Problem Solving: Geography and Mystery Skype
Your student has been participating in geography studies in anticipation of two events: Mystery Skype and the GeoBee.
During the months of January, February and March, our class will be participating in Mystery Skype. Mystery Skype is an activity where our class will be Skyping with other students around the country and the world. It is a mystery as to where they are though. During a Mystery Skype, the students will collaborate with each other to ask and answer yes or no questions of the other classroom to figure out where they are in the world. These Mystery Skypes will help reinforce academic skills, build our classroom community, and allow students to see and learn from other students around the world. They will get exposed to other cultures in an authentic way. Please let me know if you have any questions or need more information. I am excited about this experience for your students. Students will be working on the following proficiencies for these Skype experiences:
MS.06.03 Create or identify strategies to solve a problem, adjusting approach as needed.
MS.10.07 Collaborate effectively and respectfully.
They will have several practices with feedback on how they have done.
GeoBee
Your student will participate in classroom Geobees. These will happen opposite the Mystery Skype classes. We will have two representatives from Quest go to the school competition on January 22. This is an annual event at CBMS. For more information, click here.
During the months of January, February and March, our class will be participating in Mystery Skype. Mystery Skype is an activity where our class will be Skyping with other students around the country and the world. It is a mystery as to where they are though. During a Mystery Skype, the students will collaborate with each other to ask and answer yes or no questions of the other classroom to figure out where they are in the world. These Mystery Skypes will help reinforce academic skills, build our classroom community, and allow students to see and learn from other students around the world. They will get exposed to other cultures in an authentic way. Please let me know if you have any questions or need more information. I am excited about this experience for your students. Students will be working on the following proficiencies for these Skype experiences:
MS.06.03 Create or identify strategies to solve a problem, adjusting approach as needed.
MS.10.07 Collaborate effectively and respectfully.
They will have several practices with feedback on how they have done.
GeoBee
Your student will participate in classroom Geobees. These will happen opposite the Mystery Skype classes. We will have two representatives from Quest go to the school competition on January 22. This is an annual event at CBMS. For more information, click here.
Also, during the month of January - March, students will be starting Project Lead the Way, Design and Modeling. This is an engineering program for the Washington West Supervisory Union. We will begin this during the week of January 15th.
Book Groups and II
During the months of January and February, students will be focusing on Astronomy for their book groups and for II. The assignments for book groups will be done during the school day. The book group assignment will be for students to find a passage from their reading, draw a visual model of what they read, and select evidence from the text to explain the visual model. Students will have 25 minutes on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to complete this, so they should not have to do this at home. They may bring their books home to read the required pages. Please help them to bring them back to school the next day.
Recess
Outdoor recess resumes this week. Please help your student to remember appropriate gear which includes boots, jacket, hat and mittens. To go sledding, your student also needs to bring snowpants. Please let us know if any of this is a hardship, as we have extras at school.
POWs
Will continue :) #16 is for this week. It is about the sun. Our Scholastic password is kiteduck2
