FYI:
Sailors' Schedule:
​Specials - A day PE, B day Music, C day ABL, D day Health, E day Art  (Daily 12:00 - 12:30)
Lunch - 12:45 - 1:15
Library - Books due TUESDAY :) We have Library on Tuesdays from 8:30 - 9:00 

Important Dates:
Wednesday, January 13th - MAP testing: Math - Please be sure to send your child's Chromebook and charger back on Tuesday so that we can be sure the Chromebooks are all charged and ready to go for Wednesday's MAP test. :) Thank you so much!!
ELA MAP testing date TBD
Monday, January 18th - MLK Jr. Day - No School for Teachers or Students
100th Day of School is coming up at the beginning of February!  More details to come.

Baggie Books - I'm organizing all the baggie books I collected after break.  We're working on creating reading groups.  There are several Sailors I want to assess before I can finalize my reading groups.  I'll keep you posted!  In the meantime please have your child read their library books or other books they're interested in!  Whatever they LOVE to read is what they need to read right now.  
If they'd like to borrow a certain book from my room I'd be happy to share!  Let me know. :) 

Scholastic Book Club - Scholastic is offering shipping to your home now, too.  
Class Code - VJK36  

A Peek at the Week:
Math - We are back in action practicing subtracting two 2-digit numbers with and without regrouping.  We'll be assessing with our mid-year MAP math assessment this week (tentatively set for Wednesday).  On Thursday we'll review for our Chapter 5 assessment.  Finally we will wrap up our week with our Chapter 5 assessment on Friday.  

ELA - We're celebrating our realistic fiction writing on Tuesday.  The rest of the week will be spent learning more about our new nonfiction writing unit and Martin Luther King Jr.  We'll be getting our hands on lots of nonfiction texts this week and throughout this unit.

The weekly spelling focus is long u: u, u_e, ew, ue. We'll be hunting words that have long u all week.  We love this game!

FYI:
Tie Dye Tuesdays - Your Sailor is welcome to wear their tie dyed t-shirt every Tuesday!  Since we won't have field trips to rock our shirts this year, we thought we'd rock them at school!

Wednesday, November 11th - Wear RED, WHITE, and BLUE in honor of Veteran's Day!

​Friday, November 20th - First schoolwide Drop Everything And Read "DEAR" Pajama Celebration - We'll drop everything and read for 15 minutes on Friday, November 5th.   Your Sailor is welcome to bring in a book from home if they'd like to read it during that time, too.  

November Projects - We're LOVING all the Veteran's interviews that are coming in.  Great work, Sailors!  The disguised turkeys are INCREDIBLE, too!  
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Library - MPE library books due TUESDAY :) 

Baggie Books - Due to some students being unable to return their baggie books recently, we've had to get a little creative.  Your Sailor's baggie books may look a little different, but I'll be getting leveled books into their hands. 

Scholastic Book Club - Scholastic is offering shipping to your home now, too.  :) 
Class Code - VJK36

A Peek at the Week:

Math - We began Chapter 4 last Friday.  This chapter will focus on 2-digit addition.  We're learning LOTS of different strategies.  Then they'll be able to find the strategy they're most comfortable using.  

Be on the lookout for their Chapter 3 math test.  It'll be sent home this week.

ELA - This week we'll assess over nouns - common and proper.  We're focusing on three letter blends: scr, spr, and thr but also continuing to practice the consonant digraphs from last week.  

Quiet Time - Each day we take 3 or 4 minutes after our mask break to quietly get ourselves ready for Math.  I put on a quiet song and once the song is finished, we get back to our work!  The Sailors LOVE having this time to choose what they want to do to help them refocus.  :)

FYI:

Tie Dye Tuesdays - Your Sailor is welcome to wear their tie dyed t-shirt on Tuesdays!  Since we won't have field trips to rock our shirts this year, we thought we'd rock them at school!

November Projects - Veteran's day interviews and disguised turkeys are a couple of at home projects due this month.  Have your Sailor get creative with what you have to work with for their turkeys!  They'll get to share them during our Morning Meeting or Afternoon Meeting.  If you have a special Veteran in your life, please send back the interview finished.  If not, we totally understand! 
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Library - MPE library books due TUESDAY :) 

Baggie Books - New baggie books this week!

Scholastic Book Club - Scholastic is offering shipping to your home now, too.  :) 
Class Code - VJK36

A Peek at the Week:

Math -
We're testing over Chapter 3 on Thursday.  The practice assessment will be sent home with your Sailor on Wednesday.  We'll begin Chapter 4 on Friday!

ELA -
Last week we went on our first word hunt during the story, Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!  It was so much fun hunting for soft C and soft G words! 

This week in our phonics, we're working with digraphs-  ch, tch, sh, ph, th, ng, wh.

A Peek at the Week:

Math -
We're learning lots of strategies to help us add in Chapter 3.  Last week we focused on using the doubles strategy, doubles plus one or doubles minus one strategies, and circling two to add three numbers.  

During car rides, ask your Sailor addition facts with sums to 20.  :)

ELA -
Last week we took a closer look at Fables.  We noticed that they teach us a moral or lesson.  

During our ELA block, we took a "developmental word knowledge inventory" to track our spelling.  This will be done a few times this school year to show their growth and help direct the spelling patterns that need more practice and attention.  This week, we also took time to do an independent writing sample to include in our conference folders.  

A Peek at the Week: 

ELA- 
This past week we read several stories about jobs.  We discussed jobs at home, jobs at MPE, and community jobs.  We listed lots of important jobs and then decided to write to one that was meaningful to us!  Our Sailors brightened the day of several people at MPE with our special thank you notes.  

We ended our week with a sweet story called The Ugly Pumpkin that led to a wonderful discussion of empathy.  We loved the part when the pumpkin discovered, "Oh my gosh, I'm a squash!" 

Math - 
This Friday we will take our Chapter 2 Test.  We will work on a practice test together in class on Thursday.  We'll be doing lots of fun practice to prepare this week!