Powers' Class News
Week 8 Update
Reminders:
-From the PTA: The first class to reach 100% membership, including its teacher, will win a pizza party, second place will win a popsicle party, and third a popcorn party.
Academically:
9 wk test will be Thursday, Oct. 13th
It will cover:
- place value to thousands place
- comparing numbers: greater than/less than and greatest to least/vise versa
- money: counting collections and making amounts
In writing
- VERBS tenses
- brainstorming and 1st drafts
In Science
- garden
- Energy (sound, light, wind, heat....)
- Putting together things that didn't go together before to make something new
In Social Studies
- Dripping Springs History
In Reading
- multiple word meanings (play in the park vs. park the car)
- reading groups with comprehension activities
continuing with:
- making connections
- inferring
- sequencing
- predicting
Events for the Week:
Monday: No school
Tuesday: porcupine webinar, UIL
Wednesday: library, garden, connect with buddy class in Canada (I will be out)
Thursday: science lab, math test
Friday: kindness club, challenge day, buddies (I will be out)
Events of the Month:
- Caine's Arcade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U
We will begin construction next week. This week we will plan, draw and gather materials.
We will need boxes and tape for the games they will be making. We will begin construction next week and have our arcade day Friday, Oct. 21st. It will be all day and you are welcome to come and visit!!
- Red Ribbon Week is from Monday, October 17th - 21st. Daily dress up options.
- Physics Circus will presenting a show to us on Halloween - Oct. 31st from 12:30-1:30
- Socktober https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1YIK5UOnOM
Starting this week we will begin collecting water bottles, granola bars, socks and gallon ziplock bags for our socktober!! We have paired with the Homeless Task Force to give them the bags after we have put them together to be passed out. After some research they class did about homelessness and how many are in Austin they discovered there are a little over 2,000. We took that number and divided it by how many second graders there are and decided that each student would need to make 14 bags to make sure every homeless person got one. (Not mandatory just part of the learning.) We will collect for two weeks and begin making the bags the week of the 17th.
Last week...
We planted our own plants in a pumpkin.
Made pumpkin kinetic sand with our buddies
Apps:
This week they will make a google slides about porcupines.
Apps we have used:
Thinglink (website and app)
Google Drive, google docs and google slides
Piccollege
Floors
Bloxels
Aursma: username: powersclass password: heroes
Dreambox
Istation
Wish List
Cardboard and tape for the arcade!!!!
Thank you so much for all the donations!!! It excites the kids tremendously to get an Amazon box delivered to our classroom.
Books for our Kindness Club:
- Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry
Contact Me!
Email: wendy.powers@dsisdtx.us
Website: www.powersheroes.weebly.com
Phone: (512) 465-6249
Twitter: @pirateleader2nd