Second Grade News

October 27, 2017

Important dates

Parent/Teacher Conferences (November 13- Thank you all for signing up for
conferences! I will send out a reminder a few days before your conference.

Ms. Weber will be out of the classroom all day this Thursday AND Friday for Professional
Development. PLEASE talk to your child about the importance of respecting and
listening to a Guest Teacher (this has been a challenge this year).

October 30 November 3

Monday Wellness

Tuesday Library (Bring books back), School Assembly One School One Book (more
exciting news about this will come home next week).

Wednesday Art, Picture Retake day, Candid pictures, Operation Sweet Tooth begins
(bring in extra Halloween candy for us to box up & add note so we can send it to troops
who are deployed away from home if you have any address for troops your family
knows, send them my way so we can send them treats)

Thursday Music, Operation Sweet Tooth

Friday Wellness, Operation Sweet Tooth box up day

Looking ahead

The Veterans Day program is on Friday, Nov. 10th. The 2nd grade assembly will be at
9:30-10am in the Caf. Veterans from your family are invited to come or those who are
close to your family. Well have a quick assembly, then any guest of our students will be
invited back to our classroom to talk with the kids. If you have a Veteran that cant be
with us, you can still honor them by sending in the sheet with their picture and info (sent
home last Friday). We will add all those to our hall display outside of the assembly. We
look forward to thanking these heroes for all theyve done!

Current Learning

Fundations: We hope to finish unit 5 on Monday. The focus of Unit 5 is on two-syllable

words and how to divide between syllables. Weve also looked at the spelling of ic at
the end of multisyllabic words. Weve added more suffixes (ful, ment, ness, less, able,
en, ish). Some sample words are: catnip, habit, tonic, mascot, hundred, freshen, and
boldness. Please practice these trick words at home: against, knew, know, always,
often, once.

Math: Unit 3 will focus on multi-digit addition and subtraction within 100. We will use the
number line a lot during this unit, as it builds computational fluency and helps kids move
toward mental math. We continue to use 10s, 5s, and 1s to help us solve problems.
Well use the number line to make the least amount of 10s, 5s, and 1s jumps (which
might mean going backward). Well even add three two digit numbers. Story
problems are another focus of Unit 3. I look forward to the five new games and the
problems & investigations. Im so glad the kids are enjoying math so much!!!

Social Studies/Science: WOW! I am so proud of our class! They worked together in small
groups and built their Weather Tools! We will test them this coming week! Our next focus
will be making and recording observations of weather patterns around the country.
Students will be working in small groups.

Please check our Classroom Website for wonderful pictures of our learning

Have a GREAT weekend!