Important Dates and A Peek At The Week

Important Dates and A Peek At the Week

Happy Friday!!!

Next week is an B week.

Library Schedule

Tuesday A Week (1 hour)

Friday B Week (30 minutes)

Veteran's Day:
Please read the following message from our school office regarding Veteran's Day:

"Pinebrook Elementary students and staff would like to honor our Veterans during our annual Veterans Day Celebration that is being held on Monday, November 11, 2019. If you, a family member or neighbor are a Veteran please join us for this special celebration. All are welcome to attend!  This year, Veterans will not be asked to speak to a classroom of students. We invite you to come, relax, and allow us to honor you.
Schedule:
8:00-8:30 Breakfast in the library
8:30-9:15 Celebration in the gymnasium."

Turkey of the Year:

Turkey of the Year voting has started and will continue for the next few Fridays! Your child must read to vote for the staff member he/she would like to see come to school dressed in a turkey suit.  One hour of reading equals one vote. Each Friday, please sign and return that week's voting slip, which came home in yesterday's Thursday folder.  If you lost the voting slips, please write a note to indicate how many hours your child read during the previous week, sign it, and send it to school on Friday.  

2^nd Grade Native American Project

Due:  Friday, November 15^th

Students have been assigned an at home project! Native American Projects are due on Friday, November 15th. Students have been asked to pick a Native American tribe to research. They are NOT ALLOWED to pick the Powhatan, Pueblo, or Lakota tribe. We will learn about those tribes in school. Pick your tribe, research all about that tribe, create a 3-D project, and complete the booklet sent home! Please let me know if you have any questions!

Mark Your Calendar 

Native American Performance:  

November 19th at 8:30am

The 2nd grade Native American Performance will be held on Tuesday, November 19th at 8:30am in the gym! Come watch your children perform skits and songs and learn about different Native American tribes!

Food Drive:

2nd grade is running a food drive! Please send in non-perishable items with your child or you can bring them the morning of the Native American performance.

60 Minutes of Reflex Math is switching to 60 Minutes of Dreambox Starting NOVEMBER 1st

The DreamBox Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ program provides individualized instruction for every student, adapts lessons and pacing based on each student’s unique needs. As students work on math problems DreamBox captures, analyzes, and responds to every decision a student makes. DreamBox goes beyond tracking whether a student’s answer was right or wrong and assesses each student on around 60 different behaviors, including the amount of time it takes to solve a problem, the number of hints used, and the strategies they use to construct the answer to a problem.

The continuous assessment guides students through their math development and determines their optimal learning zone, which is where a student is continually challenged enough to stay interested but not too challenged to become frustrated. DreamBox is designed around the ideal of a personal math teacher for each student, with infinite time and infinite patience.

Test Dates:

November 12th - Math Unit 3 Test (addition and subtraction strategies)

November 11th - Powhatan Quiz

November 19 - Pueblo Quiz

November 22 - Lakota Quiz

November 26 - Native American Final Test 

Important Dates:

November 4 - No School for Students (Conference/Planning Day)
November 11th - Report cards online (ParentVue)
November 11th - Veteran's Day Celebration 8:30am
November 11th - PTA Meeting 7PM
November 18th-November 22nd - American Education Week
November 19th - Parent Coffee (Meet Your School Counselors) 8:30am
November 19th - 2nd Grade Native American Performance 8:30am
November 22nd - Wear Navy to support your Pinebrook School Spirit
November 27th - November 29th Thanksgiving Break (No School)

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:
* Reading:  We will continue to learn strategies to solve unknown words and/or tricky words.  
* Writing:  We will write a nonfiction piece. We will continue to focus on capitalization and punctuation, and beginning, middle, end. 

* Math:  We continue to work on computation and estimation strategies to solve basic addition and subtraction facts.  We will also practice using equal and not equal signs.

* Social Studies - We will learn about Native Americans. (Powhatan, Pueblo, and Lakota)