Setting Goals

This week, we starting collecting information in our Data Folders.  Each student colored and graphed how many feathers they had earned in September.  Then we also graphed how many new sight words each person knows now since first grade.

Each person wrote a goal for themselves for the month of October.  We will get these Folders out again in a month to collect more data and reflect on our goals we had set.

This Week's Learning

Coming Up for This Week (September 24):

Phonics:  CVCe Syllable Patterns (Words such as crate, stroke, glide, woke, plate, pride are some examples.

Reading:  Unit-Second Grade Reading Growth Spurt:
Lessons - Keeping Tabs on Our Comprehension, Marking our Thinking with a Post-It, Drawing on Everything We Know to Figure Out Tricky Words

Writing:  Unit-Improving Narrative Writing
Lessons - Crafting Powerful Endings, Rereading Like Detectives: Making Sure Our Writing Makes Sense and Sounds Right

Math: Solving One-Step Word Problems, Learn About Solving  Take-Apart Word Problems, Comparison Word Problems

Social Sciences:  Community Building and PBIS Routines

Writer's Workshop

We have been working in our Narrative Writing unit.  Each day, we work on stories about "small moments" that have happened in our lives.  Last week, we were practicing trying to bring moments "to life" in our stories by adding details.

From the P.T.O.:

Thank you to all who have purchased or returned their Bucky Books.  As of Sept. 18th, we have earned $855 from the program for Eagle Point School!  Reminder, that this Friday, Sept. 28th is the absolute last day for sales and returns.  It's imperative that we get back books that haven't been sold to avoid reducing those funds earned.  Please check your homes this week and return unsold books and sales slips to your homeroom teachers as soon as possible.  Thanks again for everyone's efforts in making the sale a success for our school.

Parent-Teacher Conference Sign-Up

I just sent out an email to all the parents inviting them to sign up for Parent-Teacher Conferences.  These are being held Wednesday evening, 3:30-7:30 on October 24 and Thursday morning, 8-12:00 noon on October 25.  If the time you are available is not available, please contact me and we can find a date to meet after school at 3:00.  Below is a link to the sign-up.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0D44ABA922A6F85-parentteacher2

Yesterday for our brain break, we did Cosmic Kids Yoga, A Star Wars Adventure.  They loved it!!

Hands Pledge

Today, we added our purple hands to a building poster where all of Eagle Point students can celebrate taking the 'Hands Pledge'.  Our hands pledge states that "I will use my hands and my words to keep myself and others safe."