The digital planners for this week can be accessed by clicking the link below:
Boelter/Young AM Digital Planner (if your student start their day with Ms. Boelter in the morning): Boelter Young Digital Planner
Young/Boelter AM Digital Planner (if your student start their day with Mr. Young in the morning): Young Boelter Digital Planner
Upcoming Events
WatchDOGS/MOMS Pizza Night is August 28!
Curriculum
This week will begin our first unit in math, understanding the order of operations. We will also work on understanding how to evaluate expressions using those orders of operations. Students will continue to work on the boards and use those collaborative rubrics that we continue to revise as we master those behaviors needed to be successful at the boards. Math Workbooks came home Friday and the second volume will come home Monday. While we use problems from the workbook, we don’t use the workbooks themselves. If you would like your student to practice additional math skills at home, you can have them work on the corresponding unit in that workbook. For example, this week, we are working from Topic 13. That’s not the first topic, which is where we will go next. You can find additional work for your student in that workbook starting in Topic 13.
As students begin this unit, we have created a Navigation Tool (rubric) that helps them understand all they need to know by unit’s end. We’ve used a similar Navigation Tool for our productive struggle and work at boards in the first two weeks. I’ve talked with the students and helped them to understand that if they have 3 checkmarks in any of the examples, meaning they can complete problems just like these independently or while teaching another student, that shows they have mastered the content. Historically, we’ve used a worked example that shows all of the skills for the unit. This year, we decided that we would break it down a little bit more, so that the students truly know where they are so they know where they need to be. Please note this is a work in progress! I’m sharing it with you as well, so you know what they’ll need to master by the end of the unit. This unit is usually between four and six classroom days, culminating with an assessment. You can find their guiding Navigation Tool below. You may notice that as we get deeper into the tool, the examples become more advanced. This shows the progression of understanding for this standard.
In science, we’ll continue to work on our first engineering project, which we will finish by week’s end.
I started meeting with students one on one last week. I will continue to do so next week. This allows me to better understand your students and set meaningful and achievable goals. Thanks so much for your continued support. I can’t wait to see how your students show growth this week!
Ms. B. in Class 