Thank you for all of your support this year!
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your support and dedication to our classroom. I am very excited that my students are almost second graders. They will enjoy this big change in their lives. I have enjoyed watching them grow socially, academically, and physically. It has been a pleasure to work with each and every one of my students. I wanted to let you know that next year, I will not be at Cherry Valley. Recently, my husband got a job in Longview, WA. I will be relocating to be with him. I have truly enjoyed my time at Cherry Valley and working with your students. I will truly miss each one of my students, the parents, and the wonderful Cherry Valley staff. I had the experience of a lifetime and I wanted to thank you again for all of your support. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail or call me.
Your Child’s Teacher,
Megan Goff
425-844-4775
goffme@riverview.wednet.edu
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- Reading: We have been working on our final comprehension unit Synthesizing and we will be using author Mem Fox stories to mentor us through this! Synthesizing involves students reflecting on their reading, combine the ideas they gained by reading with their own knowledge, and create new ideas and a personal understanding of the text.
- Writing: We are beginning to write Invisible Me stories this week using Mem Fox as our Mentor.
- Math: We are working on our last unit Measurement! We are measuring with non-standard units and inches this week.
- Social Studies: We are wrapping up our learning about Australia!
- Field Day: Thursday, June 10th
- Early Release: Friday, June 11th
End of the Year Walkabout on Friday, June 11th from 9:30-11:45!
- We will walk to Taylor Park (unless the weather is terrible) in Australian tradition to play, eat lunch, and celebrate our year together!
- We also celebrate all summer birthdays at the park. There will be a special treat for this!
- Please send in your child’s permission slip by Wednesday. You do not need to send any lunch money!
Your child’s teacher,
Megan Goff
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Marble Celebration
Friday, June 4th
Our class has earned all of our marbles after much hard work! YAY! This Friday, in celebration of their accomplishments, we will be having a Pajama Party. The kiddos can wear their pajamas ALL day and can bring their favorite stuffed animal to snuggle with. Each student is also allowed to bring one small treat to eat during the movie.
Miss Goff
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- Reading: We began our new unit on Non-Fiction stories. We are going to talk about Captions in Photographs, Labels, Maps, and Types of Print.
- Phonics: We are reviewing all of our word wall words. We are also working on contractions.
- Writing: We will start our study on Non-Fiction writing! Students will become “teachers” and writing How-to Books in a very systematic process.
- Math: Our new unit we have begun is Analyzing Story Problems. Students are looking at story problems in a variety of ways!
- Social Studies: We continue to study Australia! We are learning more about Australia’s geography and animals each day!
- Computer Lab: Students continued to work on their Australian animal project!
- Early Release: Friday, May 21st
Other Events
- Jump-a-thon – May 24th, 2:30 p.m.
- Music Performance – May 25th, 7:00 p.m.
- Read-a-thon Gold Medal Assembly – May 28th, 2:30 p.m.
- Field Day – June 10
Thank you for adding these events to your family calendar!
Enjoy your week!
:) Miss Goff
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- Reading: We are finishing up Mental Images this week. We will begin our new unit on Non-Fiction stories later this week.
- Word Wall Words (last ones for the year!): after, boy, can’t, girl, won’t
- Writing: We are finishing Poetry. We will begin to study Non-Fiction writing more closely at the end of the week as our new unit.
- Math: We are finishing Money this week. Our new unit we will start at the end of the week is Analyzing Story Problems.
- Social Studies: We will continue our new unit on Australia! We are going to learn more about Australia’s geography and animals!
- Computer Lab: Students have begun an Australian animal project! We will continue to work on this over the next few weeks!
- Art: Our wonderful art docents will be here Thursday!
Pacific Science Center Field Trip: is this Friday, May 14th!!! Please look for more information to come home in a few days!
Miss Goff
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Reading: We are continuing Mental Images. We are reading “The Wizard the Fairy and the Magic Chicken” and drawing and sharing our mental images.
Writing: We have been working on acrostic poems and will begin working on Concrete poems! We have started our expert Poem Form booklet!
Math: We have been exchanging money for the store and we have been solving problems using multiple ways (pictures, words, counting, etc.) We are also working on our number scrolls, trying to write to 1,000!
Science: This week we made a Venn diagram to compare and contrast what plants and animals need. We also compared the different ways our classroom organisms move around to some other Organisms outside our class!
Phonics: Word Wall Review.
Computer Lab: We worked on writing an acrostic poem!
Friday: The reptile man will be here on Friday. We will see a few of his friends in the afternoon, but he will be at school in the evening! We will also be having an Art Docent Lesson.
Field trip information to the Pacific Science Center came home on Monday! Please read all information letters and return to school by Monday, May 3rd! Thank you!
Have a great end of April!
Miss Goff
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Hello everyone!
I hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing spring break!
- Reading: This week we are working on “Mental Images”. Mental images are creating pictures in our minds! We have been hearing some poems and drawing our own mental images.
- Phonics: New Word Wall Words: make, over, there, want, will
- Writing: We are finishing our spring break writing. We will also be learning how to revise our writing this week. We will begin a poetry unit next week!
- Math: Our focus has been money and time. We are also working on different number models (a + b =c) to get to specific answer targets. We will be playing games and doing a variety of activities this week to help our learning.
- Science: Our organisms are back home! Thank you volunteers for taking wonderful care of them. This week we will be learning about the water snails in our aquariums. Ask us about the different body parts of the water snail! We even have some baby guppies in one tank!
- Computer Lab: We will work on a spring poem this week to start off our poetry unit next week! Our poem will focus on using our senses.
- Friday is Washington Team Sports Day! Support your favorite Washington team. We also have an assembly on Friday!
Have an enjoyable week!
Miss Goff
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- Reading: We will continue to work on inferring, predicting, and using our schema to help us during reading. We will also be comparing different books to see how they are a like and different.
- Phonics: New Word Wall Words: best, brother, not, sister, went
- Writing: We are working on our writers’ booklets! As writers we are trying to continue writing as much as we can while using all of the writing strategies that we have learned. We will have a writers’ celebration this week as well!
- Handwriting: We are practicing writing words that have Magic “C” letters in them.
- Math: We are continuing our study of money and time. The students have been working hard to earn money. They are able to spend it each Friday at the classroom store!
- Science: Our classroom Organisms are here! We have beetles, pill bugs, guppies, and a variety of live plants! We will be observing our terrariums this week and adding them to our science notebook.
Friday is an early release!
Spring break is April 5th through the 9th! Please continue reading and working on writing at home
Have an enjoyable week!
:) Miss Goff
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