Important Dates: Monday, October 31 - Halloween celebration - Parade and class party Thursday, November 10 - Veterans' Day Assembly Friday, November 11 - Veterans' Day - No School Wednesday, November 16 - Early release (12:05pm) and first conference day - 2:30-8:00pm Monday, November 21 - Second day of conferences and start of Thanksgiving break (No school) Hi families, Writing Celebration Thank you to all the families that were able to make it to the writing celebration. Your participation makes the celebration important. You become the students' adoring fans, boosting their confidence and making their writing have value. The celebration marks the end of the writing unit. As a result, students are taking home all of the narrative writing that they have worked on since the beginning of school in their orange folders. If you would like, go through some of the writing students chose not to showcase. Ask them about the process of writing, and what's up with the green pen? Community On Thursday, students went around the Queen Anne neighborhood to pass out invitations to the Halloween parade. Students wrote an invitation and decorated the cover with a Halloween landscape. We then went door-to-door, knocking and ringing door bells. As neighbors came to the door, students presented the postcard and invited neighbors to come to the parade. Students really stepped up to the responsibility! It was charming to see students interacting and creating relationships with the neighbors around our school. We hope to continue building relationships this year, and discuss themes around our responsibility as members of the QAE community. Math We continued to play games to practice mental math strategies and practiced using tools such as using a ten frame. Reading Students worked on stamina, reading for longer and longer bits of time as we finish up our narrative reading unit.
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Important Dates: Wednesday, October 26 - 2-hour early dismissal - 12:05pm Thursday, October 27 - Queen Anne Walking Tour Friday, October 28 - Writing Celebration - 7:55-8:10am Monday, October 31 - Halloween celebration - Parade and class party Friday, November 11 - Veteran's Day - No School Hi families, Walking Tour Form To kick off our community social studies unit, we will write and deliver an invitation to our neighbors around the school to our Halloween parade on Monday, October 31st. In order to do this, I need you to fill out the walking field trip form that I sent home today. Make sure you get me the form by Thursday! Math In math this week we started our addition and subtraction unit. We began by reviewing our addition fact within 20 through number talks, math games and problem solving. One of the problems was Magic 10, attached below. Work with your student and see how many ways you can solve the problem! Writing We are putting the finishing touches on our pieces this week. To help us, we had our fourth grade reading buddies come give us feedback on our writing! Reading buddies looked at punctuation, spelling, and our craft moves. Next week, we will polish our pieces in preparation of the writing celebration on Friday. Reading We read and saw the performance of Last Stop on Market Street. We discussed some of the themes from the book and connected them to Wednesday's Black Lives Matter demonstration. Some of the themes were equality, empathy and race. If your student has any other questions, please discuss at home some of their feelings and reflections on this topic. After the play, we processed by writing in our reading journals a star, a wish and a compliment. Science This week we finished up our science unit with planting and examining how much water different types of soil hold. Using filters, funnels and measuring cups, students found that different soils do indeed hold different amounts of water! Some photos below. Additionally, we planted lima beans last week in different soils: sand, clay, humus and Queen Anne soil. The plants have made quite the stir as they start to sprout from our different soils. Students are already noticing the root structures and differences in plant vitality in various soil types (see picture above!). Halloween We will have a Halloween parade at 12:30pm on Monday, October 31 followed by a class party from 1-2pm. Let Jennifer Eveland know if you're interested in helping out!
Important Dates: Thursday, October 6 - Curriculum night Friday, October 14 - No school - Teacher prep day Monday, October 17 - Unity Celebration! Wednesday, October 26 - 2-hour early dismissal - 12:05pm Friday, October 28 - Writing Celebration - 7:55-8:10am Monday, October 31 - Halloween celebration - Parade and class party Hi families, Thank you to all the families that attended curriculum night last night! I appreciated meeting with you and sharing conversations about QAE and second grade. For those of you unable to attend, I have attached the handout from the evening to the newsletter. Take a look, and let me know if you have any questions. Unity Celebration Congratulations to your students! They earned their first Unity Celebration. A Unity Celebration is my way of honoring students working together as a team. Students earn a unity point by completing a task together or when someone from the school or community notices their thoughtfulness and/or hard work. From the beginning of the year until last week, students have gained these points. Our goal was 25. Now we will celebrate! On Monday, October 17 students can wear pajamas and bring a stuffed animal that fits in their backpack. We will then read to our stuffies for 30 minutes in the afternoon. Students came up with and then voted on this idea in class meeting :) . I will send out a reminder on Friday, October 14 (no school that day!) and then Monday morning to make sure everyone remembers. This week's run down: Math: Students finished up the place value unit by comparing and ordering 3-digit numbers, reviewed for the unit assessment, and then took the unit assessment. Reading: Students started to identify craft moves in Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin, and in their own books; students found places in their books where the authors made them laugh, feel a strong emotion, or go, "Wow!" Writing: Students starting using the craft moves they noticed from their reading in their writing! Science: Students did settling tests in water of clay, sand and humus. We also observed our compost with and without worms, writing down our observations.
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