Week Ending Sept. 7



in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, September 7
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
            
I hope to see you at Back to School Night on Thursday, September 13.  We will all meet at a school-wide presentation at 5:30.  At 6:00, we will meet in room 15 to hear all about second grade together.  You will hear about curriculum, routines, field trips and ways you can help us out this year. 

Please visit our blog here:  http://focusedandrelaxed.blogspot.com

Important Information:

•Thank you to those of you who volunteered to help us out as a Library Volunteer(s) .  We are all set now.
•More information about other important ways that you can help us out this year will be shared with you at Back to School Night.

What We Did:
Reading
• We increased our reading stamina to 25 minutes!

•I started initial reading assessments.

•We are focusing on recording our reading on Reading Logs.  Each week, we identify a personal reading goal and on Fridays, we reflect on how we did towards that goal.
Writing
•We thought a goal we are still working towards.  This could be something related to sports, arts, or the classroom, as we start thinking about the Power of Yet.
Math
•We started thinking about efficiency as we critiqued different ways of solving or representing a math problem.

•We learned about Making the Next Ten, Take One Out and Read, Draw, Write.
Science/Social Studies
•We made observations and predictions about Jelly Marbles.
•We wrote about our results as we experimented with Jelly Marbles.
Other stuff
•We voted on our CLASS PET and we chose a RAT!  We will use this week to find out what a pet rat needs.

•We spent time outside our room in the soon-to-be renovated Fairy/Fort Garden. 

What’s Coming Up:

•I accidentally included information about a Home Reading Log in last week’s newsletter.  We will not start that until NEXT Monday (9/17).

•We will be learning about what a pet rat needs.

•We will complete our first module (unit) in math.

•We will being our weekly routine of word study.

in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED







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