Welcome Back on Track, Subtraction with Regrouping and Volunteer Schedule

I wanted to let you know a few things happening this week and other things having to do with being back on track. 

• -There will be no spelling this week being it's a short week. There will be regular homework otherwise, due on Friday.
• -We are now in room 116. 
• -P.E. is on Tuesdays the next 9 weeks.
• -Library will be on Wednesdays.

After math today I wanted to make sure I let parents know about a few things. Please make sure when your child regroups, that they show they have done so by crossing out numbers and putting down the new numbers from borrowing the new ten.

I've noticed that many of the children tried answering the problem with not going through the process of crossing out numbers and writing down the new numbers in the tens and ones place column. The picture above shows what your child is expected to do with the problems. I'm hoping that this only happened today because we have been off for three weeks. When they do the math problems at home, please go over them with your child to see they are saying the poems and doing all of the steps before writing down an answer. Thanks! 

 Volunteering: 

Once again we have a weird situation of only having a few weeks left on a month and trying to figure out volunteering. If we could look at another month's last 2 week schedule, I'd like to follow that. Here is who would be on the schedule. If you think it won't work for you, please let me know. I'll do my best to have the March volunteer schedule up at the end of February. Thanks for your understanding.

 Wed. Feb. 18th=Cherie Visker( Reading/Fluency)

Thurs. Feb. 19th=Trisha Dent (Take Home Reading),Brenda Whipple (Math 36 club) and Amber Peterson(Reading/Fluency)

Friday Feb. 20th= Trisha Dent(I think?) Music and

Cherie Visker and Alexa Harker (pre-spelling test and Homework)

Monday Feb.23rd= Becky Sorensen (Take Home Reading) and Michelle Sorensen (Reading/Fluency)

Tues. Feb. 24th= Cherie Visker ( math 36 club)

Wed. Feb. 25th= Trisha Dent and Rachael Merino (Meet the Masters) and Lonnie Dzineku (Math 36 club)

 Thurs. Feb. 26th= Tara Ashby (Take Home Reading and 36 Club), and Amber Peterson (Reading/Fluency)

 Friday Feb. 27th= Angela Cummings (Music) and Cherie Visker and Alexa Harker (Spelling tests and homework)

Thank you Volunteers!!! 

Busy, busy, busy!

Things are very busy here at school. We have jumped right back into our learning. We are starting a unit on money this week. This is also Red Ribbon Week. Hopefully you saw the letter that came home and the email with all of the details. It was fun seeing so many "crazy" clothes and hair today.

Next week will be D tracks Student-Led Conferences. A letter was sent home on Monday with information of how to sign up on the computer for conferences next Wednesday Nov. 19th and Thursday Nov. 20th. The children are excited to show you what they have been doing so far in school. It's always fun to celebrate their successes and make new goals for the second term.

 

I've been busy entering grades and getting report cards ready. So I apologize for not having the Volunteer Schedule ready for you. I'll work on that tomorrow. We will see all of you next week!

Pumpkins, benchmark Test and October Volunteer Schedule

Hello Parents! Sorry this is so late coming out tonight. I was at the high school this evening with my daughter for the Parent-Teen Driver's Ed night. It was a presentation by Zero Fatalities. We all left, very somber, and driving a lot more carefully than probably most of us had when we came that night. Please just remember to always buckle up everyone in your car and put away your cell phone when driving. 
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Now to 2nd grade happenings. I will be sending out the October volunteer calendar in an email and will also post it here at the end of the post. This month will go by quickly for us "D" trackers with Fall Recess and going off track the end of October. 

Pumpkins

A note came home yesterday about our Pumpkin unit starting next week. We will be doing many fun activities and experiments with the pumpkins sent to school. We will be dividing into 5 groups as we do these. Your child's name will be put on them when sent to school, and they will be returned at the end of the week. Please don't send in any HUGE pumpkins. We just need medium and small ones. Thanks so much for your help with this.

Math benchmark #1

We will be taking the first math Benchmark test on Thursday. Please make sure that your child is there on that day. It would be helpful if they get to bed early the night before, have a good breakfast, and come ready and happy that day. They have been working hard in math and I feel confident that they will all do very well.

October Volunteer Calendar: Please note=I've added 2 new volunteers to the calendar. :)

October

2014

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
		(1) Reading/Fluency (9:30-10:00) Cherie Visker	(2)   Take Home Library: (Any time during the day)Crissy Socci         MATH 36 CLUB: (1:00-1:30) Brenda Whipple	(3)   Music: 9:00-9:30 Angela Cummings Spelling/Homework(9:3010:30)	(4)	(5)
				Cherie Visker & Alexa Harker
(6)   Take Home Library: (Any time during the day) Cherie Visker	(7) MATH 36 CLUB: (1:00-1:30) Mari Smith	(8) Meet The Masters: Trisha Dent and Rachael Merino: 11:00 -12:00	(9)  Take Home Library: (Any time during the day) Cherie Visker	(10) Music: 9:00-9:30 Trisha Dent Spelling/Homework(9:30-10:30) Cherie Visker & Alexa Harker	(11)	(12)
Reading/Fluency (9:30-10:00) Trisha Dent			MATH 36 CLUB: (1:00-1:30) Cherie Visker
(13) Take Home Library: (Any time during the day) Rachael Merino	(14) MATH 36 CLUB: (1:00-1:30) Brenda Whipple	(15) Reading/Fluency (10:00-10:30) Michelle Sorensen	(16) Fall Recess No school	(17)           Fall Recess           No School	(18)	(19)
(20)Take Home Library: (Any time during the day) Cherie Visker rReading/Fluency (9:30-10:00) Cherie Visker	(21)MATH 36 CLUB: (1:00-1:30) Cherie Visker	(22)Meet The Masters: Trisha Dent and Rachael Merino 11:00-12:00  Math 36 Club: (1:00-1:30) Lonni Dzineku	(23) Music: 9:00-9:30 Trisha Dent Spelling/HomeworkL9:30-10:30) Cherie Visker & Alexa Harker Take Home Library:(Any time during the day) Tara Ashby	(24) Track off day= Fall party will be today. We will be in need of people to help with our party. Regular Friday things, like music and spelling tests will be on Thursday.	(25)	(26)
			MATH 36 CLUB: (1:00-1:30) Tara Ashby
(27) Off Track	(28) Off Track	(29) Off Track	(30) Off Track	(31) Off Track Happy Halloween!!