Hello

October 24, 2011

Dear Families,

Please sign and return the new permission slip ASAP. Our new field trip will be an overnight to the bay area. We will leave November 2nd and return on the 3rd. Chaperones are already set, but please let me know if you’d be interested in chaperoning on future trips.

Also, our biggest fundraiser is set for Veteran’s Day. There is no school this day. We will be teaming with elementary teachers for a pancake breakfast. Please see details on the yellow handout. If you have any questions please contact me or Ms. Campbell.

Lastly, I would like to acknowledge Julie and Sebastion who earned our classroom “character” awards for the month. Julie was given an award for patience. She has been practicing taking her time on work and balancing working with different teachers and support staff. She has done a great job practicing reading at school and at home. Sebastion has earned a character award for enthusiasm. Sebastion shows great enthusiasm at school every day. He is excited to come learn and makes many connections at school and at home.

Appreciations:

Thank you to Helen for her classroom supply donations.

Updates

Dear Families,
We are planning a couple raffles for the upcoming Halloween carnival Monday, October 31st. We will have a gift basket, some other prize donations and baked goods for raffle. Please let me know if I can count on you to provide a baked good for our class. I am also interested in selling Halloween cupcakes at the carnival and/or Halloween goodie bags to raise money for our class. If you are interested in getting involved please call me at 510-542-7533, leave a message as I do not get cell service in Leggett.
Our field trip has changed to an overnight. We will still leave for the Exploratorium on November 2nd at 6:00am and we will be staying overnight in Albany, CA and going to the Oakland Zoo on November 3rd with a return time of approximately 5pm.
Torrey and Briann will be chaperones on this trip. Any questions please call me, a new permission slip will be sent home soon.
Donations:
• We would love 7 more shoe boxes for various activities.
• We use up glue sticks very quickly.
• We also need colored pencils and card stock (thick paper).
Thank you!
-Rebecca

P.S. We also have a new 2nd grader named Xander in our class. Please welcome him and his family, Melissa his mother and Iris his baby sister. We are very excited to have him!

Awesome October

Hi Families,

Appreciations

I wanted to formally thank Torrey for signing on to volunteer in our classroom Wednesday afternoons.

Thank you to Stephanie for making cupcakes with the class, we are looking forward to more cooking projects.

Thank you to Helen for signing on as our “room” mom. If you have any concerns or questions and do not feel comfortable talking to me, you may always talk to Helen.

*Tomorrow is pajama day. Your student can wear their pajamas!

*We are beginning Halloween crafts and cooking projects. Would you like to come teach about Halloween? Please call me if you are interested.

Lastly, below are a couple concepts your child should be beginning to understand. You can help them at home by keeping an open dialogue about school activities. It helps to create games about these concepts. You’ll be surprised how much a “game” can help them learn.

2nd Grade-
• Place value (example: “36” has 3 tens and 6 ones)
• Less than, greater than, equal to (<, >, =)
• Equivalency (5+4+9 = 9+2+7)
• Sound patterns (example: speak and feet)
• Syllables in words (example: hotel = ho-tel, clap)
• Reading comprehension- Does your student understand what they are reading or hearing?
• Compound words (back + pack = backpack)
• Synonyms (child/kid, big/huge etc)
• Sentence structure (nouns, verbs, adjectives)

3rd Grade- all of the above and…
• Expanded notation (457= 400+50+7)
• Math word problems
• Shapes (hexagon, pentagon, pyramid etc)
• Types of triangles (right, equilateral, scalene, isosceles)
• Parallel lines
• Verb tenses
• Contractions (don’t, aren’t, won’t etc)

Best,

Rebecca

Hello Families

Hello Families,

New HW calendars were sent out yesterday. Please make sure your student understands the assignments. Feel free to call me anytime for clarification on assignments.

Also, Please look out for 2 permission slips coming home soon. One permission slip is for our walks to the chandelier tree. We will be walking over and observing some plants and animals often this year. The other permission slip is for the Exploratorium on November 2nd. Please sign and date ASAP so we can get field trip plans finalized.

Lastly, we are beginning planning our Fall holiday party. Please contact me if you’d like to donate your time, crafts, food or ideas. We welcome all suggestions and volunteers.

Thank you!

Rebecca

We are still in need of:
8 shoe boxes
dividers for binders (40)
9-18 small clay pots
colored pencils (assorted colors)

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