Welcome to 2021

We made it to 2021! We survived hybrid, in person and remote learning during our first semester and we are ready to come back full time, in person this week! I know I have missed the kids and I am confident that they have missed their friends! So happy that we get to return to the classroom and ready to get our third quarter started. Let's do this!

Super Readers

During our first semester we learned that we all have a lot of strategies to help us become better readers. We call these strategies Reading Superpowers. We will build onto those powers and continue to grow them stronger. Each student has a reading envelope full of books that they know how to read and ones that they chose from our classroom. They enjoy spending time in their reading spot; quietly reading and looking at their book choices.

We are Writers

During the first semester we concentrated on learning how to phonetically sound out words, use spacing and punctuation and write what we wanted to express. In the second quarter we began writing Small Moment stories of memorable and meaningful events in our lives. In December we spent two weeks trying our hand at informational writing as we researched about the Earth and the Sun. We will continue with more Small Moment writing to start off the year and then learn about the HOW TO writing format.

Mathematicians

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At Gold Rush we use the Envision math program. During the first semester we completed six topics and ended with the unit on Addition. The kids are all masters about the concepts of greater than, less than and equal too. The students are counting by 1s, 10s, 5s and some are even working on counting by 2s. We are learning our 2-D and 3-D shapes. We are writing our numbers up to and even past 100. We use games and hand on materials to enhance our understanding of mathematical concepts. We work independently, in pairs and in groups during math. We mix it up to keep it engaging and challenging!