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Week ending December 14

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in room 15, we strive to be FOCUSED AND RELAXED Weekly Update for the Week Ending Friday, December 14                                                                                                                            Dear Room 15 Families,                   I can’t wait to start digging into those grandparent interviews.   We will be doing that this week.   Thanks again for your help with those.   If we have any questions (clarification or follow-ups), we will be reaching out to you. In lieu of Read and Relax this Friday, students will be sharing their published small moment stories on Friday morning.   We hope you can join us.   These stories were self chosen by the writer to take through the publishing process.   As our first published piece, we focused on beginnings, endings and end punctuation.   During Weekend News lessons, we have moved forward to adding details and including a So what? or message. Also on Friday, we will have ou

Week Ending December 7

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                                                      in room 15, we strive to be FOCUSED AND RELAXED Weekly Update for the Week Ending Friday, December 7                                                                                                                            Dear Room 15 Families,                   I want to thank you in advance for your help with the Grandparent Interviews that is the priority homework for the upcoming week.   As I mentioned in Friday’s email, we “practiced” this interview process (student ASKS question, LISTENS to response and THINKS about what their grandparent said to make sure it makes sense to them while adult writes down the answers) using FaceTime with my mom. During our study of biography, we realized that many of the people we read about has affected change by becoming role models for other people.   As a class, we discussed the ways that having a role model can make a difference in a person’s