Happy College Color Days from the Moss Team!

We had a wonderful week.  I am really enjoying getting to know and grow with this wonderful group of 2nd graders everyday!

Important Things To Know:

• Fall Pictures are on Wednesday, September 3.  All students will be taking a picture.  If you would like to order pictures you can either fill out the form/send in money or you can pay for pictures online/send in receipt.
• Walking School Bus starts on Friday, September 7.  Remember that preregistration is required. Please let me know if your child will be attending.
• Our first RBE PTA Meeting is September 11.  PTA Meetings are at 6:00 in the Media Center.  The PTA is a wonderful supporter of our students and school!  I hope that you are able to attend.
• Our first field trip is on September 14.  We are going to MU Volleyball Elementary Day!  We are so excited!!  The kiddos will be bring a sack lunch from home (everything needs to be able to be thrown away) or buying a sack lunch from the cafeteria (if you pre-ordered).  We will be leaving around 9:30 and returning to school by 1:50.  If your child has black & gold - this would be the perfect day to wear it!
• 2nd Grade Curriculum Chat is on September 18 at 7:45-8:15.  This is an opportunity for you to come and learn about what your child does in 2nd Grade.  The students will be working on a Day in the Life of a Second Grader book to share with you.  We will also have a short chat to present the various parts of our day.  We hope that you are able to come!
• The RBE Chicken BBQ is coming up on October 13.  This is the one big fundraiser for PTA.  The PTA supports the students and the school so many different ways!  They provided funding for 2nd grade to be able to go on the field trip to MU Volleyball Elementary Day, provide materials for our classroom, and are working hard to get more playground equipment for our playground.  There is a flyer coming home in your child's Friday Folder about the BBQ - check it out and see how you can support RBE!

What's Been Happening in Moss World:

Fundations

• We took our first unit test today.  The students did a nice job applying what they learned in unit 1.  We will continue to practice skills learned in this unit throughout the year.
• Next week, we will  start unit 2.  In this unit, students will learn about bonus letters (ff, ll, ss and sometimes zz).  They will also learn about glued sounds which include all, am, an, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk.  Students wil also work on ar, er, ir or, ur.
• Trick words for this unit include shall, pull, full. Both, talk and walk.  

Reading

• We will continue working on two sentence summaries.  This week, we corrected our fiction summaries.  Next week, we will continue working on non-fiction summaries.  The students are learning that there are a lot of facts in non-fiction books and we are discussing that sometimes we have to read non-fiction books twice to help us remember the facts.
• When your student is reading at home, please have them tell you a sentence or two about what they read.  You can practice the skill of summarizing with movies and tv shows as well.  Students can tell you briefly you about the movie or tv show.

Math

• This week, students worked on finding multiple ways to make a number.  They learned the word equivalent.  They also learned two new games this week.  They learned Fishing for 10 and Turn Over 10.  These are both great games to play for their Homework Bingo Board.  They can use playing cards (without the face cards) to play both games. 
• Next week, there is a variety of skills they will be learning.  Students will be learning about quarters and working to skip count quarters.  The students are doing a great job with money, it is awesome that they came to us with such a strong foundation, thanks first grade teachers!  They will also be learning about even and odd numbers.  They will be working on identifying patterns when skip counting by numbers.  This will be a continuation of what we did last week when looking at patterns when skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.  We will then work on comparing numbers and identifying which is larger and how we know.
• We will be testing over this unit the week of September 10. 

Writing

• This week, students worked on writing leads for their personal narrative.  We discussed that your lead “hooks your reader.”  This means that it grabs the reader’s attention so they want to read the rest of your story.  They wrote a sound lead and a question lead and then chose their favorite. 
• Next week, we will step away from our personal narrative and work on a fun writing project for Curriculum Chat which is September 18 from 7:45 a.m.-8:15 a.m.  We hope you are all able to come.

Social Studies

• This week in social studies, the students learned what it means to be a citizen.  We talked about what that they are citizens of, and discussed ways they can be a good citizen.  We had  great conversation about why it is important to be a good citizen.
• Next week, they will continue this discussion and come up with specific ways they can be a good citizen in society. 

Science

• This week in science, the students learned more about the scientific method.  They learned that you have to pose a question, make a hypothesis, conduct an experiment then draw conclusions.  Today, we did an experiment with melting candy and warm water.  Ask your student about which candies melted.  This science experiment helped them learn about the scientific method and then was an introduction to states of matter.
• Next week, students will continue to learn about states of matter and how they change for solids, liquids to gases.

I hope that you have a wonderful Labor Day weekend!  As a reminder, we do not have school on Monday.  Make sure that you are checking out Twitter for pictures or you can look at the feed on the right sidebar of our classroom blog!