Week ending March 7, 2019



            in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Thursday, March 7
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
                 
We are looking forward to a week of beautiful March weather.  Weeks of inside recess can be hard on everyone, so this is a very welcome development.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you on Thursday, March 14 for our Family Heritage Night.  NOTE THE TIME CHANGE:  We will meet in room 15 at 5:45 to share some of the work we have been doing.  At 6:15, all second graders and their families will move to the MPR to enjoy a potluck and conversation.

There are many openings in Oreo’s travel schedule, if you’d like to sign up to host Oreo for an upcoming weekend.  Use the link to find a date that works for your family.  OREO’S travel schedule has been updated:  Check it out here!

Here is a link to a “parent handbook” for our current math module: Parent Handbook I hope it will give you a clearer sense of what we are up to in math.

•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 spent more time looking at the story vs. the message of many of the books we are reading.

•We are sharing great books about families and the natural diversity we find among them.  In all of these books that we are reading and discussing together, we are finding the common theme to be that families come in all types of sizes and configurations and that the common denominator is that all families share love.
Writing
•We are writing reflections about what we have learned during our family history study.
•We are continuing to practice writing solid, structured paragraphs.
Math
•We are continuing to refine our practice of solving addition and subtraction problems using the stacking way (vertical).
Science/Social Studies
•We each painted a tree in art class.  This will become our family tree.  We have seen several models of family trees.  Some have been traditional with each generation comprising a horizontal row.  Others have been more fluid and include all people that the student considers to be part of his/her family.  There is not one way to create or represent a family on a family tree, of course.
•We have spent time creating a name collage.  These will be on display and ready to take home on Family Heritage night.
Other stuff
•We identified the places our family is from on a world map.
•We wrote about what we know about the first people in our family to come to America.
•We updated our timelines to include February.

What’s Coming Up:

•We will finish up our scrapbooks.

•We will meet with our buddies.

•We will complete our family trees.

•We will finish our family heritage dolls (also going home from Family Heritage Night).   
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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             •Anastasia      •Connor         •Ella •Nico          •Tatum           •Tommy    •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]
Jackson (X2)         Alena (X2)  Connor (X2)          
Nico (X2)       Noah (X2)   Harper (X2)    Abby (X2)                        
Oliver (X2)      Ella(X2)         Tommy (X2)  Max (X2)   
        Eito           
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