Thursday, November 13th-

Hello Families!

Thank you for joining us for parent teacher conferences.  It was so nice to touch base with you, and discuss your wonderful children. 

 

Friday, November 13th is a non-contact day for students.

 

We enjoyed a Veteran's Day Assembly last Friday, and had the opportunity to have Veteran's speak in our classrooms on Monday.  The students wrote a card to thank a Veteran for their service as well. 

 

Next week Dr. N is coming to our grade to talk to the students about PACK expectations.

 

Thank you for your wonderful donations to the food drive, which will continue next week!

 

We will be having our annual Turkey Trot on Friday, November 22nd during recess, come out and join us if you can!

 

The School Snowflake Dance will also take place on Friday, November 22nd in the evening.

 

 

This week, you can expect:  

   
MATH:  For 2nd grade math-We have been working on ballpark estimation, and partial sums.  Your child will have a unit 4 review on Tuesday, and unit 4 test on Wednesday... so no homework that night.   In 3rd grade math: will continue working on finishing up unit 4.  Stand Out Math Computation tests given every week and Stand Out Math taught on Friday.

 

 WRITING:  We are working on Narrative Writing. Our prompt will be "Tell about a time you were Thankful." Through Focused Modeled Writing, kids will have an opportunity to learn as teachers model, as well as apply their thinking as they create their own thinking maps and writing. Our focus will be on building the structure in writing, while still learning to add details and use descriptive language.

PHONICS AND  VOCABULARY:  Continuing to practice our FAST phonics. Fast spelling test (lesson 11) will be on Friday, check out the spelling tab for the current list.  Lesson 5 in Wordly Wise will be continued (our words are: absorb, anchor, brush, bud, center, core, factory, hive, sapling, trunk )  don't forget about the wordly wise 300 link as an extra resource.

LITERACY:  Continuing whole group reading and responding, as well as small group conferences around individual reading levels.  We are currently working on using information from illustrations to demonstrate an understanding of characters, setting and plot.  We are asking questions like what do the illustrations tell me about the setting, what do the illustrations tell me about how a character is feeling, and what do the illustrations tell me about the plot. 

FOSS Science:  Monday and Thursday

Social Studies- Unit 2 How are Communities Different?

 

Upcoming Events:

 

Friday, November 14th- non-contact day for students

 

Friday, November 22nd- Turkey Trot, Snowflake Dance

 

Wednesday, November 27th-Friday November 29th- No School Thanksgiving Break

 

Wednesday, December 4th- Barnes and Noble Night

 

Tuesday, December 10th- Choir Performance

 

Thursday, December 19th- PACK Assembly

 

Monday December 23rd- Friday, January 3rd Winter Break