Saturday, September 27, 2014

September 27

Good afternoon! Next week in Language Arts we will be working on the long e, o, and u sounds. We will also be learning about nouns and publishing our first piece of writing.

In Math we will be working on place value.

We will start our first Science unit. We will learn about wind.

Please remember that Read At Home Logs and September's book report are both due on October 1!

Have a great weekend!

Friday, September 19, 2014

September 19

Good afternoon! There are some important dates for next week. Please remember the following:

Tuesday, September 23 is Picture Day.
Tuesday, September 23 will be our first math test. We reviewed today and will review again Monday. Look for these sheets in your child's blue folder.
Friday, September 26 will be our first Social Studies test. A study guide has been placed in your child's yellow Friday Folder.

We will work on the following skills next week:

Language Arts: Writing narratives, types of sentences, author's purpose, long a words.

Math: We will take our test and work on numbers to 1,000.

Social Studies: We will continue to work on learning about communities. We will review for Friday's test on Wednesday and Thursday.

Have a great weekend!

Friday, September 12, 2014

September 12

Good afternoon! We had a great first full week of school in 2S! Beginning next Friday, the class will be able to earn "Friday Reward Time". For 15 minutes, students will be able to play an educational game or complete an activity with a partner. The students will rotate through the activities throughout the year.

The following items are what we will be working on next week:

Language Arts: Writing complete sentences, comparing/contrasting two things, words with short vowels o,u,and e, and writing narratives.

Math: Writing numbers different ways, problem solving, and counting patterns within 100 and within 1000. We will complete our first in-class test review on Friday. Our Chapter 1 Test will be the following week.

Social Studies: We will continue to learn about different communities.

Please remember that on Mondays students should write their spelling words three times each, on Tuesday the words should be written in ABC order, on Wednesday each word should be used in a sentence and underlined, and on Thursday your child should study for their test they will have on Friday.

Have a great weekend!