Week Ending April 26, 2019



in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, April 26
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
                 
I hope you all had great fun at Edna’s Garden Faire on Sunday.

You are invited to join us for our Readers’ Theatre presentation of Six Fables on Friday, May 3 at 8:50 in the MPR.  This is a very informal performance, but the kids really wanted to use the big stage.  We hope to see you there for our skits.  We expect that this will last about 30 minutes.

•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 From there, you can click on our DAILY BRIEFINGS tab to check out what we’re up to.  This updated most days.

What We Did:
Reading
• We performed our fable skits for the class and shared feedback.

•We continued to read from our just right books and are working on oral summaries of what we read.
Writing
•We finished (or nearly finished) publishing our All About book. 
•We made final revisions to the fable script. 
Math
•We worked on the content of module five.
•We practiced working on multi-digit addition and subtraction using models and the algorithm.
Science/Social Studies
•We tested how heating a mixture can change that mixture.
Other stuff
•We met with our buddies.
•We focused on 8 (of the 12) traits of a Mill Valley Learner Profile.
•We noticed how the traits above show up in book characters, fables and in each other.
•We had our first cooking class and loved it.

What’s Coming Up:

•We will continue our engineering study of glue.

• We will perform our fables. 

•We will have our second cooking class.

•We will share our All About books with the other second graders.

•We will begin our work with Module Six in math.

•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.  Actually, we had a form a formative assessment in place value instead of traditional math review again last Friday.
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These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS.
 [ X2 = both Homework Plus options were completed]
Connor (X2)              Eito (X2)           Harper (X2)                Jackson (X2)          Kaela (X2)         Max (X2)      
Mia (X4!)          Noah (X2)      Oliver (X2)          Tatum (X2)      Victoria (X2)             Will (X2)                   William (X2)
         Alena                 Tommy   
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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