The Green Zone and Ready to Learn

 The Navigators started the year out learning about our feelings, others' feelings, how we make others feel, and some simple tools that help us to learn at school.

This is a picture of me in the Green Zone:

happy

calm

feeling okay

focused

full body listening

ready to learn

This is a picture of me in the yellow zone:

silly

wiggly

excited

coming in from recess

frustrated

worried

loss of some control

not quite ready to learn

This is a picture of me in the blue zone:

sad

sick

tired

bored

hangry (hungry and angry)

not ready to learn

This is a picture of me in the red zone:

really angry/mad

terrified

yelling/hitting

really happy (your team won!)

out of control

making poor choices

really not ready to learn

One of the Navigators made a group of flip-up cards to show the various zones and he taught us all how to do make these!

We're reading lots of great books, we're having many good conversations, we're taking lots of brain breaks since we're on the computer so much, and we're learning so much about living in community. 

And we're discovering how taking a deep breath really does make a difference. 

Performing Arts Hybrid Style

 In order to keep safe, the classes at Seabury School stick with their cohort. 

Specialists are either teaching from home and are Zooming into the classroom or they are coming to the classroom and teaching both students at home and at school.

Here's a sneak peak into Mr. Gorre's Performing Arts class:

We each have our own mallet tucked into our desks. 

We're learning musical scales. 

We sing with our friends at home. 

Second First Day of School for the First and Second Graders

It's officially hybrid learning time. 

Lots of firsts. Lots of seconds. Lots of innovation.

This is the new look of a hybrid teacher - masked, all miked up, and carting around a web cam. 

Our new desks are 6 feet apart in every direction. 

We've got almost a 50/50 split. 

Taking temps and health screening is a new norm.

And here they come!

Moving in!

We have lots to bring back.

Ms Wollum is part of the welcome committee.

And so is Ms Jackie.

So excited for the second first day!

"Beyond awesome" sums it all up!

Innovative Back Scratchers

Our overarching theme of the year is innovation.

Perfect for the year 2020.

First problem to innovatively solve?

An itchy back!

To kick off our study of simple machines, we each make an innovative back scratcher.

We each are given a ruler, a fork, and some chenille wires. 

The holes in the ruler came in handy.

We are problem solvers. "How do you get this fork to be attached secure enough to stay on?"

Standing by the web cam and showing our friends at home 

"See, look at my design!"

Our friends at home can see us and we can see them. 

Testing out his double ended back scratcher

Thinking like an engineer and telling about his design 

Since we are scientists, we label our lab diagrams. 

Being innovative is right up our alley. 

Our study of Simple Machines is off to a wonderful start. 

 

Meet and Greet the Teacher (and take supplies home)

We were ready to start either at home or using a hybrid model. When the decision was made to start all at home, we began the year with a Meet and Greet. We met the teacher, picked up our supplies, and grabbed a few quick pictures.

Here are most of the eager, brave, fun, innovative, energetic, masked, smart, resilient, hard working, happy, creative, wonderful

2019-2020 Seabury First and Second Grade Navigators.

Back to School 2020-2021

Back to school sure looks different this year!

To be learning at school, 

or to be learning at home, 

that is the question.

Surprise! The teacher gets a new chair for outdoor use, plus a mask made by one of our parents, a face shield, and a stress ball. 

Take everything you're used to, 

put it in the middle of the room, 

and exchange most of it for new desks. 

Have individual supplies for each student, boxes for each class, and binders for each subject.

For those who come to campus, have a big bin for their backpacks, coats, and lunch boxes.

Put math manipulatives and supplies in boxes to be used either at school or at home.  

Make plans for two, sometimes three months.

Mrs. Towne didn't learn how to do this at Concordia College on a Commodore 64 computer!

It's a good thing that Mrs. Towne has a big eraser for this year, because ready or not, here she comes! 

Can't wait to start The. Best. Year. Ever. 

Enjoying the Elements - A link to Seaburyjourney.org

Enjoying the Elements, an article written about some special guests who came to the Navigators' Distance Learning Chemistry Classroom -  Mrs. Towne's kitchen!

Watching faces pop up on a computer screen is not the same as seeing kids walk

through the classroom door, but you wouldn’t know it by the cheerful sound of

teacher Sheri Towne’s voice as she welcomed 20 or so Seabury students to a very special Zoom meeting Monday morning.

“Hi Caleb. Hi Lizzie. There’s Gabrielle. I see Jai and Te. Wow! So many people on

our screen,” Sheri said.

The students – from Sheri’s first-grade class and Katy Moon’s second-grade class – gathered online to meet two high school seniors from Northeast Tacoma who

published a charming children’s book about an unlikely topic – chemistry.

Anna Gerald, the writer, and Galina Wynkoop, the illustrator, are best friends who

attend the Science and Math Institute (SAMi) run by the Tacoma Public Schools.
Read the rest of the article at https://www.seaburyjourney.org/post/enjoying-the-elements