Room E222 News
Week of November 5th
Important Information/Announcements
- Tuesday 12/13: Violin Performance at 10am in the PAC, parents welcome.
- Friday 12/16: Polar Express Winter Party 8:15am. Contact our room mom Sian Powell or Jessica Zeait with any additional questions regarding the party. Click here for the link to fulfill donation requests and sign up to volunteer!
- Friday 12/16: School Spirit Day- Sports Dress Up and minimum day 12:25pm release (no lunch served)
- Please continue to send in items for our adopted SME family for this holiday season. We want to make sure this family feels loved by room E222! All items need to be in by December 15th. Click here for the flyer!!
- Holiday Book Exchange: Flyer with all of the information sent home in your child's Friday folder.
- Continue to send in any Box Tops that you have at home.
- 12/19-1/6: Winter Break!
What's Happening in Room E222
- Innovation: Next week is Hour of Code!!! Students will take part in a week-long global movement celebrating the Computer Science field by encouraging every student to code for at least one hour. Each student will track their number of minutes of coding throughout the entire week. Students will be coding during innovation using Tynker, code.org, and Bitsbox. Additionally, Innovation block #2 will begin 12/12.
- ELA: We will be continuing Unit 4 on Point of View. Students studied hyperboles this week and will review what a hyperbole is again next week. Students will also be learning about Idioms. Take a look at the Unit 4 Parent Letter for further information.
- Reading Comprehension: Students are finding key details in a text in order to help them determine the main idea or central message. Small groups are reading books at their reading level: Tom Sawyer Paints a Fence, Little Red Riding Hood, I Dance, and Mayhoua Maya.
- Writing: Students are going through the writing process and writing an imaginative narrative. Next week, students will practice again after reading the story "Jack and the Beanstalk" and writing a narrative from either Jack or the Giants point of view.
- Language Conventions: Students are practicing adding descriptive words, and dialogue to their writing.
- Math: Students are continuing to relate multiplication to division. Students have been learning the following division strategies: repeated subtraction, skip counting, making equal groups, and fact families . Additionally, students reviewed multiplication strategies: equal groups, array, creating a number line, and repeated addition.