Week Ending March 9


in room 15, we strive to be focused and relaxed
Weekly Update for the Week Ending
Friday, March 9
                                                                                                                        
Save the Date
Family Heritage Night
On Thursday, March 29, you are invited to join us for our annual 2nd grade Family Heritage Night.  There, you will see the culmination of some of the learning we have been doing about our families and immigration.  Our grandparent biographies will also be on display, as will artwork we have done inspired the photo of your child’s grandparent.  Our scrapbook, which includes memories and artifacts from our study leading up to Immigration Day, as well our current study of our families’ histories, will also be available to see for the first time.
Details will follow, but please add the evening of March 29 to your calendars.

We Need YOUR Help
It really is important that students use pencil and their best handwriting on the homework that they are assigned.  Using a pencil increases legibility, provide a real context for proofreading/revision, helps to set up study skills and builds more experience following directions.
It’s a small but important piece of the mosaic of creating purposeful and focused students.  I do realize that it may seem like “No pens on homework!” is a somewhat arbitrary holdover from a time gone by, but I really do believe it’s important. 

Progress Reports sent home last Thursday
I heard of one “clerical error” regarding a family not receiving their child’s progress report on Thursday.  Please let me know if you did not receive your child’s report.  I hope the mistake was an isolated incident.  Yikes! 

•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 use the Then and Now interviews to create Venn Diagrams showing how things have changed.

•We will think about the family food that we will bring to Family Heritage Night.

•We will begin to publish an All About books.

•We will begin to build a family tree using the Where Our Families are From chart.

•We will locate and label our countries of ancestry on a world map.


 


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.

Due to the shortened week for students, we did not complete a Math Review last week.

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These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS
last week.
Eloise (X2)           Sacha (X2)          Zola (X2)                        Henry (X2)          Emily (X2)           Bethy (X2)          Tahlequah (X2)    Adelaide (X2)       Kaiyan (X2)         Sammy              Joey (X2)                        Colton (X2)         Benji (X2)                                   
Gracelyn (X2)                  Jasper                                      
Sammy (X2)        Saxton (X2)         Sienna (X2)                     Wade (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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