Stone Soup This Friday 12/19/14

Dear Room 4 Families, We are so fortunate to have Panera Bread donate the soup for our Stone Soup story celebration. On Friday, December 18th, all 2nd grade classes at Stonebrae will participate in a soup celebration. We will gather together to discuss the story, have it read aloud, and all enjoy soup together. Our […]

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Weekly Newsletter for 12/12/14

Dear Room 4 Families, Your child has had a very rainy week at school. We have been busy learning strategies for mental math to help us with regrouping when we add and subtract larger numbers. Your child has also been comparing and contrasting many different things, including different versions of “Stone Soup” which will end […]

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NO SCHOOL tomorrow, 12/11/14

Dear Room 4 Families, Due to the upcoming weather forecast predicting a heavy storm to hit the Bay Area, Stonebrae will be closed tomorrow on Thursday, December 11th. We currently do not know if there will be school on Friday, however, if you do not hear from the school or from me, please prepare to […]

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Mandarin Parent Workshop

Stonebrae Mandarin Parent Workshop Location: Media Center Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Date: December 9, 2014, Tuesday Agenda 6:00 Welcome 6:10 Online Resources of Learning Chinese – Isabella Lai & Yang Da 6:45 Pinyin Workshop – Jackie Wicks

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Weekly Newsletter 12/4/14

Dear Room 4 Families, I hope everyone had a relaxing Thanksgiving break with their families. It was wonderful to meet you this week for your parent-teacher conference. Please feel free to contact me throughout the year if you would like to check in your child’s progress or have any questions. There is no school tomorrow, […]

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Stonebrae Room 4 Weekly Newsletter for 11/21/14

Dear Room 4 Families, Your child has had a busy week learning about magnets during our Mad Science presentation, learning about the attributes of plane shapes and solid figures, using opinion writing and comparison writing during their ELA time, and more! Next week is Thanksgiving break and I sincerely hope that you have a wonderful […]

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Weekly Newsletter for 11/14/14

Dear Room 4 Families, Thank you for such a warm welcome back to the classroom this week. I appreciate how welcoming you have been to our sub Ms. G and buying flowers for the both of us! This week we have been working on our opinion writing for our Fall writing task, wrapping up our […]

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Parent Teacher Conferences

Dear Room 4 Families, Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on the first week of December from the 1st-5th. This year, we will be signing up for your time slot via google documents. The link to the document is HERE. Please write your child’s name in an empty box on the google document. Please do […]

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Out for Surgery!

Dear Room 4 Families, I have my surgery schedule for tomorrow and will be out of the classroom until I am recovered. Thank you for all of your warm wishes for a speedy recovery. In the meantime, please direct questions to the office or speak with Ms. G directly. I have created a ClassDojo account […]

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Weekly Newsletter for 10/3/14

Dear Room 4 Families, This week your child had a great time exploring literacy through Berkeley Repretory Theater’s Storybuilder’s workshop. Your child had the opportunity to interact, move, perform, and use their imagination to understand the elements of a story. Each child had the opportunity to come up and perform a scene from the story […]

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