Week Ending March 23


in room 15, we strive to be focused and relaxed
Weekly Update for the Week Ending
Friday, March 23

Family Heritage Night
Mark your calendars for our Annual Family Heritage Potluck on Thursday, March 29th! This event is in celebration of our family heritage study. We will begin the evening in the second grade classrooms from 5:30 to 6:00, where you will get a chance to look at your child’s Family Heritage Scrapbook and the family trees. Dinner will be back at the MPR from 6:00 to 7:00

This Week’s Focus
This week, a lot of our work will be focused on completing the projects associated with Family Heritage Night on Thursday.
We hope you will be able to join us.

MVSD Email Issues
At this point, I hope that you have gotten word about the district’s email troubles.  It seems that MVSD is experiencing unusual and unpredictable email problems.  Some outgoing mail from MVSD addresses is being delivered and some is not.  Please reach out if you think you may have missed some communication from me. 

Feedback from Guest Teacher
On Friday, we had a guest teacher for the afternoon.  Actually, it was essentially from 12:20 – 1:50, as kids end their Fridays in PE.  Unfortunately, the feedback that I received from the guest teacher was not great.  While she did mention that the vast majority of the students were helpful and focused, there were a handful of students that apparently continued to make poor choices and created a less-than-productive and happy environment.  We will be talking about this in class on Monday.  It could be helpful to have a discussion about classroom behavior (even when the “cat” is away) with your child at home.

•Thank you for using the sign up genius link (http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c094ba4af28a20-room1 ) to help us out with centers. 

Room 15 has a blog!  Please visit https://focusedandrelaxed.blogspot.com/ to check out our Daily Briefings.  In addition, you will find a collection of the Weekly Updates.
What’s Coming Up:
•We will continue working on the scrapbook to share on Family Heritage Night.

•We will gain more practice solving addition problems using the “stacking way.”

•We will be writing goodbye messages to Ms. Hunter on special stationery (the kids’ idea).


 


CONGRATULATIONS
These students scored as well or better on the
Weekly Math Review
(made up of mixed computation problems) as compared with the previous week.

•Adelaide   •Benji    •Colton  Gracelyn       •Kaiyan  •Sacha   •Myles    •Sammy      •Sienna      •Tahlequah 

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These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS
last week.
Benji (X2)           Henry (X2)            Gracelyn (X2)        Joey (X2)    
Colton (X2)   Kaiyan (X2)        Zola (X2)       Emily (X2)          
Myles (X2)           Tahlequah (X2)               Sammy (X2) 
           
ALL homework, including Homework Plus, should be returned inside the yellow homework folder.
 [ X2 = both Homework Plus options were completed]
 


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