Wow, wow, wow! I know I said the kids were impressive last week, but they really do keep impressing me each day. Our kids have received positive reports from their specialists as well!
Please check your email for information about PALS testing and signing up for a testing time. I know that it is a short turn-around time for this, but it is very important that you sign your child up for a time. PALS is a required assessment for second graders.
A few things to keep in mind going into the weekend:
- PLEASE practice and explore Seesaw with your child.
- Click HERE for a few videos about how to log into Seesaw on different devices and what it should look like on your child's account.
- Login information was sent out Tuesday evening to each parent.
- There will be GRADED assignments starting Monday, 9/21. See below for those assignments.
- Please DO NOT help your child with answering graded assignments. You are welcome to help with technology and how to do the activities, but do not answer it for them.
- Monday's morning session will be short.
- It is teacher meeting/planning day on Monday. Therefore, we will only be meeting on Monday mornings from 8:15am to about 8:30/8:45am. We will do a morning meeting and possibly a read aloud in that time.
- Please make sure your child logs onto the Google Meet at 8:15am!
- There are no specials on A week Mondays so your child will only need to complete their Monday Asynchronous playlist.
- As per Mr. Thiessen, we are still not doing small groups at this time. Again, you will receive an individual schedule for your child in an email before we start groups.
Reminders for September 18th, 2020
- Predictions quiz available 9/21/2020
- Students will have until Sunday, 9/27 to complete this quiz.
- We have been covering predictions in reading so this should be familiar.
- Citizenship quiz available 9/22/2020
- Students will have until Sunday, 9/27 to complete this quiz.
- We have been discussing citizenship during social studies over the past week.
- Making Connections quiz available 9/25/2020
- Students will have until Sunday, 9/27 to complete this quiz.
- We will be covering this in reading this coming week.
- They will generally have a short reading quiz every Friday based on the skill we worked on during the week.
Notes
- If you need to print your child's QuickCard again, please view THIS VIDEO for directions.
- There is a "How-to" folder on our Schoology that I have been adding various instructional videos and documents to (like logging into Schoology).
- There is a "Google Meet Recordings" folder where the recordings of our morning sessions are being saved for later viewing.
Week Overview
*Morning Meeting - We learned about growth mindset and the power of yet this week. We will continue talking about this next week.
*Reading - We learned about reading routines and predictions this week. Next week, we will be learning about making connections and character traits in stories.
*Writing - The kids wrote short paragraphs in their writing journals this week. Next week, students will learn about nouns (common and proper), adjectives, and verbs.
*Math - This week, we learned about ordinal numbers and patterns (repeating, growing, and transferring). Next week, we will start learning about number sense.
*Social Studies/Science - We discussed traits of good citizenship (trustworthiness, honesty, helpfulness). We will learn about voting and start learning about scientific method next week.
Remember to breathe and relax this weekend!
Stay warm and have a wonderful weekend,
