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.
- 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.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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