11/8 to 11/12

Upcoming Events:

• 11/11: Veterans Day Concert posted on Facebook
• 11/11 and 11/16 Parent Teacher Conferences (Here is the link to sign up: https://ptcfast.com/schools/New_Directions)
• 11/18: Funset Night
• 11/19 Early Release
• 11/24-11/26 No School

Miss Q is looking for donations for the art room.  Here is her list:

--Cereal boxes and other lightweight boxes of the same flexibility of cardboard

--toilet paper and paper towel tubes

--magazines with kid appropriate and colorful pictures(national geographic for example)

--Newspapers 

--Bottle caps(plastic not metal!!!!)

--Wine corks

--Plastic jars(not glass!!!!) the size of a spaghetti sauce jar or smaller

Conferences: 

As a reminder, conferences are virtual this year.  After you sign up for conferences you will receive a link that you will use on your day and time for conferences. They will also send a reminder email with that link before your conference. I’m excited to meet with everyone and discuss their progress so far this year.

It is not too late to fill out the survey to help guide our conference!

Leader in Me: 

This month we started to talk about Habit Number 2: Begin with the End in Mind. This week in Leader in Me we focused on what matters most to us. We talked about what matters most to us.  Many students' initial thought is to name things like: minecraft, their toys, and other material things.  While those things are very significant to them, at this age, we talked about things like family, kindness, hard work, neatness, perseverance, and other qualities that go with us wherever we are, in whatever we are focusing on. 

Math:

We started our unit talking about place value: ones, tens, and hundreds.  Students are reading and writing numbers up to 200.  In addition we are adding double digit numbers by double digit numbers (52 + 23=). We are using place value to help us understand this process of adding double digit numbers. 

There are many ways students are solving these problems.  We want students to understand the why before they jump to the how.  

--Students are building the two with base-10 blocks and adding them together

--Students are drawing out the base-10 blocks and adding them together

--Students are adding the tens place and then ones place