Week Ending April 19, 2019


                            
                        in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, April 19
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
                 
It was great to see so many of you at last week’s Spring Sing. 
We have another busy week ahead!

TUESDAY is our first COOKING CLASS.  We are working with Kids Cooking for Life thanks to a Kiddo! mini grant.  Please click here for the sign up genius if you are able to help us out during our hour-long class.

THURSDAY is the first of two INCLUSION LUNCHES:  We will host two Web of Inclusion Lunches this spring, on Friday April 26, and Thursday, May 16. They will be out on the playground, from 12:00-12:20, and will be followed by recess play. Adults are definitely invited to play games with students until the 12:40 bell. We are scheduling two lunches for two reasons: If you cannot make one of the dates, perhaps you might be able to make the other. And, everyone has the opportunity to make a connection with two different groups of Edna people.
Please see this LETTER FROM LEO for details.
SUNDAY is our exciting GARDEN FAIRE: Garden Faire is coming up, and we need your help!  This year's Faire will be held on Sunday, April 28th, from 11 am to 3 pm, and raises money for the operation of our school garden and funds our amazing garden educators: Cat and Kelly.
•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!


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What We Did:
Reading
• We made revisions to our fable scripts.

•We continued to read from our just right books and are working on oral summaries of what we read.
Writing
•We continued publishing our All About book. 
•We are adding to the fable script. 
Math
•We completed our End of Module Assessment Task as the content in the rest of module four and most of module five has been developed through Math Reviews throughout the year.
Science/Social Studies
•We read about materials that change back to original form after heating or cooling.
•We tested our individual glue recipes and graphed our results.
Other stuff
•We met with our buddies.
•We put up important signs in our fairy garden.
•We welcomed Hajra back and congratulated her on her first grandchild—actually, both her son and her daughter had their first child over spring break.  Safiya and Ahmad were born within 36 hours of each other!

What’s Coming Up:

•We will continue our engineering study of glue.

• We will rehearse our fables. 

•We will have our first cooking class.

•We will finish the publishing cycle of our All About books.

•We will assess our understanding of the content of module five in math.

•We have our first inclusion lunch on Friday (you’re invited—see note at top of newsletter).

•We will meet with our buddies.
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CONGRATULATIONS
These students showed PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT on the
Weekly Math Review
(made up of mixed computation problems)
as compared with the previous week.
We took an end of module test on Friday instead of a Math Review.  Normal Math Reviews will return this Friday.
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These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS.
 [ X2 = both Homework Plus options were completed]
Abby (X2)        Alena (X2)       Connor (X2)     Eito (X2)         Ella (X2)            Harper (X2)       Max (X2)           Nico (X2)       Oliver (X2) Tatum (X2)      Tommy (X2)   Victoria (X2)              Will          William   
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







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