October 26th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:
Wednesday, October 31st - Halloween Party in afternoonThursday, November 1st - All Saints Day Mass
Friday, November 2nd - Report Cards go home
Wednesday, November 7th - 2 Hour Delay
Thursday November 8th and Friday, November 9th - No School (Parent/Teacher Conferences)
Tuesday, November 13th - Picture retakes

This week in Class:
Math - place value (tens and ones), comparing numbers (5 >2), order numbers (65 comes just before 66, just after 64, and in between 64 and 67).
Reading / Phonics - Compare and contrast; long a (made, rain, gray); inflected endings -s, -es, and -ing; sequence words (first, next, then, last).
Science - Beginning to learn about matter (properties of matter).
Social Studies - landforms and geography (island, mountain, hill, lake , river, etc.).
Health - Caring for your body (hair, skin, nails).
Spelling - adding -ed and -ing
want    wanted
look    looking
call     calling
pick    picked
walk    walked
watch   watching

Classroom behavior has improved tremendously!  All of the students have done an excellent job using their manners and helping each other. They were rewarded for their great accomplishment with some extra time outside on Wednesday and Thursday to enjoy the beautiful weather.

I look forward to meeting with everyone for parent/teacher conferences!

October 19th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:
Friday, October 26th - End of quarter
Wednesday, October 31st - Halloween Party
Thursday, November 1st - All Saints Day Mass
Friday, November 2nd - Report Cards go home (No Mass)
Wednesday, November 7th - 2 Hour Delay
Thursday, November 8th and Friday, November 9th - No School (Parent/Teacher Conference)


This Week in Class:
Reading/Phonics - long e sounds made with ee (keep), ea (leap), y (messy, and e (we); commands and explanations, drawing conclusions
Math - place value and number words
Health - we took a test over the systems of the body
Science - began learning about fossils
Social Studies - made our own personal calendar, and began discussing geography
Spelling - short i and short u

       this    its

       if       gum

      mud   shut

       fit       into

      thing    rug

      bug      hunt

Keep reading for Book It!

Thank you to all the parents who went along on the Field Trip!!

A big thank you to all parents who participated in the Spaghetti Dinner and helped with the Book Fair!

October 12th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:

STUDENTS MAY DRESS DOWN ON MONDAY FOR THE FIELD TRIP
- Because of the field trip we will not be having Gym class.

Monday, October 15th - Field Trip 
Wednesday, October 17th - We will be going to the Book Fair to create Wish Lists
Thursday, October 18th - Grandfriends' Day and Spaghetti Dinner from 5-7
Friday, October 19th - We will be going to the Book Fair to make purchases
Book Fair is the 19th - 21st
Friday, October 26 - end of quarter
Wednesday, October 31st - Halloween party in the afternoon

This week in class:

Math - Fact families, missing addends, addition and subtraction facts.  All the students did very well on the Test!!  We will be learning about place value next week.

Reading/Phonics - Reviewed story elements: author's purpose, setting, and character traits

Health - Reviewed muscular, skeletal, digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems and learned about the nervous system

Spelling - short a and short o

that     have

sat      of

job      rock

bad     van

sad     spot

clock   doll

*As always words are on spellingcity.com/ehovest

Keep reading for BOOK IT!

October 5th Newsletter

UPCOMING DATES:
This week is Red Ribbon Week:
 Monday, October 8th -  Dress in cowboy/cowgirl clothing - Jeans are permitted
Tuesday, October 9th - Wear red, white, and blue - Must follow school dress code
Wednesday, October 10th - Wear favorite sports team - hoodies, jerseys, t-shirts, and jeans are permitted
                                          *Field Trip money is due on the 10th!*
Thursday, October 11th - Dress in twister colors (like the board game) red, blue, yellow, and green - must              
                                         follow school dress code.
Monday, October 15th - Field Trip
Thursday, October 18th - Grand Friends Day

October 19 - 21st Book Fair

This week in class:
Math - worked more with related math facts and fact families (2+3=5; 3+2=5; 5-3=2; 5-2=3)
Science - took a test over animals.
Social Studies - took a test over neighborhoods and communities
Reading / Phonics - learned about homophones, long e sounds made by the letters ea and ee and final consonant digraphs (bench, touch, push, wish)
Health - systems of the body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous)
Spelling words : short e
when                             them
tell                                dress
get                                men
let                                 getting
leg                                presents
unless                           wet

Keep reading for BOOK IT!

September 28th Newsletter

UPCOMING DATES: 

Monday, October 1^st – Picture Day

Tuesday, October 2^nd – Mission Bake Sale

Wednesday, October 3^rd – 2 Hour Delay

Friday, October 5^th – Dads & Donuts / Kick off to Red Ribbon Week

*Students are asked to wear Red on Friday*

This week in Class:

Math – began subtraction facts and related math facts (3+2=5, 5=3+2)

Science – finished learning about animals. Test this week.

Social Studies – finished learning about neighborhoods and communities. Test this week

Reading / Phonics – reviewed long vowel with final e (fin – fine, cap – cape), short vowels, and initial consonant digraphs ch & sh (chip, chat, chin & ship, shape, shut)

Health – began learning about our growing bodies along with the skeletal and muscular systems.

Spelling words this week – review of lessons 1-5

camp               fat                    flat

for                   fort                  play

sing                 book                can

could               like                  pack

second            sick                  brave

brother            great               ground

sweet              and                  desk

different          jump                 land

boxes             boys                 dishes

lions               nights               wishes

Behavior Chart

Your child may talk about the behavior chart in the room.  Each day the students begin on “Ready to Learn” and throughout the day they may move their clips up or down based on their behavior.  They may move up for positive behavior (listening to directions, following classroom / school rules, etc) and may move down for negative behavior (not following directions, distracting others, not following classroom / school rules, etc).  If the students finish each day on “outstanding” then on Friday they get to pick a prize from the prize box, which contains school supplies that can be used in the classroom.  My goal is to encourage positive behavior.

Book It!

We are doing the Book It program again this year.  The goal for the second graders is to read 20 minutes 5 times a week.  I know that weeks can be busy and life happens so reading 5 days a week may be difficult at times.  So I told the students that they may read for 40 minutes one night and count it as 2 days of reading.  Please encourage your child to read and ask them questions about what they are reading.  Part of reading is comprehension, which is being able to retell the story using their own words.

Field Trip

We will be going to Old Orchard here in Napoleon on Monday, October 15^th.  Please sign and return the permission slips!