Journeys: Lesson 6

This was our focus this week in language arts. Since next week is a short week, we will be continuing our work with story conclusions, homophones, proper nouns, and more. While also incorporating fun Halloween activities to learning as well!

Our anchor text this week was titled Ugly Vegetables. We  dove into analyzing the text with our Readers Guides. This is alwasy a great activity to get students to use their text as a reference when strengthening comprehension skills.

Halloween Snack

Last month, we were fortunate enough to send one of our staff members to a conference on teaching healthy food choices. This conference gave ideas on how to build a healthy, and strong school community through healthy eating habits and physical activity. The second-grade team has decided to take a few of these new ideas and incorporate them into our classrooms. Once a month, for the next few months, we have decided to try flavor palates. We will be offering a festive, and healthy snack for our students at their snack time.

Please click the link below if you are willing and able to donate a few tasting items to our healthy snack palate for Halloween!

Halloween Tasting Palate

STEM Project

Last week we started a STEM project with our learning buddies. This is going to take two to three class sessions to finish. We began reading the story Room on the Broom and will use that story as a fun project. 

READ ALOUD Room on the Broom

Currently they are in the planning process to build a broom with their group members. The scientists will soon be ready to create!

We are in need of a couple different supplies if anyone is out and about and would like to donate. 

bags of mellow creme pumpkins

bendy straws

The students are going to be putting the straws together with tape and then testing out their structures with the pumpkins. This will begin this Wednesday afternoon if any supplies could be in by then. I am sure your child could also let you in on a few more details as well :) 

THANK YOU!

Book Fair!

Book Fair is coming to Westwoods!

Friday, Oct. 18 - 25

Students can shop

During their regular library - Monday afternoons

Parent/Teacher Conferences Tues, Oct. 22

Parent/Teacher Conferences Thurs., Oct. 24

Click here to preview the flyer coming home!

Scholastic Flyer

WW Spirit Wear

2019 Westwoods Spirit Wear Store is OPEN!

Check out the youth and adult items available to order to show your Westwoods spirit!

Story is open until Sunday, Oct. 20.

Westwoods Wear Link

Student Credit Union

Your child came home with a letter and application from TBA Credit Union in Traverse City. If he/she is interested please read through both

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Parent/Teacher Conferences

Fall Conferences are here!

Tuesday, Oct. 22

Thursday, Oct. 24

Thursday, Oct. 30

Westwoods sent out the sign up last Friday. However, if you haven't signed up yet, please click on the link below. Find McNitt, then find the day and time that works best for you, and enter your child's name. Please let me know if you have any difficulty doing this.

Parent/Teacher Conference Sign Up

Journeys Lesson 6

Hello Unit 2!!

In our new unit, students are going to be pushing their thinking and using new skills and strategies to grow as readers, writers, and even speakers.

We have two new anchor texts this week.

Animals Building Homes

Whose Home Is This?

Genre: Informational Text

Some key objectives derived from this text will be identifying text and graphic features and using content to determine meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary. They will also be comparing and contrasting animals and their homes in both selections and using text features as subheadings in bold print to clarify the meaning.

Journeys Week 5

Within our last lesson of Unit 1 we have two new texts.

Teacher's Pet

Genre: Realistic Fiction

We are reading as well as practicing to identify the problem and solution in this realistic fiction text. The story demonstrates the elements of a story's structure through both the words and the text, using a familiar topic. Students will be able to identify the elements of a story's structure and understand how the author's word choice creates meaning in a story.

Next time you read a story with your child, ask them to identify the characters (who), setting (where and when) and plot (what happened).

See Westburg by Bus!

Genre: Informational Text

Children will regularly encounter informational text in textbooks and on the internet. This informational text gives children experience with reading a map and applying the information to real life scenarios. Students will be able to follow information in a pamphlet and apply information found on a map.

Halloween Field Trip

Gallaughers Farm Market

Field Trip

Oct. 31

In lieu of having a Halloween party we are going on a field trip!

Students can dress warm, but please leave all costumes at home. 

Please click on the link to get more details and to fill out the permission slip.

Field Trip Permission Slip

Bully Prevention Week

Monday

Wear BLUE

The first Monday of October is World Day of Bullying Prevention™! Students, schools, and communities all over the world go BLUE together against bullying. 

Tuesday

Purposeful Acts of Kindness

Students are encouraged to set and achieve a kindness goal for the day

Wednesday

Sit with someone NEW

Sit next to someone you have never sat with at lunch and find things that you have in common. Reach out and be kind any time you see someone eating or playing alone.

Thursday

Random Acts of Kindness

Look for opportunities to do something kind for someone. When someone does something kind for you, pay it forward by doing something kind for someone else.

Weekend Homework

Homework is coming home this weekend! 

Please have your child find time over the next three nights to squeeze in their story companion for Diary of a Spider. 

This is due on Monday.

Here is the story link if anyone needs to see the story again for cause and effect.

Diary of a Spider

Thank you!

Move A Thon

Even though it was a bit on the chilly side it was dry and sunny! GREAT day to get outside and move!! All did a great job!!