Mr. Blanc's Class

Social Emotional Learning This week in class we learned about our social filter. The students were introduced to the idea of a thinking bubble and a talking bubble. The words in our thinking bubble are private and only for us. Our social filter makes sure that words in our thinking bubble that cause hurt feelings, embarrassment, or are disrespectful are kept out of our talking bubble, which can be heard by others. We read a great book called "I Can't Believe You Said That" by Julia Cook that helps teach the importance of a social filter.   Reading The students have now been placed in a book group. Each book group has selected their book. They also decided how many pages they would read each day. Ask your student to tell you which book they are reading, how many pages or chapters they are reading each day, and when they will finish their book. Idiom of the Week: in the same boat Math We are continuing our multiplication and division unit. We made solid gro...

Report Cards I can't believe we've reached the midpoint of the year! First semester report cards will be available on Monday, 2/3 on ParentVue. Please keep in mind that the proficiency levels on the report card of your student are based on end of year 4th grade expectations. Inquiry Thank you so much to all of the volunteers who pitched in last week to film the natural disaster videos! We wouldn't have been able to do it without you! Our next inquiry unit will be under the theme of How We Organize Ourselves. The central idea of the unit is community values influence leaders and impact decision making. In this unit students will learn about our state government in Oregon. Math We are in the middle of our multiplication and division unit. Next week students will focus on dividing two digit numbers by one digit divisors. They'll learn how to use partial products to break a larger dividend into two easy to divide by numbers. For example they may solve a problem like ...

There will be no school on Monday, 1/20 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. How the World Works Next week we will be filming our natural disaster videos! A huge thanks to the parent volunteers who have signed up to film the students! We wouldn't be able to do this without your help. Most of the groups in our class will be filming on Tuesday, 1/21. Because we are using a green screen, students should not wear green on the day they are filming.  Idiom of the week: fly off the handle Report Cards  Beaverton School District will no longer be sending paper report cards home. The report cards will now be posted on ParentVue. The first semester report card will be available on Monday, 2/3. Continent Club For the forseeable future, Continent Club study materials can be accessed via links in the Monday Minute. Continent Club is a highly recommended, but optional, study at home program. All students will be tested at Continent Check on January 30th. Below are lin...

How the World Works We are nearing the end of our How the World Works inquiry with the central idea that people use scientific knowledge to respond to a changing Earth. Students have been working hard researching their natural disasters and writing an informational paper about them. Next week they'll begin our culminating project for this unit, which will involve the students filming videos using a green screen. The filming of these videos will take place on 1/21, 1/22, and 1/23.  We’re asking for parent volunteers to sign up for sections of time to film a small group of students using an iPad. We will set up the green screen and the students will be well rehearsed and ready to go. If you are interested in filming please go to the link below and sign up for a time. We are asking for two volunteers for each filming session. Feeling a little unsure about using the technology? No worries, we’ll give a quick 10-15 minute tutorial on how to use the iPad to film with a green screen ...