Mrs. Keebler's Blog

2nd Grade Tests-The 2nd graders will be having a math test this Thursday. I will be sending home a practice test today. Please take some time with your child tonight or tomorrow night to work on these concepts together or apart. Check over your child’s work and please keep this practice test at home. I do not need them returned. Thanks!

The 2nd graders will also be having a Social studies quiz on Thursday. Please review week 18- Government online for this quiz.

Calendar-I am SOOOOO excited!!  I am finally able to add a full calendar to my blog!  I’ve been wanting to do this for years!  – The calendar has, no school dates, field trips, Star of the Week, assemblies, I even added the upcoming tests.   I will continue to update this calendar so watch it for changes.

Links and Passwords – I have updated the Links and Password page.  I put everything in a grid format.   Hopefully, this makes it easier to find things.  I will continue to add and update the blog.

The Blog -We are no longer sending notes home.  The blog a great resource.  It has almost anything that you could want.  Please explore!

Here is what  you can find on the blog:

• Links and Passwords – links to many websites to use for extra practice of skills, extra work, extra reading.
• Parent Connect – Link to get to Parent Connect – keep track of your student’s grades and assignments.
• About Mrs. Keebler – learn more about Mrs. Keebler
• Calendar – see above
• Class Information – Daily Schedule and specials, school supply list, Information on Star of the Week, Class policies and procedures, curriculum information,  link for book orders.
• Parent Information – printable form for chaperoning and volunteering, parenting articles
• Lesson Plans and Homework – this tab has Reading logs for printing, Social studies information, Spelling words and homework, Science standards, Penmanship information and printable practice sheets, Math fact printable practice sheets,  Homework expectations, Link to the Lesson being taught each day-The lesson plans have all the assignments attached for printing- If your student is ABSENT you can see what was taught and print the assignment to complete at home.
• SRAs and Towers – there are some SRAs and Towers available if your student needs to complete one at home.
• Missing Assignment Tab – I will sometime post the missing assignment report here.

New Student – We had a new student start yesterday.  His name is Mohammed and he is a 3rd grader from River Oaks.  Please make him feel welcome.

Class Student Number – You might have notice a number in the upper right hand corner of your students papers.  I do this to help identify paper that students forget to write their names.  Because we have a new student and it is still close to the beginning of the year, we are changing all the students number in my class and in 3rd grade math.  This might cause a little confusion the first week with people getting thee wrong papers.  If you get any papers that are not your student’s papers please return them to school.

2nd Grade Social Studies quiz-2nd Graders will have a Social studies quiz near the end of this week on Thursday or Friday.  They will be quizzed on the material from Studies Weekly Week 18 – Government.  They can review this material online, by going to StudiesWeekly.com, log in is FirstLast name, password First name.

3rd Grade Fire Fighter visit/field trip – This week the 3rd graders will have a visit on Wednesday from a fire fighter to discuss fire safety.   Next week on Tuesday, October 4th the 3rd graders will be visiting the Fire Smoke House.  They will get to practice what to do if there were a real fire.   If you would like to chaperone please have your papers completed with the office.  If your child has asthma please indicate that when the permission slip comes home.

Completing Work – Please check your student’s Parent Connect account on a regular basis.  Most grades will be put in by Friday.  Students will earn a prize on Friday if they have completed all of their assignments.

• Please do not throw away any assignments unless you see that it has been recorded on Parent Connect.   I have had several students tell me that their parents have thrown their work that needed to be redone in the garbage.
• If an assignment says REDO, students are expected to correct the incorrect items and turn it in again.
• Finished work will have a grade (1-4) with a circle around it.
• If it has a check in the upper right hand corner, then it is recorded in my grade book and can be viewed on Parent Connect.  If it comes home without a check it is not recorded and should be returned.
• Most assignments are part of your students report card grade.

I’m Sorry!!

I posted that the 3rd Graders should complete the Week 14 test tonight for homework.  We are actually on week 6.  I apologize for the confusion.  If you had trouble finding it we will complete the test in class tomorrow (Friday).

2nd Graders Social Studies Test will go home today.

3rd Social Studies test – this test is taking longer than we expected.  We have been very busy with the NWEA MAP test this week and have less time than usual.  It is now going to be homework.  It is an open book test so students may use their Studies Weekly Week 14 to complete their test.  No parent help please.  They will complete it online by going to StudiesWeekly.com login with their first name and last name as the username and first name as the password.  Capitalize the first letter of each name:

For example:

Katie Keebler

Username: KatieKeebler

Password: Katie

Open House – Thank you to everyone who came to the open house and supported the Green Team with donations or buying baked goods.  The Green Team raised $128.  The money will be used for projects this year to help make the school a greener place.

Parent-Teacher Conferences – Will be on November 10th, 16th and 17th.  We signed up for Parent – Teacher Conferences at the Open House.  If you didn’t sign up please stop by the classroom before or after school.  The sign up sheets are on the door.

Parent Connect – Everyone should have gotten the direction on how to start using Parent Connect to see your students grades and assignments.  If you are having problems getting set up please let me know and I would be very willing to help you get started.

Please Return Hopper Poppers – We made our Hopper Poppers today in science and used them to study Physical Science – force, push, pull, motion, action, reaction.   The kids were very excited and wanted to bring them home, so I agreed they could bring them home.  However, I realized their is one more activity we need to do with our Hopper Poppers.   Please return the Hopper Poppers to school tomorrow.  Thanks!

3rd Grade Fire Station Field  Trip – October 4th – The 3rd Grade will be going to the Fire House for a talk on Fire Safety.

3RD Grade Social Studies quiz – rescheduled – We didn’t have enough time to finish our social studies test online on Tuesday.  We will complete it in class tomorrow.  Students can study by rereading their Studies Weekly Week 6 online.  The test is still open.  You can review the actual questions with your child, but I would like them NOT to complete the test at home.  They should complete it in school tomorrow.

Please Return Hopper Poppers – We made our Hopper Poppers today in science and used them to study Physical Science – force, push, pull, motion, action, reaction.   The kids were very excited and wanted to bring them home, so I agreed they could bring them home.  However, I realized their is one more activity we need to do with our Hopper Poppers.   Please return the Hopper Poppers to school tomorrow.  Thanks!

Social Studies Quiz Tomorrow – Both 2nd and 3rd Graders will have a social studies quiz on Tomorrow – Tuesday.   Please log into Studies Weekly and reread all the material to review.

2nd Grade – Log in to Studies Weekly and reread Week 14.  Here is a study guide with additional information for the 2nd graders, you will only need page 1 of the study guide.

3rd grade will only be tested on the material in Studies Weekly Week 6:

To log in to Studies Weekly: go to StudiesWeekly.com

User name: FirstnameLastname (must have capital first letter for each name, no spaces)

Password: Firstname (must be capitalized)

Tomorrow – Open House

5:30 – Green Team Bake sale – please help support Green Team by donating  baked goods or buying them at our sale.

6:00 – Open House visit all your students teachers and classrooms.  Pick up your Parent Connect information and learn how to use Parent Connect.

7:00 – PTA meeting in the cafeteria.

NWEA Testing – We will be testing on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for 3rd Grade.   2nd Grade will test only on Monday and Wednesday.  Please be sure your child is well rested and well fed (protien not sugar) on testing days.

Social Studies Quiz – Both 2nd and 3rd Graders will have a social studies quiz on Tuesday.   Please log into Studies Weekly and reread all the material to review.   Here is a study guide with additional information for the 2nd graders, you will only need page 1 of the study guide.   The 3rd grade will only be tested on the material in Studies Weekly:

To log in to Studies Weekly: go to StudiesWeekly.com

User name: FirstnameLastname (must have capital first letter for each name, no spaces)

Password: Firstname (must be capitalized)

2nd-grade-unit-1-study-guide

Grading – To be sure that your student’s papers have been graded and recorded you should look for a number with a circle around it.   You should also see a check in the upper right hand corner.  The check means that it has bee recorded in the grade book.  Here is our grading scale:

1 = 95-100%

2=80-94%

3=70-79%

4=0-69%

If you do not see a number in a circle and a check you should sent if back to school to be recorded.   Sometimes I will put a star at the top instead of a number.  If students get a redo, this usually means they got a score that is less than 79%.  They should correct their mistake, write redone at the top and turn it in again.  They will get partial credit for a redo.  I suggest students save their papers for a week to 2 weeks to make sure they are graded and recorded before recycling.

Daily Schedule – is finally updated.  Here is the link to find it – Daily Schedule

Missing Flash Drive – I’m sorry that things are talking longer than usual to post.  I recently lost my flash drive with all my data and I am having to work to recreate things that were already complete.

Communication – Many people are making comments on the blog and Google classroom.  It is best to send all questions to my email.  I may or may not always check the comments on these other sites regularly and you question could get missed.   It is usually a good idea to put all communication in writing.  Sometime if you tell me something, then 4-5 students or parents ask me questions after you told me something, then I might forget what you said.  If it is important, please send an email.

NWEA MAP Testing – will be this week and next.  We will be testing in the morning.  Please be sure that your child is well rested (children this age need 10-12 hours of sleep) and has a good breakfast (protein not sugar).

Homework and Lesson Plans –

Fridays I will be sending home the Spelling homework and Spelling sort.  This assignment will be turned in on Wednesdays.  I will also be sending home a reading log.  Students should be reading each night and completing the log each night Reading Logs will be due Thursdays with the book bags.   I will only send home one book a week.  They may use books from home or the library if they need more books to finish their log.  All students should be practicing their math facts a few minutes each night.

I will be making assignments on Google classroom and on the lesson plans that are on my blog.  These assignments will all be completed in class.  If your student is absent or does not have time to complete the work in class then you can print it from the blog.

Snacks – we don’t each lunch until 12:30 each day.  The students get very hungry by that time so we usually eat a healthy snack around 10 am.  Please provide fruits, veggies or other healthy snacks.   We count our fruits and veggies each day and we will earn an extra recess when we have reached 400 healthy snacks.  We are already at 85!  Please do not send juice or pop to drink.  The only beverage allowed in the classroom is water.