Week Ending May 24, 2019



           in room 15, we strive to be
FOCUSED AND RELAXED
Weekly Update
for the Week Ending
Friday, May 24
                                                                                                                        
Dear Room 15 Families,

During this very busy final few weeks of school, I start feeling like I’m just throwing information at you.  I apologize for that.  But please do make time to read through communication carefully and thoroughly, as I would really not want you to miss anything.

•On Tuesday, students are invited to come to school in PJs.  This is their chosen way of celebrating reaching our On Our Way goal.  Students can also bring along a stuffy.  We will enjoy a morning sweet treat, too. 

•This Wednesday (and on the last day of school), students are dismissed at 12:40.  Please do make arrangements for this change in schedule.

•On Friday, we are celebrating Ms. Harvey’s retirement.  On Friday, May 31st at 9am we will be having a special all school assembly to honor Mrs. Harvey, our wonderful PE teacher who is retiring this year. As a special surprise for her at the assembly, each grade level will be singing a song. This is a secret so shhhh! All families are invited to attend. We hope to see you there!  There will be no Read and Relax this week.

•For homework this week, students are encouraged to spend time refining their Google Slides about their rainforest animal.  Please feel free to work together on your child’s paragraphs.  They are learning how to work with the design tools within Google Drive. 

•We are continuing our math routine focused around MATH FACT FLUENCY. If your child could use additional practice at home, I will send you a separate email.  This practice could take many forms—flashcards, apps on phones/tablets, verbal quizzes or math games. 


•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 focused on gathering more information about the size of our rainforest animal as we used new resources. 

•We continued to read just right books.
Writing
•We worked on crafting two paragraphs about our rainforest animals.

•We wrote an autobiographical poem.
Math
•We practiced what we have learned about multiplication arrays.
•We took a math assessment.
Science/Social Studies
•We continued our study of the rainforest and the animals that live there.
Other stuff
•We created a rainforest shrub in our room.
•We met in critique groups to refine our scientific illustrations of our rainforest animal.

What’s Coming Up:

• We will write two more poems this week. 

•We will continue to build our Google Slides about our animal.

•We will celebrate Ms. Harvey on Friday!

•We will finish both our watercolor and scientific illustration of our rainforest animal.

•We will complete the last entry on our second grade timeline.
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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.
•Abby       •Anastasia         •Eito          •Ella           •Harper
•Jackson           •Mia          •Nico        •Noah       •Oliver      •Tommy             •Victoria            •Will           •William   
____________________________________________________________________
These students completed the optional
HOMEWORK PLUS.
[ X2 = both Homework Plus options were completed]
•Alena (x2)        •Connor (X2)     •Oliver (X2)           •Max (X2)
•Noah (X2)       •William (X2)     •Ella (X2)      •Tatum (X2)    •Tommy (X2)           •Abby (X2)                •Harper (X2)
•Eito
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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