Week Ending November 30


                                          


in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, November 30 
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
                 

We enjoyed a busy week back from Thanksgiving break.  We took advantage of the beautiful weather, got back into the groove of our weekly routine AND started building those fairy habitats!    

We also read several new picture book biographies of interesting and inspiring people.  I hope that you have gotten to hear about some of the people we’ve met.

Our amazing BOOK FAIR is taking place this week.  We hope you have time to stop by the MPR and check it out!

•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

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What We Did:
Reading
• In pairs, we read biographies and took notes about what we learned.
Writing
•We continued to publish our small moment stories.  Eight authors have finished books waiting to be shared with you.    
Math
•We learned how to write numbers in word-, standard-, expanded- and unit-form.
•We used bills ($1, $10 and $100) on a place value chart to reinforce the importance of base ten.
Science/Social Studies
•We thought about how people making change in the world requires help from different sources.
Other stuff
•We began to build structures for our fairy habitat.  Some groups started to build the actual habitat, as well.

•We worked on nameplates and completed a name questionnaire as homework that we will use with our buddies.

•We added November to our timeline of second grade (time is moving is way too quickly!).

What’s Coming Up:

•We will choose one person to read about in a picture book biography and look for information about that same person in another resource.

•We will continue to money to build understanding about bigger numbers.

•We will build our fairy habitats in art class. 

•Will visit the book fair with our buddies to create a wish list that will come home.

•We will generate questions to use in an interview of a grandparent as we write a biography about that person.

•We will lay the pathway in our fairy garden.  This is scheduled to start on Tuesday.

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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.
•Abby     •Alena    •Anastasia     •Connor          •Eito         •Ella         •Harper           •Kaela             •Mia        •Nico       •Noah              •OIiver    •Tatum    •Tommy           •Victoria          •Will                  •William
      

These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS
last week.
Conner (X2)                Eito (X2)         Ella (X2)     Harper (X2)       Jackson (X2)                        Max (X2)             Nico (X2)    Noah (X2)        Oliver (X2)      Tatum (X2)                       Tommy (X2)                 Victoria (X2)        Will (X2)             William (X2)
Alena

[ 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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