The students put on an AMAZING
performance at our Veterans Day Assembly! If you were not able to make it
- check out our Twitter feed because we tweeted out the three songs that were
sung by our class! As a reminder, you can always find lots of pictures
from the week on Twitter. If you don't have Twitter - all you have to do
is look on the right sidebar of our classroom blog.
Some Friendly Reminders!
:)
- 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.
- Book
Fair: The book fair will be open
during the week of November 12-16. 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
- Conferences: This week
we started Parent/Teacher Conferences, and next week we will finish them
up. This is one of our favorite times of the year to be able to show
the growth that your child has made! We are looking forward to
meeting with every family!
Look What's Happening in
Moss World!
- Math: On Wednesday, we reviewed Unit 3 (subtraction) and took our end of the unit test. We will be sharing this assessment with you at your child's P/T Conferences. We also started Unit 4 (time, measurement and place value). We started learning about how to tell time on an analog clock and will be continuing to practice this skill during the next couple of weeks. Your child's goal, at the end of this unit, is to be able to tell time to the nearest 5 minute using AM and PM. This would be something that would be super helpful for you to practice on at home!
- Writing: We have
started writing the middle of our second small moment stories. This
week, we broke our story down into three events and worked hard on adding
important details to each event. Next week, we will finish writing
our middle and add the lead paragraph.
- Reading: This
week, we started working on visualizing. Visualizing is an important
skill for readers to have. When a reader visualizes what they are
reading, they are able to better comprehend what's happening in the
story. As students continue to grow as readers, the books will have
less and less pictures, and visualizing will become more and more
important. We will continue practicing this skill next week.
- Fundations: This
week, we reviewed two Fundations rules that we had learned earlier this
year.
- Do you
know the rule when to use -ick or -ic at an end of a word? Your
child does! Ask him/her the rule. If they need a hint, remind
them about syllables and short vowel! :)
- You can also ask your child about when to double the f, l and s at the end of a word. In Fundations this is called a bonus letter that happens in short vowel words.
- Social
Studies: This week, we started learning
about Colonial times. We learned that the Colonial period is between
1607 (Jamestown colony established) and 1776 (the end of the American
Revolution). We also discovered why all the 13 original colonies
were on the east coast of the United States. We started learning
about what Colonial men, women and children wore. Next week, we will
also be learning about what the work that men, women and children did in
Colonial times. Your child's goal, at the end of this unit,
is to be able to compare the life of a person from Colonial times to their
life.
- As a
celebration of our learning about Colonial America, we will have Colonial
Day on November 28! We need your help to make this fun learning
experience a success! We need parent volunteers (8:00-10:30) and a
few supplies. Please
click here to be able to look over our SignUp Genius to see what is
needed. We appreciate all your support!
- November 16 - No School
(P/T Conferences)
- November 21-25 - No
School (Thanksgiving Break)
- November 28 - Colonial
Day (8:00-10:30) ***new event***
- November 30 - RBE Spirit
Pajama Day
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