As you already know, school photos will be taken tomorrow! Please send your completed order form with your child, even if you will not be ordering photographs. Thank you!
Your child brought home his or her Personal Learning Plan today. Please take some time to read it before our conference. At the conference your child will share his or her goals with us and we will discuss ways we can support the goals. Next we will discuss work at home, which begins next week. After your child has had the chance to ask questions, he or she will go to the foyer for a quiet activity. Last, we will discuss your child's next steps for reading, writing, and math. This is also a time to ask questions and devise a plan so that together we can support your child academically at school and at home.
Our next big trip is to the Tillamook Forest (meeting at the Forest Center) on Thursday, November 3rd. We will be leaving at 9:00 and will return to school by 2:15. We do not currently have other trips scheduled, but are working on some for the spring. If you are able to join us for the Tillamook trip, we would love to have you! We will need 3-6+ volunteers in order to go on the trip. Thank you families!
On Friday, November 4th, from 1:30-5:00, we will have a work party so that we can get the garden beds ready for students. We need your help! Would you and your family like to join us? If you have leaves to donate to the school garden, you may drop them off at the garden on this day. Thank you families!
Next week we will begin sending home just right books and a spelling activity in "Home Bags". Students will bring home their "Home Bags" every Monday (or the first day of the school week). Please return your child's Home Bag each Monday morning to ensure that our volunteers are able to switch and replenish your child's books.
The students learned SO much at the Audubon Sanctuary last week and were brimming with facts to share when we returned! Thank you to Becky, Sue, Dick, and Craig for volunteering. Students took a tracking class and learned more about looking for signs of life in the woods. They also went on a hike and visited the many birds in the wildlife care center. Students are working on figuring out which native plants, trees, animals, and insects would help create a biodiverse and healthy forest ecosystem. We are planning for our school forest by using our wall as a giant mural and soon we hope to be adding models of the life we hope to have and help in our forest.
This week in the garden students collected edamame, calendula, and bean seeds. We will be saving them to plant in the spring. Students also moved logs and rocks from the garden to the forest area in hopes of creating nurse logs and animal habitats.
In writing students are working on adding details and adjectives to their stories and students are meeting in reading, spelling, and handwriting groups. First grade math students worked on graphing sea creatures and measuring in cups. Second grade math students worked on their fluency with addition and subtraction facts.
Please remember to sign up for conferences, if you haven't already done so. I look forward to seeing you then!
Sincerely,
Sherry
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