Week ending March 22, 2019



                
                       in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, March 22
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
                 
We had another busy week full of the goodness that second grade in spring brings with it.
The students are writing really amazing All About books.  We will be inviting you for a sharing of their published editions of these nonfiction books.

This Thursday is a big day for Edna second graders.  It is our annual Young Authors’ Fair.  It is also the day that the SF Opera will visit to share their Sing a Story program with us.

With the sunnier days, our fairy garden is getting renewed attention.  We have some renovations planned when the danger of rain has passed.

SAVE THE DATE:
Here is flyer about an upcoming music performance organized by our music teacher Elizabeth Robertson.

Here is a message from Lisa Monge:
We have 150 authors at Edna Maguire School!
The Young Authors' Fair will be held this Thursday, March 28th.

Families are welcome to stop by throughout the day and read our stories and leave positive comments to our authors.  All activities will be in the MPR and the library.

The schedule:
9:00 to 10:00 - 4th grade & Foskett's 2nd grade
10:15 to 11:05 - 1st grade & rest of 2nd grade 
11:10 to 12:00 - 3rd grade
12:40 to 1:40 - 5th grade
1:50 to 2:00 Afternoon Recess 
2:00 to 2:50 - Mac Barnett presents to all.  


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

•Please consider checking out these ways to help our school community:  Car Line/Lunch Line Volunteer Sign Up
Our CENTERS schedule has been updated:  Check it out here!


Please visit our blog here:  http://focusedandrelaxed.blogspot.com
What We Did:
Reading
•We are charting our reading of fables on a group matrix on the wall.

•Comparing different versions of the same fable has been fun and interesting.
Writing
•Most students have completed at least one All About book.    
Math
•We are continuing to refine our practice of solving addition and subtraction problems using the stacking way (vertical).  We started working with three digit numbers.
Science/Social Studies
•We started an exciting new science unit based on the studying the properties of materials.
Other stuff
•We met with our buddies for another building STEM challenge.  This time, groups built a rocket using only three materials.

What’s Coming Up:

•We will start the actual engineering phase of our new unit in science about properties of matter.

•We will analyze fables for plot, characters, setting and moral.  We will start acting out some of these fables in small groups.

•We will choose the All About book that we want to publish and start revising for beginnings, endings, punctuation/capitalization and points of style, including word choice, clarity and flow.

•We will continue to strengthen as mathematicians as we learn about the algorithm for solving multi-digit addition and subtraction math problems.

•We will participate in an opera during the Sing a Story program on Thursday.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
•Anastasia           •Eito      •Harper        •Jackson        •Max          •Mia          •Nico                   •Oliver             •Tommy          •Victoria           •Will            •William         
____________________________________________________________________
These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS
last week.
We did not have Homework Plus last week.
[ X2 = both Homework Plus options were completed]
Anastasia (X2)         Eito (X2)     Ella (X2)        Harper (X2)       Jackson (X2)     Max (X2)       Noah (X2)          Oliver (X2)       Tatum (X2)      Tommy (X2)    Will (X2) William (X2)  
Mia 
ALL homework, including Homework Plus, should be returned inside the yellow homework folder and should be completed in PENCIL.

in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week Ending May 4

Image
in room 15, we strive to be focused and relaxed Weekly Update for the Week Ending Friday, May 4 Student Treasures:   Something new… In Monday’s homework folder, you will find an envelope attached to an order form.   This is from a company that I recently read about in a teaching blog.   They create both hardcover and softcover books of student work that can be purchased (or not) by parents.   They do provide one free copy of a hardcover book to the classroom, which is why I opted to try it out.   The books will not be processed without a returned order form from every student.   Please do not feel any obligation to purchase a book, but you DO need to complete the order form and return it to me in the envelope as soon as possible in order for the company to process our project.   I need to mail all student materials and order forms by Thursday at the latest.   Please ask me if you have any questions after you see the information that is included in Monday’s h
Read more

Week Ending May 11

Image
in room 15, we strive to be focused and relaxed Weekly Update for the Week Ending Friday, May 11 “Mindfulness Ambassadors” Beginning this week, we will invite two fourth grade students into our room at the start of each day to lead us in a very brief (<10mins) mindfulness exercise.   These students have been chosen by their teacher and have volunteered to share what they have learned about how being more mindful can lead to increased success both inside and outside of the classroom.   We are excited to learn from our fourth-grade peers. Multiplication Last week, we shared with each other what we already knew about multiplication.   We realized that it feels like a sort of “short cut” to addition.   One way that we will be talking about multiplication in room 15 is by using the words groups of to represent the concept of multiplication.   We will be reading the X notation in a multiplication equation as groups of , as well.   For example, in
Read more

Week Ending December 7

Image
                                                      in room 15, we strive to be FOCUSED AND RELAXED Weekly Update for the Week Ending Friday, December 7                                                                                                                            Dear Room 15 Families,                   I want to thank you in advance for your help with the Grandparent Interviews that is the priority homework for the upcoming week.   As I mentioned in Friday’s email, we “practiced” this interview process (student ASKS question, LISTENS to response and THINKS about what their grandparent said to make sure it makes sense to them while adult writes down the answers) using FaceTime with my mom. During our study of biography, we realized that many of the people we read about has affected change by becoming role models for other people.   As a class, we discussed the ways that having a role model can make a difference in a person’s
Read more