Room 11 Families!

Wow!  Our school year is now flying by.  Can you believe we have just 4 1/2 weeks of school left?  Me either!  We still have much to accomplish and more fun coming!

Reminders...
Every Day
  • Empty your child’s blue folder and return it to school in their backpack.
  • Children should bring their iPad to school every day fully charged.
  • Check the At Home Learning calendar in your child's blue folder, and complete the day’s activities. 









IMPORTANT DATES

May 19- i-Ready Final Test. (see below)

May 31: Memorial Day Holiday; No School

June 16: Last Day of School!







In the Classroom

I-Ready Assessment, 5/19...If your child has not finished
Helpful I-Ready- How to Log In Video: https://video.link/w/lDmsb

Children will be completing this assessment during their asynchronous time on Wednesday, 5/12. An informational video on how to get your child logged in and ready to go for Wednesday, 5/12 is below. 

Important points to note:

  • This is a test to help meet your child’s individual needs.
  • There will be questions they know and some that they don’t know.
  • The results of this test will not affect your child’s grades.
  • The test is not meant to frustrate your child, if they don’t know an answer, simply encourage them to guess and go on.
  • Please don’t help the kids with the test questions.

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Math
We are continuing Unit 8: Two-Digit Addition


Art Lit!
The final artist that we will be studying this year in Art Literacy is Claude Monet. There is great information about this artist and an optional art activity. Simply go to my “Homeroom” course card in Canvas and press the button called “Art Lit”. Enjoy making some beautiful creations!!





Specials is P.E. (May 17-May 31)
Be sure to check the course card in Canvas for the week’s assignment.



Canvas
There will be no further lessons assigned through Canvas from me. All assignments will now be assigned through Seesaw.  Your child can simply tap the SeeSaw app to access assignments.


Water Bottles and Masks
Water bottles with straws are allowed for in person learning. Also, please make sure that the mask your child wears to school fits well and stays in place. The kids did great this week!  Thank you!


Reading
Lessons will be around trying hard and things we are good at doing.


Writing 
Our new genre focus is narrative writing. They will be writing a narrative based on their experience of raising butterflies.




Questions?
Just let me know!

​Happy Friday!
​Ronna Marx
503-431-4541
rmarx@ttsd.k12.or.us


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Get library books!





​Returning to School
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Need a little reading fun? Take a picture and send to me when complete and win a prize!

Want Books?



You can order very well priced books at Scholastic!  Order by May 14to receive your books soon.  What a great way for your first grader to get books quickly.  Scholastic.  Our classroom order code is HGTL8.
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Want to read books NOW?  Log into your child's red EPIC app.  Use our class code   ybk3212 and read the best books with your first grader today.



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We now have access to IXL!  You can log in by entering 32lastnamefirst initial @durham.  Password is go!  Make sure to take these steps so your child leaves kinder and enters first grade.  Also, in the top right corner, make sure your child is on first grade and not K.  This way I will get to see all of their wonderful work!




Connecting your student's iPad