Our last week was ripe with learning as the students planned and executed their businesses. Products and services were designed, business plans presented in order to gain functioning capital, advertising distributed, and a grand shopping fair was held. The M.U.R. Of the school had businesses ranging from gymnastics lessons, to original comic books, to custom purses, to mine craft models all on offer. During the fair, price points were altered to respond to challenges or opportunities in supply and demand. With minutes left in the sale, inventory was pushed out of the door as sale prices were announced. It was both a lot of fun and very productive. Aside from the obvious work in economics, I was very satisfied in the way that groups collaborated with an end goal in mind. Many variables had to be negotiated by the groups and all can be proud of their achievements.
This week we will reflect on our learning by writing a five-paragraph essay about our work. I will be focusing on three different transitional tools to be used inside of paragraphs to make the pieces more readable and fluid while encouraging more interesting topic sentence use.
This week also signals the beginning of our biography studies units. We will be investigating the lives of important and influential people through reading and media. Over the course of many weeks, studies will involve literacy, art, music, and public speaking. In conjunction with this work, we are preparing for our performance of “Heroes All” on March 4th.
Please be sure to sign up for parent conferences through our class website. Sharing about learning and setting new goals together is always rewarding.
The Del Mar Heights Dad’s Club put together a great sandbox area just adjacent to the garden. If you have any extra sand or beach toys that you would like to donate please send them in.
Best,
Andrew Smith
Teacher, Del Mar Heights School
This Week’s Highlights
2/1-5
Phonics and word study focus
Blend review
Reading focus
Comprehension focus: Non-Fiction Texts: features
Close reading: George’s Marvelous Medicine
Book club individualized strategy lessons: Lessons created for specific skill outcomes based on individual and group needs
Focus books: George’s Marvelous Medicine
Writing focus
Conventions- Spacing, Feeling ending of sentences, Periods and Capitals, Commas in a series
Writing skill- transitions in expository writing
Topical writing- multiple paragraph essay, “Economics and our Businesses”
Math focus
Full Math workshop
Math journal problem solving through visual models
Individualized challenges
Word Problem solving, larger numbers in addition and subtraction
Social Studies focus
Biographies
Science focus
Mrs. Minarik’s Science Lab
Homework
Daily reading, homework packet, and optional online work (razkids, rosetta stone, dreambox)
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