Friday Reminders 10/2/2020

Friday, October 2, 2020

Thank you for all your support with Math MAP this week! The kids were rockstars and everything went smoothly. We will be doing the Reading MAP on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this coming week (10/7, 10/8, 10/9). 

  • Your child will test on the same day that they did this week; if they tested on Wednesday, 9/30, they will test on Wednesday, 10/7
  • I will email a reminder about your child's test the evening before.
  • It will run the same way that it did this week with us meeting every morning, the kids testing staying on, and the kids not testing going to work on their playlist. We will have a completely normal day on Tuesday. 

Please make sure to be checking the Puma Paw for important information from Mr. Thiessen. He updates it each Sunday. Please be sure to check your email for messages from the Pinebrook PTA, infopnbpta@gmail.com; there's lots of cool things happening soon!

I understand that we are all promoting independence with our second graders. However, please be sure to check over your child's Seesaw activities with them each day. This is where their grades are coming from and some kids are NOT completing all of the graded activities. Incomplete activities are being graded as a 1 (one). I recommend checking their "To-Do" folder, their comments (under Inbox, and then Notifications), and checking their "In-Progress" folder which is where drafts go. 

Also, for writing assignments on Seesaw, please have your child either type out their writing or take a photo of their writing journal. There should be NO videos made for writing assignments. The point is for me to see their spelling, capitalization, and punctuation which I cannot determine from a video.

Reminders for October 2nd, 2020

  • Please make sure your child has completed the following assignments on Seesaw. All these assignments are GRADED and due by 10/4.
    • Lesson #1: Place Value Review
    • Common and Proper Nouns
    • Scientific Method Practice
    • Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives Sort
    • Story Elements Quiz
  • Scientific Method quiz available 10/5/2020
    • Due by Sunday, 10/11
    • We have been covering this in class the past week.
  • Nouns, Adjectives, & Verbs quiz available 10/6/2020
    • Due by Sunday, 10/11
  • Ordinal Numbers quiz available 10/7/2020
    • Due by Sunday, 10/11
  • Patterns quiz available 10/8/2020
    • Due by Sunday, 10/11
  • Even and Odd quiz available 10/9/2020
    • Due by Sunday, 10/11 
  • Beginning, Middle, End quiz available 10/9/2020
    • Due by Sunday, 10/11
    • We will be covering this in reading this coming week.
  • Monday's morning session will be short due to teacher meeting/planning.
    • We will meet from about 8:15 - 8:30/8:45am on Google Meet as a class.
    • Your child will only need to complete their Asynchronous Monday 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.
Notes
  • Scholastic Book Clubs is still active! You can get books shipped to your home instead of school right now. Our class code is RKQRV. You can view more about Book Clubs HERE.
  • To learn more about our academic assessments in second grade, please CLICK HERE.
  • To learn more about Seesaw and the Asynchronous Playlists, please CLICK HERE.
Week Overview
*Morning Meeting - Due to testing, we didn't have many discussions during morning meeting, but we did share our numbers each morning. We will try to cover Active Listening during morning meeting next week.
*Reading - We learned about story elements and identified characters and setting in different books. Next week, we will focus on identifying the beginning, middle, and end of stories.
*Writing - The kids practiced identifying nouns, adjectives, and verbs on Seesaw.
*Math - The kids practiced counting patterns and the skills we learned previously. Next week, due to testing, students will continue to practice skills we have covered previously.
*Science - We reviewed the scientific method and did an experiment. We will be learning about communities and culture next week.

Have a fantastic weekend,