Week of 3-18-19 PHEW! What. A. Week. Trying to setup a classroom (again) is a lot of work! I've used this opportunity to clean, reorganize, and sort through years of material. I made a big pile of books I no longer needed and gave them to the children. We went around our circle three times! That's 72 books! They were so happy I felt like I was giving them gold!
When we went to Randall Holden I did not want to bring two sets of reading textbooks with me. As a result we are now starting where we left off. That means, for now, we are using our original Spelling Packet choices.
I will be giving the children fewer reminders about taking home Homework Folders, etc. At this point in the year telling them once to do something should be enough! Should be an interesting experiment! If they come home without something you will know why!
Have a great week!
Mary Ann McKenney
EMAIL: mamckenney@saintkevinschool.org
FAVORITE BOOKS has changed to Winter titles.
If links below do not open please just copy and paste the web address.
How playing outside makes your kids smarter.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2373141/how-outdoors-makes-your-kids-smarter?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=onsiteshare
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I LOVE this article!
http://www.moultrienews.com/opinion/teacher-to-parent---positive-reinforcement-doesn-t-work/article_cf5c0206-2522-11e7-98ed-b3a9b0e7d4f6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
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Some Cape Cod schools drop homework for younger students
http://capecodtimes.com/news/
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School bans homework and assigns reading and playing instead
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/27/1638352/-After-a-school-bans-homework-and-assigns-reading-and-playing-instead-they-re-seeing-great-results?detail=facebook
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Second grade reading list from Goodreads website
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/2nd-grade-reading-list
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I find the success of schools in Finland fascinating!
Michael Moore and the Finnish Education System - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com.
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Very interesting and frightening article. A bit dramatic but worth taking another look at how much screen time your child has.
http://abc7news.com/1664438/ How Screens Turn Kids into Psychotic Junkies
MONDAY
*Spelling: Spelling Packet. PLEASE NOTE ORIGINAL PACKET CHOICES!
Complete the spelling packet and return by Friday. Our new words are:
tail, mail, wait, say, away, play, raise, brain, paint, stay.
*Book Club
*RETURN LIBRARY BOOK IF IT WAS NOT RETURNED ON FRIDAY!
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TUESDAY
*Making Words: CUT OUT THE LETTERS on the top of your homework paper. DO THIS STEP FIRST. See how many words you can make. What word uses all of the letters? List the words by Word Families on the back of the paper. This is due on Wednesday. (a,i,r,s,s,t,t)
*Spelling Packet is due Friday.
*Book Club
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WEDNESDAY
*Spelling Packet is due Friday.
*Book Club
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THURSDAY
*Study Spelling
*Spelling Packet is due Friday.
*Book Club
*RETURN RED BOOK CLUB FOLDER ON FRIDAY
*RETURN LIBRARY BOOK ON FRIDAY (they are returned to the library on Monday)
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*RETURN YELLOW FRIDAY FOLDER ON MONDAY!
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4/5 School Mass
4/7 Mass of Thanksgiving @ 10:00
4/26 Dress Down Day
Auction
PLEASE CHECK SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR ADDITIONAL DATES AND SCHOOL EVENTS.
www.ABCYa.com - reading, math
www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
www.planetesme.com - How To Get Your Child To Love Reading
www.robertmunsch.com - reading
www.starfall.com - reading
www.xtramath.org - math
www.storylineonline.net**