Week Ending of Sept. 21



in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update for the Week Ending
Friday, September 21
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
            
OK.  So, I’m begging asking you all again.  If you are willing and able to swing by our room sometime to let us know how YOU use mistakes, that would be AWESOME.  Think about what you could talk about…..organizing?  cooking?  Gardening?  Art?  Learning a new sport?  Or a new language?  On your job?

•REVISION INQUIRY: We would really love to have you come in and share your experience.  More info here

•ART PARENT:  Our art would love some help in the art room.  This is sometimes half class and sometimes whole class and the year’s schedule will be shared with the volunteer(s) so that this does need to be an every-week commitment.  Our art time is Tuesday 10:15 – 11:00.

•REMIND TEXT GROUP:  Text this message: @73kcc to this number: 81010 to join so that you will receive (infrequent) texts from about class/school goings-on.

•CENTERS:  I am in the process of building the Sign Up Genius for help with centers.  I will send a separate email with a link to that when it is ready.  Centers will be on Wednesday and Friday 10:45 – 11:45.

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What We Did:
Reading
• We are talking about how to refine our weekly reading goals to make sure that they are realistic goals that will help grow stronger as readers.

•We practiced using our retelling hand to both think about and talk about our reading.
Writing
•We looked at letters to our classroom visitors and then wrote letters to our own friends.

•We took our first sentence dictation with words with the short /a/ and /e/ sounds.
Math
•We practiced measuring items and adding parts of an object to determine the total length of an object.
Science/Social Studies
•We learned about different kinds of maps and how maps can show more than one place at a time.
Other stuff
•We delivered our Rat Questionnaires which was crazy exciting.

•We started sharing our Top Ten Posters.

What’s Coming Up:

•This week, we will be focusing on the short vowel sounds /i/ as in pit, /o/ as in hop, and /u/ as in fun. 

•We will explore in detail wall maps, road maps, globes, atlases  and Google Earth.

•We will decide what exactly we need in order to host a healthy and happy pet rat in our classroom.

•We build our own rulers and then use them to measure things around the room.

•We will sort the words on our word lists.

•We will enjoy Read and Relax with families invited.
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.

•ABBY       •ALENA            •CONNOR      •EITO         •ELLA               •NOAH      •THOMAS              •ALICE       •HARPER
•JACKSON     •KAELA     •MAX          •MIA

………AND THREE WITH NO NAMES!

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in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED







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