Author: Andria Hall

A.I.G. at O.G.

Issue 1

March Issue

Oak Grove Elementary School

Inside this issue:

What’s New
Remind 101
What are we doing? / S
Growth Mindset

Spring is in the AIR!

Shout out to our AIG students that participated in Battle of the Books! They did a wonderful job and represented our school extremely well! Next year we will start earlier (since we have a media teacher now) and we are in it to win it!! Thank you parents for all of your support!
Parents, some of you may receive some green cards or papers going home that need to be signed. Please sign the highlighted area and return as soon as possible. These papers are for your child’s green folder that identifies them as AIG. This folder stays with them throughout their DPS school career!! I am trying to make sure I have all documents in order for our students.
Things to put on the calendar:
April 14th @ 5:00 - National Honor Society Induction Ceremony (invitation only)
April 28th @ 5:30 - AIG Game Night
May 6th—Elon Field Trip (more information to come on March 28th)
May 20th—3-5 Science Fair

Donations
If you or your church is interested in donating money for the AIG field trip please let me know!!
919.560.3723
Ms. Hall

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First Grade:
First grade is currently reading the Magic Treehouse book “Dinosaurs Before Dark”. We are working on vocabulary, questioning, finding answers in the text, and higher order thinking questions.
In math they are working on a project based learning assignment dealing with time.
Second Grade:
Students are currently reading “Frindle”. This story is about a boy who renames a pencil and starts a brand new trend! Students have been reading chapters in class. We are reviewing vocabulary and working on some third grade standards!
Fourth Grade:
Students are currently reading “The Secret Garden”. They should be done with chapter 8. The first quiz is Monday, March 21st. They are researching India and England and creating websites/blogs from google drive about the text and countries. Students will post the information and share it! Be on the lookout for an invite to a sharing session!
In math students are currently learning about angles through questioning and investigating. They have explored how to add angles, find missing angles, and how angles that are adjacent to each other are equal! They did this all through investigating on their own!
Fifth Grade:
Fifth graders are reading “A Wrinkle in Time”. They should be reading and answering questions for homework nightly. Their first quiz will be Monday, March 21st. A lot of this book will have to be read on their own but I will be checking in on them to make sure that they understand what is being read and some of the big ideas that are within the book.
In math AIG students are working on using their knowledge of multiplying larger numbers to decide which car (between and Hondai and a Chevy) would be most cost efficient after 4 years. Students will work in small groups to think of creative ways to graph the information and share it! Be on the lookout for an invite to a sharing session!

Benefits of a Growth Mindset

See Setbacks As Useful
What? Useful?
It’s easy to be frustrated by setbacks. They are useful because they provide information in the form of feedback. A setback indicates that something went wrong, and you now have the opportunity to figure out why, learn from it, and prevent it from happening again.
The growth mindset sees setbacks as useful, whereas a fixed mindset sees them as annoying hurdles and cause motivation and effort to drop.
https://alexvermeer.com/15-benefits-growth-mindset/
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With this knowledge of a growth mindset, let’s encourage our students to embrace setbacks, challenges, and hardships! From each one they will grow and learn and problem solve how to make sure they STAY successful!!! -Ms. Hall