Happy Thursday!

Happy Thursday!

We had a wonderful week!  We love getting the opportunity to sit down with families and discuss the progress the students are making.  Thank you for coming in to meet with us!

Banner

• Thank you to everyone who turned in their student's banner at conferences. Our goal is to have them all by March 6.  If you need another copy, here is the link.
• This is a surprise, we like to hang them up when the students aren't in the room and have them come back and see them all hanging up.   

Read Week

• Read Week is March 9-13.  We always love sharing books with our students and Read Week is just a week to celebrate reading.  
• We love having Mystery Readers come in to read and due to our class size, we expand that over 2 weeks.  Below is the link if you or a family member or family friend would like to sign up to read.  
• https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c45aca62ca2fb6-read1
• Below are the dress up days if your student would like to participate.  These are for March 9-13.  Our theme for Read Week is Bob Shea books as he will be coming to RBE on March 20.
• Monday, March 9: Crazy Sock Day with New Socks
• Tuesday, March 10: Pajama Day with Dinosaur vs. Bedtime
• Thursday, March 12: Favorite Book Character Day (dress as your favorite book character) with What's Your Favorite, Favorite?
• Friday, March 13: Rainbow Day (wear lots of colors or dress all in one color) with Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great

Important Upcoming Events

• No School: Friday, February 28 (Parent Teacher Conferences)
• Pizza Party: Friday, March 6
• Students will each get 2 slices of cheese pizza, a healthy side, chips and a dessert.
• They may bring in a drink to have with their pizza if they would like.  Please no glass containers and no larger than 20 ounces. 
• No School: March 11 (Teacher Work Day)
• Spring Break: March 23-27

Next Week's Learning
Math

• We will be working on measurement next week in math.  We will be learning about meters and then working to identify the best unit and tool for measurement.
• We will also be comparing feet and yards and inches and centimeters and working to explain why there are more feet than yards in the same distance and more centimeters than inches in the same distance.

Reading

• Next week, we will continue to work on realistic fiction.  We will be comparing texts and continue to answer our essential question of "how are kids around the world different?".
• We will also be celebrating a lot of reading with mystery readers.  The link is above if you haven't signed up and would like to. 

Science/Social Studies

• We will be locating various bodies of water in Missouri and labeling them on a map.

Fundations

• Next week, we will continue working on the -ai and -ay spelling patterns and focusing on using these spelling patterns in multi-syllabic words
• Our trick words are America, thought, school, because, about.

Writing

• Our next writing piece is a realistic fiction story.  Students will model their writing off the stories we have been reading in class.  They will choose 2 different places for their characters to live and they will write a story showing the differences and similarities between these two places.  
• We will be working on making a story that could realistically happen, but didn't actually happen.  We will also be working on adding good details, transition words and a lead.  

Have a fabulous weekend!

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

Wow!  A week without snow days!  It was so nice to get back in the routine of school.  We played catch up almost all week, but I think we are pretty much caught up.  YEAH!!!

Progress reports are in your student's Friday folder.  We have enjoyed meeting with families this week and look forward to meeting with the rest of our families next week.  Don't forget to work on the banners for your student. 

Important Upcoming Events

• Special Friends and Family Day: February 24 from 1:35 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Please let us know if your child is going home a different way on Monday.
• Book Fair: February 24-28
• We will be creating wish lists on Monday.
• February 24: 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
• February 25: 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
• February 26: 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
• February 27: 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
• February 28: 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
• Yearbook Orders due: February 27
• No School: February 28 (Parent Teacher Conferences)
• 2nd Trimester Pizza Party: March 6
• Each student will get 2 slices of pizza, a healthy side and dessert.  Students may bring in a drink if they would like.  Please no larger than 20 ounces and no glass bottles.  We will have cups for water if students choose not to bring a drink.
• Read Week: March 9-13
• If you would like to be a mystery reader, you can use the link below to sign up to read.
• https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c45aca62ca2fb6-read1

Our Learning Next Week
Reading

• We will continue our study of realistic fiction.  The story we will read next week is written as a letter from a cousin living in Mexico to a cousin living in America.  The students will have an opportunity to learn some Spanish words as we read.

Fundations

• We took the test over Unit 9 today which covers r-controlled vowels.  This test will come home next week.  We will start until 10 on Monday.  This unit covers the long a spelling patterns of -ai and -ay.
• Our trick words are America, country, thought, great and away.

Math

• We will be working on adding multiple numbers together.  Today they learned a game called Basketball addition where they added 5 2-digit numbers together to find out the basketball "score."  We were very impressed with the strategies they used.
• We will also start learning about different units of measure.  We will also discuss the importance of standard units.  We will introduce yards next week.  

Social Studies/Science

• We will be labeling the 5 main oceans on our maps on Monday.  Then we will move into how water moves and travels.  
• We will be doing an experiment in the next few weeks that shows how water travels down mountains and can freeze in the cracks of the mountain.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

We hope you have worked hard this week even though the snow kept us home part of the week.

A letter that can be written and a meeting you can attend.  :)

• If your 2nd grader (or any other children) have had Mrs. Reynolds as a teacher, we are asking you to write a letter in support of her for the CFAE (Columbia Fund for Academic Excellence) Teacher of the Year Award.  These letters can be dropped off at the office or emailed to Shawna (sschulte@cpsk12.org) in the office by February 20.  
• We are trying to expand our parking lot at RBE.  If you've ever been at RBE for an event during the day, you know we are limited.  The City Council appointed members to the Board of Adjustment and these 5 members will vote to determine if we can expand our parking lot.  The meeting is Tuesday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Chambers.  You can attend the meeting if you would like.  We need 4 out of 5 members of the board to vote in favor for us to get approval.  
• If you plan to attend, please use the Sign Up Genius here to let us know.

Map the Love

• We have received some Valentines already and are excited to get some more.  We received one today from Germany.  YEAH!!!  If you want to have family/friends/etc. send in Valentines for our Map the Love, the address is below.
• We still haven't told the kids yet, so help us keep our secret.  :)  We will get a world map and find all the spots our Valentines came from.

Rock Bridge Elementary
Attn: Team Moss
5151 S. Hwy. 163
Columbia, MO 65203

K Kids Central Missouri Humane Society Fundraiser

• K Kids is doing a fundraiser with dress up days next week.  Each day students choose to participate, they pay 25 cents.  
• Monday: Wear funny socks
• Tuesday: Wear your favorite sports team apparel
• Wednesday: Wear animal print or images of animals and cat ears
• Thursday: Wear Valentine's Day colors and hearts

Important Upcoming Events

• Valentine's Party: February 13 at 1:45 p.m.
• We will pass out Valentines before the party.  Please only fill in the "from" section on the valentine as it makes passing out the valentines faster.  They can bring in valentines for their class (Mottaz: 23; Ross: 22) or the entire class (45).
• Students can make a box at home or we will have bags to decorate at school during morning work.
• Here is the link for Sign Up Genius for the party.
• No School: February 14 (Teacher Work Day) and February 17 (President's Day)
• Parent Teacher Conferences: Week of February 17 and 24
• Email was sent home on Wednesday with times.  Please confirm your time if you haven't already done so.
• Book Fair: February 24-28
• Special Friends and Family Day: February 24
• Special friends and family can join us for specials (1:35-2:25).
• The book fair is also open during this time if they would like to do some shopping before or after they attend specials with the students.
• If your student will be going home with a special friend or family, please make sure to let us know.  
• Read Week: March 9-13
• If you would like to sign up or have a family friend/family member sign up to read, you can do so here.
• Runge Field Trip: May 15
• Just giving you this date to put on the calendar in case you want to join us for this field trip.
• If you are planning to join us for this field trip, please visit the CPS volunteer website (Here is the link) and fill out the volunteer application as well as the background check application.  These are required for anyone who attends this field trip.  You do not have to pay for the background check as it is paid for by the district. It is required to fill out a background check each school year, so even if you filled one out last year, it is required again this year.  
• If you plan to attend this field trip, please let us know so we can let the office know to be on the look out for your name on passed background checks.  

Next Week's Learning (similar to last week due to missing 2 days of school to snow)
Reading

• We plan to start Unit 4 on Monday.  This unit is about realistic fiction.  Students will learn the characteristics of realistic fiction and then read various realistic fiction pieces. 
• This ties in nicely with our Historical Fiction timeline.  Even though they aren't the same genre, they are similar and we can discuss the similarities and differences of the two genre types.  
• We are sending home the Unit 3 Reading/Writing Companion today.  There is quite a bit blank due to snow days, we did more discussion than writing in the companion.

Writing

• We will be electronically publishing our personal narratives using Google Slides.
• Our goal was to have this finished by conferences and we will try, but no promises.  

Social Studies

• We will continue to travel around the world with Swift Walker.  Next week, we will visit North and South America, Australia and Antarctica.  The students are learning about important places in each continent and also locating the continents on a map.

Fundations

• We plan to wrap up Unit 9 next week.  This unit covers ur/ir/er words.  Since all these spelling patterns make the same sound, students have been learning to use the "spelling options" section of their Monster book which is similar to a dictionary to find the correct spelling.

Math

• Our original plan was to test over Unit 6 before Valentine's Day, but due to snow days, this will be pushed back.  We will continue to work on word problems, as well as different strategies to solve 2- and 3-digit addition problems.
• Students will learn to use base-10 blocks as well as expanded form to solve 2- and 3-digit addition.  We will teach the traditional algorithm for 2- and 3-digit addition, but not all students are ready to solve problems this way, so we offer other strategies as well.

Have a fabulous weekend!