Year 4 - Session 6 - Week 2

We started the week off with a launch about George Washington and his commitment to being On Time. A game was introduced to the heroes along with a new tool (digital timers) that allowed them to earn free time in the afternoon instead of Studio Servicio. Mrs. EB would complete all Studio Servicio jobs for those heroes that made it on time to 10 out of 11 transitions. Well, they saw this opportunity and ran with it. Each and every hero completed the game leaving Mrs. EB to complete the roles of the Restorian, Magician and Sanitarian in each of the Houses. Two heroes, Paul and John Francis, must have not believed that Mrs. EB couldn’t complete the jobs to excellence in the allotted time and generously offered to support her in the cleaning.



The week continued with additional experiments of self-accountability. Some worked and some were a bust. But, as we find our flow, heroes are stepping up into various roles of sheepdogs - documenting the schedule each day for studiomates, introducing badges to new heroes, exploring new badge book ideas with peers, and decreasing conflict resolutions through immediate responses and active listening.


Quest brought a whole lot of dirt this week with heroes experimenting with how cover crops support our ecosystems and building layers of the soil in a jar. They ended by planting a seed in the jar and designing their own garden. Sawyer even shared his knowledge gained by listing the layers of the soil in order on Friday morning!


The pitch a pet challenges are continuing and they are counting down the days until families get to vote on the best pitch. This week they put on their creative hats and wrote a story about their pet going on an adventure. Homework Bound, the children’s movie from the 90’s inspired them with clips of the outdoors, bears and emotional owners. Their second challenge was to generate a poll in their studio to formulate the ethos part of their pitch.


Town Hall was a quick one with the squads determining guardrails for the various rooms during work periods. They shared their ideas open and honestly with valuable feedback.


EVERYONE turned in their Journey Meetings, completed Quest Challenge #1, and had their Prewriting #3 and #4 approved resulting in GAME TIME FRIDAY!


We planned our field trip for this Agriculture session that will be a school-wide trip to the Tietje Crawfish farm, co-op and Gator Chateau. The heroes are most excited about riding a school bus!


Highlights

  • Brynnlee - Me and Sawyer leading Athletics

  • Trinity - eating a popsicle at closing & jumping in muddy puddles

  • Avery - attacking Timmy (the little ghost) & running over blue chickens

  • Halle - Contract accountability sheet & going to spark for DEAR and them getting to read to us and play games, Mrs. EB doing our studio servicio for us Monday

  • Sawyer - having lunch with Spark and introducing the studio to floor is lava & doing choo-choo train in the rain and mud

  • Finlee - Communication polls was really fun

  • JF - “Fight for glory, fight for death, fight for Mrs. Erin-Beth”


Successes

  • Avery - Game Time Friday, Finishing Lexia level 11

  • Halle - Getting to the 2nd half of Level 16 in Lexia

  • FInlee - Working a lot on Reading (completed 20+ pages in my book) and Lexia first half of Level 13

  • Sawyer - Prewriting 3,4 and Quest Challenge #1 and Journey Meeting and getting from 23% to 26% in Khan

  • Trinity - Moving to 3rd grade math

  • Lydia - Getting to Level 18 in Lexia

  • Vesper - Completed Quest Challenge #2 and Be Internet Awesome

  • Paul - 16 units in Lexia

Athletics

  • Lava Monster

Major Lessons Learned

  • Halle - Help your squad out as much as you can, make guardrails and ask questions to get others opinions

  • Trintiy - Solutions will reveal themselves

  • Sawyer - Wait until you see what I can do

  • Paul - There are many reasons why I cannot find a group that I can fit in but I’m learning more about myself and others

  • FInlee - If you work hard and you try your best to make it excellent and you have people around you supporting you and going for you, you will be successful.


Enjoy some pictures from this week. Have a wonderful weekend!

Erin-Beth Carter