Week Ending November 2


                      
                   
in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, November 2 
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
                 

Thank you all for making Halloween such a great day at school.  From helping your kid look awesome, to planning (and running) a wonderful second grade celebration to cheering us all on during the parade, we thank you!

            •We have jumped into fairy house planning and building.  There is a document that I shared with your child via Google Drive.  In it, you will find a collection of different types of structures we could use for the bases to our fairy houses.  We settled on using flower pots of one sort or another.  There is a separate document about to use these as building bases that I also shared via Google Drive.  Remember that your child’s login information is taped into the inside of his/her homework folder.  You may want to copy that down so that you have it available during the weekends.
            I was able to gather a fair number of pots via gracious residents through the NextDoor app (check out my haul in the photo above).  However, if you have any large-ish (8” – 12”) pots that you no longer want, we will give them a new life.  Cracks and chips are no problem for us.  In fact, we will be breaking them in the building process, so please don’t buy any new pots.  We have plenty to get us started.  Some kids might just feel it’s all more extra-special if it came from home.  These can come to our room as early as Monday.

            Remember that dismissal for the next two weeks is at 1:55 each day.

            I have set up a new Sign Up Genius page for those families that are willing and able to host Oreo for the weekend.  We have a small travel cage and will, of course, send with food.  Some brief directions/tips will be included in his suitcase that will join him on his journey to your home.  You can find that link here .

If you haven’t yet signed up for a Family/Teacher conference, here is the link https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094BA4AF28A20-familyteacher

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

•Please consider checking out these ways to help our school community:  Car Line/Lunch Line Volunteer Sign Up

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What We Did:
Reading
• We spent more time thinking about our reading goal. 

•We were more thoughtful in filling up our book boxes.
Writing
•We began to revise for end punctuation throughout our story. 
Math
•We started a new math module focused on place value.

•We counted 1000 craft sticks by bundling them in groups of tens and then hundreds.
Science/Social Studies
•We learned a new key to communication from Ms. Jen.
Other stuff
•We looked at many different styles of fairy houses and focused on broken pot houses.

•We filled out another month (time is literally flying by) of our Second Grade Timeline.

•We each completed a second grade reflection sheet.

What’s Coming Up:

•This week, we look at the endings to our small moment story.

•We will continue our Earth Science unit on landforms by answering the mystery What makes a canyon?.

•We will continue to focus on place value.

•We will start looking at biography as a way to learn about people and become inspired by the work they have done to make our world better.

•We will get into the build and design of fairy houses.

•We will be dismissed at 1:55 each day for the next two weeks.

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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.
WOW!  What a difference a week makes!!!
              •Alena             •Connor         •Jackson       •Mia            •Noah        •Tatum             •Tommy           
These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS
last week.
Connor (X2)                       Harper(X2)            Jackson (X2)                 Max (X2)         Oliver (X2)                Tommy (X2)                              Victoria(X2)              William (X2)  
Alena         Ella            Tatum
[ X2 = both Homework Plus options were completed]
        
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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