Last week, we gathered pics to make class book of shape portraits and played a game to gain familiarity with the tens and ones places.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Shape portraits
Last week, we gathered pics to make class book of shape portraits and played a game to gain familiarity with the tens and ones places.
Salmon Studygroups Celebration
Salmon Study Groups Celebration
To introduce the salmon lifecycle, we worked in K-5 teams through early October. Small groups of K-5th grade students from Chiu, Hanes and Ree'ds classes each took on a research project on a stage of the life cycle: Egg, Alevin, Fry, Smolt, Adult and Spawner. We celebrated the completion f our Salmon Life Cycle Presentations with a Science Fair Style Party in the cafeteria. Students hunted for information on each of the stages of the lifecycle. The first picture is a skit from my fry group. The bigger fish is about the eat the fry. A student posing with our native food themed snacks, and several students exploring a project table follow.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The Salmon Studygroup Kickoff
Our class, Mrs. Hanes' class and Mrs. Tucker & Chiu's class got a visit from Sammy the Superhero Salmon. Our class wrote and performed in a short play depicting Sammy's amazing journey upstream!Here he is about to jump over a waterfall. 
Here he and the other salmon are being attacked by students playing hungry bears!
Thanks for taking pictures Tina W!
Here he and the other salmon are being attacked by students playing hungry bears!
Thanks for taking pictures Tina W!
October 15
Dear Families,
Corbett Wind
Please help your children arrive at school in warm, layered clothing. The wind on campus can be extreme and we do need to walk through it to get to lunch and during various parts of the day.
Missing
Metal water bottle – black with silver stars.
Disappeared from Miss Reed’s lunch tote Wednesday and are dearly missed by its owner!
Please return- no questions asked.
Transportation
Children are not allowed to cross the fire lane or meet their parents in the parking lot. Families will pick their children up from the classroom. Mr. Dunton has requested that an adult must be between each child and the traffic at all times with no exceptions.
Our Classroom
This week, we completed banners depicting stages of the salmon’s life cycle. We increased our silent reading time during reader’s workshop to seven minutes. New readers are working with A- F sounds, as well as sh combinations. All readers are beginning new book groups. In math, we modeled addition and subtraction and began working with the relationship between them, culminating in adding and subtracting real jelly beans! In writing, we are beginning our first class publishing projects.
Take Care!
Miss Reed
Corbett Wind
Please help your children arrive at school in warm, layered clothing. The wind on campus can be extreme and we do need to walk through it to get to lunch and during various parts of the day.
Missing
Metal water bottle – black with silver stars.
Disappeared from Miss Reed’s lunch tote Wednesday and are dearly missed by its owner!
Please return- no questions asked.
Transportation
Children are not allowed to cross the fire lane or meet their parents in the parking lot. Families will pick their children up from the classroom. Mr. Dunton has requested that an adult must be between each child and the traffic at all times with no exceptions.
Our Classroom
This week, we completed banners depicting stages of the salmon’s life cycle. We increased our silent reading time during reader’s workshop to seven minutes. New readers are working with A- F sounds, as well as sh combinations. All readers are beginning new book groups. In math, we modeled addition and subtraction and began working with the relationship between them, culminating in adding and subtracting real jelly beans! In writing, we are beginning our first class publishing projects.
Take Care!
Miss Reed
Thursday, October 8, 2009
October 7
Dear Families,
All teachers at Corbett School have received new phone extensions! My new classroom number is 503 695 3656. My email remains the same areed@corbett.k12.or.us.
We have a field trip next Wednesday, October 14 to Wahkeena Creek. The chaperones will be Mrs. Bucher, Mrs. Foertsch and Mrs. Henderson. Please send your children with a waterproof coat and in rain boots if possible. Chaperones will also want to be dressed for a hike in and around a wet creek. The following children still need to return their permission slips: Kayli, Taylor, Dylan Jadyn, Eduardo, Karlie, Isabella, and Evan.
Wondering about the blog? I will need photo release slips from Hallie, Kayli, August, Mya, Eduardo, Karlie, Isabella, Evan, Nathaniel, Shaylene and Elizabeth before I can post pics of our class on our blog. Please sign the attached photo release and send it with your student.
The Bonneville Dam/ Salmon field trip will be postponed until November.
Conferences are fast upon us! The schedule is on the reverse of this sheet. If you haven’t signed up yet, please write or call me and we’ll set a date.
This week, we enjoyed Junie B. Jones, a funny five year old fictional character, during read aloud. In math, we continued practicing telling time through bingo and whole group activities. We introduced squares and square roots and explored the relationships between addition and multiplication through the story, rhyme and written practice. We presented the best of our salmon life cycle research in a great big celebration with our K-5 study teams. We wrote our first entries for our Weekly outdoor watch (WOW) journals.
I look forward to chatting with you all at conferences!
Sincerely,
Alyssa Reed
All teachers at Corbett School have received new phone extensions! My new classroom number is 503 695 3656. My email remains the same areed@corbett.k12.or.us.
We have a field trip next Wednesday, October 14 to Wahkeena Creek. The chaperones will be Mrs. Bucher, Mrs. Foertsch and Mrs. Henderson. Please send your children with a waterproof coat and in rain boots if possible. Chaperones will also want to be dressed for a hike in and around a wet creek. The following children still need to return their permission slips: Kayli, Taylor, Dylan Jadyn, Eduardo, Karlie, Isabella, and Evan.
Wondering about the blog? I will need photo release slips from Hallie, Kayli, August, Mya, Eduardo, Karlie, Isabella, Evan, Nathaniel, Shaylene and Elizabeth before I can post pics of our class on our blog. Please sign the attached photo release and send it with your student.
The Bonneville Dam/ Salmon field trip will be postponed until November.
Conferences are fast upon us! The schedule is on the reverse of this sheet. If you haven’t signed up yet, please write or call me and we’ll set a date.
This week, we enjoyed Junie B. Jones, a funny five year old fictional character, during read aloud. In math, we continued practicing telling time through bingo and whole group activities. We introduced squares and square roots and explored the relationships between addition and multiplication through the story, rhyme and written practice. We presented the best of our salmon life cycle research in a great big celebration with our K-5 study teams. We wrote our first entries for our Weekly outdoor watch (WOW) journals.
I look forward to chatting with you all at conferences!
Sincerely,
Alyssa Reed
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