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!