Pumpkin Book
Reports
- Wow! The pumpkin
book reports were amazing. Thank you so much for helping your
students create such fabulous book character pumpkins! Pictures were taken of all the kiddos with their pumpkins and they have been posted to Twitter - make sure to check them out!
Book It
- October Book It is due
by Wednesday. Students must read and record at least 2 hours of
reading and bring in their reading log. This is completely
optional. If they did not get a chance to fill it out for October,
they can always try to earn their pizza for November.
Homework Bingo
- The kids keep getting
Homework Bingos.
- Once students get 8
activities in a row, they can bring us their Bingo Board and eat with us
the following Friday.
- This is not required,
but it is a fun way for them to practice skills at home.
Food Drive
- Service Club is having
their yearly food drive. Second grade is collecting smooth peanut
butter. If you would like to donate any peanut butter, you can send
it in with your student.
Conferences
- We will be scheduling
next week and be sending home conference times next Friday.
- Our goal is to meet with
all parents and we do our best to schedule all conferences during the time
you requested.
- The book fair will be
open during conferences as well. This is a great place to get some
books for your students to read at home. The book fair schedule is
below.
- Monday
7:30 AM -5:00 PM
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday 7:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
- If there is anything
specific you want to discuss at conferences, please let us know.
Veteran
- If you know a veteran who would like to come talk with our students about their service (in 2nd grade words), please let us know.
Next Week's Learning
Math
- Next week, we will focus
on different subtraction strategies. We will be working on counting
up to 10 and counting back to 10. We will also be looking at using
doubles strategies to solve subtraction problems.
- Our plan is to text the
week of November 5. We sent home Home Links this week in Friday
folders for Unit 3.
Reading
- We wrapped up our study
of theme this week. This is a difficult concept for students to
grasp. Yesterday, we listened to 4 different songs and the students
identifying the theme. We talked about the lesson the author wanted
you to learn and how you could use things from the book to make you a better
person.
- Next week, we will start
focusing on strategies to use when coming to an unknown word. It is
important for students to identify unknown words instead of just skipping
over them because when they skip over them they often do not understand
what they have read. One of the strategies does recommend skipping
the word, but then to come back once you have figured out what would make
sense in the sentence.
Writing
- We will start our 2nd
personal narrative next week. The students will have a graphic
organizer to help them organize their thoughts. This personal
narrative will be more independent than the first, but we will still
review what to include in each part.
Science
- We will be working on
identifying the purpose of a materials based on its characteristics.
- Students will then
classify materials and determine the best use of the material.
Have a fabulous
weekend!
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