We have had a great first full
week of school. We have continued to establish classroom routines and
students are really doing a great job with learning our second grade
expectations!
Reminders
- Upcoming
Events: In your back to school folder there was a copy of the
Activities Calendar for the school year. You
can access this calendar by clicking here. I have also updated
the Upcoming Events on the right side of the blog. Please mark your
calendar with these dates.
- If you
have not already seen that 2nd Grade Curriculum Chat is September 18 at
7:45-8:15 am. Please add this to your
calendar! This is an opportunity for you to hear about what we will
be doing in 2nd grade this year. You will also have an opportunity
to talk with your child about what a typical day looks like in 2nd grade!
- Walking
School Bus: If you would like your child to participate in
Walking School Bus this fall, a form went home in your back to school
folder that needs to be filled out and returned. You
can also click here to print a copy. For your child to
participate in Walking School Bus this form MUST be returned!
- Volleyball
Field Trip on September 14: Your child brought home a
field trip form on Tuesday (on yellow paper). We will departing for
Hearnes Center at 9:40 and will be returning to school around 2:00.
If you have not already sent in the bottom portion of this form, please do
so by September 7. You
can click here to view the Volleyball Field Trip form.
Coming Home
Today
- Library
Books
- Today
was our first library checkout day...Mrs. McKinzie & Mrs. Wood said
we did an amazing job! We will have library checkout every
Friday. So please talk with your kiddo about what books they
checked out and help them remember to bring their books back next
week. If your child finishes a book, they can always return the
book to our library cart earlier than Friday.
- Picture
Day Reminder
- Picture
Day is Wednesday, September 5. You can pre-pay for pictures
online - please send in the receipt so we know that you are getting
pictures. Or you can fill out the form and send in money.
- Pizza
Party
- At
the end of first & second trimester, we have a tradition to have a
class pizza party. We are asking for a one time donation of $5.00
to help with the cost of pizza. Be sure to check out the salmon
sheet for more information!
- RBE
Sportswear
- If
you would like to order RBE Sportswear the first order is due on August
31 and the second date is October 19. You can order online or fill
out the order form and return it to school. You
can click here for the RBE Sportswear order form.
- Transportation
Paperwork
- There
is a student conduct & safety information coming. Please
review these expectations with your child, fill out the form and return
to school. Even if your child typically does not ride the bus,
they will be attending field trips with us, so please go ahead and
return the form.
- Orientation
& Unit 1 Fundations
- Fundations
is a process to teach reading and spelling with phonics. Coming
home with your child is an introduction letter to Fundations and a few
activities that you can do at home. It says "Homework
Guide" on one of these sheets. As a reminder, we do not have
assigned homework that has to be turned in on a certain day, but these
activities can be used for spelling practice for your child's Homework
Bingo sheet.
What's Going
on Moss World!
- Math
- This
week, we started Unit 1 of our Everday Math program. This unit is
an introduction of a variety of skills. We introduced math
resources that are in our classroom, counting coins and patterns when
skip counting.
- Next
week, we will be learning about number grids (100's chart), number models
(addition and subtraction problems with the answer), and different combinations
of 10.
- Reading
- This
week, we focused on story elements (the pieces or parts that make up a
story). These pieces are the characters, setting (in second grade
we do the when and where), problem, and solution. We are continuing
to work on our reading stamina - having your child read at home nightly
will help your child with this also!
- Next
week, we are going to be writing two sentence summaries in both fiction
and nonfiction books. We will be making sure that our summaries are
written in our own words. This is a skill that beginning of the
year second graders struggle with. You can support this skill at
home by talking with your child about his/her book.
- Writing:
- This
week, we started our small moment/personal narrative writing unit.
We had a class discussion about what needs to be included in our writing,
and then we did our first try at a small moment story.
- Next
week, we will be focusing on how to start off our story. We will
learn about different types of leads, and how the lead hooks the reader.
- Social
Studies & Science
- In
science, we have talked about what a scientist does, and learned about
the scientific method. We learned that a hypothesis is an educated
guess or prediction of what will happen. Today we did a fun
experiment called Dancing Raisins...ask your child what their hypothesis
was and what really happened!
- In
social studies, we have learned about what the Pledge of Allegiance
means. We have talked about allegiance, republic, indivisible and
liberty/justice. You should ask your kiddo what they have learned!
- We
started our Science & Social Studies notebooks yesterday. These
are a place for us to keep all of our learning throughout the year.
Next week, we will be adding to these when we talk about what makes a
good citizen.
- Beginning
of the Year Assessment
- We
have been working hard on establishing classroom routines. Next
week, we will be starting to take beginning of the year
assessments. These assessments allow us to know how to guide our
instruction.
Twitter
We have been posting a lot of pictures on Twitter. Be sure to follow us @MossRBE. We have quite a few parents following us already. We also have our Twitter feed on the blog.
We have enjoyed
this first full week of school with your child and we are excited for the rest
of the school year!
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