Dear Families,
This week we made some changes to our snack & literacy routines. We're eating snack earlier--before literacy--so that we can enjoy each others company more and have some extra social time. We've also made our literacy blocks shorter. This gives me the opportunity to meet with more groups of kids and meet with groups more frequently. It also gives students a chance to have more choice over their literacy time--allowing them to practice reading in multiple ways while also practicing word work and independent writing.
We've been busy bookmakers in science and writing. In science we built our Traits science books and have begun to put in our science sketches and notes to show what we've learned about traits in adult versus young plants and animals. In writing we've been illustrating typed copies of our books. By the end of the week nearly everyone had a typed story to put create a published piece!
On Wednesday I was out attending a math class on number concept, number sense, and additive reasoning. These are integral to the math curriculum that Ben and I use to teach first and second grade math. In second grade math we continue to focus on addition/subtraction facts, money, place value, and story problems.
We had a few special events this week: a visit to the Smoke House for fire prevention education and a visit from Planting Hope (teaching us how they support education in some Nicaraguan schools and sharing some song and dance with us).
Even with the mounting excitement for Halloween we had a full week of fun and learning!
Important Dates:
November 10: Half-day for students; Parent/Teacher conferences
November 11: Half-day for students; Parent/Teacher conferences
November 26-28: Thanksgiving Break (NO SCHOOL)
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Here is the information again, in case you still need to sign up for a conference:
This
year the superintendent set aside two half-days for Parent/Teacher
conferences, November 10 & 11. School will run 8:45-12:30 and then
conferences will take place after the students have left.
Conferences run for 20 minutes. Please be on time because conferences are scheduled back-to-back.
Monday conference times with me are between 12:40 and 7:00 pm.
Tuesday conference times with me are between 12:40 and 2:00 pm.
Please sign up for one conference time at this link: http://www.rumney.org/conference
**If you don't have internet access, please send me a note about your time preference and I'll plug you into an available slot.
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