January was a busy month at Northwood Academy Charter School. We started the month by viewing the perseverance video with Kerry Simmonds. In her video, she taught us that we need to reach out to family and friends to help us stay on track and persevere through difficult times. She told us that she recently experienced some injuries and needed support from her family, friends and team members. That support helped her through her recovery. We discussed the importance of perseverance in our lives and in school. The entire fourth grade students showed perseverance during days of benchmark testing this month. Kerry challenged the students to create a rap, song or skit about perseverance. The students worked well together while creating their raps, songs and skits to show Kerry what perseverance meant to them. The students not only accepted Kerry’s challenge, but they added a few more activities as well. They created some wonderful comic strips and short stories about perseverance.
 These are some pictures of Mrs. Gannon’s class persevering through a Science experiment and Ms. Cappuccino's class working on a creative skit about perseverance. |  |
These are pictures of Mrs. Jacobs’s class creating several different raps and comic strips about perseverance.
Check out what the students have learned about perseverance by clicking here.
This month we utilized our space on our school website to share with parents and our school community what we we were learning this month. We also tweeted out photos from our Twitter account @NorthwoodChamps this month showing what we've learned about perseverance.
Standards:
CC. 1.5.4.A: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions on grade level topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CC.1.5.4.B: Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
CC.1.5.4.C: Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points
CC.1.5.4.D: Report on a topic, or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly with adequate volume, appropriate pacing, and clear pronunciation.
This month we utilized our space on our school website to share with parents and our school community what we we were learning this month. We also tweeted out photos from our Twitter account @NorthwoodChamps this month showing what we've learned about perseverance.
Standards:
CC. 1.5.4.A: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions on grade level topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CC.1.5.4.B: Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
CC.1.5.4.C: Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points
CC.1.5.4.D: Report on a topic, or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly with adequate volume, appropriate pacing, and clear pronunciation.
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