Week Ending November 16


  


in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, November 16 
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
                 

Phew!  What a whirlwind of a week THAT was!  This abbreviated newsletter will match the abbreviated week we had at school.  Know that while staying indoors during the smokey days was certainly challenging for us, your kids showed understanding and restraint.  I hope you found ways to have them burn some energy once at home.  I hope that you all ran outdoors as soon as it was safe.  The beautiful rainy weather we have had during Thanksgiving felt extra-magical.

Please be on the lookout for a separate email from me about fairy garden supplies.

Here’s to a wonderful and easy re-entry into our normal routines (which include recess OUTDOORS!).

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What We Did:
Reading
• We are focusing on biography.  Reading biography through the lens of people as “Change Agents” orients us to pay attention to what motivated people to make a difference in their world and the help they needed from others to make this change.
Writing
•We worked on final drafts of our small moment stories.    
Math
•We continued to strengthen our number sense and our understanding of how we can use place value to solve problems.
Science/Social Studies
•We created a class chart on our back wall to process the biographies we read together.  We are learning that people work to make changes to improve our world.
Other stuff
•We formed pairs and chose the foundation of our fairy habitat to place into our fairy garden.

•We enjoyed a gallery walk of our identity webs with our buddies.

•We each created a unique turkey during a directed drawing activity to accompany our Thanksgiving poem.

What’s Coming Up:

•We will read biographies in pairs and process these following the same questions on our class chart.

•We will complete topic A in our current math unit.

•We will build our fairy habitats in art class.  Please read the separate email regarding supplies.

•We will finish our final copies of our Thanksgiving poems.

•Will complete the Math Review from last week.

•We meet with our buddies.

•We might lay the pathway in our fairy garden.

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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.
We did not get to complete a math review due to the school closure last Friday.
      

These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS
last week.
We did not record Homework Plus due to school closure last Friday.

[ 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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