Good Afternoon,
I hope this finds all of you well and coming off a wonderful weekend. My wife and I spent yesterday driving a variety of back roads taking in the scenery and then finished our trip with some apple picking. The colors of the leaves were incredible this weekend.
Today the students took our districts math and literacy assessments, using Star 360. If you would like to read more about it, take a look at this link https://www.renaissance.com/resources/product-brochures/star-360/. The 2nd grade math students will take the math portion tomorrow with Mr. Hubbard. This data will act as a screening tool and offer advice on where I should start teaching each student.
Today's read a loud was What Do You Love About You? by Karen Lechelt. This book focused on what special traits each animal liked about themselves. It was great to see why a giraffe loved its long neck or the chipmunk love its puffy cheeks. When we finished, I asked the students to all share about something he liked about himself. It was great to hear their answers. I encourage you to continue this discussion with your family. If you want to hear a version fo the story, click here. in their writing prompts about what they liked about fall. They also turned in their pointillism picture of a fall tree. These writing and pictures are displayed outside our classroom. Today also served as a teaching point about writing assignments. Please make sure your child follows the prompt directions on the weekly plan and uses pencil for his/her writing. I did ask some 2nd graders to add more to their writings today or to start again. We talked about best work and looked at different pieces of writing, that had been turned in, to look at things we noticed about each piece. I wanted to explain the writing process a bit more. Please watch this video to understand why I have the process that I do.
NOTES:
*Every child has now been given a big clear glue stick for Wednesday's project. Please make sure he/she grabs a few colored leaves from outside for the project. It would be best to have them in by Tuesday to allow the to dry a bit.
*There are 2 writing tasks for asynchronous work this week. Please make sure your child completes them both and brings them to school on Thursday or next Monday. If you want to know what writing prompts have been assigned and turned in, please check out this spreadsheet. There are no grades or assessment comments but rather just a checklist for your convenience and sanity of work going to and from.
That is all for now. Have a great week.
Peace,
Mr. Young
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| We went for a walk in the rain today. |
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| Some of the fall writes with pointillism pictures |
