Fall Pumpkin Book Project
Just a reminder that your child's fall pumpkin book project is due this Tuesday, October 24. We have received quite a few pumpkins already & they look amazing! We have sent home a paper pumpkin and extra book project papers for students who said that they needed them. If you have any questions please ask!Fall Harvest Party
The Fall Harvest Party is next Friday, October 27 from 1:45-2:30. Kristy Rysdam, has developed a Sign Up Genius for materials that are need for the party. Please check out the Sign Up Genius by clicking here. If you are able to come the day of the party we would love to have you!Parent/Teacher Conferences
Earlier this week, we sent home a Parent/Teacher Conference request sheet. This sheet is to help us be able to schedule a good time to meet with your family. It is our goal at RBE that we meet with 100% of our families. Mrs. Ross & I have extended our conferences over two weeks to help ensure that we can meet with all of our families. If you have not sent back in your request sheet (we sent home a new sheet in Friday Folders for kiddos we did not receive one from this week), please do so by Monday. Thanks! A confirmation date will be coming home in next week's Friday Folder.
Just as reminder, on Monday, October 30 we will have no school due to a Teacher Work Day to prepare for conferences.
Just as reminder, on Monday, October 30 we will have no school due to a Teacher Work Day to prepare for conferences.
This week was warmer...next week will be cooler
We just wanted to share again with you what our expectations are for students at RBE to wear outside at what temperature. This week was warmer, but please remember that we have our morning recess at 9:50 - it was still in the 50's. Next week, the temperature is supposed to drop and be cooler. Please remember to send your kiddo with a jacket or sweatshirt every day!
Special Visitors
As you read about last week, October is Bilingual Child Month, Tommy's family sent in egg rolls for us to have as a special snack on Thursday. Mrs. Richardson came in and talked about Vietnamese culture. We also learned about Mexican culture from Yareli, the culture of Nicaragua from Valentina and the culture in Burundi from Felix.
Tristan's dad came in as special visitor yesterday. He told us about being a diesel mechanic in the Navy. He also read us a book The Night Before Thanksgiving.
Tristan's dad came in as special visitor yesterday. He told us about being a diesel mechanic in the Navy. He also read us a book The Night Before Thanksgiving.
A Tasty Math Lesson!
Today, we had a taste testing math lesson that the kiddos loved! We invited Mrs. Reynolds and Ms. Ragsdale's classes to our classroom. We had 6 different types of candy corn and the students had the opportunity to taste each type and then choose their favorite one. After taste testing, we turned our votes into a tally mark chart. We then used this data to make a double bar graph. Make sure the next time that you are at RBE that you check out our chart and graph in the hallway outside our classroom!
Maker Space Monday
The students enjoyed Maker Space Monday. This week they had a chance to explore Ozobots. They made a different paths for the Ozobots to make their way through. Some students worked together to make a giant path. We also explored the patterns to make the Ozobots go rapid fast or super slow. They had fun! :)
What's Been Happening in 2nd Grade?
- Math: We finished up our second math unit on addition strategies this week and took our assessment. Today, we started unit 3. The focus of this unit is teaching the students strategies to solve subtraction problems.
- Writing: This week, we started publishing our small moment stories! We are so excited about how these are turning out! Next week, we will continue to work on publishing our stories. We have also read three books that are connected (Spoon, Chopsticks, and Spork). The student will be creating their own utensil book to add to this series. Our plan is turn them into a book and send them to Amy Crouse Rosenthal.
- Reading: This week, we finished up talking about story elements of a story. In second grade, when we talk about story elements we talk about characters (and their traits), setting (when & where), problem and a solution that solves the problem. The kiddos made a Story Element Tree of a book that we have read together or a book that they had read on their own. These trees are hung up in the hallway across from our classroom. Make sure to check out our Story Element Forest the next time you are at RBE! :) Next week, we will start to discuss how we can use context clues as a strategy to solve unknown words.
- Social Studies: We will continue to discuss and talk about rural, urban and suburban and how the culture of these environments can be different.
- Word Study: This week we continued to focus on vowel patterns. We learned that "e" is a magic letter that turns a short vowel into a long vowel sound. Over the past two week we have focused on short and long a and o words Next week we will focus on short i and long i words. Next week's words are: stick, gift, rich, swim, thin, five, life, nine, prize, & drive.
I hope that you have a wonderful weekend!
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