Week 14

 Dear Parents,

           It’s hard to believe we just finished our 14^th week of school! I am so proud of the growth your children have made. Routines and expectations are set and I am seeing students rise to meet the challenges! This week in math we continued solving word problems that were addition and subtraction with and without regrouping. We then started solving word problems that had three numbers, called two step problems. The children take  two of the three numbers to solve a first problem, then take that answer to solve a problem with the third number. It is quite challenging and we will have lots of practice with this skill.

          In Reading/ Social Studies we read and discussed the Scholastic News article, “Thank You Veteran”. We took a comprehension check. We are practicing our districts reading tests. We have done the I do, where I read and model as I answer questions about the text. We then did the we do texts where we interacted with the text and read the story and answered questions together. This week I read the story and the questions, but the children had to answer the questions on their own. We are building up to students reading the text by them selves and answering the questions. We then learned about American Symbols and choose 4 to research.

            In wring we are still finishing up our imaginative stories to final copy. We also worked on a special Thanksgiving project that we will take home next week. We have been working our way through our handwriting book and soon will be starting cursive writing.

           In science we reviewed our force and motion unit and took our assessment. We set up our next unit on weather, brainstormed what we know about weather and wrote about our favorite weather. We did an engage slideshow and learned about a meteorologist. We will be learning all about the kinds of weather, how to use weather tools and even practice being meteorologists! 

             The children did a fabulous job during the Veteran’s Day assembly! The entire school worked together under the leadership of Mr. Davis to honor our Veterans with their songs and speeches. There were lots of moist eyes as our Veterans listened. 

 

Have a wonderful weekend- there may be some rain

Week 13

 

Week 12

 Dear Parents,

     This week in reading we had a reading checkpoint over The Big Red Lollipop. We listened to the story  Ghost Afraid of the Dark. We then wrote a response to “ I am not a ghost! I am a …” We listened to  Three Hens and a Peacock. We then discussed what a topic and a theme of a story is. We filled out a graphic organizer as a class telling the topic and theme or moral learned in the story. We talked about the central idea of a story as we read Pepita and the Bully. On Friday we listened to I need My Monster. We got to create our own monster friend and are bringing home a kit to create a monster.

       In math we have been focusing on subtraction with regrouping. We reviewed what we have been learning and then took our sub unit quiz on Friday. We will continue to practice adding and subtracting with and without regrouping.

      In writing we continued to work on developing our beginnings, middles, and ends of our imaginative stories. We learned how to revise using show, don’t tell emotions. We also learned about linking verbs and verb tenses.

     In science we built a class listening device that could help us hear across the room. We took our unit assessment and then began a new unit on Force and motion. We set up our unit, and had two days of activities involving pushes and pulls. We discussed  our activities using our academic vocabulary for this unit.

Week 10

 

  Dear Parents,

           This week in reading/ social studies we learned about Christopher Columbus and his voyage to the Americas. We learned who sent him, the name of his ships, where he actually landed and why he made that trip. We reread the story Spoon and what the author’s purpose was for writing that story. We took a comprehension check. We learned this was a fantasy story as we know, spoons can’t talk! A few students had a retake as they did not go back to the text to answer the questions. We are learning every day how to be a responsible second grader. We read a nonfiction story about being a good citizen. We summarized the parts and then read our complete summary. On Friday we read a Scholastic News about Bats and took a comprehension check.

           In math we have been practicing our base ten knowledge. We first drew models of numbers with tens and added them together. Later we added numbers that only had tens to a number that had tens and ones. Lastly we added two numbers that had both tens and ones.

           In writing stude3nts have been prewriting, drafting a beginning, middle and end, revising and editing their narratives. Some were ready to publish on Friday. Others are still working in the process.

         In science we continued observing that sound is energy and makes vibrations. We observed those vibrations in solids and liquids. We learned that sound has a volume, loud, or quiet. We learned that there is a purpose for those different volumes. We loved watching salt dance and water splash as the vibrations touched them! We recorded our observations in our science notebooks.

 

  It’s time to sign up for Fall Conferences. Click on the link below to get to my sign up Genius. When signing up, please let me know if you would prefer an in person conference or a phone conference in the comment section. If you could, please type your name and your child’s name in the comment box as well. I have a lot of beginning of  year testing information to share with you and prefer that we meet in person in my room, however, if you cannot meet in person I will do my best to update you over the phone. If none of the times provided meet your schedule, please let me know and we will work something out.

 

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f you haven’t already done the below, we could use your help:

 📣 Coyote Ridge Families — We Need Your Voice! Coyote Ridge is working toward becoming a Leader in Me Lighthouse School, and we would love your help! 💙🐺We are asking ALL families to take a few minutes to complete our MRA Family Survey. Your feedback is an important part of this process and helps us celebrate what we are doing well while identifying opportunities to continue growing. 🎯 Our goal is 100% family participation! Every response counts, and we want to hear from YOU! 🎉 BONUS: If we exceed our school-wide survey goal, our students will earn EXTRA RECESS! 🙌

👉 Complete the Family Survey here:
https://www.leaderinme.com/s/coyote-ridge-elem-tx/families

Thank you for supporting Coyote Ridge and our students. We appreciate you!

This is Coyote Ridge’s 9th year using the Leader in Me Program. To continue supporting growth and learning at home, we will send home a newsletter each month that focuses on a different habit. By the end of the year, we will have discussed all 8 Habits at both school and home.

In your child’s Friday Folder, you will find the October Habit Newsletter. Attached to the newsletter is a QR code that corresponds to October’s habit, Habit 1: Be Proactive.

• Please scan the QR code or use the link below to complete the quick survey and qualify for Lighthouse Family status.
• Lighthouse Family Sign-Up Link for Habit #1, Be Proactive!

Week 9

 Dear Parents,

            This week in reading we learned how to find the central idea of a story. We read the Important Book and wrote our own class book! Your children did an amazing job!

We read a Scholastic News called Monster Pumpkin and took a comprehension check. We took all the seeds out of a pumpkin, measured the diameter of the pumpkin, measured the height of the pumpkin, and weighed it. We also got a pumpkin treat! We started a pumpkin science book which we will finish next week.

             In math we continued counting money, including $1.00. We counted from an amount to a dollar and sorted coins to add up the amounts from greatest to least. They are doing very well! 

           In writing we continue working on narratives. We are all in the writing process. Some are on their rough drafts, some are revising and adding details and some actually published. They will get to share their narratives next week.

            In science we began our sound unit by listening to sounds and trying to guess what they were. We then learned that sounds are vibrations. The more energy that is used to make the sound, the louder the volume is. We experienced the vibrations by touching our voice boxes while we spoke, put our ear to our desk and tapped softly, then loudly, and listened to musical instruments. We learned that the vibrations travel through solids, liquids and gases. Their favorite demonstration was watching how the vibrations of a tuning fork, splashed water.

               Friday was so fun! We loved field day! I was happy to see so many family members come join us as we did our rotations. The children were very good sports and focused on having a good time. After it was finished, we came inside and had a popsicle! We had such great weather and an amazing day!

If you haven’t already done the below, we could use your help:

 📣 Coyote Ridge Families — We Need Your Voice! Coyote Ridge is working toward becoming a Leader in Me Lighthouse School, and we would love your help! 💙🐺We are asking ALL families to take a few minutes to complete our MRA Family Survey. Your feedback is an important part of this process and helps us celebrate what we are doing well while identifying opportunities to continue growing. 🎯 Our goal is 100% family participation! Every response counts, and we want to hear from YOU! 🎉 BONUS: If we exceed our school-wide survey goal, our students will earn EXTRA RECESS! 🙌

👉 Complete the Family Survey here:
https://www.leaderinme.com/s/coyote-ridge-elem-tx/families

Thank you for supporting Coyote Ridge and our students. We appreciate you!

This is Coyote Ridge’s 9th year using the Leader in Me Program. To continue supporting growth and learning at home, we will send home a newsletter each month that focuses on a different habit. By the end of the year, we will have discussed all 8 Habits at both school and home.

In your child’s Friday Folder, you will find the October Habit Newsletter. Attached to the newsletter is a QR code that corresponds to October’s habit, Habit 1: Be Proactive.

• Please scan the QR code or use the link below to complete the quick survey and qualify for Lighthouse Family status.
• Lighthouse Family Sign-Up Link for Habit #1, Be Proactive!

Week 7

 Dear Parents,

           This week in math we learned about personal financial literacy. We learned about saving and spending money. We learned what it means to be a responsible and irresponsible borrower. We learned that when we lend, there are costs and benefits. We learned who a producer is and who a consumer is and that with every purchase it involves both. On Friday we had a unit test review.

           In reding/Social Studies this week we learned about our rights as citizens of the United States. We learned that our leaders help us make laws for us all to follow. We read about Johnny Appleseed and took a comprehension check. We watched a brainpop jr. about him, and labeled the states where he visited and planted his apple seeds. We did an apple tasting at snack time: apple sauce, dried apples, and apple juice.

           In writing we took our BOY story through the writing process to final Copy. We then learned what a personal narrative is and began planning, then writing the beginning.

            In Science this week we reviewed our unit academic vocabulary, took our unit 2 assessment, and had an engage activity with our new unit, changing and combining matter. We took a piece of paper and changed it into a paper airplane, thanks to our expert engineer, Kaleb! We has a flying contest and Jeremiah’s airplane flew the farthest! We talked about the physical properties we changed and wrote about it in our science notebook. We saw a slideshow about changing physical properties, and discussed what we saw. On Friday we did a melting and freezing Investigation.

Week 6

 Dear Parents,

                This week in reading and social studies, we read passages about the flag. We highlighted important information and used that to answer questions. We also completed sentences that tells how we are to treat our flag. We learned about why we celebrate Constitution Day. We read about it and filled out a page together of important facts. We read and discussed The Kindness Challenge, a Scholastic News Article. We answered comprehension questions, and questions about a calendar.

               In math this week we focused on reading math story problems, filling out a strip diagram to match the story, then writing a number sentence to solve. We took a quiz on Friday over this skill.

              In writing we took our beginning of year writing check to be scored on a rubric. We will take one at the middle of year and then, the end of the year to show growth. They wrote to a prompt about someone who made them feel special. We began revising and editing our writing and will take it to final copy and publish it.

                In science we sorted objects by their properties, and then be4gan learning there are more properties than size, shape, mass, color and texture. We learned that we can use our senses to find out if an object is hot or cold, flexible or not flexible and much more. We then talked about the states of matter as we turned chocolate from a solid to a liquid in a microwave. We then used the liquid chocolate to draw with. We left it over night and it turned back into a solid. Today we will read an article about properties of matter and then fill in a cloze procedure paper.

                We had a wonderful time at Swim class this week! We learned so much that will keep us safe around water! Charlotte’s mom was one of our swim coaches!!!! That made it even more special.

                Congratulations to Vincent for being our first Leader of the week. He presented his poster and the class all told him why they think he is a leader! Vincent’s swim coach also was impressed with him and came to me to tell how much he grew over the two days.

                Thank you for all the kindness you showed me on my birthday. I was spoiled all day long by present and past students!