Welcome Mr. E!!!

This week we welcomed Mr. E, our student teacher, to our classroom.  He will be joining us on Thursdays.  To build our TRIBE, we had a community circle activity in which the children got to introduce themselves to Mr. E and share their favorite thing about school.  Mr. E also shared about himself as well.  The children are so excited for next Thursday!

In language arts...
After reading Author: A True Story by Helen Lester, we talked about what good writing looks like.  Every student got to jut down their own idea on a sentence strip.  Later we sorted these sentence strips based on similarities and developed four categories into a tree map.  The categories we came up with were as follows:

• We continue to use AVID strategies when reading text.  This week students learned to describe how characters respond to challenges.  The following standard was addressed: 2.RL.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

In math...

• 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 have been listening to various stories and watching various videos about "Stranger Danger" and becoming experts on the topic.  They have been learning to take two-column notes.  The first column the "stranger danger" scenario and the second column for the proper response.  As they take notes about the topic, they continue to learn and answer the following question: How can we keep ourselves and others safe from strangers in our community?​

REMINDERS AND ANNOUCEMENTS

• Picture taking is coming up on Wednesday 9/19.  Information forthcoming 
• Parent Involvement Activity is on Thursday 9/27
• Resource day is switched to Monday 9/10 due to a schedule change on Friday.  Please have children wear shoes for PE.