Winter Easy CBM

Friday AM - Core Class:

Students should be silently and independently engaged during the Easy CBM testing process in the morning.

1. Take Easy CBM WINTER vocabulary and comprehension tests. Click here for the link: https://pps-or.easycbm.com/

2. Michael's teacher name is mjansa.

1/23

HW due Friday:

Term 2 ends tomorrow. All work is due tomorrow! Here are the grades as they stand... Michael's Class Grades - End of Term 2 to Share - 2019-20

1. Term 2 Service Learning Reflection - If you want me to print it, share it with me before 8:30 tomorrow morning.

Service learning reflections should include: 

• Hook (action, thought, dialogue) 
• A minimum of 3 paragraphs of writing
• What?
• SO WHAT? → What did you learn about yourself through this experience? → GIVE SPECIFIC EVIDENCE OF THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• NOW WHAT?!?!
• Connect your service learning experience to a bigger idea
• Share a specific opportunity or organization and what they do that connects to your experience
• Concluding thought
• Creative piece

Consider → use your pink-ish rubric and the organization and conventions editing handout as a guide while you write

Service Learning Reflection Rubric 

Service Learning Reflection - Editing Practice Worksheet

Service Learning Reflections - Student Examples

Be thinking about selecting your "Hero's Journey + Change Maker" novel and getting it into class
Hero's Journey - Book List

Books Students Should Read

1/22

HW due Thursday:

1. We are going on a field study tomorrow to the Columbia Wastewater Treatment Plant. Come prepared to be outside for part of the day and ready to go with a lunch. Extra credit - Write down three facts about where we are going tomorrow and have them when you walk into school tomorrow morning.

2. Service Learning Reflection - Work on your term 2 service learning reflection for 21 minutes. Consider the notes we had projected onto the board today while we were writing.

Service learning reflections should include: 

• Hook (action, thought, dialogue) 
• A minimum of 3 paragraphs of writing
• What?
• SO WHAT? → What did you learn about yourself through this experience? → GIVE SPECIFIC EVIDENCE OF THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• NOW WHAT?!?!
• Connect your service learning experience to a bigger idea
• Share a specific opportunity or organization and what they do that connects to your experience
• Concluding thought
• Creative piece

Consider → use your pink-ish rubric and the organization and conventions editing handout as a guide while you write

Service Learning Reflection Rubric 

Service Learning Reflection - Editing Practice Worksheet 

Service Learning Reflections - Student Examples

Term 2 ends Friday, January 24th

Be thinking about selecting your "Hero's Journey + Change Maker" novel and getting it into class

Hero's Journey - Book List

1/21

HW due Wednesday:

Service Learning Reflection - Editing Practice Worksheet (complete page 1 only)

We will work on your Service Learning reflection in class tomorrow afternoon. A reminder that we won't have Morning Meeting tomorrow and instead will have a presentation from the Portland Water Bureau in Karen's room starting right at 8:45.

Service Learning Reflections - Student Examples

HW due Thursday:

"Hero's Journey + Change Maker" novel selected and in class

Hero's Journey - Book List

Term 2 ends Friday, January 24th

Weekend Updates - 1/17/20

HW due Tuesday: 

***If you have not already done so, share the Community Expectations sheet with your family and bring it back with it signed by an adult in your life.***

1. Term 2 service learning hours (3) complete

HW due Thursday:

"Hero's Journey + Change Maker" novel selected and in class

Hero's Journey - Book List

Term 2 ends Friday, January 24th 

Term 2 - Updated Grades - 1/15/20

MLK Day of Service Learning (DAY ON) Events in Portland: 

https://www.handsonportland.org/

https://www.handsonportland.org/special-event/a0M1H00000VynBZ

https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2020/01/celebration-events-whats-openwhats-closed-for-martin-luther-king-jr-day.html

https://portlandlivingonthecheap.com/mlk-day-portland/

1/16

HW due Friday:

1. Share the Community Expectations sheet with your family and bring it back with it signed by an adult in your life.

2. No other homework due tomorrow. Thanks for your patience with Zephyr the last 30 minutes of class today folks!

Hero's Journey - Book List

Thursday In Class - PM

Creating a Hero's Journey Story 

Clever --- 

1. Grab a chromebook click CLEVER in the PPS student portal 
2. Click “Teacher Pages M. Jansa”
3. Click “Book Creator”
4. The class code is 5WKTTJ5
5. Play around with the app and consider taking a tutorial. 
6. Your goal by the end of the period is to create a comic that explains one of the essential skills to your third grade buddy. Make up a story, invent some characters, and get creative! Think- what language and imagery can we use to engage a 1st/2nd grader and help them grasp the meaning of the essential (super) skill…..

Term 2 - Updated Grades - 1/15/20

1/15

HW due Thursday: 

We are not traveling tomorrow, but are going to the Belmont Library after lunch to begin our Hero's Journey choice reading unit.

1. Essential Questions - Vocab Card #2 - Students should make another Essential Skills vocabulary word (pick a different one than last time) that includes an explanation of the skill in their own words and an image

Curiosity
Discipline + Self-Control
Empathy + Solidarity
Grit + Perseverance
Gratitude
Optimism
Critical Consciousness