News

=Second Grade Weekly News =

We are currently working on our Apple Valley unit. The kids are learning what it was like "back in the old days." They are having a great time with this. We are also working on our Theme 6 in Shared Reading. We are working on end of the year writing assessments. We continue to review all math concepts and work on multiplication and division. We have been practicing for our Volunteer Tea performance as well. The year is winding down and we will all miss these wonderful second graders. April 20 - May 1st ====We are currently working on theme 5, Family time. We are getting ready for CST testing which will begin on May 4th. Our zoo field trip will be on Thursday April 30th. Please continue to work on reading for your child's AR goal. There will not be homework during the two weeks of CST testing.====

March 6th - March 30th
====We just wrapped up theme 4, Amazing Animals. We will be taking the theme 4 test over the next few days. We started Theme 5, Family Time. Open House is this Thursday. Jogathon is this Friday. Please continue working on reading at home with your child, making a list of the AR books they read, and encouraging them to take the tests at school. Our character trait for March and April is Honesty.==== Words of the week: FORMULATE, EVALUATE, SUMMARIZE, INFER, ANALYZE Character Trait: HONESTY PB Trait: RIGHT YOUR WRONGS Learning Target: Base words and endings, s, es and ies

February 17th - February 27th
====This week we will begin working on telling time in math. Please work with your children on telling time and elapsed time as much as possible with a regular and digital clock. We will continue working on our learning target which is prefixes and suffixes. We will begin a new story called, Ant, which is a non-fiction selection. We should be getting our ant farms in the classroom very soon and will begin our life cycles unit in the next few weeks. We will continue our social studies unit, Our Government. The classrooms will allow the students to form two countries, elect a president, vice president, congress, judiciary branch etc. It will be an exciting week. Our powerful word this week is support. Our character theme this month is courage.==== Upcoming dates: Rolando Idol, February 26th 6:15 p.m..

February 2nd - February 13th
====This week we continued our focus on money. We continued our money reward systems and practiced counting coins and making change. We will begin our social studies unit, Our Government. We ended Theme 4 in our Shared Reading text and will begin Theme 5, Amazing Animals. Our first story is Officer Buckle and Gloria. We celebrated Grandparents last week with a performance and made Valentine cards with our visiting Grandparents. Thank you grandparents! We continue working on paragraph writing with a focus on a descriptive paragraph. We introduced onomatopeia which our sound words in writing. We will be celebrating Valentine's Day next Friday. Our new word last week was summarize and our new learning target in second grade is working on prefixes, suffixes and base words.====

January 26th - January 30th
====This week we start studying money and will begin our money reward system in the classroom. Please return the orange slip giving Rolando permission to publish your child's poem. Also please return the additional orange order form for your own copy of the published book once it comes out in the spring. We will begin our new story, Jamaica Louise James. We are studying words with the long e spelling and our Rolando powerful word for the week is COMPARE.====

January 19th - 23rd
====Monday there is no school as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We have been studying and learning all about Dr. King in our social studies unit on famous people. We finished up writing our new year's goals and reports on Dr. King. We will be finishing up our unit on double digit subtraction and taking an assessment on double digit addition and subtraction. We will be talking about the inauguration on Tuesday in class and may be watching some of this very historical day.====

January 12th - 16th
Well we are back on track in second grade and learning so many things! We continue to write about our goals for the New Year. We are focusing on predicting and what it means to make a good prediction. We are also continuing to work on double digit addition and subtraction. We are learning about famous people in our social studies unit. We will be focusing on Martin Luther King, George Washington and Helen Keller. Please remember to return homework on Thursday and parent bulletins each Monday. We really appreciate it! Don't forget next Monday, January 19th is a holiday and there is no school. We honor Martin Luther King Jr. on this very special day.

January 5th - 9th
====Welcome back and Happy New Year! This week we will be continuing with our shared reading story, A trip to the firehouse. Your child will recieve their homework packet on Monday and it will be due on Thursday. We will be working on writing about our goals for the New Year. We will also be learning double digit subtraction and reviewing double digit addition.====

December 15th - 19th
====Our last week before holiday break. Tuesday, December 16th is our Second Grade Craft Day. Your children will be making a different ornament in each second grade classroom. Don't forget to send in your child's library books and homework will be due on Thursday. I will not be sending home parent bulletins on the 19th. Have a wonderful, restful and enjoyable holiday break!====

November 17th
====Second grade teachers will be out on Monday, November 17th at V.A.P.A training at the district office. Visual and Performing Arts training. We will return on Tuesday, November 18th. Homework went home on Thursday, November 13th and is due Thurs. November 20th.====

November 3rd - November 17th
====These next few weeks we will be starting our Pilgrim Unit. Please make sure to send in your pilgrim ancestor list to your child's teacher. Parent teacher conferences will begin on Wednesday. Please check with the office for next week's schedule. Homework continues to be sent home. We look forward to seeing you at parent conferences. Our P.E. teacher began this week. Your child will be going to P.E. twice per week for 30 minutes with our P.E. teacher. We started working on our second grade smart goal. Our goal is to master the UNRAAVEL strategy in order to increase our success in reading comprehension. See if your child can tell your what UNRAAVEL stands for!!!====

October 20 - October 31st
Welcome back from October break! We hope you had a restful two week break and our ready to come back to school and learn! Please remember to send your child's homework folder back to school. Check with your teacher about your library day. Don't forget to keep library books in your backpack. We will be doing some fun Halloween activities. More information will be coming soon.

This week we begin theme 2 in our shared reading - Nature Walk, Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night. We begin a unit on graphing in math and we will begin a science unit on forces in motion. In writing we will be writing about our October Break and continuing our work on developing a good paragraph with a topic sentence, details and a conclusion.

Welcome back!

**//August 18 - August 25th//**
Welcome to our first week of school!

This week we will be going over classroom rules and procedures as well as getting to know your children. We will be sending home information packets as well as school information. Please check your child's backpack each night for new information.  ====This week your child will receive an "All About Me" bag with instructions. This is your child's homework for this week. ====