Blog #2

September 6-8, 2016

Our Crew!

How we stay cool: laying on computer lab floor,
popsicles and cold water!

Owen shares his summer mystery object!  
Click here for pics.

Henry and others are  participating in 

"Where the water blows" - a get to know each other activity.

Click here for pics. 

Owen and Henry are in the EL Fishbowl to demonstrate
as activity. 

One of the groups puts together their puzzle
after learning what they have in common. The finished
puzzles are here now. Click here for pics.

Owen and Finn discuss what crew means
to them with EL Back to Back.  "We

are crew, not passengers" (all day long!)

See pics. 

Auguste and Geoffrey discuss a topic as elbow partners. 
See pics.

Kaiden, Jacoby, Henry and Masha fill out an EL Boxing

protocol before discussing Crew. Then we watched a 

video, shared a quote, and discussed before adding more

to the protocol. Each crew member completed

a notecard about crew which is by their portrait. 

See pics.

Geoffrey and Owen peer critique each other's portrait to create
EL HQW (High Quality Work.) Each crew member 

drew their portrait, received and gave critiques, repeated these steps,

then illustrated their final copy which is on the Crew board outside

of Mrs. Malloy's room. See pics.

Alternative seating for writing and other work. 

Angela is reading her JR book.Our read aloud is Ramona
Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary. We've also discussed
characteristics of the realistic fiction genre.  See pics.

Each math crew made a name tag with a special number on
it. Mae and Petra share why this number is important. We
also discussed  math crew expectations. We also took
an addition, subtraction and Unit 1 preassessment. See pics. 

Energizers in math: form groups of 3 (or other numbers.)

Here is Nadia posing for her magnet picture that we use
for hot and cold lunch count. See pics. 

Our energizers are often linked to what we have been
learning about and cross the midbrain. See pics. 

Notes for Parents:

      Thank you so much coming to Parent Orientation last Thursday!  It was a pleasure seeing you and listening to you greet each other and discuss something that you enjoy. Thank you also for signing paperwork for your child to participate in the standing desk research. Thank you for writing a note to your child which s/he will read on Monday morning. If you were unable to attend, your child will receive a note from me. 

1.  Reading Logs are due totaled on Monday.  The minimum amount of days and minutes are on each Reading Log. An example reading log is in the Parent Orientation booklet. 

2.  Payments: Please turn in money for Scholastic News and planner ($10.00 total) and end of the year book ($5.00 to me) to help cover the costs of the pictures.

3.  Please check over and initial your child's assignment planner every day in September. This will help your child get in the habit of checking it every day. Thank you!

4.  Please turn in all standing desk consent forms and surveys as soon as possible. The researchers will start coming in on Monday, Sept. 12th. 

5.  A separate email was sent for book orders which are due on Friday, Sept. 16th.

6.  Here is the link to sign up for Fall conferences. Thank you to those that have already signed up.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4ba9a628a3fc1-fall


7. My website is www.two4kids.net/room210review if you'd like to check it out.  The Parent Page has the daily homework each day. 


8. Thursday, Oct. 13th and Friday, Oct. 14th are both no school days for the students.  There is also no school for students on Thursday, March 9th and Friday, March 10th.  The district calendar says differently. 

Calendar:

Monday, September 12-Reading log and Thurs. bag due, initial assignment plannerTuesday, September 13- initial assignment plannerWednesday, September 14-initial assignment plannerThursday, September 15- initial assignment plannerFriday, September 16-book orders due. initial assignment planner

Monday, September 19-Reading log and Thursday bag due, initial assignment plannerTuesday, September  20- initial assignment plannerWednesday, September 21-initial assignment plannerThursday, September 22- MAP assesssment-reading, Herny T. and Tristan PrinciPals
initial assignment plannerFriday, September 23-initial assignment planner


Monday, September 26-Reading log and Thurs bag due, initial assignment planner, Picture DayTuesday, September 27- initial assignment plannerWednesday, September 28-initial assignment plannerThursday, September 29- initial assignment planner, MAP testing Math, new student lunch
Friday, September 30-initial assignment planner (last day to initial!) 






Thank you for a great start to the year!  I know that there is a lot of information that comes home at this time of the year so please let me know if you have any question!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Deb