Happy New Year!

Hello families,

I hope you all had  a great holiday break. We've had a wonderful first week back. This week we reviewed many of our school and classroom rules and routines. We also did a handful of team building activities throughout the week, including making a big spiderweb all together. Without any one of us, our web would be different--we are all important members of our learning community. Throughout all of our games and activities we focused especially on cooperation, respect, and acceptance.

In second grade math we've been looking a lot at +2 and -2 number patterns, solving number riddles, and working with equivalency (100 ones = 10 tens = 1 hundred, 400 ones = 40 tens = 4 hundreds). In first grade math students continue to work in stations on varied adding strategies (add 10, add 9, doubles), number patterns, and visual clusters (seeing numbers in different compositions).

In addition to our regular art class we had some special arts integration times this week with Ms. Campbell. She taught us how to make accordion books. We folded our pages, used shiny paper to cover our covers, and used ribbon to bind our books. Then in writer's workshop we added the text to our books and began to illustrate our star myths! We'll be finishing these next week, presenting about them at the next All School Meeting and sending them home shortly after that.

This week and next week Rumney teachers will be doing reading assessments individually with students. We will also be checking progress in student learning of spelling patterns and rules. I will be doing this tomorrow, Friday, so we'll have a guest teacher in with Mrs. Joslyn for the day.  

There is still a cold and tummy bug floating around school. Keep washing hands and getting plenty of rest! Enjoy your Friday and weekend!💗 Mrs. Fox

Dates to Remember
Fitness Fridays - 12:30-3:30 on Jan. 13, 20, 27; Feb. 10, 17
Monday Jan. 16 - Teacher Inservice -- No School for Kids
Thursday Feb. 2 - Winter Concert (chorus, band, ensembles - not classroom performances) 6:30 p.m.
Friday Feb. 3 - Teacher Inservice -- No School for Kids