Peace Lessons

This Tuesday we started our Peace Lessons with Mrs. Sulecki! 

Most kids already know what to expect with Peace Lessons, since many classrooms last year did this. However, this year we will build on previous years topics as well as come up with a new class name!

McNitt's Peace Boys and Girls

Mrs. Sulecki is always the one who has lead peace talks. She is our school social worker, who we all know and love. We will have our peace lessons each Thursday afternoon for twenty minutes.

Journeys: Lesson 2

Math Mountains

We have been doing a lot of exploring with addition and subtraction equations. What we know and what we need to work on. 

A tool that has been a helpful resource this week have been Math Mountain Cards. These show a total (in all) at the top and two addends (partners) at the bottom. These give a visual representation of a total breaking apart into smaller numbers (addends). 

Math Mountains helps with:

Addition: Having two addends at the bottom to add together making a top total

Subtraction: Having a top total and needing to find an unknown addend

Students have learned to write addition and subtraction fact family equations that they can make from a variety of mountain cards.

 

 

Library

Our scheduled library time is Monday afternoon from 2:15-2:45

Students checked out two books with week in library. 

All books that students check out from the Westwoods Library will need to be returned by Monday. If books are not returned students will not be able to check out new books. 

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Happy Reading!

First WW Grill out of the Year!

September 20

Everyone is welcome to join us for lunch! 

Bring a beach towel or picnic blanket to dine on the Westwoods front lawn! 

Lunch will be served by grade. 

2nd grade lunch is at 12:15. 

Student lunch is $2.85 and Adult lunch is $3.85. You are also welcome to pack your own picnic 

First FULL Week!

We had a great first full week of school! We wanted to document the beautiful sunny day and the fact that these kids still have a smile on their face, with a little added goofiness, after a hard working week!

Picture Day

September 27th

All forms went home last week.

You can either fill out the envelope and have your child bring it in on or before picture day. OR, you can follow the instructions to do this online.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

September Fun!

On Friday students came home with a September calendar from Epic. This is just another fun way for students to extend themselves outside of school!

Journeys: Lesson 1

My apologies! This was suppose to go out last Monday and got missed. 

This was our last week . I will post out Language Arts Focus Wall each week to let you know all that we are learning as the week progresses. Our anchor text that help to support this weeks content was Henry and Mudge. Great realistic fiction read!

We had a great first full week of school. It went super fast!

Vocabulary Words

Students in groups working on their Readers Guide, making connections to our anchor text Henry and Mudge.

 

 

 

Learning Buddies

We began our year long adventure with our fourth grade friends of Mrs. DePlaunty's classroom. They will be our learning buddies once a week! We meet on Wednesday, in the afternoon, for 30 minutes. Mrs. DePlaunty and I select different themes for the week, whether it be reading, math, or a fun STEM project for all buddies to participate in. This keeps the students engaged and eager, ready and excited for the next time we meet with our learning buddies! 

Last week we met our fourth grade friends and read outside! It was nice to not only enjoy the sunshine but to also meet our future learning buddies! 

We are going to have an awesome year exchanging learning experiences with our fourth grade friends!