2/3 Classroom Teacher: Gretchen Snyder Education Support Professional: CiCi Drouin Our goal is to establish a safe, caring, and challenging classroom for all learners. We intend to teach each student at their individual level and lay a foundation for success in school and in everyday life. We provide them with skills, tools and rich learning experiences to create growth academically and socially. We establish high learning expectations for all of our students, support learning through our thematic and project based curriculum. Students work independently, in small learning groups and in whole group settings everyday. Our social goals for students are to: collaborate and cooperate with fellow classmates, take responsibility for their homework, value mistakes, and respect themselves, others and property. Our aim is to spark a love of learning to last a lifetime! Learning Themes: • Whaling around • Research and scale • Inherited traits & the world model whales environmental • 1800-­‐1860’s • Pond life adaptations • Geography-­‐world • Life cycle of plants • Wampanoags • Community & animals • Pilgrims • Life at sea and on • Presidents • Puritans land • Massachusetts • Mass Bay Colony • Chilmark whalers from 1600-­‐1780 • American • Learning from • Glaciers Revolution artifacts and • Volcanoes • Government journals • Earthquakes • Rights & • Simple machines • Forming an island responsibilities • Weather • Landforms • Town government • Water cycle • Nature habitats • Chilmark history • Fossils • Family trees
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