We hope you had a wonderful break with family and/or friends. This will be a short week, so it will be easy to get back on track.
A Message from KG Scientists
We need your help! Please send us any recycled materials you have at home to support our science unit. The more materials our students have to explore and choose for their projects, the more meaningful their learning experience will be!
Egypt Festival!
Mark your calendar for our annual Egypt Festival on Thursday, April 19. We will celebrate our host country, Egypt through music, dancing, food and grade level activities connected to themes. To add to the spirit of the day we invite you to wear a galabeya or perhaps clothes that reflect Egypt.
Come sample a variety of Egyptian dishes. Freshly baked baladi bread (from our very own mud brick oven) will be on sale for ES students during their recess and for MS & HS. Our Egyptian Food Festival is free for all elementary students, parents, teachers, and staff. Students will have an activity related to their Egyptian Culture curriculum. Looking forward to a great cultural experience.
We need your help!
Parents are an important part of our Egypt Festival. We would love your help if you're available at either lunchtime or the bread selling booth. Please sign up to help us if you can by clicking in this link.
The Arabic and Egyptian Culture Department
Learning This Week
Reading Workshop
Even though we have a short week of school, we have a lot of learning to do in Reading Workshop! Students will learn how readers can tell others about the stories they read by building on the “read-cover-remember-retell” method.
Readers will also make text-to-self connections by reading stories and noticing what the story reminds them of. These are connections readers make to characters, settings or problems that happen in stories.
Writing Workshop
Writers continue to write stories about things they have done, moments they have felt a strong feeling or places they have gone to! This time, we’re encouraging writers to turn their big stories into small moments:
Here are some teaching points we’ll have to invite students to find ways to make their stories better:
- Powerful beginnings: writers think of ways to hook their readers on the very first page by writing interesting words or adding sounds!
- Zooming in: writers take a picture in your head of one small moment in time, “zoom in” on that moment and write about a small moment on each page.
- Adding to the writing: grownup writers sketch differently to spend more time adding words. They remember that later on there will be a time to add details to the pictures!
Math
This week we will cover Topic B in Module 5.In this topic mathematicians will advance to a more abstract level, representing the decomposition of teen numbers first with Hide Zero ( place value) cards and with number bonds. They will then work from the abstract to the concrete and pictorial as they are directed to “show me this many cubes”.
Science
This week students will continue exploring matter in our second science unit. They will use their observation experience to explore different kinds of solids using measurement tools like balance scales. Students will also compare and contrast the properties of different solids. We will invite students to use nonfiction books about glass, wood, plastic, paper, rubber and other solids to learn and discover about these important materials.
Thank you for your support!
Ms. Ana, Ms. Paola, and Mr. Balazs
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