Giving Back
The first week in October, we helped out at the Community Center sorting food for seniors. We do this once a month, the first Wednesday of the month.
This same week, we did Kochia removal on our adopted Striker Trail.
On Oct. 17, students collected candy at Walmart to be distributed to houses on F Street. We will deliver candy on Oct. 31 from 2-4 to house on F Street.
October is Global Read Aloud (GRA).
We will be wrapping up in the next two weeks.
The 5/6th graders are reading Wild Robot by Peter Brown and connecting with a school in Edmonton, Canada and another in North Carolina. We have done Google Hangouts to meet the students in Mrs. Frank and Mrs. Ogbouma’s classes as well as been having discussion using a Padlet format. This set of books we are using was generously donated by The Hachette Book Group.
The 7/8th graders are reading A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park and connecting with a school in Macomb, Illinois. We have shared Google Slides with Ms. Pennington’s Class and will create some Flipgrids in the next week.
The 5/6th graders shared their project presentations the week of Oct. 16-19 with their peers and parents. Project folders and rubrics have been graded and returned to students. I am very proud of the students for bringing everything together for their first projects of the year. They have spent a lot of time reflecting on how they will make changes for their next projects.
They have their next project proposal in Google Classroom ready to be completed, so they can start their next projects on Monday, Oct. 30.
On Oct. 19, we had our second Spanish Cafe. A Spanish II class from the high school joined us. Students are really putting their Conversational Spanish into practice. They can continue their practice through Duolingo. Our next Spanish Cafe will be Nov. 16 from 12:30-1:00. Please, feel free to join us.
For PE, we have been mountain biking. Jackson Karls, a 7th grader, taught basic skills to students new to mountain biking and Andrew Null, parent, helped take more advanced bikers on an adventure. Next month, we will start an archery unit. We will be working with Western Archery and Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Last week, we had a successful trip to Estes Park. Thanks for Diane French and Josh Visitacion for joining us!
On our drive up, we checked out Casa Bonita while practicing our Spanish and also, got a tour of the Lulzbot 3-D factory.
We stayed at the YMCA and visited Rocky Mountain National Park while 6 students along with Mrs. Bahn took a River Watch Training. We learned about Elk Ecology, Geology including mountain formation from glaciers, did team building, roller skated, swam, did arts and crafts, and celebrated birthdays.
Coming up next week (Oct. 30-Nov. 2):
- The 7/8th graders will help Janee Martinez’s 4th grade class revise and edit writing (1:30-2:30 on Oct. 30)and 3 students (Dharma, Maya, and Gwen) will submit work to a Yes! Magazine writing contest (Nov. 2). They will continue to work on their Poet Studies and finish reading A Long Walk to Water.
- Students will help out at the Community Center with food deliver for senior citizens. (5/6 9-10 on Nov. 1 & 7/8 9:30-10:30 Nov. 2)
- Students will deliver candy to F Street. (2-4 on Oct. 31)
- The 5/6th graders will continue reading Wild Robot while thinking about if Roz makes a good citizen of the island. They will work on the revising and editing stages of the writing process and learn about Sketchnoting. For their projects, we will be focusing on finding credible resources for research.