on how to develop digital intelligence at home. Among other topics, we’ll be discussing how to develop a family tech plan and controlling screen time for children.

Kenn Nesbitt visit:

US poet and performer Kenn Nesbitt will be visiting CAC from November 7 to 9. Mr. Nesbitt is a dynamic performer who is sure to keep us entertained with his humorous poems and his tips on writing for children. He will have a school wide performance on Thursday, Nov. 9, 7:55 to 8:25 am in the ES Hall. He will be available for autographs after school on Tuesday and Wednesday. Books will be on sale at the front gate that week. His books are available in electronic format on the ES library catalog and on our Overdrive collection.

Core Value for November:

This months core value is compassion. We invite you to have conversations at home with you child about what is compassion and how can we demonstrate compassion.

We will be reading the book "Four Feet, Two Sandals" by Karen Lynn Williams and Khandra Mohammed and talking about compassion in the classrooms and around school.

Please check out THIS video of our book this month. Enjoy watching it with your child and discussing the message and theme of the book.

Puppet Show:

Monday October 30th students will enjoy a special shadow puppet show. The performance is adapted from the homonymous illustrated book (published in Brazil in 2016) using the language of shadow puppets, by the book's authors: Egyptian-Brazilian writer Habib Zahra and Spanish visual artist Valeria Rey Soto.  Valeria plays the violin and melodica while Habib manipulates the shadow puppets, which talk, walk and dance, not only on the screen, but also on the walls, floor, and ceiling. The language of the show will be Portuguese.

The plot: Mr. Biu is an old man who does not let his age nor death end his joie de vivre. Despite living alone and being the target of much criticism and envy, he lives smiling and dancing, cheerful and carefree. He's got music, dancing and, above all, an acute awareness of his deep connection with nature.  One day, Death decides to come fetch him. But, upon arriving at the old man's house, she is received in a totally unexpected manner...

Duration: 40 minutes

Recommended for adults as well as children 4+

Here is a link to their website: http://habib-valeria.com/

Cathy Berger Kaye:

Cathy Berger is a consultant on leadership and service. She will be working with our coaches, house team captains and student leadership on Monday October 30th.

Circle Solutions:

In circle solutions we will be focusing on the power of kindness. What kinds of words do we use with others and how to we view ourselves and others.

Curriculum Corner

Writer's Workshop

This week students are taking a close look at the poems they have written and the poems that have inspired them. We continue to work on Glogster and students will publish their three favorite poems. The students also need to explain their choices in writing one of their poems and in choosing their mentor text poem to write about as well.

Students have been invited and are encouraged to take their writing notebooks around with them where ever they go. You never know when an idea may come to you or a story may be created. We want live and breath like writers!

Reader's Workshop

The "Developing Understanding Characters" unit continues this week and students are busy doing important work as readers. Students have continued to jot and make inferences based on the actions, words, and feelings of characters, and using all the skills that they learnt and developed last week. Students will start to begin to evaluate their jots and looking closely at what makes a "gold" jot. Reading projects will be introduced this week and students will start applying everything they have learned during this unit in a final project. 

Math Workshop

This week we will have our M3 pre-assessment. This gives the teachers information they need to properly guide and write their lessons for M3. 

We continue to look at multi-digit whole number division this week and how to use estimation and multiplication to check our work. 
Don't forget to click the link below and find some helpful tips and strategies for this module: 

TIPS FOR MODULE 2

Social Studies

The students continue to work hard on their RAFT project and we are knee-deep into research. Students are using the Big 6 model to organize their research and thoughts. We look forward to these projects as they continue to take shape. 

Have a great week!

Your Partners in Education:

LeeAnn Kasal:   lkasal@cacegypt.org

Bonnie Greene: barmstronggreene@cacegypt.org
Jonathan O'Sullivan: josullivan@cacegypt.org
Caitlin Johnson: cjohnson@cacegypt.org

Week 11

TWiG5: This Week in Grade 5

To all the students, family and friends of Grade 5, welcome to week 11. As we come off a very busy and successful Global Math Week please take time to pause and reflect on the awesome things that the students of Grade 5 are achieving every day. Please note that this week is also a busy one with Halloween so I would ask that we all read and take note of the important information below.

GLOBAL MATH WEEK: Learning, Exploring and Having Fun With Math

Parents enjoying the concept of the 1-2 Machine 

Thank you and congratulations to all those students and parents that participated in Global Math Week at CAC. Mathematics is truly a global entity and to have so many students and parents engaged and exploring mathematics is fantastic!

Reminders

Upcoming and Important Dates:

Tuesday, Oct. 24: No Assembly
Thursday, Oct 26: Halloween Parade at 2:30 PM. Parents are welcome.
Friday, Oct 27: Halloween Carnival from 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM.

Monday, Oct. 30 - Early Release Day (All students dismissed at 11:30 am)
Tuesday, Oct. 31 - House event assembly 7:55 am - 8:25 am. Parents welcome
November 5 - 9: Last week of ASA Session​ ​​1.

From the ES library

Digital Intelligence and your Child/ren:

21st Century Libraries for Parents session, October 25, 8:30 am. Join us in the MHS library for a presentation by our Information Services Director, Santha Kumar, on how to develop digital intelligence at home. Among other topics, we’ll be discussing how to develop a family tech plan and controlling screen time for children.

Kenn Nesbitt visit:

US poet and performer Kenn Nesbitt will be visiting CAC from November 7 to 9. Mr. Nesbitt is a dynamic performer who is sure to keep us entertained with his humorous poems and his tips on writing for children. He will have a school wide performance on Thursday, Nov. 9, 7:55 to 8:25 am in the ES Hall. He will be available for autographs after school on Tuesday and Wednesday. Books will be on sale at the front gate that week. His books are available in electronic format on the ES library catalog and on our Overdrive collection.

Halloween Celebrations: 
On Oct. 26th, Grade 5 will participate in a number of fun Halloween activities. Students can come to school dressed or partially dressed in their Halloween costume, as long as the costume does not interfere with learning. We will have regular classes during the morning. 
       At 10:10, students will be dismissed early from their specialist class and can finish putting on their Halloween costumes. Parents are welcome to come and help if it is needed.        At 10:30, Grade 5 will visit the photo booth. Students will have a pizza lunch during their regular lunch time. 
      After lunch, Grade 5 will have 4 activities set up in each classroom and will rotate around to each one. Thanks to the Room Parents who are helping with materials for the games!  
       2:30 The day concludes with the parade and parents are most welcome to attend. 

Costume Guidelines

In order for CAC to have a safe and fun Halloween everyone should check their costume follows the guidelines. We appreciate the variety of costumes and/or original designs.

• Remember come to school wearing your costume. Put make up, hairspray, etc… on at home
• Prop head wear (hats, caps, masks, etc.) may be worn, but not during class time
• No dangerous props ( knives, swords, toy guns, etc.) or high heeled shoes
• Practice some of our core values
• Respect - commenting positively on other’s costumes
• Responsibility - for wearing costumes according to our guidelines
• Creativity - for creating and planning your costume

MS Play

The MS Play is coming up; October 26th. Tickets are only 20 LE and the play is 35 minutes long, very good length for ES students and their families (it's quirky, but definitely appropriate for ES students).  Please promote the show!

Curriculum Corner

Writer's Workshop

This week we've continued to explore the Poetry Toolboxes - Meaning and Music. Students are realizing that poetry can be musical without having to rhyme. The three pillars of poetry: emotion, image and music have been inspiring our young poets to craft beautiful poetry. Georgia Heard and Ralph Fletcher continue to be our inspiration.

This is very important because the poets of Grade 5 are selecting their favorite poems to publish in digital form on a website called Glogster. The students are selecting their three favorites poems they wrote and another poem  from a mentor text. The poets also need to explain their choices in writing one of their poems and in choosing their mentor text poem.

Students have been invited and are encouraged to take their writing notebooks around with them where ever they go. You never know when an idea may come to you or a story may be created. We want live and breath like writers!

Reader's Workshop

The "Developing Understanding Characters" unit continues this week and students are busy doing important work as readers. Students have continued to jot and make inferences based on the actions, words, and feelings of characters, and using all the skills that they learnt and developed last week. This week the students will be using their inferencing skills and 'write long' about the books they are reading. Write Long means to take and interesting or revealing jot and develop it into a mini essay about a theme or theory about their book. This skill develops the reader's higher level thinking with regards to character and theme development. 

Math Workshop

This week we will have our mid-module assessment on Module 2. After the mid-module assessment the grade 5 mathematicians will begin to develop an understanding of two-to-three digit division.

Don't forget to click the link below and find some helpful tips and strategies for this module: 

TIPS FOR MODULE 2

Social Studies

This week students are embarking on an individual RAFT project. This is a project where the students have a choice of who they are reporting on and how they will report. The students have some creative freedom in this unit which is great!

A very important element of the RAFT project is the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange is one of the important events that happened as a result of the 'New World' conquest. Students are looking at both the positive and negative consequences of this event from two different perspectives- the Aztecs and the Spanish. 

Guidance Update – How to Be Assertive

“Don’t be a monster. Don’t be a mouse. Be assertive. Be YOURSELF!” – Dr. Pat Palmer

This week students will practice assertiveness skills.  Assertiveness means standing up for personal rights in direct, honest and respectful ways.

Students will learn the 3 ways people tend to act in order to get their needs met. Passive behavior (like a mouse) includes ignoring the problem or being unclear with personal rights, needs or wants. Passive behavior is disrespectful of personal rights and needs. Aggressive behavior (like a monster) includes yelling or demanding behavior. Aggressive behavior is disrespectful towards others. Assertiveness is the balance between passive and aggressive behavior. With assertive communication there is respect for others and for personal rights and needs.

Assertive behavior includes:

1.     Facing the person you are talking to

2.     Keep your head up and shoulders back

3.     Use a calm, firm voice

4.     Use respectful words that start with an “I” statement. Such as, “I am having a hard time concentrating. Please stop talking while the teacher is talking.”

Circle Solutions

This month we will work on having a growth mindset while highlighting students' strengths. 

We continue to work on building a strong sense of community within our classes. 






Have a super learning week everyone!

Your Partners in Education:

LeeAnn Kasal:   lkasal@cacegypt.org

Bonnie Greene: barmstronggreene@cacegypt.org
Jonathan O'Sullivan: josullivan@cacegypt.org
Caitlin Johnson: cjohnson@cacegypt.org

Week 10 Oct 15 - 19

TWiG5: This Week in Grade 5

Welcome to Global Math Week! 

This week there will be some fun math activities around school and in class to embrace Mathematics and 

spread the joy of learning Math! 

Ask your child about their Math experiences this week.

Reminders

GLOBAL MATH WEEK: Learning, Exploring and Having Fun With Math

It’s a global phenomenon happening now, across the entire globe. The joyous uplifting mathematics of Exploding Dots is being enjoyed by one million – YES! One Million! – students and teachers across the entire globe this very week!

• Tuesday, Oct 17: Global Math Week Parent Workshop 8:30-9:30 AM. 

Tuesday, Oct. 24: No Assembly
Thursday, Oct 26: Halloween Parade at 2:30 PM. Parents are welcome.
Friday, Oct 27: Halloween Carnival from 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM.

Monday, Oct. 30 - Early Release Day (All students dismissed at 11:30 am)
Tuesday, Oct. 31 - House event assembly 7:55 am - 8:25 am. Parents welcome
November 5 - 9: Last week of ASA Session​ ​​1.

From the ES library

21st Century Libraries for Parents: Digital Intelligence

Join us on October 25 for a talk with CAC Information Services Director, Mr. Santha Kumar, We will discuss what it means to be digitally intelligent and how we can promote digital intelligence in our children.

Kenn Nesbitt author visit

Poet and performer Kenn Nesbitt will visit CAC in November. You can read his books in ebook format on Overdrive or via the ES library catalog. You will need to use your CAC SSN as the login. Here is a tutorial on accessing the ebooks via the ES library catalog.  

Halloween Celebrations: On Oct. 26th, Grade 5 will participate in a number of fun Halloween activities. Students can come to school dressed or partially dressed in their Halloween costume, as long as the costume does not interfere with learning. We will have regular classes during the morning. 
       At 10:10, students will be dismissed early from their specialist class and can finish putting on their Halloween costumes. Parents are welcome to come and help if it is needed.        At 10:30, Grade 5 will visit the photo booth. Students will have a pizza lunch during their regular lunch time. After lunch, Grade 5 will have 4 activities set up in each classroom and will rotate around to each one. Thanks to the Room Parents who are helping with materials for the games! The day concludes with the parade at 2:30-parents are welcome to attend. 

Curriculum Corner

Writer's Workshop

This week we've been busy exploring the Poetry Toolboxes - Meaning and Music. This will also bring us into the end of next week. Students are realizing that poetry can be musical without having to rhyme. The three pillars of poetry: emotion, image and music have been inspiring our young poets to craft beautiful poetry. Georgia Heard and Ralph Fletcher continue to be our inspiration.

Students have been invited and are encouraged to take their writing notebooks around with them where ever they go. You never know when an idea may come to you or a story may be created. We want live and breath like writers!

Reader's Workshop

The "Developing Understanding Characters" unit continues this week and students are busy doing important work as readers. Students have been jotting and making inferences based on the actions, words, and feelings of characters. We have been looking closely at both what and how our characters are up to in order to find out the why (motivations). This week, we continue to put the puzzle pieces together as we do some high-level synthesizing work. We will also be looking for any inconsistencies with how we expect our characters to act. Just like people, the characters in our books are complicated and complex, not just one way. As we track our characters, we are also looking at how our characters change and evolve. In a lot of our books, we can look at the secondary characters and determine the role they play in our main character's transition. Sometimes secondary characters help our main characters or sometimes they cause conflict for them. Either way, secondary characters have important roles and can have a major impact on the main characters. This goes along nicely with our current read aloud - Wonder. A great book for all ages! Ask your child about it!

Math Workshop

This week we spent time practicing the standard algorithm for multiplication of two and three digit whole numbers. This is a skill that students require practice in. Please support your child at home if they require extra support. Also, please ask them to seek help from their teacher if need be. We are always willing to help.

Next week we will begin Module 2 topic C: Decimal Multi-Digit Multiplication. Students will multiply decimal fractions with tenths by multi-digit whole numbers. Conversions and reasoning about answers will be a focus.

TIPS FOR MODULE 2

Social Studies

We are truly digging into the new Social Studies unit entitled, World Development: A Case Study of Spain as we seek to investigate the provocative essential questions: "How and why did the Spanish empire influence the world? How have past empires influenced the world today?" and the thought-provoking post-thought: Are all empires destined to fail?" 

The Age of Exploration was an interesting period in time when its events changed the world forever. The 3 G's (Gold, Glory & God), along with advancements in technology and a desire for new and affordable goods, motivated the Spanish to risk their lives and travel to unknown places in search of the "New World". The Columbian Exchange is one of the important events that happened as a result. Students are looking at both the positive and negative consequences of this event from two different perspectives- the Aztecs and the Spanish. 

Circle Solutions

This month we will work on having a growth mindset while highlighting students' strengths. 

We continue to work on building a strong sense of community within our classes. 

Your partners in education,

LeeAnn Kasal   lkasal@cacegypt.org

Bonnie Greene barmstronggreene@cacegypt.org
Jonathan O'Sullivan josullivan@cacegypt.org
Caitlin Johnson cjohnson@cacegypt.org

Oct. 8-12

TWiG5: This Week in Grade 5

Welcome to week 9 of learning, exploring and having fun!!!

Reminders!

• DEAR Assembly on Tuesday: On Tuesday, October 10 at 7:55 am, join us on the elementary lawn to Drop Everything And Read! Bring a book (and probably a hat or sunglasses because it will be sunny), and join the elementary students for some sustained silent reading. Please make sure to pack a book for your child/ren so they can get right to it when we start our reading. We hope you will join us. Modeling reading with your children is a great way to highlight the importance and joy of reading.
• Promoting Writing with your Child: Christy Curran, a literacy consultant with extensive experience as a classroom teacher and coach, has returned to CAC. She lead a Coaching Institute with CAC teachers and coaches from other international schools in the region last week. This week, she will be teaching model lessons in classrooms, and running workshops for teachers and parents around the topic of writing workshop. We hope that you can join us on Wednesday, Oct. 11th from 2:00-3:00 in the first floor common room for a presentation for parents on how you can promote writing with your child. 
• Family Picnic during lunch time on Sunday, Oct. 8th. You are invited to join your child for a picnic lunch. Please note that there will not be any hot lunch on this day. Students can bring their lunch or can enjoy their pre-ordered BBQ lunch.
  
  

• MAP test results were sent home with students on Thursday. 
• Challenge Series (CCS) - Grade 2 - 5 Students (Repeated Reminder)
  This year, the ES is offering a new lunchtime sports program called the Cairo Challenge Series. The CCS is a series of 5 events throughout the year for Grade 2-5 students. The five events are: 40m sprint (October), Cross Country race (December), Badminton (grade 3-5 in January), Long Jump (March) and 25m swim (May). All events are designed to recognize participation as well as excellence.
  The first event is the 40m sprint, occurring the week of October 8. The first and second rounds will be done by grade with top finishers in each heat progressing to subsequent rounds.
  • October 9 - Grade 2
  • October 10 - Grade 3
  • October 11 - Grade 4
  • October 12 - Grade 5
  • October 16 - Semi-finals for Grade 2-5
  • October 17 - Finals for Grade 2-5
  We hope that we have 100% participation! No sign up is necessary, students should just come to the track and we will be marking who is there at this time. On the day of your child’s races, please pack a lunch for them as there will be limited time to get hot lunch on these days. There will be an area for students to eat when they are not racing.
  We are very excited to get this program started. If you have any questions, there is additional information on our website or you can email Matt Lautenbach @ mlautenbach@caceygpt.org.
• DRAMA ES Production: If you child is involved in the ES Production, please remind them that Sunday's practice will take place in the theater-student should go directly there. Their costume boxes are due this week. Thanks!!
• CORE VALUE FOCUS: Responsibility
• Global Math Week
  From the 15th to 19th October the CAC elementary school will be celebrating Global Math Week, the world’s biggest community mathematics event. The aim of the event is to unite one million students around the globe in a shared experience of joyful uplifting mathematics. During this week at CAC there will be a number of different mathematical activities going on for students and families to enjoy. These include:
  
  
  • During their math class that week, students will participate in the Global Math Week focus activity - Exploding Dots!
  • A Math Trail will be set up around the elementary school grounds. Students and families can complete the tasks during recess or after school and submit their responses each day. At the end of the week a display will showcase the most creative solutions.
  • A Problem of the Day will be posed to challenge our most dedicated mathematicians. Parents are allowed (and encouraged) to help!
  • A Parent Workshop will provide an opportunity for parents to share in the joy and fun of Exploding Dots alongside their children, and will share some tips for keeping the math fun going at home.
  
  
  The ultimate goal of Global Math Week is to change the way the world sees math. We want to help our students appreciate math as joyful, relevant, meaningful and creative. Join us in celebrating the wonder of math!
  
  
  Global Math Week Parent Workshop
  Tuesday 17th October, 8:30 - 9:30am
• Halloween Party on Oct. 26th: details to come
• Student Photos were sent home today!

Curriculum Corner

Reading Workshop: 

While teachers will continue to help encourage students to read with agency and independence (an important theme in Grade 5), that reading unit is now complete. Last week, students began a very exciting, and highly motivating new unit that will allow for some deep character work. Our essential question is: How can I read in a way that let's me grow deep theories about character development? We will begin by choosing an author(s) that we are interested in and who has written a number of books that are a good fit for us. Students will be reading several books by this same author(s) (not a series) over the next few weeks.

Students are expected to be reading at home each day for 25+ minutes. This is written as part of home learning and students are asked to record it in their Reading Logs. Students are also expected to be "stopping and jotting" as they read with at least 2 jots per chapter. Please see the example anchor chart for quick ideas about how students "stop and jot" at home.

The key point to remember in developing theories about characters is that readers must always be active readers, noticing and gathering evidence, (citing with page numbers) using various note-taking strategies. These can be in jot notes, "Boxes and Bullets" format or Post-it notes. They mark their best jot note with a *, then put 5 of their best together to make a "long and strong" entry in their notebook. Partner work is very important with theory-building, and opportunities are built-in to the week to discuss each other's character theories + evidence so far. By Grade 5, we are expecting conversations to go deep and long on one point before switching to another thought-provoking comment. Sentence prompts are provided to help learners develop this depth. Whole group discussions of the class Read Aloud and "Grand Conversations" also helps guide students to deep thinking conversations about characters.

Students visited the library for a 'BOOK SPEED DATING' activity so that students can 'get-to-know' some of the great authors we have represented in our library.

Writing Workshop: Opening the Doors to Poetry: Writing from the Inside Out!

This week we will continue the journey into the world of poetry by examining the essential question: How can I bring together language, technique and voice in poetry? This is an exciting unit as the title indicates: Opening the Doors to Poetry: Writing from the Inside Out! Students will be investigating the features of mentor texts (from both adult and children models), and then working to apply what they have seen to be successful with their own poem drafts. In particular, the work of Georgia Heard and Ralph Fletcher will guide us through various writing exercises and concepts. This week is all about "tuning in" to poems in order to provide inspiration for their own writing. By thinking about "what makes a good poem", students begin to see that anyone can write poetry. Georgia Heard invites us to see the world with a poet's eye through the five senses, and to "open the 5 Doors of Poetry" ...

1. the HEART door… inner feelings, images, longings
2. the OBSERVATION door… what we observe, what we’re amazed by, what’s beautiful in the world
3. the CONCERNS about the WORLD door...telling the whole truth about what is going on around us in the world
4. the WONDER door...being curious and having questions about the world, their lives, what they’re studying in school, the universe- whatever inspires or is unresolved
5. the MEMORY door… reliving a past “slice of life” small moment from their lives

Students will be gathering seed ideas for their poems by brainstorming through the 5 doors. Why not have some fun alongside them and model starting your own "seed list of possible topics and ideas?!!

Math Workshop:

In Module 2, students apply the patterns of the base ten system to mental strategies and the multiplication and division algorithms. Please visit the following link to view some helpful Eureka tips for parents. TIPS for MODULE 2

A part of becoming an independent learner is knowing where you are and what you need. Teachers have encouraged students to come in at recess if they would like additional support and help in math. Parents can help by repeating this message at home. "Students who need extra math help should speak with their teacher and let them know so that they can arrange a time at recess". We are more than happy to help anyone who needs it!!

Social Studies:

*Please note that the library has a Grade 5 'visual tab' on its website to support our poetry and Social Studies units. They are filled with great resources. Check them out!

With our final Science assessment complete, we are beginning our new Social Studies unit called: World Development: A Case Study of Spain. Our essential questions that will guide our unit are: "How and why did the Spanish Empire influence the world? How have past empires influenced the world today?" An additional thought-provoking post thought is: Are all empires destined to fail?

Important Vocabulary:

Expedition, develop, conquer, resource, acquisition, development, conquistadors, empire, primary resource, secondary resource, influence, culture, Columbian Exchange, Age of Exploration, diffusion, advantage, disadvantage, evolve, civilization, & navigation.

Through various sources of information, students will develop their understanding of how and why countries such as Spain influenced the world. The particular focus is on Hernando Cortez and the Aztecs, although to understand the newly introduced idea of the Columbian Exchange, other empires such as the Incas and other conquistadores, such as Pizarro are referred to. 

Resources to support student learning: 

1. An excellent map and written introduction: http://thecolumbianexchange.weebly.com/

2. BrainPop videos can be viewed again and again, as needed to consolidate information at the following links:

A) The Spanish Conquistadors

https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/conquistadors/

B) Aztec civilization  https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/azteccivilization/

C) The Columbian exchange

https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/columbianexchange/

Pictures of our WRITING CELEBRATION!!!

Thank you to those who were able to attend!

Circle Solutions

Students have participated in circles in their classes focusing on themes related to friendship and respect.  This is a time when we build social and emotional skills, as well as strengthen relationships and foster a classroom atmosphere of respect and kindness. Circles are held once a week and are planned in response to the needs of each class. 

Guidance Update: Listening with Attention

In Guidance students will focus on Listening with Attention.  

Listening with attention is different from merely hearing a person speak. It  is a skill that takes energy and practice. Students will spend time listening to their classmates, without interrupting. They will practice the following listening skills:

 1.     focusing attention on the speaker (facing the speaker, focusing thoughts       AND blocking out distractions in the environment)

2.      not interrupting

3.     asking clarifying questions

4.     summarizing what the speaker has said

Your partners in education,

LeeAnn Kasal   lkasal@cacegypt.org

Bonnie Greene barmstronggreene@cacegypt.org
Jonathan O'Sullivan josullivan@cacegypt.org
Caitlin Johnson cjohnson@cacegypt.org