Happy Thursday!

 Happy Thursday!

Thank you to everyone for meeting with me (and looking forward to the few I have left)!  I really enjoyed getting a chance to sit down (even over Zoom) and share how your student is doing.  This year is crazy and I am so proud of the kids so I enjoy getting to brag on them!  

Virtual Learning

• Here is our virtual schedule
• Our virtual schedule is different from the schedule in the fall.  We tried to keep it as similar to our in person schedule as possible.
• We set timers on the student's iPads yesterday to help them remember when to get on Zoom.  It is important that they are on Zoom on time because otherwise they will be missing instruction.
• Please help your student to find a quiet work space that they can use for school.  I recommend keeping all their materials in the bag that was sent home on Tuesday.  This way they always know where to find their materials.
• If your student will be absent, even when virtual, please let me know.

Book Fair!!!!

• It's BOOK FAIR TIME!!
• Here is the link to shop for books at the book fair.  
• Even though you can't come to school to shop, the website is still set up for shopping and it looks similar to the normal book fair set up.  Plus, the books will be shipped to your house.  You can shop from the comfort of your house!
• The book fair is open until November 22.  This is a great way to get some early holiday shopping done, while supporting RBE.  A percentage of the sales come back to RBE in Scholastic Dollars to buy books.  

Intervention

• We started intervention this week.  We will continue this when we go virtual on Monday.
• Your students can access what they need for intervention through Seesaw. They are working on different activities.  They will be working on these activities independently, I will put them in breakout rooms on Zoom and then will check in with them throughout our intervention time.

Library Checkout

• On certain Wednesdays (dates listed below), our fabulous library staff will be hosting an outdoor library checkout from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
• November 18
• December 2
• December 9
• December 16
• You will come up to the Parent Pick Up doors and there will be charts of books to look through and checkout.  You can also return books on these days.
• If you have books on hold, they can also be picked up on Wednesday.
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Next Week's Learning

Math

• We will continue learning subtraction strategies next week.
• Students will be learning about fact families and making cute fact family turkeys.  We can't hang them in the hallways since we will be at home, so you can find a fun spot to display them at home.  We will also learn a game called Salute and learn to count up and back to solve subtraction number stories.

Reading

• We will start Unit 3 in reading next week.
• We will focus on nonfiction pieces and will be identifying the main idea and details in the passages.  

Writing

• We will start another informational piece of writing next week.  It will be about a job.  Students will do some research on PebbleGo and then we will organize the facts into paragraphs.
• I think it's always fun to see which jobs interest the students.

Fundations

• We will wrap up Unit 5 next week and learn about additional suffixes. 
• The students have done a nice job this week identifying the syllables and marking them in words.  
• Our trick words for next week are always, once, often.

Social Studies

• We will be starting social studies next week.  
• We will be learning about laws, how they are formed and why they are needed.  We will also be learning about rights that we have as citizens.

Thank you for your continued support at home!  The students and I are lucky to have such supportive families!

Happy Fall Friday!

 Happy Friday!

I hope you have had a wonderful week!  It seemed like a short week since we had work days, but the kids worked so hard the 3 days I saw them this week!

Friday Folders

• Please look over your student's checklist, initial it and return it in the Friday folder on Monday.  
• In the Friday Folder this week is information about fluoride treatment, book fair flyer and your student's progress report.
• The progress report does not have actual grades on it for this trimester.  There are comments about how your student is doing in each subject area.  You do not need to sign and return it.

Book Fair

• Our book fair is virtual this year and goes live on Monday morning.  Below is a link to a video about how to access the book fair.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35S9x_QH4js&feature=youtu.be
• Below is a link to the promo video we watched today about the book fair (we only watched the first half, the second half is for grades 4-6)
• https://bcove.video/2zoSgmB
• As a school, we get Scholastic dollars to purchase additional books for the school based on the profits that we make.
• If you would like, please take some time to do book some shopping from the comfort of your own home.
• The link to the book fair will be on the RBE website starting Monday morning.  

Important Upcoming Events

• Friday, November 13-No School 
• Wednesday, November 25-Friday, November 27: Thanksgiving Break (No School)

Intervention

• We will start our Reading Intervention on Monday.
• Students are placed in groups based on their area of need.
• Students do have activities in Seesaw with links or other activities, these activities are only to be done during our Read Intervention time.  They are not expected to work on them at home.
• Some of the activities that are links will always be in their activity feed as they need to access the link, but again, they are not expected to work on this at home.

Birthday Snacks

• If your student would like to celebrate their birthday at school, we would love to celebrate with them.  They can bring in prepackaged, individually wrapped snacks to share with the class. Please email me if you plan to send in birthday snacks so I can make sure we have time in our day to celebrate.  :)

Pumpkin Book Characters

• I was so impressed by the pumpkin book characters.  Thank you for helping your student get the pumpkin and get it completed.
• We got to do a gallery walk today and Ms. Mottaz (my co-teacher most years who is teaching virtually this year) and her class tried to Zoom in and see our pumpkins as well, but technology didn't work so they saw the pictures on Twitter.
• Be sure to check out Twitter for pictures!

Wednesday Work

• Just a reminder that Wednesdays are still school days (not this week, but most weeks) and students do have work to be completed on those days.
• They will have a trick word packet to complete and return and then are expected to do some reading and math as well.
• They will receive their November choice board next Tuesday.  These are activities they can do in addition to their trick word packet, reading and math practice.
• We will also have our normal Wednesday Zooms at 8:00 a.m. for Second Step and also a Fundations lesson.

Conferences

• Your conference time is listed in your student's Friday folder.  I did my best to fit everyone in at one of the times they requested.
• We will be using our class Zoom link for all conferences.  There will be a waiting room set up and I will let you in at your scheduled time.
• Please understand I have 15 minutes scheduled for each conference and I will have to stick to our schedule.  If we hit the end of our conference time and there are still things you would like to discuss, we can set up another time.
• I'm looking forward to meeting with everyone and sharing how your student is doing in school.

Next Week's Learning

Reading

• We will be wrapping up Unit 2 next week.
• Students will be making inferences about characters and also identifying the central message or theme in the story.
• We have been working hard to identify evidence from the story that supports our answers.
• Inferences are something fun to practice at home.  It's kind of like a guessing game.  You could give your student clues to what you will be having for dinner and see if they can guess and ask them how the clues help them.  
• Please continue to have your student read at home. 

Writing

• We will continue writing our opinion writing about the character Yeh-Shen.  The students wrote their introduction and first paragraph this week.
• We will also be publishing this piece next week.

Math

• We took our Unit 2 math test today.  It will be coming home next week.  Please look over the test with your student and then sign it and return it.  This allows me to know you have reviewed the test.
• We will start Unit 3 on Monday.  It continues to work on addition strategies and also starts moving into subtraction strategies.

Science

• We will wrap up our study of plants and animals next week.  We will be learning about bees and how they help to pollinate flowers.

Fundations

• We will continue working on multisyllabic words next week.  We will also learn about the suffixes of -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, -able,  -en and -ish.
• Our trick words are against, knew, know, always, often, once.

Have a fabulous weekend!