Today we spent time saving our classroom Symbaloo to our favorites for easy access to websites. The students asked if they could access the Symbaloo from home. I promised I would post the Symbaloo to our classroom blog :)
https://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eP70c7dg
Welcome to Ms. Bishop's Classroom Blog!
Monday, September 14, 2015
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Achieve3000
Parents,
Today your child learned all about Achieve3000. This is an online reading website with informational text that all students in my classroom are using. It is an excellent resource for practicing reading because the text is leveled based on your child's pre-assessment score. Students are encouraged to visit this website at home to practice their reading. This can count as their 20 minutes of homework each night. After reading the article, please make sure that your child completes the activity when it is offered. This is great practice for strengthening comprehension.
www.achieve3000.com
Username-wcp and lunch number (no spaces)
Password-wcp and lunch number (no spaces)
Today your child learned all about Achieve3000. This is an online reading website with informational text that all students in my classroom are using. It is an excellent resource for practicing reading because the text is leveled based on your child's pre-assessment score. Students are encouraged to visit this website at home to practice their reading. This can count as their 20 minutes of homework each night. After reading the article, please make sure that your child completes the activity when it is offered. This is great practice for strengthening comprehension.
www.achieve3000.com
Username-wcp and lunch number (no spaces)
Password-wcp and lunch number (no spaces)
Big Universe
Dear Parents, |
This year, our school will be using Big
Universe, an award winning online literacy platform designed to instill the
love for reading, writing, and learning in your students. We are excited about
this literacy tool and think you will be happy to know this resource is
accessible 24/7 at home on any device.
To get your child started at home,
please follow these easy steps:
1. Go to www.biguniverse.com and click Sign
In
2. Enter your account information:
Username:
WCP(Lunch Number)
Password:
(Lunch Number)
Group
Username: wcpss
Friday, July 24, 2015
Welcome to Second Grade!
Welcome! I would like to welcome you, as well as your
child to second grade because this year will truly be a joint venture between
parent, child, and teacher. This year
will be a busy one of learning and growing.
Please take a few minutes to read over this handbook with your
child. It contains information about
homework, communication, and school polices. Thank you!
Methods of
Communication… -You may email me at jbishop@wcpss.net and I will respond within 24-48 hours (often sooner). Please do not send emails regarding changes in your child’s transportation. I cannot guarantee that I will receive the email before the end of the day.
-Please check our classroom blog http://bishopbres.blogspot.com/
My goal is to update our classroom blog at least once a week. I will send out an email to let you know when our classroom blog is updated. Please make sure I have your correct email address. If you have not received an email from me by the end of the first full school week, please let me know so that we can make sure I have your correct email address.
-You may call and leave a message at Banks Road. I will return your phone call within 24-48 hours of receiving the message. The phone number is 919-890-7333.
-You may send in a note with your child. Please make sure the note is attached to your child's daily folder. Please do not put any note in your child's book bag. We do not check book bags. I will respond to written notes within 1-2 school days.
- Report cards will go home at the end of the first,
second, third, and fourth quarter. Please
sign and return the report card envelope.
If you would like to schedule a conference, please indicate on the
envelope. We will have two scheduled
conferences throughout the year. We will
discuss your child’s progress and assessment data during these times. If you would like to schedule any additional
conferences, just let me know!
Attendance
Students are allowed to enter the classroom at the 8:45
bell. We begin our instructional day at
9:15. Your child’s progress is greatly
influenced by their daily participation.
Regular attendance without tardiness is very important. Please send a note regarding your child’s
absence unless you have sent an email explaining the absence. Absences without any parental contact are
documented as unexcused.
Classroom
Management
During the first week of school we will discuss our classroom
rules. Our classroom rules will be the
same as our school wide rules (Be Responsible, Be Respectful, and Be Safe). After discussing our rules, we will establish
appropriate rewards and consequences. Your
child will have a clothespin labeled with their name and the students will move
their clip to the appropriate color based on the daily choices they make. Please refer to the behavior calendar in your child's daily folder for additional information. Your child's daily folder will be sent home on the first day of school. In that folder they will color a calendar
reflecting their behavior for the day.
Please initial it and return the folder each day. If your child completed a thinking plan, that
will also be in their daily folder.
Please review it with your child, sign it, and return it to school the
following day.
Rewards- On Friday if your child has been on green (or above)
each day that week, they will earn a lollipop to eat in class (often during
writing time). Students will also earn Blazer
Bucks (school wide) that they can save and use for various rewards (ex.
treasure box, lunch with a friend or the teacher, sit in the teachers chair for
a lesson, no homework pass, etc.)
STARS (Students Take Active Responsibility Successfully)
Friday – The entire 2nd grade team will participate in STARS
Friday. If your child has stayed on
green or above the whole week, they will be able to participate. They must also have ALL work completed. There will be a rotating schedule of
activities (curriculum related crafts and movies, games, extra recess,
etc.) If students move their clip to
yellow (twice in one week) or orange/red (once in one week), they will not
attend STARS. Instead, they will attend
our grade level study hall.
Homework
and Daily Folder
Homework will come home on Monday in your child’s daily
folder. Students should complete
homework each night for at least 20 minutes. This time is separate from the 20 minutes of
reading each night. All homework should
be returned on Friday. Homework will include the following items each week:
written responses after independent reading, math worksheets, and Letterland
assignments. Your child should be able to complete this homework independently
since it is a review of concepts learned in class. As your child completes his/her assignments,
please initial in the box to the right each night.
Your child will be expected to be responsible for their
homework, making sure they keep track of it, and turning it in on Friday. If your child does not turn in their
homework, they will not be able to attend STARS on Friday.
Daily Folder- Your child will bring their folder home each
day. On Monday, their homework will be
in the folder. It will also contain a
written reading response log to document nightly reading and their behavior
calendar. Each Friday, your child will bring home work from that week in their
daily folder. The folder will also contain
important school information (pictures, PTA filers, etc.) Please make sure to clean out this folder
each weekend and return it on Monday.
Birthdays
County and school polices seek to make the school a healthy
environment. Some ideas to celebrate
your child’s birthday at school besides a special snack are to send in a
special book to read, eat with your child at lunch, or donate a book to the
library. If you wish to celebrate your
child’s birthday at school with a snack you may bring in a store bought/store
prepared snack. This can be shared with the
children at lunch or during recess.
Please let me know at least one week in advance of when you plan on bringing
in the snack. Toys treat bags, and
balloons are not allowed. Please do not send in birthday invitations,
unless you have one for each child in our class. This eliminates feelings getting hurt.
Bathroom
We do not have a bathroom in our classroom. Your child can go to the bathroom before the
bell rings in the morning and during our scheduled bathroom trips. They will not be able to go to the bathroom
during instructional times unless it is an emergency. If your child has a medical condition that
requires additional bathroom trips, please let me know.
Toys
Toys (electronics, silly bands, necklaces, etc.) are not
allowed. If I see your child playing
with toys in the classroom, I will keep them until the end of the day. If I see them again, I will keep them until a
parent comes to get them from school. I
want our classroom to be an environment with as little distractions as
possible.
Snack and
Lunch
If your child buys their lunch, you can send in a check (made
out to Banks Road Elementary Cafeteria) or cash to add to their lunch
account. Pre-paying for lunches eliminates
confusion and lost lunch money. If their
lunch account is low, a notice will be sent home from the cafeteria. We will have snack every day during recess. Please send a healthy small snack (fruit,
vegetables, crackers, etc NO soda or candy please!) each day.
Volunteering
Our classroom is always open to volunteers! Please fill out the volunteer information
sheet if you are interested in volunteering in our classroom this year. You must register to be a volunteer in the
front office. Even if you were a volunteer
last year you must do this again.
Transportation
Please make sure to let me know how your child will get home
from school each day on the information sheet in the first day packet. If your child will be going home a different
way, please call the school or send in a note in your child’s daily
folder. If I do not hear different from
you your child will go home the same way each day.
Literacy
and the Daily Five
The Daily Five is a way of structuring the reading block so
that every student is independently engaged in meaningful literacy tasks. These research-based tasks are fun, engaging,
and have big impacts on student reading and writing achievement. During this time, I will provide focused,
intense instruction to individuals and small groups of students. Here are the Daily 5 components:
·
Read to Self: Research continually shows that the
very best way to become a better reader is to practice, practice, practice!
Your child will read books at his or her “just right” level each day.
·
Read to Someone: Reading to someone helps develop
reading fluency and comprehension.
·
Listen to Reading: Listening to reading helps
children develop reading fluency. It
also allows them to access texts that they can’t read independently yet.
·
Word Work: Working with words helps children
become better spellers and writers. Your
child will learn about word families, practice high frequency words using an
assortment of engaging activities.
·
Work on Writing: Just like it takes practice to
become a better reader, it takes practice to become a better writer. During this center, your child will work on
writing of their own choices. We have
also have a separate Writer’s Workshop time to work on specific forms of
writing.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Social Studies Link
http://piggybank.disney.go.com/game/
Students played this interactive game at school and loved it! They asked me to post the link on our classroom blog so they could play it at home. Great practice for learning about economics!
Students played this interactive game at school and loved it! They asked me to post the link on our classroom blog so they could play it at home. Great practice for learning about economics!
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Classroom Store
FYI-In social studies, we are learning about economics. We have been learning all about money,
goods/services, needs/wants, producers/consumers, etc. In a couple of weeks, we are going to have
our very own classroom store. Your child
has been asked to start thinking of goods they can make at home to sell at our
classroom store. Please do not go out
and purchase goods from stores to sell.
Instead I would like for the students to make their own goods (please
refrain from food items). Some of the
goods we are making in class include: bookmarks, homework passes, beaded
jewelry, popsicle stick picture frames, games, fortune tellers, and
pictures. I would love for students to
make some additional goods at home (ex. loom jewelry, homemade play-doh, etc.)
The students seem very excited about this fun learning experience and I thank
you in advance for your support. Please
send in all items by Wednesday, February 11th.
Ms. Bishop
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Achieve 3000/Kid Biz
Posted: 30 Dec 2014 08:26 AM PST
Trailblazers,
Our students in Grades 2-5 have access to this reading program. If used consistently your child has the opporunity to deepen their comprehension skills and practice reading strategies they are learning in class. If you have questions, please contact Ms. Moore at dmoore4@wcpss.net. She is our Achieve 3000/KidBiz Teacher Contact. :) Mrs. Graf
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Now your child can improve his or her reading skills at home with the same great technology program we're using in school: KidBiz3000.
Throughout the week, KidBiz3000 sends lessons. Every student in the class gets the same basic lesson, but the content is customized to match each child's own reading level. The lesson comes with a variety of fun activities to improve your child's comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills. As your child's reading level improves, KidBiz will increase the level of difficulty so he/she remains challenged and interested. Doing his or her best on the activities will ensure the best match between your child's ability and the content delivered. It is also important that your child's answers to the questions reflect work completed independently and without extra assistance.
Students use this program in class, but you can also share in the fun at home - or anywhere a computer is connected to the Internet. Here's how:
Step 1:Respond to the Before Reading Poll.
Step 2:Read the Article. Step 3: Do the Activity Questions. Step 4:Respond to the After Reading Poll. Step 5:Answer the Thought Question.
We hope you enjoy exploring KidBiz with your child.
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