Hi all,
I wanted to say thank you for all the kind emails and face-to-face affirmations, advice, and support I received from many of you these last couple months. I wanted to keep you all updated from the previous email I sent home a little over a month ago since I know I left you all with very little information. A few days after winter break, I thought I came down with the stomach flu. The nausea would come and go for 6-7 hours at a time and sometimes keep me up all night. I eventually reached a point where I couldn't even drink water without the sensation I was going to explode. After 6 doctors, hours in a hospital, and more scans of my body than I knew existed, they think it came down to a parasite and severe infection in the intestines. All of the unknowns of my stomach caused me to experience fear and panic that I had never experienced. It left me to a week of one hour of sleep each night and fear to leave my house. If that wasn't enough, I was battling the nasty cold everyone went through and excruciating pain due to a herniated disc in my back. While my stomach is responding to treatment and my back is slowly healing, it was your CHILDREN who gave me joy through it all. They are the ones who kept me going. Their smiles and hugs and laughter were my best medicine. They were so patient with the subs and always gave me the best welcome back hugs and smiles. I absolutely love what I do and that is because of your CHILD. So thank you. Thank you for your patience and understanding through these past couple months. I appreciate your kind words and support. Here's to finishing the year healthy and back to updating this more regularly! SWITCHING GEARS... Math: We are back to solving problems using multiplication and division. Students were introduced to solving multiplication and division problems using a variable (letter). For example, 3 x 7 = m; what does m equal? They have worked on solving two-step story problems, the distributive property and the commutative property. We have been continuing to review rounding, adding/subtracting 3-digit numbers, telling time, and multiplication and division. Literacy: We are continuing to work through non-fiction texts. Students have been working on using evidence to support their answers, identifying the main idea, and comprehending the text. Students have been able to read about current topics going on in the world now. We read about the Olympics, how McDonalds is getting rid of chocolate milk in the happy meal, and other exciting current events. The students have had the opportunity to pick from hundreds of articles on topics of their interest. Writing: We have been working hard on expository writing! Students are doing a great job explaining and teaching about a topic of their choice. Some students are writing about horses, penguins, athletes, Legos, and the list goes on. I can't wait to see how they turn out. We have also been practicing punctuating paragraphs to help avoid run on sentences. Social Studies: This week we started our PYP Unit: Sharing the Planet. Today students walked around the classroom looking at pictures of six different regions of Oregon. Students had to write down what they noticed in those specific regions. See the pictures below!
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Sept. 14th- First Day of Online Learning
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