Good evening parents, Today’s message is mostly full of updates and reminders for upcoming events. Here are dates and what’s coming in the next week or so:
This week we celebrate another class birthday. Friday, September 3 is Easton’s birthday. Remind your child to wish him a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on Friday! As always, you can find our Weekly Plan on CTLS Learn, as well as on my blog. Both also have archives of these weekly messages posted as well. Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns, about our academics, your child, or anything else.
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Good evening families, I wanted to start by thanking you for your flexibility and patience as we adapt to the most recent health and safety measures in our classroom. The kids have been great about wearing masks again, and have really only needed a few reminders. I don’t have a lot of updates today, but do have a few reminders:
Your trash, our treasure! I don’t ask for donations often, but there are times when we are in need of materials for projects in school. When this happens, I will make requests for “your trash, our treasure”. If you have any of the following items around your house and DON’T NEED THEM, we’d love to have them for future projects. Please DO NOT go buy any of these materials specifically for our class. We always find what we need just based on things folks are ready to give away!
Don’t panic! It’s just one early release day 😊. Tomorrow, Monday 8/23, is an early release day. Elementary schools are dismissed 2 hours early at 12:30pm. If your child will be doing anything different related to their PM transportation, PLEASE send me a note. I want all children to get home safely! ***If you have a high schooler, they dismiss at 11:30am. ***Middle school dismisses at 1:30pm. We had a few parent questions at our Open House on Thursday night. Here are the questions and answers I’ve been able to figure out since then:
And this leads nicely into my last announcement for the week, which is that we will have our first class birthday this week. Please encourage your child to wish Jayden a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on Monday!!! Good afternoon families, We’ve had another great week in school. This week we had our first fire drill, have been through all of our specials for the first round, and we completed our first group project! We presented our final posters to the class Friday afternoon, allowing each group to “teach” the class about the habitat they researched. We learned a lot! Ask your child about which habitat they researched and what they learned about. This week, we will have a virtual Open House. Please log into our class Zoom virtual meeting at 6:30pm. Directions will be going home tomorrow (Monday) on an orange piece of paper to walk you through how to log into this meeting. You will need to log into your CHILD’s Cobb County student account to join the meeting. We will have a powerpoint presentation and a chance for parents to ask questions as well. Your children have been learning to log into the computers at school. Doing so involves them knowing their student number (which you won’t need for our Open House zoom). This student number will be with them as long as they are in Cobb County, through 12th grade. It is used not just for logging into a computer, but also for logging into assessments, and most importantly for getting breakfast and lunch. Even though meals are free again this year, students need to input their numbers so the Food Services department can have a record of how many students are taking advantage of the meals. Most of your children have learned their “lunch number”. Ask them if they can tell it to you. It’s a 7 digit number that starts with 13, and all lunch numbers are listed on the back of their orange folders. If your child doesn’t know theirs, please help them practice! Advanced reminder: Monday, August 23 is an early release day. Elementary schools will release at 12:30pm. Please make any needed arrangements for where your child will go after school that day. If this will involve a transportation change, keep me informed 😊. Dear Families, You might be wondering why I have a picture of me dabbing in a fire 😊. Today we had our first fire drill and we ROCKED IT! Our class was SILENT on the way out of the building. We were so respectful and followed directions. I’m so proud! Ask your child to tell you about what we do during school when we have a fire drill. Where do we go? How do we act? This would be a great way to also talk about what you would do at home during a fire. Maybe even have a practice fire drill at home with your child! I’m excited to share that we are working on our first group project. The students are working in groups to RESEARCH (yes, even in 2nd grade!!!) habitats and the animals and plants that live there. Yesterday they were able to use the computers and resources from Cobb Digital Library to learn and take notes about each of their habitats. Today we will continue researching and tomorrow each group will create a poster to present their habitat findings. I can’t wait to share their final products with you. Here they are working so nicely together yesterday. What a great group of kids we have in our class! Reminders:
We made it through our first 5 day in person school week since March of 2020! That by itself calls for a celebration (picture victory dance here!). The first week of school is always long and tiring. My own son fell asleep during sports carpool one evening this week because our schedules are so different with the starting school year. Hopefully we’ll all fall in to the routine of our “new normal”. We had a good first week of school. By the end of the week, we were getting to almost all of our subjects every day at roughly the right times. There’s a lot of procedures, routines, and rules to go over…not to mention 2 weeks of beginning of the school year assessments. Last week, we took the SKI test in ELA and Math. This is the Skills Knowledge Inventory, which assesses what the students learned in both English Language Arts and in Math during the previous school year. By looking at the students’ scores and specific answers to questions, I am able to see their strengths and the areas in which I need to focus and strengthen more. This week, we will take the RI (Reading Inventory) and MI (Math Inventory). The students are familiar with these assessments, as they have taken them since Kindergarten (though it may have been done a little differently through COVID and virtual learning). These will also guide my understanding of their Math level and Reading levels. In addition to the RI, I will be reading with each student individually over the next week or two to really determine the best level to work with them on reading. And thus, Reading groups should start by the end of the month at the very latest. On Friday, I sent home a VERY quick homework assignment. It was a yellow sheet of paper asking students to put on their “Geographer Hats” and tell the class a little about where their family is from. This also ties in with our lesson about Pride from our Warrior Wednesday. We will share this information, mark a large world map with all of the places we are from, as well as share our “All About Me” bags this week. I also sent home white half sheet clinic information cards to anyone that I did not have a completed one returned for. Please be sure to fill this out so the school clinic can have information on hand about the best way to contact you. I have a request 😊. I am working to increase my students’ independence by teaching them how to complete certain tasks for themselves or how to ask for help of others before immediately running to me. One thing that I have noticed in the past week is how many untied shoes we have had…and how many students don’t seem to care that their laces are untied and a possible tripping hazard for themselves or others. Please take some time this week to figure out if your child can tie his or her shoes. If not, begin working with them on this skill. They are old enough and more than likely have the dexterity needed to do this. While it may not seem like a big deal for you to bend down and tie your child’s shoes when you see them untied…imagine if you had 20 children with untied shoes repeatedly throughout the day! Thank you in advance for helping your children learn this important life skill! |
Ms. Bohm
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