Week 20

 Dear Parents,

          We had a great week of Learning. In math we continued practicing ordering numbers and recognizing place value. We took the CBA over all the math skills and TEKS we have learned so far. In reading and writing we continued listening to, visualizing and writing our own poems. We will be putting these into a poetry book. In Social Studies we practiced map directions by learning about cardinal and intermediate directions. We also watched some of the live feed from the inauguration and watched President Biden sworn in. In science we began our unit on natural and manmade resources. We looked at objects inside and outside and determined in they were natural or manmade. We had fun finding that objects can be made of wood, plastic, glass, paper, or metal and posted notecards on them during a scavenger hunt in our room.

• On Friday a special Valentines project came home- but it is homework for the parents! Look in your child’s coyote folder for directions. This will go on our bulletin board in the hallway and becomes a special keepsake for your child. Please cut out, write on and decorate the heart provided. 
• Way to go! Second grade. We earned extra technology time with our brand new set of class ipads for being the grade level that had the biggest number of students complete the habit form!

Have a great Weekend!

Week 19

 Dear Parents,

           We are settling into the new semester. I am really working with students to make sure they are completing and turning in all work including homework. Thank you so much for making sure your child completes his/her Reading/ Math log on Mon.-Thurs and that he/she turns it in on Friday. Look out for math and reading homework in their blue folders Mon-Thurs. as well. In math this week we decomposed numbers, ordered numbers and compared the value of numbers. In reading and writing we have been working on a unit on poetry. We have visualized poems as we listened to them, written our own poems and learned about the different elements that poetry has. In science we finished up our unit on natural Sources of freshwater and saltwater. In social studies, we focused on Martin Luther King Jr. We learned why we celebrate his life on Monday.

 

*Here is a link from Mrs. Moore our Counselor:

 

                 Student/Family Smore January

 

January, Habit 3: Put First Things First

Thank you to all the families who participated in our virtual December Habit Newsletter activity! Don’t forget that if your family participates in ALL 7 Newsletters, you will be showcased in our school as a Lighthouse Family!

• January’s Habit of the Month is Habit 3: Put First Things First! Please click here to view and complete the virtual January Newsletter. It contains information about Habit 3, a read-aloud video, discussion questions to talk about with your child, and a short activity to do at home. Please have this completed by next Wednesday, January 20^th.

• January 20^th is also Put First Things First Day! We want to see the entire school wear BLUE for Habit 3 on Wednesday!
• We will be tracking grade level participation for completing the virtual newsletter. The grade level with the highest percentage of participation for January will receive a grade level prize! Congratulations to 2^nd grade for having the most students/families participate in the month of December!

Second grade won last month! Way to go!

 

PLEASE bring an object to school that is important to your child. ( no bigger than their hand) They will use it to write a poem next week. These items were due on Friday. Only 6 children brought their object.

Week 18

 Dear Parents,

         It was so wonderful to see your children again and get back to work! We are now a class of 17. Miss Herrera has become our third in person teacher in second grade. Our 4 virtual students who joined us last nine weeks have moved into her classroom. They were all very excited to see each other as well! In math we began our unit on numbers to 1,200. We learned how to say them, write them in word form, expanded form, standard form and make a model. In reading we set up our reading groups, seating charts and swapped out our books. If your child has any of the reading books at home, please see that they are returned on Monday. We also took our January istation test. A copy of the report will go home next Friday in your child’s coyote folder with his/her report card if you have chosen a paper copy on Skyward. In writing we learned that a resolution is a promise we make to ourselves about getting better at something or helping others with something we are already good at doing. We then wrote about our New Year’s resolutions. In reading we listened to the story The Mitten by Jan Brett. We filled out a story map together and independently worked on a sequencing activity. We also conducted an experiment with a mitten. Ask your child what we did! In Science we began our unit on fresh and salt water sources. We set up our unit and played a SWAT game identifying the many sources. We also observed samples of fresh and salt water and recorded the properties of each that we discovered in our observation. It was a quick two days, but we are ready for a full week of school next week! We may even have some snow this weekend! I know all the children are keeping their fingers crossed.

• Next week our reading log becomes a reading and math log. We are adding addition practice on Mondays-Thursdays for 5-10 minutes a night to help us learn our math facts. Quizes will be given on Fridays.

Week 17

Dear Parents,

         What a wonderful week we had before Winter Break. We finished up all our units and got all our work turned in! In math we finished up learning about our numbers to 999. We continued to represent them many ways, put them on open number lines and compared them. We also learned how to add 10 or 100 and to take away 10 or 100. Our assessment was taken on Thursday. In writing we finished editing our friendly letters and used an editing checklist. After break we will give our letters to the people we wrote them to. In reading we listened to some holiday stories and filled out our story maps. We also listened to the Polar Express and showed our learning in cause/effect and a story order exercises. In science we finished up our unit on rocks by completing a cloze procedure with our vocabulary and taking our unit assessment on Thursday. We had a wonderful time at our holiday party. The pancake breakfast was loved by all! We had fun making an ornament and playing holiday bingo. Our presents to you went home in wrapping paper and cards made by your children. They are so excited to give you these gifts! I wrote thank you notes to you (Sent home in your child’s daily folder) for all the wonderful gifts and kind messages you sent me. Your thoughtfulness is truly appreciated. I’m wishing you a wonderful break and a happy New Year! 

Here is a song made by the teachers of Coyote Ridge to make you smile:

 

12 Days of Christmas Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W2ofb1F6vgalXoNVKARv8T1aXMvsiXtk/view?usp=sharing

 

From our librarian:

Hi everyone!  I have created a Holiday board .The board includes two read alouds, three games from ABCYA.com, two drawing instructions and a direct link to holiday code lab from Google and Google Santa’s tracker.  The Santa Tracker is full of holiday activities!  There is one released each day (red play button) but they can find the others as the scroll down to the bottom.  This site is only available during the month of December! 

 

You can find it here:  https://bit.ly/CREholiday

 

Week 15

 Dear Parents,

      This week in math we learned all about division. We earned that division is sharing something giving everyone or everything an equal amount. We also learned how to write a story problem representing a division sentence. At the end of the week, we began a skip counting book. Then we began focusing on counting hundreds, tens, and ones.

      In writing we worked all week on our expository paper about why we like our favorite holiday. We have wonderful reasons! Some of us tried using time order words to break up our reasons. We went back to add interesting words and details.

In reading we learned how to ask and answer questions before, during, and after we read. We read the story Going Places and took a comprehension test. We began researching Landmarks using the facts4me website.

       In Science we were finishing up our unit on Patterns of Movement. We made a movement flip book, wrote a CER about our knowledge ( made a claim, gave evidence, and a reason for our claim), took a closing in on Science assessment, and our post assessment.

 

 

Coach Ray says  it’s about time for the final survey for 21 day challenge. Please click the link below to and fill it out:

 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MJlEYiCqkDhD4-fsEIH5UEhvXC1b7VsIArcKpZjdwMc/present?slide=id.g9aacb81e7e_0_2

 

 

 

December, Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Thank you to all the families who participated in our virtual November Habit Newsletter activity! Don’t forget that if your family participates in ALL 7 Newsletters, you will be showcased in our school as a Lighthouse Family!

• December’s Habit of the Month is Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind! Please click here to view and complete the virtual December Newsletter. It contains information about Habit 2, a read-aloud video, discussion questions to talk about with your child, and a short activity to do at home. Please have this completed by next Wednesday, December 9th.

• December 9^th is also Begin With the End in Mind Day! We want to see the entire school wear GREEN for Habit 2 on Wednesday!
• We will be tracking grade level participation for completing the virtual newsletter. The grade level with the highest percentage of participation for December will receive a grade level prize! Congratulations to Kindergarten for having the most students/families participate in the month of November!

Week 14

 Dear Parents,

       Another great week of learning is behind us! In math we started a new unit which began with the skill of understanding the difference between odd and even numbers. We then started looking at beginning multiplication by building towers with snap cubes. We made sure each floor of our tower had an equal number of rooms. This correlates to multiplication because we multiply the number of groups by the number within each group ( the floors and the rooms in our towers). We then realized that multiplication is just repeated addition. We had fun drawing our own array town with various sized buildings.

     In writing we began an expository piece in which we chose our favorite celebration. We are generating the reasons why that celebration is our favorite on a flee map.

     In reading we have been reding Thanksgiving stories and Scholastic News articles about the first Thanksgiving. We have been finding our answers within the text as evidence.

     In science we have been doing investigations with force and motion. We painted with marbles using push and pull movements. We learned the more force we used the faster our marble went. We also observed several experiments in which things could slide, roll, or spin. Many children had never seen a yo-yo! A toy from my youth.

     It has been wonderful wrapping up our fall conferences this week. If you did not get a chance to sign up, or did and missed your time. Feel free to contact me after the break and I would be happy to meet with you.

     I hope you all enjoy a wonderful week with family and friends! I am thankful for my sweet students and families!

 

Important Dates:

         11/9-11/22 CRE Book Fair

11/23-11/27. Thanksgiving Holidays - no school

12/18. Early Release - 11:45AM

 

 

Week 13

 Dear Parents, 

        This week in math we have had fun measuring things in our room with the standard units of inches, feet, yards, centimeters, and meters. We know that if the object hits the halfway mark between two numbers, the measurement rounds up to the larger number.

       In writing we finished up our imaginative stories, our Veteran Acrostic Poems and learned about The tenses of verbs. We also talked about Subject/Verb Agreement and how it just doesn’t sound right when they don’t agree. Congratulations to Austin as his poem was chosen to be read on our Veterans Day tribute!

        In reading we read a scholastic News about Veterans and their important jobs. We focused the rest of the week on a nonfiction story about Wilma Rudolph. We created our own nonfiction text feature book.

          In science we were excited to begin a unit about force and motion. We dug for buried treasure and tested whether our treasure was magnetic or nonmagnetic. We saw how different magnets moved iron filings. We had fun seeing how like poles ( north and north/ south and south) repel each other. Some magnets even seemed to float.

 

Please use the link below to sign up for your child’s Fall Conference. Make sure you put your child’s name and whether you would like a phone conference or would like to meet on Webex in the comments. If you wish to not meet at this time, respond to this e-mail to let me know.  I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child’s progress.

 

 

 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4CAFA82AA02-fall

 

Dear Parents and Families,

The Scholastic Book Fair is open! Join your kids in exploring titles and plots and discovering inspiring characters. Empower them by letting them choose the books to purchase—and bring on the joy of reading!

Remember, every dollar you spend will benefit our school directly (25% back in rewards!).

Be sure to visit the Fair during our allotted dates:

November 9-22

Visit the fair here: http://bit.ly/CREvirtualBF

 

Some amazing features of our online store:

·         Over 6,000 items, including new releases, best sellers, and value packs

·         A Virtual Fair shopping experience

·         All orders ship direct to home

·         FREE shipping on book-only orders over $25

This is also a great opportunity to support our teachers by donating books!  Please visit our teacher wish lists here:  http://bit.ly/CREtwishlist