Can you believe that October is already over?! Oh my goodness, time is flying by! We will be having our Harvest Party on Monday, November 1st from 1:45 - 2:45...please remember to bring your prizes! Our parent volunteers are: Perry and Jody Elsasser, Chantal, Amy Mitchell, Reena, Shelly Weber, Alyssa, Lilian, and Trish! Thank you!
Homework is due on Monday, November 1st! Please print out your reading log and math facts sheet for October!
Another reminder, I have sent home Scholastic book orders - please order online by next Friday, November 5th!
We had a spirit assembly this morning. Your child will be bringing home a necklace with a cub paw on it (for "pawsitive" behavior!) The kids will have opportunities this year to add more charms to their necklaces for different activities and behaviors. For example, those who attend the Fall Family Fun night tonight will receive a glow in the dark pumpkin charm! The festivities go from 5:30 - 7:00 in the MPR - it should be a very fun evening!
It has been a crazy week in room 26 - we have been very busy doing assessments - both Reading and Writing! There was a substitute in my class both on Tuesday and Thursday, and I have to say, that my class - your kids - did an AMAZING job following the expectations! I was very proud of them!
I hope you all have a Fun, Spooky, and Safe Halloween!
The secret to being a great student is believing you already are one!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Action Packed!
This has been a crazy week full of new things!
We started this week with a new story in our Reading books called Helping Out. It was a photo essay about how kids are able to help out adults and why it is important for everybody to pitch in! We listened to a song that went along with our story called "With our Own Two Hands" by Ben Harper and Jack Johnson. We talked about how everyone working together can accomplish so much to make the world we live in a better place!
In writing we were busy writing a non-fiction adventure story about something that happened to us. We practiced adding adjectives (sparkle words) and lots and lots of details! We went through the writing process, learning how to make a web to do our prewrite, and then editing with our colored crayons. We then reread our story to find out when to add even more details, and then we wrote our final copies! It was quite a process!
In math we are learning about measuring with inches and centimeters. We are also learning different shapes. (Hexagons, Pentagons, Octogons, Trapezoids, Parallelograms, etc...) Next week we will be learning parallel lines and square corners!
Social Studies we have been learning about maps! We have discussed map grids, compass rose, symbols, map keys, etc... We will continue this unit through next week.
Thursday we had a special treat when the Snoqualmie Firefighters came to visit! They taught us all how to be prepared in case there was a fire! Ask your child what they learned! It was especially fun to watch them spray water from the fire hose! Did you know that 1,000 gallons of water come out of the hose in one minute! WOW! That is your fun fact for the day!
Enjoy your weekend!
PS...I added an additional piece of information to Class 26. You will notice a title called xtramath.org. It is a new way to practice math facts at home. We will also be doing this at school four days a week! A letter will be coming home with your child on Monday!
We started this week with a new story in our Reading books called Helping Out. It was a photo essay about how kids are able to help out adults and why it is important for everybody to pitch in! We listened to a song that went along with our story called "With our Own Two Hands" by Ben Harper and Jack Johnson. We talked about how everyone working together can accomplish so much to make the world we live in a better place!
In writing we were busy writing a non-fiction adventure story about something that happened to us. We practiced adding adjectives (sparkle words) and lots and lots of details! We went through the writing process, learning how to make a web to do our prewrite, and then editing with our colored crayons. We then reread our story to find out when to add even more details, and then we wrote our final copies! It was quite a process!
In math we are learning about measuring with inches and centimeters. We are also learning different shapes. (Hexagons, Pentagons, Octogons, Trapezoids, Parallelograms, etc...) Next week we will be learning parallel lines and square corners!
Social Studies we have been learning about maps! We have discussed map grids, compass rose, symbols, map keys, etc... We will continue this unit through next week.
Thursday we had a special treat when the Snoqualmie Firefighters came to visit! They taught us all how to be prepared in case there was a fire! Ask your child what they learned! It was especially fun to watch them spray water from the fire hose! Did you know that 1,000 gallons of water come out of the hose in one minute! WOW! That is your fun fact for the day!
Enjoy your weekend!
PS...I added an additional piece of information to Class 26. You will notice a title called xtramath.org. It is a new way to practice math facts at home. We will also be doing this at school four days a week! A letter will be coming home with your child on Monday!
Friday, October 15, 2010
HARVEST PARTY INFORMATION
October 2010
Dear Parents,
On Monday, Nov. 1, from 1:45-2:45, the second grade classes will be having a Fall Harvest mini carnival. Each classroom will have 3 to 4 activities set up and the children will be able to select the activities in which they would like to participate. After each activity that they do they will receive a “prize”. We will need your help in the following ways. First, each classroom will need about 3-4 parents to help run the activities. If you would like to help in this way please let your child’s teacher know by Friday, Oct. 22.
Second, each child’s “ticket” to the mini carnival will be a bag of
“party prizes” such as you would purchase to give to children at a birthday party. They could go along with the fall theme, such as spider rings, funny lips, long fingernails, wash off tattoos, stickers, fall pencils or erasers, or could be just a bag of generic party prizes. We are asking that none of the prizes be food or candy. Suggested places to shop might be the Paper Factory, Party for Less in Issaquah, Target, Wal-Mart, the Dollar Store, or any other party related place. It would be helpful if your donation bag contained at least 10 – 12 prizes. These will be used as the prizes at each activity. Please have your child bring their bag of prizes to their classroom beginning the week of Oct. 25.
This activity has been very successful the past several years. The children are actively involved for the entire time and have thoroughly enjoyed the activities in each classroom. If you have any questions about the mini carnival or are willing to be a helper that day, please call or email your child’s teacher at school.
Sincerely,
The Second Grade Teachers
Friday, October 8, 2010
Hip, Hip, Hooray!
We earned our compliments party this week! Since the beginning of the year, we have been trying to earn 25 compliments on our "Catching Compliments" chart...and we finally did it! Yay! The students have voted to have a pajama and movie party to celebrate! We will be having our party on Friday, October 15th! If you have a G rated movie that you would like to share with the class, please have your child bring it in by Thursday. We will be voting as a class to see which movie we will be watching! The really exciting news is that Mrs. Thomason's and Mrs. William's class are also having movie parties on that Friday! Therefore, we thought it would be really fun if we could maybe go to another classroom to watch a movie! There will be three movies playing that day, and the students will get to pick which one they would like to see! It is so much fun following the rules and being respectful!
Another exciting thing that happened this week, (actually today!) is we had some visitors come in and talk to us about Guatemala and the tropical rainforest there. They shared with us their experiences and the different animals they saw. It was very fun! Afterwards, we got to draw with our oil pastels one of our favorite rainforest animal...they turned out terrific!
We also started "Caught'ya" this week! That is where I give the students a sentence with errors and they get to correct them in their "Caught'ya" journals! Talk to your kids about this - I think they are really enjoying it!
The students have been writing some super sentences in writing this week. They are learning how to add adjectives and adverbs to their sentences to make it more exciting for the reader! They have been coming up with some pretty silly sentences!
One last thing we did this week, since it has been such nice weather, is we were able to go out and plant tulip bulbs in the front of our school (close to our classroom). Thank you, Mrs. Reynolds, for your help! We are looking forward to watching them bloom in the Spring!
*** By the way...I have added the conference schedule to the blog - you can check the time you signed up for, and if you didn't get a chance to sign up, please see what times are available and email a time that would work for you!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Get out and enjoy the sunshine before it's too late!
Another exciting thing that happened this week, (actually today!) is we had some visitors come in and talk to us about Guatemala and the tropical rainforest there. They shared with us their experiences and the different animals they saw. It was very fun! Afterwards, we got to draw with our oil pastels one of our favorite rainforest animal...they turned out terrific!
We also started "Caught'ya" this week! That is where I give the students a sentence with errors and they get to correct them in their "Caught'ya" journals! Talk to your kids about this - I think they are really enjoying it!
The students have been writing some super sentences in writing this week. They are learning how to add adjectives and adverbs to their sentences to make it more exciting for the reader! They have been coming up with some pretty silly sentences!
One last thing we did this week, since it has been such nice weather, is we were able to go out and plant tulip bulbs in the front of our school (close to our classroom). Thank you, Mrs. Reynolds, for your help! We are looking forward to watching them bloom in the Spring!
*** By the way...I have added the conference schedule to the blog - you can check the time you signed up for, and if you didn't get a chance to sign up, please see what times are available and email a time that would work for you!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Get out and enjoy the sunshine before it's too late!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
It's Already October!
Wow! I can't believe that September is already over! The first month of school sure did fly by! We have been busy in Room 26...here are some things we have been learning:
Reading: We read Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel. We learned about the things that stories always have...a beginning, middle, end, setting, characters and a plot. We also talked about looking for details in our stories. We continued to track with our fingers.
Writing: We wrote our Weekend News on Monday. The kids each wrote a Hello Goodbye poem saying Hello to Fall and Goodbye to Summer. We brainstormed as a class all the events that happen in the Fall and the events that happened in the summer. When we finished our poem, we were able to illustrate it.
Math: We are continuing with our Topic 2, which is learning different addition and subtraction strategies as well as determining whether a story problem will be addition or subtraction. We learned to look for key words such as: the total is or all together for addition and the difference, or how many more of this than that for subtraction. We will be finishing up this topic next week.
Social Studies: We started our community unit and we learned that a community is a place where people "work, live, play and solve problems". We were able to work in groups to make our own posters of our made-up community. The posters turned out fabulous, and will be on display in our hallway!
I have posted a new site under our Room 26, and that is our spelling words for this week! If your child loses his list, never fear...it is now posted on our blog! Thanks to Zach Weber for this wonderful idea!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I will blog again next week!
Reading: We read Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel. We learned about the things that stories always have...a beginning, middle, end, setting, characters and a plot. We also talked about looking for details in our stories. We continued to track with our fingers.
Writing: We wrote our Weekend News on Monday. The kids each wrote a Hello Goodbye poem saying Hello to Fall and Goodbye to Summer. We brainstormed as a class all the events that happen in the Fall and the events that happened in the summer. When we finished our poem, we were able to illustrate it.
Math: We are continuing with our Topic 2, which is learning different addition and subtraction strategies as well as determining whether a story problem will be addition or subtraction. We learned to look for key words such as: the total is or all together for addition and the difference, or how many more of this than that for subtraction. We will be finishing up this topic next week.
Social Studies: We started our community unit and we learned that a community is a place where people "work, live, play and solve problems". We were able to work in groups to make our own posters of our made-up community. The posters turned out fabulous, and will be on display in our hallway!
I have posted a new site under our Room 26, and that is our spelling words for this week! If your child loses his list, never fear...it is now posted on our blog! Thanks to Zach Weber for this wonderful idea!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I will blog again next week!
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