Friday, March 14, 2014

Dear Second Grade Families-
Spring is in the air...the students did a nice job adjusting to the time change. The official first day of Spring is Thursday, March 20th, and there will be a Chick-Fil-A fundraiser that day.   Don't forget there is a father/daughter dance this Sunday, and the theme is Saint Patrick's Day.  We are looking forward to Saint Patrick's Day on Monday. The second grade play The Not So Plain Bears will be on Thursday, May 1st at 2:30pm and 6:30pm.  Bright's costumes are black pants/shorts, and yellow shirt.  Haugland's class tan pants/shorts and tan or yellow shirt.  Snyder's class brown or tan pants/shorts and brown shirt.  Lopez class black pants/shorts and white t shirt.

We will be focusing on the following curriculum pieces nest week:

Math- Second grade students-continuing unit 10, place value and grouping with parenthesis. 

Writing- What is you favorite thing that is green, and why...

Wordly Wise- Lesson 12 continued... test this week

FAST Concept 22 soft c and g in class, spelling will be week 23, check out the spelling tab on the blog for current list.

We will be doing reader's theater for the next two weeks in class in place of regular reading conferences. 

Monday, March 10, 2014

Welcome back from the long weekend!  I hope you enjoyed the nice weather, and had a chance to get outside and enjoy the sunshine.  Thanks for your time and partnership last week during parent teacher conferences.  We enjoyed discussing your children's growth and goals.  We have 3 full weeks before Spring Break. 

This week we will be moving forward with money in unit 10 for second grade math. We will be using calculators to solve problems, finding exact costs, making change, and have an exploration day focusing on area, polygons and geo board fractions.  Third grade math will be working on unit 8, equivalent fractions and comparing fractions.
 
We will be moving ahead with FAST this week.  In class we are working on Long U, and for spelling we will be on week 22 review.  The words in parenthesis are previous words, and the words before that are the actual words for this week.  Please note that your child will only have 15 words this week, and check out the spelling tab on the blog for the current list. 

We are moving forward with Wordly Wise, and will be starting lesson 12 this week.  The students are getting to know the new definitions.  Please feel free to have your child take home their Wordly Wise books for you to look over their work.  We will continue with lesson 12 into next week.

Our weekly reader will focus on Cause and Effect this week, and we are finishing up unit 5 environment in Social Studies. 

This week in writing our expository topic will focus on who/what is worth more than gold to you.

Have a wonderful week!

This week's events:
Thursday, 13th- PTCO Pizza Night
Sunday, 16th- Father/Daughter Dance

Monday, March 3, 2014

Week of March 2nd-March 8th

Hello Second Grade Families!  March is off to a great start!  Today we celebrated Read Across America, and the life of Dr. Suess.  The students had so much fun bringing in their blankets and pillows as they curled up and read for enjoyment.

This week is going to fly by... the students will only be in school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and will have Thursday and Friday off due to conferences.  We are so excited to meet with you about your child's 2nd trimester goals and progress.  Thank you for taking the time to come in and meet with us. 

TCAP is underway!  The second grade students did not have FOSS science today due to the TCAP schedule.  We also have a modified recess/lunch schedule this week.  Recess and lunches start at 12:30pm and end at 1:25pm. Please fell free to contact the front office, or your child's teacher if you would like to know the specific time your child's class goes to lunch or recess this week.   We are reminding students of the importance of being quiet while walking through the hallways during testing. 

Teachers will only be doing reading conferences on Monday and Tuesday of this week.  All work will be due the following week.

Math- Second grade math students will be working on Unit 10 Decimals and Place Value.  Third grade math students will be working on Fractions. 

Wordly Wise- We will be finishing and testing lesson 11 this week.

Spelling- we will not be moving forward with a new spelling list this week due to the short week.  Please look forward to new words next week.

Writing- Teachers will be continuing with the writing prompt from last week.. "How would you persuade a Leprechaun to give you his gold?"

Social Studies- We are working on Unit 5 Environment.

Important Dates to look forward to:

March 3rd, 4th , 5th  and 6th parent teacher conferences

March 6th and 7th- No school for students

March 9th- Spring Forward, Daylight savings begins

March 13th- PTCO Pizza Night

March 16th-Father/Daughter Dance Marriott Park Meadows 6-9pm

March 17th- Saint Patrick's Day

March 20th- First day of Spring

March 28th- Pack Assembly

March 30th- April 13th Spring Break

April 17th- PTCO Pizza Night

April 22nd- Earth Day, Class Pictures