IPSF Giving Day

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On Thursday, October 16th, all of Irvine Unified will wear orange to represent IPSF Giving Day!

Why Do We Wear Orange?

IPSF Giving Day serves as the official kick-off to the Educational Excellence Fund, a parent and community fundraising effort to provide access to opportunities that have disappeared in our neighboring school districts. We wear orange to raise awareness for the incredible people – mental health professionals, instructional assistants, school nurses, and athletic trainers – and afterschool and summer enrichment programs that make a difference in students’ lives every day. None of this would be possible without the generosity of parents and supporters like you.

Science: Invisible Forces

Students have been doing a great job with their Science Forces lessons. We have discussed forces such as pushes and pulls, and discussed topics such as gravity, friction, pattern of motion and momentum.

Students loved watching Rube Goldberg machine videos that had elaborate chain reactions. For three days, students made their own Rube Goldberg machiens that demonstrated pulling, pushing, and gravity forces. All of these explorations can easily be recreated at home. Thank you to the families who sent materials in to class for the students to use in their structures!

Dodecahedron

Students carefully assembled a dodecahedron in class. A dodecahedron is a 3-dimensional figure that has 12 faces. Each face of their figure had a math problem to practice the various multiplication properties. The kids did a great job and had so much fun creating their figures.

Great California Shake-Out

On Wednesday, October 15th, our school will participate in the CA Great Shakeout- a day to practice emergency drills statewide. All students and staff will participate in a full drill to practice safety procedures. The staff will practice search and rescue, as well as mock first aid procedures, however this is only a practice drill.

In the event of a real emergency, students will ONLY be released to parents/guardians who have checked in at one of the two Reunion Stations. You must show ID to match the student’s emergency release form. Please do not pick up your child before checking in at the Reunion Station. Staff members will not release students prior to confirming guardian ID. Thus, it is important to make sure your contact information for your child is up to date at all times.

If appropriate for your family, you may choose to have a discussion with your child regarding what to do if there were truly an emergency situation (both during school times and at home). It is important for children to know what to do and how to stay safe. Here at Woodbury, the staff’s number one priority is to keep children safe. We review and practice our safety procedures regularly so that our school is always prepared.

Book Fair

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Students and families (including any out-of-town family members who may want to purchase books as gifts) will be allowed to shop online for an assortment of books. Students will have an opportunity to shop in person with their class.

Room 14 will also have a classroom wish list of books to add to our classroom.

Payment Options:

  • Send cash with your child. Place the cash in an envelope with your child’s name on it.

  • Set up an e-Wallet set up for your child to shop with.

  • Families can also choose to shop online.

Using Quotation Marks with Dialogue

Students can use this anchor chart to help them remember how to use quotation marks when they include dialogue in their narratives.

9/11

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Today marks the 24th year anniversary of September 11th. Like many Americans, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first heard the news report that day. Let's never forget the 2,977 individuals that lost their lives that day.

Multiplication City

The students have been working on their multiplication skills, and focusing on three main learning targets.

  • I can use different strategies to solve multiplication problems.

  • I can solve word problems using multiplication.

  • I can use and understand multiplication properties.

One strategy that they have been learning about are multiplication arrays (rows x columns). To help visualize array concepts, the students made their own Multiplication City!

Writers Workshop

9/1/25 UPDATE: New pictures added from recent Writers Workshop lessons!

8/7/25: Students have been working hard on their Writers Workshop lessons. Throughout the school year, students will learn narratives, opinion, and informative styles of writing. We are currently learning the narrative genre, and it is so exciting to see and read the stories they are writing. Students also meet with writing partners to get advice and feedback on their writing so that they may edit and revise their work just like published authors! Thank you to the parents who donated the 4-color click pens! These are our special Writers Workshop pens that are only used during Writers Workshop!

Math Games

Thanks to parent donations, our class has access to games like Adsumudi — a mental math game, Sumoku— another math game, sets of Jenga blocks, and decks of cards that can be used to figure out equations utilizing addition and subtraction, and for some students— multiplication! In class, we played Addition and Subtraction War using standard decks of cards, which is a game that students could easily play at home if families have cards as well! We also played a multiplication game called Circles and Stars using simple dice. With the Jenga blocks, the kids got to know one another by answer questions corresponding to each block!