October 31

Good evening! Just a gentle reminder that October reading logs and book reports are due tomorrow! Have a great night!

October 25

Good evening! Conference slips stating what day and time you are scheduled can be found in your child's Friday Folder.

Halloween is next Thursday. We will have a parade at 1:45 followed by our classroom party at 2:00. We will be doing a craft or playing a game. We will not have any snacks since we eat lunch so late this year. Parents are more than welcome to join in the fun.

In Language Arts next week we will be focusing on plural nouns (adding -s, -es, or -ies), and we will continue to practice comparing and contrasting characters in our stories.

In Math we will be working on graphing data, completing frames and arrows using two rules, and making change by counting up.

In Science will learn about earthquakes and volcanoes.

In Writing Workshop we continue to work on the narrative genre. We will begin publishing our next story for display!

Have a great weekend!

October 17

Good evening! Next week is Red Ribbon Week. We are collecting donations for our troops. Please see the flyer that went home for items that are needed.

Next week in Language Arts we will be focusing on long i words, steps in a process, and proper and common nouns. In Math we will have our Unit 2 test will be Tuesday, October 22. We will review tomorrow and Monday. In Science we will learn about different types of precipitation. We continue to learn how to expand the three parts of a story in Writing Workshop.

Have a great night!

Room Parents

Good evening! I am looking for two room parents to help with organizing and planning activities for a Halloween, Holiday, and End-of-the-Year party. If you are interested please let me know by Wednesday, October 16.

Thank you!

October 4

Good evening! Today in Writing Workshop we had our first Authors' Celebration! 2S and 2H came together to share our stories with each other, and each student was able to read theirs to the class. All writings from our narrative unit will come home on Monday.

Next week in Language Arts we will be working with the long e sound when it's made by e and y at the end of a word (she, he, me, Sally, Jimmy, etc.). We will also learn how to draw conclusions and infer while reading a text.

In Math we will continue to work on addition and subtraction strategies.

We will have our first Social Studies test on Wednesday, October 9. A study guide went home on Tuesday. We will review in class on Monday as well.

Have a great weekend!