By Heidi Huey on
10/6/2008
Theme Update
This week we are going to be talking about our community members. We will be reviewing what these valuable members do and how important they are to our communities. One of the community members will be the town mayor. This is our way to cover the election process (without using the real candidates). Anyone in the town can run for mayor. We will be having elections on Friday and all community members can vote. Students that are interested in running can come to class on Wednesday ready to share their 'ideas' on what they would do as mayor. They can ...
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By Heidi Huey on
9/29/2008
Theme Update
Today we started moving our desks around to make a border around our town. We made our coordinate grids and streets. We then put in our houses that we made in class. This week we will be talking about what are the different jobs in a community. Don't forget the town buildings are due next Monday, the 6th. Students are welcome to bring them in early if they want : )
3 Day Week-Conferences
Don't forget that school gets out on Wednesday at 11:30 and that there is no school on Thursday or Friday. We are using that time to have our parent/teacher conferences. Your scheduled conference is in your white Weekly Folder attached to the left side. &nb ...
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By Heidi Huey on
9/22/2008
Theme Update
This week in Theme we will be talking about our own towns and what are the key components of a town (needs versus wants). We will be using our own towns as models of what we want in the town we will be building in class. For our classroom town we will be creating our own town laws, voting for a mayor and reviewing coordinated grid maps. Each student will be making a house for the town in class and then a town building for homework. Look in this week's homework folders for their two week town building assignment. These are not due until October 6th, but can come in earlier if you finish early.
Conference Requests
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By Heidi Huey on
9/15/2008
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By Heidi Huey on
9/8/2008
Loads New Today
Today we started switching for Literacy and Math. In your white Weekly Folder you will see a general report on how they did with their placement testing and what Literacy and Math teacher they have. Tomorrow night you will get to meet their teachers. During the conferences in October we will be going over their specific testing with you so you can see how exactly they did and what they need to work more on this year. The students did very well remember what to bring to class, where to go and to collect their homework. It is amazing how great they are at picking this up.
Purple Homework Folders came home today as well. These are not due back, along with homework in them and reading logs, until Friday. They are welcome to turn work in early.&a ...
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By Heidi Huey on
9/2/2008
Weekly Update
Today I finished the last of the testing!!!!!!! Next week we will start to switch for Literacy and Math. We will be sending home, in next week's Weekly Folder, how they did on their testing and what like-ability class they will be in for Literacy and Math. Next Tuesday night, for Curriculum Night, you will get to meet your child's Literacy and Math teacher. At conferences in October we will go over their specific tests.
This week in class we will be finishing our Friendship Unit and starting our Autonomous Learner Unit. We will be continuing this unit throughout the year every Wednesday afternoon during Wednesday Workshop. In this unit we will be working on developing our character traits as well as learning mo ...
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By Heidi Huey on
8/25/2008
Weekly Update
This week we will be not only working more on our testing for Literacy and Math placements, but also learning what are the important traits of being a friend. Students have done great settling into our daily routine and have earned many marbles for our classroom marble jar. This week second graders will also be taking the ERB test (Education Records Bureau). We use this test as part of our accreditation report for the state and the district. Our students always do very, very well on this test, so no need to fret. We only request that all second graders be here on the days we take it (Tuesday and Thursday) of this week) so ...
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By Heidi Huey on
8/19/2008
Welcome!
I want to first welcome all of you to the new school year and to my class. I am looking forward to having an awesome year teaching your children and working with all of you. I have lots of great things planned for us to learn, which we will go over on curriculum night on September, 9th. Welcome!
Weekly Newsletter Blog
Every week, at the end of the day, the first day of the school week, I will post my Weekly Homeroom Newsletter Blog on my homeroom web page. To view my blog go to www.stargateschoo.org and go to the Teams tab towards the top of the page, click on 1/2 team for& ...
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By Heidi Huey on
5/30/2008
Last Week of School Schedule
On monday morning we will wrap up our Dino unit reviewing for the test (now on Tuesday morning). After reviewing for the test we will be decorating our flag for Field Day (Olympic style-we're Canada). Before lunch we will then be working on our memory books and looking back on the year. In the afternoon we will finish our memory books and work on letters reflecting the year for upcoming Kindergarteners or thanking teachers for the great lessons.
On Tuesday we will take our unit test on Dinosaurs. After the test we will clean out our desks (bring back packs!!!) and sharing our memory books with eachother before lunch. Last week, field trip forms went home for lunch at the park this day. Remember to bring a s ...
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By Heidi Huey on
5/27/2008
Weekly Update
This morning we had a special guest, Justin Matott, come in and share with us some of his new book ideas and what he does when he goes through the process of creating a book. The kids all really enjoyed his stories and his great animated personality.
This week we are working intently on our dinosaur unit. We have learned many things over this unit about dinosaurs: what they look like and why, what are the main two types, are they carnivors or herbivors, how they behave, how big they are and when they lived. This week we will be learning about some specific dinosaurs. We will be sorting them according to their type and talking about what they do, eat, look like and size. Next Monday we will be having our end of unit test on Dinosaurs. Stay tuned for the study shee ...
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