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This month with our Second Step lessons we will be wrapping up our skills for learning unit and moving to our focus on empathy unit. During this unit, we’ll be reminding students to have empathy, identify their own and others’ feelings, notice and respect same and different feelings, and show compassion. Compassion involves saying kind words or doing something helpful to show you care how another person feels. When students can identify, understand, and respond in a caring way to how someone else is feeling, it helps create a positive and accepting school climate.

Imagine with all your heart. Dream with all your mind. Achieve with all your might.

EL Education is the provider of the ELA curriculum that is has been adopted by LCS for grades K-8. The curriculum is standards-based, and relies heavily on fiction and nonfiction trade books.

Each grade level includes 4 modules, which span a full school year. Within each module there are 3 units, and and within those units are 5-20 hour-long lessons.

In addition, curriculum for grades K-2 features labs that correspond to the module lessons.

• Module Lessons (60 minutes of daily instruction): Explicitly teach and formally assess all reading comprehension, writing, speaking and listening, and language standards and strands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts & Literacy.

• Labs (60 minutes of daily instruction): Build students’ oral language, content knowledge, and habits of character through inquiry and hands-on exploration. The Labs reinforce literacy skills, content knowledge, and habits of character taught in the module lessons and provide teachers with additional time to document students’ progress toward particular standards.

Curriculum for grades 3-5 features ALL (Additional Language and Literacy) Blocks to complement module lessons.

• Module lessons (one hour of daily instruction) explicitly teach and formally assess all reading comprehension, writing, speaking and listening, and language standards and strands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts & Literacy.

• The ALL Block (Additional Language and Literacy Block) is one hour long and is complementary to module lessons. The ALL Block is an important component of the 3-5 curriculum because it supports and extends student learning from the module lessons. The block is designed to help teachers ensure that all students have extra practice and support with these five components of literacy: Independent Reading, Additional Work with Complex Text, Reading and Speaking Fluency/GUM (grammar, usage, mechanics), Writing Practice, Word Study and Vocabulary.

The Pleasant Township Fire Department visited with our Kindergarten and First grade students on October 26. Students learned about the importance of fire safety, got to go through the smoke house and check out a fire truck. All students received a cool fire hat as well.

Friendly Bremen Banking Center is proud to bring Bank Days to Medill Elementary School

this school year and we’re excited to collaborate! Our goal is to build “Super Savers”

throughout the year while teaching children to make smart financial decisions for their future,

beginning with encouraging good saving habits.

If you wish to allow your child to participate in the “Super Savers” Bank Days program, please complete the signature form that was sent home. This form allows your student to open their “Super Savers” minor savings account and should be given by the student to the bank representative on November 9, 2021, when the bank is on-site at the school. If your child has already opened a minor savings account through our program, please disregard the signature form.

• Nov. 3 & 18 - Parent Teacher Conference (being done via zoom or phone conference)
• Nov. 4- OSU Spirit Day
• Nov. 4- Grade Cards sent home with students
• Nov. 5- No School
• Nov. 8 - 11 - 2nd Grade IOWA/CogAt testing
  
• Nov. 9- Fall Picture Retake day
• Nov. 9- Super Saver Banking Day
• Nov. 9- PTO meeting @ 4:30pm via Zoom
• Nov. 11- Veteran's Day- wear red, white, and blue
• Nov. 12- Hat day Spirit Day
• Nov. 19- Fun Socks Spirit Day
• Nov. 23- Favorite Team Spirit Day
• Nov. 23- Board of Education meeting at 4:30pm at 111 S. Broad St.
• Nov. 24-26 - No School- Thanksgiving Break
• Nov. 29- Dec. 3- 5th grade IOWA/CogAt testing

Trudy Deitz and Katie Pool, Office Assistants

Email: j_houston@lcsschools.net
Website: www.lancaster.k12.oh.us
Location: 1160 Sheridan Drive, Lancaster, OH, USA
Phone: 740-687-7352
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Medill-Elementary-School-118850914940762