Week ending February 8


                                   

in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, February 8 
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,
                 
We are excited about Monday’s field trip to Chinatown.  It is a full day of fun and energy.  Please remember to have your child dress in layers, pack a snack, have breakfast and wear comfortable shoes.

This Wednesday, we will have our second (of two) Bake Sale to benefit RAICES.  Please visit this Sign Up Genius if you would like to join us at the sale.  You can just send in baked goods (following the guidelines included in the Sign Up Genius) with your child on Wednesday morning if you can’t make it to the sale.  Last week’s sale was really successful.

Edna’s amazing Young Authors’ Fair is scheduled for March 29.  This is such a special annual event.  Information will be sent home this week.
All information is on the library website as well.  Please visit the link below for details.  There is also a link to print another entry slip.
https://www.mvschools.org/Page/2492

Students are invited to make Valentine’s Day cards to share with each other on Thursday.  We will have time in class to do this.  In a separate email, I sent you a class list so that students can make sure they have a card for each of their classmates.

•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!

OREO’S travel schedule has been updated:  Check it out here!

Please visit our blog here:  http://focusedandrelaxed.blogspot.com
What We Did:
Reading
•We looked a bit closer at certain non-fiction features.  Specifically, we looked at how BOLD TYPE helps the reader.

•We read several stories about the variety and special wonderfulness of grandparents.
Writing
•We reflected on what we have learned about our own grandparent and used that information to write a new chapter (paragraph) of our grandparent biography.
•We included a title page, Table of Contents and (optionally) an About the Author page into our grandparent biography.
Math
•We focused on approaches to solve multi-step word problems.
Science/Social Studies
•We started working on our scrapbook for the migration study.
•We hosted Ms. Maghnani as she shared the story of her family’s migration from India to Canada.
Other stuff
•We worked on Map of My Heart 2.0.
•We started the first step of creating a collage of our family’s name.
•We read and talked about what we might see during our upcoming field trip to Chinatown.

What’s Coming Up:

•We will assemble our Grandparent Biographies.

•We will continue our Scrapbook to collect our experiences from our immigration  and family study.

•We will visit Chinatown.

•We will celebrate Valentine’s Day.   
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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.
•Alena            •Anastasia              •Eito          •Kaela             •Mia                 •WIll          •William
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These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS
last week.
We did not have Homework Plus last week.
[ X2 = both Homework Plus options were completed]
         Connor (X2)              Eito (X2)           Ella (X2)                  Harper (X2)                 Noah (X2)         Oliver (X2)                    Tatum (X2)     Tommy (X2)
Max           
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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