Welcome back!
I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing break.
There is quite a bit of important information I need to share with you this week.
*Student Led Conferences are next Wednesday and Thursday. I emailed the invitation to sign up for a time over Fall Break. If you haven't signed up for a time yet, please do so. If you need the link again, please let me know. These conferences are very important for the students. They love to share with you how much they've learned.
*Our Halloween parade and breakfast are next Wednesday. The parade will begin at 9:00. This year it will be a little bit different than it has been in the past. The Kindergarten students will start the parade in our hallway. We will parade through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade classrooms only. After the parade, we will have breakfast and an activity in our classroom. Students need to wear their costumes to school, but bring a change of clothes for the rest of the day. Please leave any weapons that are part of costumes at home. If you have any questions, let me know.
*Our Crew will be climbing in PE the week of November 5th. We will need volunteers to belay for us, otherwise we won't be able to climb. The signups for the training and belaying are on SignUp Genius. Search using Doug's email. Doug.baker@dcsdk12.org
Again, please let me know if you have any questions.
*A huge thank you to all of you for participating in Boot Camp! Because of your support, every classroom now has a sound system. Yea! The kids are loving having a microphone that projects their voices to everyone when they share. It's very cool.
This week's IA: Art
Next week's IA: Music
Reader's Workshop
This week, we are learning and thinking about our purpose and audience while we read. We've learned that there are three possible choices for audience while we read. We can read for ourselves, like when we dessert read. We can read for someone we know, like when we read a book that Ms. Hanni has chosen for us. Or, we can read for someone we don't know. This is when we read things like math problems and reading tests. Our thinking has to change for each audience. Talk with your child about his or her audience when he or she reads at home.
Writer's Workshop
We are diligently working to publish our personal narratives. Hopefully these will be done next week. Once they are all published, we will have a sharing celebration and invite parents in to celebrate our hard work as authors.
Math
We've been working really hard to develop fact power. This is when we know simple addition and subtraction facts. In class, we've been discussing different strategies we might use to help us solve addition and subtraction problems. Please spend some time practicing these facts with your child at home. They know have two sets of Fact Triangles to use at home for practice.
Expedition
We continue to deeper our understanding of our Social Studies Big Ideas through learning more about the community of Dearfield. Our field work before break was great! We learned so much by actually seeing the buildings that remain and listening to our expert speaker, George Junne, a professor from the University of Northern Colorado. He told me he was so impressed with the excitement our 2nd graders showed while we were there. He knew they were curious and was overjoyed to answer all their questions.
