Week of 9/29/25- 10/3/25

It was fun seeing so many students walking a rolling to school today! Everyone received their QR code tag in the Thursday envelopes last Friday. I will be on crosswalk duty this week, so I am excited to see us all walking and rolling!

This week in reading workshop, we will wrap up our first unit, "Becoming Big Kid Readers". Students will be building reading stamina for independent reading as well as working to solve tricky words with vowel pairs.

For word study, we will continue to look at ways to read and spell long o (oa, ow) and explore verbs. A long-o word sort will go home again this week for practice, and it is due on Friday. In writing, we are working on second and third small moment stories as well as revising and editing. In addition, we are writing our first letters to our second grade pen pals. Mr. Jarrett has arranged for the second graders at Steindorf to be pen pals with the second graders at an elementary school in Pleasanton, where the child of a former Steindorf teacher is currently a second grader as well! We are excited to mail our letters and receive a letter in return.

In math we continue to place value, counting, and comparing numbers to 1,000. We will learn how to write numbers in different forms. We will also look at a number such as 768 and see it as 7 hundreds, 6 tens, 8 ones or 76 tens 8 ones.

Please remember that we have P.E. on Wednesday, so proper shoes and a hat are recommended. It is going to be hot this week, so please send a water bottle with your child as well.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for signing up for a goal-setting conference. I have emailed everyone their confirmations with a Google calendar invite. Please plan to bring your child with you to the conference.

Monarch Excitement!

The monarchs are beginning to emerge from their chrysalides! This is so exciting! One emerged on Friday, and the beautiful one pictured here emerged on Saturday morning. I came to school to check, and there she was! So beautiful!

BTC Math Night 9/30

Building Thinking Classrooms Family Night

At Back-to-School Night, I briefly mentioned the work our class will be doing this year with vertical surfaces problem solving. This pedagogy is formally known as "Building Thinking Classrooms," and you are invited to attend a family information night to learn more about this amazing instructional practice! Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

RSVP here

Yearbook

Buy in person to avoid fees afterschool September 22-25, 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM at Picnic Tables by the Dismissal Gates. We accept check or cash.

Nightly Reading Homework

The reading log is to keep track of nightly reading at home and is part of the San Jose Sharks "Reading is Cool" program. It is due back at the end of the month. Remember, nightly reading can include independent reading, reading aloud, and listening to a grown-up read. 20 minutes each night is recommended. Students may bring books home from school to read. They can be both classroom and school library books These books come home in a plastic zipper pouch. Please help your children build the habit of keeping school books in the pouch when they are not being actively read. This helps prevent mix-ups with public library books and personal book collections.

Math Parent Information Sheets

Important Dates!

Short Days 1:30 dismissal for conferences 10/6-10/14. Please plan accordingly.

HSC Communication Opt-In

Please sign up to HSC Membership Toolkit to receive emails from the Room Parents about your child's classroom needs and how you can best support their teacher, as well as for communications about the HSC school events and programs:

Book Orders

September Book Orders went home in the Thursday envelopes last week. If you would like to place an order, here is a direct link to the class page:

Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/HG4Y8

Please place orders by 9/27. I will submit the order for shipping on Sunday 9/28.

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