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From feedback from families at home, we began to switch from posting on Padlet, to sending out a Newsletter. Click on this link to view the Newsletters. We try to post every other week.

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Green Modern Monthly Updates School Newspaper Classroom News A4 Email Newsletter

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Check out this US letter designed by Rahi Patel.

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11/18/22 - Understanding How the Brain Learns

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11/18/22 - Understanding How the Brain Learns

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We have a Wonder Wall in class where students post questions they have or topics they wish to learn more about. On our wall, we had several students write about wanting to learn more about the human brain. We took this opportunity to construct a mini-lesson on How the Brain Learns using Zaretta Hammond's Ready for Rigor framework. It was an exciting week discussing growth mindset, identity, culture, emotions and how all of it ties to our cognitive learning.

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Hammond RfR Rubric Awareness Brain W22 - Google Docs

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11/11/22 - Contact Force Interaction Model

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11/11/22 - Contact Force Interaction Model

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For the past two days in science, students were demonstrating their knowledge of content forces interactions in preparation for their science test MONDAY! After completing their models, students rotated through a gallery walk to analyze other models.

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This week in science, students are continuing to look at the interactions during a collisions. On Thursday, students investigated if mass and speed affected the peak force of two objects during a collision.

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This week in social studies, students wrapped up learning about the Great Migration and connecting to present day times. Students were introduced to their next project where they will choose to explore an influential person in the Harlem Renaissance OR explore a target city of the Great Migration. Students will design a poster or presentation to showcase their research! We can't wait to see the final products!

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Today, students planned and carried out an investigation to look at the relationship between contact force applied and the amount of deformation that occurred in different materials. We graphed our data and compared these graphs to those from other materials tests.

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This week in social studies, students discussed what pushes people out of a location and what pulls people into a location as they learn about The Great Migration. We take their thoughts on push/pull factors and relate them to the push/pull factors for African Americans during the Jim Crow Era. Students read about famous African American figures and how they credit the Great Migration for this success and fame. We also listened to a TED talk discussing the importance of the Great Migration. Attached is a link.

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The Great Migration and the power of a single decision | Isabel Wilkerson

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This week students took their 2nd science quiz. We take a quiz typically every other week and students are encouraged to use their science binder while we take the quiz. We will go over the answers next week and students are asked to make corrections using a different color writing utensil. We don't have retakes for the quiz but we do tell students, if they get a better score the following quiz, the previous quiz will be exempt from their overall grade. For example, all students who scored a higher score on quiz 2 will get quiz 1 exempt from the overall grade. You can still see the quiz 1 grade in PowerSchool but there is a purple exempt mark on it.

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Progress Tracker 8.1 Contact Force Lesson 2

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I wish we had pictures but it was a very exciting lab and forgot! We took some small carts and had them collide with different objects attached to them (clay ball, golf ball, metal rings). We had students take slow motion videos and we reviewed the videos to determine that when we have a collision we see a change in motion between the carts and we sometimes see a change in shape with the objects that are colliding.

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8.1 Lesson 2 Handout Exploring Horizontal Collisions

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Ms. Martin (Chute's amazing Librarian!) with our two authors in the library signing all 220+ books for our students! 

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We had an author visit from Dr. Yohuru Williams and Dr. Michael G. Long during which they talked about their latest book, Call Him Jack:  The Story Of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter. They offered invaluable insight into Hall of Famer Robinson's life as a social justice activist; he was far more than a baseball player who "broke the color line". Dr. Williams continued by noting that many black activists and leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, have been presented in this one-sided way--frozen in time.

Every student received a signed copy of Call Him Jack and we plan on reading the book in social studies!

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This week in social studies, we expand our learning on the 13, 14, and 15th amendments by looking at primary sources on the freedoms and rights freed people obtained during Reconstruction. This was a great way for us to annotate text and find evidence directly from our reading to support our responses to the essential questions!

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This week in science we investigated collisions and what it takes to cause damage. Students shared phenomenas of collisions that cause damage and categorized them into 3 types of collisions.

If you’re wondering, “where’s the social studies?!?” Don’t worry, next weeks post involves social studies!

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Students worked on the Trades of the Tools science lab! This intro lab gets students to practice lab safety and practice using tools such as a balance, graduated cylinder, beakers, etc.

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Students completed a Science About Me worksheet, sharing their thoughts and ideas involving science. A group of students put up the completed work on our door for all to see!

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To start our week off, students spent time working in small groups creating posters to help promote the Chute Choice of being responsible, respectful, and successful. This work is displayed on our bulletin board outside room 205.