Happy September! :)

Wow!  I cannot believe that it is already September and we have already had 18 days of school!

Next week, we have two special days: Dot Day and our MU Volleyball field trip.  I am really looking forward to both of these days!

• Dot Day: Thursday, September 13
• Dot Day is a day where we will talk about how we can make our mark!
• We will love for all the kiddos to wear dots on Thursday.  If your child doesn't have clothing with polka dots - then maybe your child can make a special dot to wear that day!
• We have several fun activities planned.  One of our favorites is that we will be honoring the fire fighters who make their mark everyday!  
• We will be decorating sugar cookies and making a banner to give to them.
• Firefighters and a fire truck is coming out to school! 
• After we give them their treats, they will talk to us about the fire truck.  It is always a fun time!
• We do need your help with supplies to decorate the cookies for the firefighters.  If you are willing to donate supplies, please take at look at the Sign-Up Genius.  We appreciate whatever you are able to donate.

• MU Volleyball field trip: Friday, September 14
• Our first field trip of the school year is on Friday and it's to a MU Volleyball Match...we are super excited for this!! 
• We will love for all the kiddos to wear either MU or black/gold attire on Friday to support the MU Tigers.
• We will be leaving school around 9:30 and will returning around 2:00.
• If your child is bringing a lunch from home, please make sure that everything is able to be thrown away.  Please send everything in disposal containers in a gallon size bag with your child's name clearly marked on the outside.  

Just a visual :)

What We're Doing in 2nd Grade!

• Math
• This week, we continued talking about counting money, skip counting, identifying if a number is odd or even, and comparing numbers.
• Your child should be able to:
• Identify a penny, nickel, dime and quarter and tell the value of each.
• Skip count by 2's, 5's & 10's.
• Identify if a number is odd or even.
• Use >, <, or = to compare 2 numbers (example: 24 > 19).
• Next week, we will be taking our end of Unit 1 assessment, and then starting Unit 2.
• Writing
• We have been working extremely hard on our A Life of a Second Grader books.  We will be finishing these up next week and sharing them with you at our Curriculum Chat!
• Fundations
• This week, we reviewed that we add a bonus (double) f, l or s to the end of a word when the f, l or s come directly after a short vowel.  This is concept that can be tricky and often kiddos start over generalize and add ff, ll & ss to the end of lots of words.  We have also started talking about r-controlled vowels and the sounds that "ar" and "or" make.  
• Reading
• We have continued to work on writing a short summary about books that we have read this week.  Next week, we will be working on the comprehension strategy of making predictions.  Being able to make predictions helps the reader connecting existing knowledge to new information learned in the text.
• Social Studies
• This week, we have learned about what a citizen is, what behaviors that good citizens participate in, and we have started a small research project on a famous person and what they did to be a good citizen.  Next week, we will be finishing up our project (it will be displayed in the hallway - so check it out when you are at RBE for curriculum chat) and learning about famous U.S. symbols.

2nd Grade Curriculum Chat is on Tuesday, September 18 from 7:45-8:15.  The teachers will be sharing with you what happens throughout the school day and the students will have different items to share with you that they have done.  We are looking forward to chatting with you about 2nd grade!

I hope that you have wonderful weekend!