Outdoor School + Maker Space + Health Rotations Week

With 6th grade heading to Outdoor School next week, we will not be meeting as a core class again until Monday, October 16th.

Your only homework between now and then is to read your choice fiction novel DAILY!!!

Practice the Good Reader strategies we have been working on; building background knowledge, making connections, and asking questions.

Service Check In: What do you stand for?!?! What do you know about our service learning expectations for the year? What questions do you still have? Have you thought of a service plan for Term 1 yet?
Service Learning Expectations and Requirements 2017-18 Google Doc
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6th Grade: HAVE AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE AT OUTDOOR SCHOOL. Practice our 4 agreements while on your trip, connect with different students from all over the city, and have fun! Below is some Outdoor School info in case you need anything this weekend.

7th Graders: Don't forget to get your Maker-Space permission slips signed and returned by Monday.

8th Graders: Keep being brilliant! We will see you Monday for health rotations.

Hello All

Outdoor School is here! we are heading to our wonderful camps on Sunday and will be returning to Portland on Friday.

All students should meet at SES (see locations below) on SUNDAY OCT. 8 at 2:30pm

All students will return to SES on FRIDAY OCT. 13 at 1:30ish Please pick your child up promptly as there is no school that day and we will be tired and excited to share stories of our adventures!!

Here is a link to the MESD Outdoor School website: http://www.mesdoutdoorschool.org/sites.html

There you can find any more information you may need about Outdoor School including the address of each camp.

Attached is a copy of the packing list and the med form if any changes have occurred for your child since turning in their forms

SES students will be attending Outdoor School as follows:

Site	Classes attending	Teacher& Meeting Spot
Canby Grove	Indigo's and Heidi's	Indigo (Heidi sun-mon)at the Circle Benches
Namanu	Karen's and tara's and 4 of Cori's	Karen at the Big Tulip Tree
Sandy River	Carrie's and Michael's and 8 of Cori's	Carrie at the Flagpole

Thanks so much.

We are excited for a great week

Indigo, Karen, and Carrie

10/5

HW due Friday:

1. Choice Fiction Novel Assignment #3: Choice Fiction Assignment #3 Google Doc
... Please complete the assignment while you are reading your choice fiction novel. If this takes longer than 35 minutes, stop where you are at and let me know how far you got.

Good Readers
-Build Background Knowledge
-Make Connections
-Ask Questions
Clarifying Questions: Questions that can be answered in the text that help remind you what is going on in the story.
Ponderable Questions: Questions that make you wonder that do not have any immediate answer that you can’t find unless you keep reading, keep thinking, or search for the answer outside of the book.

What is Geology??? VIDEO
Layers of the Earth Rap
The Geologists Are Coming - Music Video

Study Hall - In Class

EASY CBM:

1. Google Search → EasyCBM PPS
2. Sign into student
3. Teacher Login Name: mjansa
4. Find your name
5. Test 1 → Reading Comprehension
6. Test 2 → Reading Vocab
7. Go to NewsELA (login through Google). Find the assigned EROSION article in your “binder”(you might have to scroll down a bit).
1. Read, take the quiz, and complete the written response
8. Free NewsELA read

OUR HANDS

Clean

Pudgy

Lizard

Scaley

Sorry

Canvas

Delicate

Parched

Memories

Mundane

Webbed

Elegant

Lost

Yummy

Ummm

Temporary-canvas

Shreddable

Weather

Ummmm

Turkey

Veins

Dirty

Wired

Indigo

Ripples

Crooked

Life

Creeeea

Boney

Dots

10/4

HW due Thursday:

1. Reminder that we will not be travelling tomorrow. Please bring your choice fiction novel so we can start with silent reading tomorrow.

2. Complete all Camp Collins Essential Questions: Camp Collins Essential Questions Doc
...This is a major assignment that is worth 15 points. Each essential question response should Re-state the question, Answer the question, Cite at least 2 pieces of specific evidence, and explain the evidence. They should also include a connection and observation. Question #4  (the diagram assignment) is more of a task than an actual question. It should have at least 3 images, Mountain, River, and Forest labeled, and at least 3 connections explained.

Don't forget our notes we took in core class the past few days. Did you take any notes during our class conversations??? Camp Collins EQs Student Notes  

Geology Pre-Assessment (in class)

Geology Pre-Assessment Doc

10/3

HW due Wednesday:

1. My Hand Poem:  My Hand Poem - Handout
***Observe, List, Arrange, Create***

In class we observed and listed.  Your work this evening is to take what you wrote in the daily writing section of your WW Journal and to re-arrange it to create a poem. Your poem should have at least 10 lines. It can be done in a list form, using shapes such as your hand, focusing on big then going small, literal to metaphorical... There is no wrong way to do this poem, so long as you have at least 10 lines about your hands. The goals are to practice the powers of observation, use specific detail, and to realize how simple poetry can be. Please complete this on the back of your My Hand handout or on a separate sheet of paper

You do NOT need to work on  your Camp Collins EQs tonight. We will go over them together again in class tomorrow before you need to finish them.

A reminder that we are not traveling this Thursday and will spend the day learning, growing, and being awesome at school. 

10/2

Welcome to the month of October folks! What's your favorite part about October???

HW due Tuesday
1. Camp Collins Creative Reflection Map Camp Collins Creative Reflection Assignment Doc
...We worked on this Friday and Monday in class. Some of you have already finished this. If you are not done, try to finish this tonight and get it turned in tomorrow. That said, don't spend more than 15 minutes working on it tonight. If you spend 15 minutes working on it and don't finish, write me a note and you can turn it in on Wednesday instead.

2. Camp Collins Essential Questions: Camp Collins Essential Questions Google Doc
...There are 4 total essential questions for Camp Collins. Respond to 2 of them tonight.
...Each essential question should Re-state the question, Answer the questions, Cite evidence using at least 2 specific examples from different Camp Collins experiences, and Explain the examples while also including a connection and observation.
...If you spend more than 30 minutes on this tonight and don't finish two essential question responses, stop wherever you are at and let me know where you got to (mjansa@pps.net)

Don't forget to have your choice fiction reading material in class tomorrow because we start every Tuesday morning with silent reading!!!

A head's up that our field study for this Thursday is getting pushed back a week, meaning we will not be traveling on a field study this Thursday.