October 31st-November 4th

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• Just a reminder that this Monday, October 31st is our Fall Festival Day!  The Pumpkin Run is from 11:40-12:00, the costume parade is at 1:40 (students should bring their costumes to school and there will be time for them to change into their costumes before the parade), and the classroom Halloween party is from 2:00-3:00.  I hope you can join us!
• Please remind your child to turn in their monthly reading log.
• This week kicks-off our helping hands campaign!  This week is food week.  Any contributions you can make are greatly appreciated!
• This Friday, the 4th, is Jingle for Jammies.  Wear your favorite jammies to school and bring in any spare change! 
• On Tuesday, November 1st, a permission slip for our first field trip will be coming home with your child.  Be on the lookout for this and send it in as soon as possible!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week, we will finish our second writing unit, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales. Students will have the choice to publish their fairy tale adaptation or their original fairy tale.  We will work on typing these in Google Drive this week!

Reading: This week we will finish our second unit: Character Studies.  We will create strategy groups that focus on the four strands of this unit: character traits, character responses/changes, determining themes, and the parts of a story.

Social Studies:  This week we begin chapter 7: Being an Active Citizen.  We will make sure to talk about the upcoming election as well what makes a good citizen.  There is a school wide "voting" taking place this Monday.  Make sure to talk with your child about the importance of voting!

Math:  This week we will continue Chapter 5: Understanding Division.  We will work on relating subtraction and division, using a number line, and understanding that multiplication is the inverse operation of division.  The test for this chapter will be on Friday, November 11th.

Have a great week! 

Buddy Reading

To celebrate the end of our Character Studies Reading unit, we went outside to buddy read with Miss Tackes' class!  The weather was perfect!

Wacky Hair Day!

We had some pretty wacky hair in our class today!  Check out the pictures below!

Multiplication Strategies

Here is a chart of the multiplication strategies we have been using in class!

 

Leader of the Week Readers

Here are a few pictures of the past couple of "Leaders" reading the books they brought in during their special week!

October 24th-28th

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• Conferences are Monday and Wednesday of this week.  I look forward to seeing you!
• Just a reminder that Monday, October 31st is our Fall Festival Day!  The Pumpkin Run is from 11:40-12:00, the costume parade is at 1:40, and the classroom Halloween party is from 2:00-3:00.  I hope you can join us!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week, we will continue our second writing unit, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales. This week, students will be taking all that we have learned about adapting fairy tales and creating their very own, original fairy tale!  We will focus on using descriptive language as well as revising the magic that is seen in their fairy tale.

Reading: This week we will continue our second unit: Character Studies.  We will focus on comparing and contrasting the characters in our books, their problems, and the lessons they learn.

Science:  This week we will continue our next science unit, chapter 4: Living Things.  We will focus on the life cycle of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.  The test for this chapter will be on Friday.  Be on the lookout for a study guide!

Math:  This week we will finish up Chapter 4: Understanding Multiplication.  Our test is on Tuesday.  Study guides were sent home last week.  On Wednesday we will begin Chapter 5: Understand Division.  

Have a great week! 

October 17th-21st

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• This Wednesday is an early release.
• Spelling tests are this week!
• Please send in the conference confirmation sheet that was sent home with your child last week!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week, we will continue our second writing unit, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales.  Last week we were able to choose any fairy tale that we wanted and we began creating our own adaptations.  This week, we will focus on adding actions to accompany our dialogue as well as collecting ideas in order to create our very own original fairy tales!  

Reading: This week we will continue our second unit: Character Studies.  We will focus on the role that illustrations play in our texts as well as the importance of the turning point in our character's story mountain.

Science:  This week we will continue our next science unit, chapter 4: Living Things.  We will focus on the life cycle of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.

Math:  This week we will continue Chapter 4: Understanding Multiplication.  We are going to focus on using arrays and the Commutative Property of Multiplication in order to understand multiplication.  We will also make tables as a strategy for solving multiplication problems.  

Have a great week!