A Fantastic Friday

We had a fantastic Friday today!

Pizza & Pajamas
For lunch, we had our 2nd Trimester Pizza Party.  The kiddos enjoyed eating lunch in the classroom and eating pizza, chips, healthy side & a dessert!  Today was also RBE's February Spirit Day & it was Pajama Day!

5th Grade Colonial Wax Museum
We went and visited Ms. Archer's 5th grade class and their wax museum.  The kiddos were dressed up and had props as they told about colonial times.  This correlated wonderfully with what we learned about colonial jobs and dress in November!

Lots of Learning is Happening in Room 26!

Reading

We have been working hard making inferences while we read.  An inference is an assumption that can be made about what is happening in the book.  You need two things to make an inference: 1) evidence from the book & 2) schema from your head.  Last week, we had focused on making inferences from clues that were provided.  This week, we focused on making inferences from short passages.  Next week, we will continue to work on inferences from short passages and comic strips.

Spelling

This week, we have continued to work on making words past-tense.  We talked about needing to double the last consonant and then add "ed" to CVC words (example: clap - clapped), dropping the "e" and then adding "ed" to CVCe words (example: skate - skated), and then adding "ed" to CVVC & VCC words (example: mark- marked).  Next week, we will continue to work on past tense words, but will focus on irregular past tense words.  Below is a chart of the next week's spelling words. The purple words are the spelling words, but we will also be expecting students to be able to spell the present tense words correct in their writing.  Please make sure that you are practicing your child's spelling words with him/her!  

Writing

This week in writing, we have worked on second opinion piece about our favorite flavor of ice cream.  Our focus has been on making sure that the reasons to support their opinion are specific to only their flavor.  The students were expected to come up with two specific reasons to support their opinion and then a counter argument of why they did not like a different flavor of ice cream.  We made a really cute ice cream cones and these are hung in the hallway.  The next time you come to school, make sure you check these out!  To celebrate all of our hard work we had an ice cream party today!

Next week, we will continue to work on opinion writing.  Last week, we took notes using PebbleGo, on two places that we would like to live (which correlates with our Social Studies objectives). Our third opinion piece will be on our favorite place to live.  We will be using a writing checklist to create a four paragraph opinion piece that has two specific reasons why s/he would like to live in either a small town, city, suburb, rural area, desert, polar region, rain forest, mountains, plains by the ocean, or on an island.  Then a counter argument why s/he would not want to live in a different part of the world.

Math

We continued to work on subtraction with regrouping (borrowing).  We have learned how to solve 2 & 3 digit subtraction problems with regrouping twice.  Next week, we will continue to work on solving subtraction problems with regrouping twice and also regrouping across a 0 (example: 405 - 278).  We will also be practicing solving addition and subtraction word problems containing extra information.

Health

We started our health unit this week.  As a kick off to our health unit, Alice's dad came in to speak with us because he works in the healthcare profession.  He talked with us about his job as anesthesiologist nurse.  Next week, the students will have the opportunity to read about all the different body systems and take notes.  By the end of our health unit, your child will have learned about the circulatory, digestive, muscular, nervous, respiratory and skeletal systems.

Planetarium

On Tuesday, 2nd grade will be going to the planetarium at RBHS.  We will be loading the bus at 9:15 and will be getting back around 10:45.  This is a change from what we had on the Friday Folder checklist - sorry!  Due to our field trip, we will have library checkout on Wednesday next week - not Tuesday.

Counselor
This week in counselor, Mr. Smith talked with the class about importance of safety and what to do if something was to happen that they felt was unsafe.  When making a decision there are 3 R's that the kiddos were taught: Recognize (is the situation safe?), Refuse (if the situation is unsafe say) and Report (tell a trusted adult).  The students also learned 8 "Never, Never Rules."

1. Never, never go in water without an older person.
2. Never, never use sharp tools with out an older person's help.
3. Never, never ride on wheels without a helmet.
4. Never, never ride in a car without a seat belt.
5. Never, never touch a dog without asking the person in charge.
6. Never, never touch guns.
7. Never, never play with fire.
8. Never, never cross the street without looking both ways.

Mr. Smith with be revisiting the importance of safety during his next counselor class.  Please let me or Mr. Smith know if you have any questions!

Lots of Items Are Due Next Week!

Six Flags Read to Succeed

A Student Reading Log came home with your child at the beginning of January for the Six Flags Read to Succeed program.  Your child must log 6 hours (360 minutes).  This form is due to Mrs. McKinzie by February 28.

Yearbooks
A year book order form came home at the beginning of February.  Yearbooks are $7 and can be ordered until Wednesday, March 1.  If you are wanting to order a yearbook for your child please send in the order form & money by Wednesday.

Book It
As a reminder, February's Book It form is due by Thursday, March 2.  For your child to be able to receive a free personal pan pizza your child needs to log 300 minutes of reading for the month.  Homework reading can be used for a part of this time.

Read Week is Almost Here!!

RBE's 3rd Annual Read Week is during the week of March 6!  We are so super excited to have LOTS of different guest readers.  If you would like the opportunity to come in and read a favorite book to the class there are still a few openings available.  You can checkout our SignUp Genius page with our available times. I just wanted to reiterate that our classroom & Mrs. Ross's classroom is peanut free - so if you choose to bring in a snack to share with the class as a connection to the book you read, please make it peanut free.

As a reminder, we will have a special Munch & Read Lunch on Tuesday, March 7.  You can come to school to eat lunch and read with your child.  Munch & Read Lunch will be from 11:00-11:45.  I hope that you can make it - if you are able to come please let us know by signing up on the SignUp Genius.  If your child will not be eating school lunch, or if you will be choosing to eat school lunch for our Munch & Read Lunch, please let me know.  I need to the let the kitchen staff know so that they can prepare the correct amount of food.  We will be sending home a form on Monday, please fill it out if you are planning to attend (even if you sign up online), so we can give the cafeteria an idea of how many lunches will be needed that day.

To celebrate the love of reading during our Read Week, each day will be a different dress up day.

• Monday, March 6: Mixed Up Monday! (wear your clothes inside out, backwards or mismatched)
• Tuesday, March 7: Top Hat Tuesday! (wear your favorite hat to school)
• Wednesday, March 8: Who's Who Wednesday! (dress as your favorite book character)
• Thursday, March 9: Think Green Thursday! (in honor of Green Eggs & Ham - wear green)
• Friday, March 10: Flannel Friday! (wear flannel - pajamas, shirts, etc.)

A flyer is also coming home in your child's Friday Folder - so make sure you look this over & start planning! :)  You can click here to view the flyer.

Have a wonderful weekend!