Happy Fall Party Day!

Happy Friday!

What a great party today!  Thank you to all our wonderful parents who organized the party, set it up, attended the party and sent in items for the party.  The kids had a lot of fun!

Pumpkin Book Reports

• Wow!  The pumpkin book reports were amazing.  Thank you so much for helping your students create such fabulous book character pumpkins!

Book It

• October Book It is due by Wednesday.  Students must read and record at least 2 hours of reading and bring in their reading log.  This is completely optional.  If they did not get a chance to fill it out for October, they can always try to earn their pizza for November.

Homework Bingo

• The kids keep getting Homework Bingos.  
• Once students get 8 activities in a row, they can bring us their Bingo Board and eat with us the following Friday.
• This is not required, but it is a fun way for them to practice skills at home.

Food Drive

• Service Club is having their yearly food drive.  Second grade is collecting smooth peanut butter.  If you would like to donate any peanut butter, you can send it in with your student.  

Conferences

• We will be scheduling next week and be sending home conference times next Friday.
• Our goal is to meet with all parents and we do our best to schedule all conferences during the time you requested.
• The book fair will be open during conferences as well.  This is a great place to get some books for your students to read at home.  The book fair schedule is below.
• Monday 7:30 AM -5:00 PM
  Tuesday 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  Wednesday 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  Thursday 7:30 AM - 7:00 PM
  Friday 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
• If there is anything specific you want to discuss at conferences, please let us know.

Veterans

• If you know a veteran who would like to come talk with our students about their service (in 2nd grade words), please let us know. 

Next Week's Learning

Math

• Next week, we will focus on different subtraction strategies.  We will be working on counting up to 10 and counting back to 10.  We will also be looking at using doubles strategies to solve subtraction problems.  
• Our plan is to text the week of November 5.  We sent home Home Links this week in Friday folders for Unit 3.

Reading

• We wrapped up our study of theme this week.  This is a difficult concept for students to grasp.  Yesterday, we listened to 4 different songs and the students identifying the theme.  We talked about the lesson the author wanted you to learn and how you could use things from the book to make you a better person.
• Next week, we will start focusing on strategies to use when coming to an unknown word.  It is important for students to identify unknown words instead of just skipping over them because when they skip over them they often do not understand what they have read.  One of the strategies does recommend skipping the word, but then to come back once you have figured out what would make sense in the sentence.

Writing

• We will start our 2nd personal narrative next week.  The students will have a graphic organizer to help them organize their thoughts.  This personal narrative will be more independent than the first, but we will still review what to include in each part.

Science

• We will be working on identifying the purpose of a materials based on its characteristics.
• Students will then classify materials and determine the best use of the material.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Mrs. Ross