A month already!

With the advice from his friends, will Peter used Gorilla Warfare on his own Grandpa?  Peter makes his first "attack."  In the middle of the night Peter sneaks down into Grandpa's room to sets the alarm for 3:00  a.m. and leaves this note:  People who steal other people's room, should not sleep well at night!  Will Grandpa ever surrender?  The children are enjoying this humorous, witty, and very suspenseful story!!!

In Language Arts...

• Students continue learning about AVID levels of questioning as we addressed the following two reading standard: RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text and RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. Students read different fiction texts, including The Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan, The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland, and  The Name Jar  by Yangsook Choi and identified story elements and learned to describe how characters respond to major events and challenges.  ​

In math...​

• Students reviewed time on-the-hour and were introduced to time half-past the hour.  They learned the various ways to say and write a given time.  For example, 7:30, thirty minutes after 7, half-past seven, or seven thirty.  And of course students practiced with drawing the hour hand and the minute hand properly on the analog clock.  
• Using our Stepping Stones curriculum, students learned about number lines and number tracks and can distinguish between the two.  They used number lines to help them determine nearby multiples of 10.  Using a number line, students could see whether a number like 37 was closer to 30 or 40. ​

In Social Studies...

• Students learned that a family tree is a record that helps us see how we are connected to our various family members.  It also shows us the different generations and where we came from.  I hope you and your child enjoyed learning more about your family history together.  Students were asked to review their information with you so that they can share out some interesting things they learned in small groups.  
• In addition students continue to become experts on stranger danger.  They brainstormed various ways to share their information with others to teach them how to stay safe in harmful stranger danger situations.  Here's the choice board students came up with... make a song, poster, video, comic book illustration, and flyer.  Students will be working in small groups to showcase their learning by choosing their final project that answers our essential question: How can we keep ourselves and others safe from strangers in our community?​​​​

Reminders and Announcements

• No school for children on Tuesday 9/10 due to a teacher training
• Family trees are due on Monday.  Please have your child familiar with the information, as they will be sharing out.
• We have library on Friday 9/13.  If you haven't done so yet, please start bringing in borrowed library books.
• Every Friday 1 Good Reading Habits worksheet will be due.  If this assignment was not complete, please work on it this weekend and have it completed by Monday.  
• Field trip form to Hawaii's Plantation Village is due 9/13.