Setting Goals with Growth Tablets

Hi Families,

Last Friday, your students hopefully brought home a sea creature and told you how they grew from a capsule into the creature in glass of warm water. We did this fun, engaging activity as a way to begin thinking about goal setting for the year. Setting goals is an essential part of learning. I asked students to try to think of a specific, attainable goal for math, reading, and writing. We talked about how reading fifty books in one day was not an attainable goal, but reading 50 picture books in a month would be possible. Some students wanted to be able to decode tricky words better, others wanted to be able to read and comprehend chapter books by the end of the year. I hope they will share what their goals were with you. They are up on our bulletin board right now, but I will send them home soon, so you can see them, too! In the meantime, here are some pictures of the fun we had!


Ms. Petzold

Friday, October 9, 2015 -- Some Important Reminders

Hi Families,

We had our first school-wide assembly today. It was our kick off for PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) to try to encourage all students to display Tenney R.O.C.K.S. Behavior. ROCKS is an acroynm that stands for Respect, Ownership, Cooperation, Kindness, and Safety. Students can earn blue slips for displaying Tenney ROCKS behavior and can earn Show What You Know tickets for showing academic hard work and perseverance. Every student in our room has earned at least one blue slip this year -- many have earned a lot! Please ask your child about it! It was a lot of fun and the Tenney Tiger made an appearance :)

Some very important reminders for the week ahead:

1. No School on Monday for Columbus Day 
2. Please check your child's home-school folder for their Friday journal. We did not have a ton of time to write today, but they all should have written you a quick letter about their week. They LOVE when you write them a note back!! 
3. Picture Day is Thursday, October 15th, 2015. Picture order forms should have made it home in your child's backpack today. Please let me know if you did not receive it and I will make sure one gets home on Tuesday.
4. There is a PTO meeting on Thursday, October 15th in the evening. I hope you can attend!
5. Yankee Candle Fundraising forms are due back by Friday, October 16th. Please consider supporting the PTO with this fundraiser, and maybe get a little winter holiday shopping done early. I am so thankful for the support the PTO gives us teachers each year!
6. Progress Reports come home next Friday, October 16th. Please be on the lookout for those.
7. The Annual Tenney Monster Bash (put on by the above mentioned fabulous PTO!) will be on Friday, October 23rd. Mark your calendars! I am planning to attend and I hope you can, too!

As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts please send me an e-mail. I hope you have a wonderful long weekend!

Smiles,

Ms. Petzold

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Hi Families,

We went to gym. We did a skipping test. We did math stations. We learned a new fluency center. You need to figure out the addition equation then poke the hole to see if you are right. We wrote about Halloween spooky stories or fall stories. We have class journals where we right about topics to share with out class like favorite subject at school, about who lives at home, and Halloween.
We used our brain always thinking books when we finished our work early. We did a math fact quiz for pirate math (keep practicing math facts, please!!!). We reviewed all the ways to add and subtract. We did calendar and morning meeting. We had to add two straws because we missed yesterday. We played outside and ate lunch and ate snack. We read at the end of the day.

Have a good day!

From,
Matthew, Rhianna, and Ezekiel

Wednesday 10/7/15 Math Curriculum Night is TONIGHT!

Hi families,

I hope you will be able to attend the Math Curriculum Night with Dr. Kwong, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment tonight at 6:30 in the Tenney Auditorium. She will be talking about our new Eureka math program and hopefully will answer any problems you may have about it! I hope you can attend!

Best,
Ms. Petzold

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Hi Families,

Today, we put a sticky note on a chart to set goals. We went to art where we painted pictures of trees, background, the inside of trees. We learned about Stretchy the Snake as a reading - we have to stretch out the word then put it together quickly. In math, we decomposed numbers. We took out ten ones out of two-digit numbers. My favorite part of today was when we did math.

Have a great Tuesday!

Garrett and Kevin

Friday, October 2, 2015

Hi Families,

We did Friday journals. We wrote notes to our moms or dads or families or sisters or brothers or grandpas or grandma. We went outside for Friday free time if we earned it. We wrote thank you cards for to the person who helped get our hokki movement stools. We make little critters, sea creates, and watched them grow. We wrote about goals to make us good writer, a good reader, and good at math. Happy Friday!

From,
Joshua and Angelina

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Hi Families,

Math we did a sprint today. Math sprints we try to answer problems then we count how many we got right. Then we do another math sprint and try to do better than the first. Almost all of us did better on the second one. I liked math stations especially the fact fluency one because I did clothespin addition.

Jane and Rhianna


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Sorry for the short post - we ran out of time today! We also did more long A vowel work, practiced sorting nouns into categories, and talked about how good readers think while they are reading. We practiced these reading skills while reading Fredrick by Leo Leoni.

We will be sending home Friday journals tomorrow where your child will be writing you a note about their learning, they would love for you to write back!! Please keep an eye out for these, they should arrive tomorrow in their home-school folders. ! :)