Gamma Goals
- Continue to work on "growth mindset"
- The balancing act of rigor (AKA Finding that "Goldilocks" amount of struggle!)
- More independence in general, along with navigating their own Google drive (along with digital citizenship & safety mini-lessons)
- More opportunities to practice interpersonal negotiations and conflict resolution
WHippermathers Update
- Continue to offer differentiated instruction so kids have chance to remediation and extension
- Fact fluency would be a huge to boost for many a Gammas math confidence, speed and accuracy
- Blending non-standard and standard algorithms
- Critical thinking "math buffet" sheets to promote higher-level logic ($)
Math Fact Home Practice Will Now Pay Gamma Bucks! You can just initial a "Just the Facts" ticket and I'll "pay" big bucks for getting more fluent!
In the News in Language ARts
- How is spelling practice going?
- Looking ahead towards our biography writing unit
- What do we do in our ELA block?
- Quality vs. quantity as part of the Gamma writing transition
Literacy Stations
- See students in a more academically focused small groups
- Groups will focus on word work, fluency & comprehension
- Kid rotate through two of 3 stations, for 20 minutes each
- Ever mindful of developmentally normal tendency to rank/compare there is no emphasis on leveling for these groups