Mrs. Katchen's Class 2018-19

I wanted to share some information with you all regarding my approach to teaching. The personalized learning approach is something that I feel strongly will allow your child to grow and learn at a personalized pace while learning strategies and using tools to guide and support them to be lifelong learners. Here is some additional information about the personalized learning approach.  This approach allows be to see and customize your child's learning and develop the whole child.  What is personalized learning, and why do we need it? Personalized learning is education’s answer to the ever-changing needs of diverse student populations, who enter school with different learning styles, challenges (such as language barriers or disabilities), and academic strengths and weaknesses. It accounts for all those areas and more. Personalized learning essentially means supporting students with lesson options and resources that better accommodate their needs. It helps students suc...

    I recently learned about StarNet and think it is a great resource for me as an educator and as a parent. I wanted to share this with you. If you go onto their website you can register your email to receive updates and information on a variety of workshops.      Understood.org is another resource that I use often to help me at school and at home. Here is a link to the parenting toolkit. Take a look and browse around. You may find something that can help your child.  Understood.org Understood Mission Parents want the best for their children. We do, too. For the first time ever, 15 nonprofit organizations have joined forces to support parents of the one in five children with learning and attention issues throughout their journey.   With the right support, parents can help children unlock their strengths and reach their full potential. With state-of-the-art technology, personalized resources, free daily access to experts, a secu...

     It has been a busy week and a half. We have finished up our unit on Building a Reading Life and started our Historical Fiction Unit where we will continue to practice our reading is thinking skills as we learn about the elements of the historical fiction genre; reading Sarah, Plain, and Tall.       In writing, students are practicing the narrative writing skills as they navigate their writing journey as their own job captain; building writing confidence through independent practice. If you didn't get a chance to see their Narrative Book trailer from their first writing, ask them to see it! They were wonderful!       In Math, we are continuing to practice the mental math strategies that we have learned by being strategic when we analyze a problem to match the strategy with the problem. This has been a wonderful journey of number sense and thinking of numbers flexibility!       Many students ...