I hope you had a wonderful week. We definitely had a fun filled week in Room 27! Here is some of the fun activities from this week and then what we will be working on next week. :)
Curriculum Chat
Curriculum Chat is Tuesday, September 20 from 7:45-8:15 a.m. The students have created a video and a book to share with you about their day. It will be a very fun way for you to learn about what they are learning in 2nd grade. I hope you can join us!
Celebrations
The students earned their 25th star as a class yesterday, so today we had our celebration. They had 30 minutes to play on the iPads today. Some of them played games, some did ST Math, some played with the Quiver app from yesterday.
MakerSpace
Today in MakerSpace, the students played with Makey Makey which allows them to create circuits using fruits, vegetables, playdoh and even themselves. :) They were able to start and stop videos by giving each other high fives.
Spelling Words
Our spelling words for next week are word, work, here, how, try, over, month, does, and able. The words will also be on next week's homework. They aren't a required part of homework, but it is recommended to study them nightly.
Chicken BBQ Tickets
The RBE Chicken BBQ is less than a month away. It is October 15, 2016. The ticket packets went home in Friday folders today. It is a long running tradition at RBE. This is our PTA fundraiser for the year. PTA uses the money to provide the students, teachers and school as a whole different items. They provide funding for field trips, classroom supplies, iPads, to just mention a few. I hope that you can all attend. For those who haven't come before, it is a lot of fun, with an awesome auction as well as amazing chicken! If your student sells tickets, they can send the money in as they sell them and PTA members collect the money and send home the tickets.
Restaurant Fundraisers
On Monday and Tuesday, if you eat at Texas Roadhouse, they will give a percentage of the total bill back to RBE. There is a sheet in your student's Friday folder with specific information.
McTeacher Night is October 4. McDonald's will give a percentage of the total sales back to RBE.
Both a great ways for RBE to earn some money, and you don't have to cook dinner. :)
Homework
Thank you for helping your student get their homework completed each night and helping them remember to bring it back daily. As an added incentive for homework completion and good behavior, I will be starting the Good Citizenship Club. Students who have completed all their homework (and had it signed) for 2 weeks and have had no think sheets or office referrals can eat lunch in the classroom with me on Friday. This will start over every 2 weeks, so even if the students miss it one week, there will be multiple opportunities.
Reading
Next week, we will continue to work on story elements. We will focus on problem and solution next week. We will identify what went wrong in the story and how the character fixed the problem. We will also discuss goals that characters have in a story because sometimes there isn't a specific problem in the story, but a character is working towards a goal. The students have been working hard on their bookmarks and are doing some great reading in class. We will be starting reading groups in the next few weeks.
Math
Next week, we will continue to work on place value. We will be working on expanded form. The students will learn to go from standard form (94) to expanded form (90+4=94) and vice versa. They will also work on drawing place value blocks to represent a number. The students learned how to play digit place this week. This is a game they can play for homework if they would like. There are directions on the blog under homework if they forget how to play.
Writing
Next week, we will revisit our personal narrative. It was on the back burner the last few weeks as we worked on our book and video for curriculum chat. We will work on creating a descriptive setting. The students have identified the settings in multiple books and we have identified what helps us as a reader to understand the setting and will be using that information when they write their own setting.
Social Studies
We will continue to work on the U.S. Symbols next week. The students have learned about the American Flag, Bald Eagle, Pledge of Allegiance, the Statue of Liberty and the Liberty Bell. We will also learn about the Constitution next week since Constitution Day is September 17.
It has been a wonderful week! A huge thank you to everyone for all your support at home!
Have a wonderful weekend and let's hope for a win for MU tomorrow!
Mrs. Ross
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