Hello to all families!
School will be closed on Friday, October 20. It is a Professional Development Day for all teachers.
Happy birthday to Micah Tompkins who celebrates his birthday Saturday, October 14th! Soon we will celebrate Josiah’s birthday!
I am collecting $10 from each family in order to cover the cost of upcoming party crafts/activities. A note has been sent home. Please send your contribution no later than Wednesday.
We welcome Georgia and Skylar’s moms as our second grade class parents. They will be reaching out to you in the upcoming weeks regarding holiday celebrations and coordinating snack donations for each party. Our first party will be our Pumpkin/fall themed celebration on Tuesday, Oct. 31. Thank you in advance to our class moms and to all who contribute!
Please think about volunteering as a Mystery Reader! If interested, please email me so we can schedule a date for you to come in and read to the class. We’d love to have you visit our classroom!
A big thank you to Roman’s mom, our first Mystery Reader, who came in on Friday and shared a great seasonal book with us! Before coming in, she stumped us with her 3 clues! Even Roman was pleasantly surprised!
English Language Arts
Reading
Authentic Literature
• We have completed reading our novel study, Herbie Jones Sails Into Second Grade by Suzy Kline. As we review the last few chapters we will cite evidence from the text, talk about character traits, review the sequence of events, and write a short opinion piece.
Wonders Unit 1 Text Set 1/2
•Essential Question: How are families around the world the same and different?
•We begin to read the Anchor text “Big Red Lollipop”
Writing
• Personal Narratives- We continue to revise and edit! We are almost done!
• Our friendly letter/thank you to the Hicksville Fire Department will be hand delivered by the 4th and 5th graders this week, our act of kindness activity
•Birthday Book sentences
Phonics Focus Short a, i, o, e, u and their word families
Grammar Goals Statements and Questions
Handwriting
• “Keys to Legibility” including size, shape, spacing, and slant
• Review of basic manuscript letters Ll, Ii, Tt, Oo
Spelling Words First Test Friday 10/19 (short e, u, o) went, job, tug, bun, tell, fog, hut, pet, not, tub, fix, has, one, or, see
High Frequency Words: could, find, funny, green, how, little, one, or, see, sounds
Math-Completion of Module 1- Test Oct. 18
•Adding 3 Numbers Using Mental Strategies and Properties
• Numbers About Me- Math Journal
•Monday Morning Math Journal (Word Problem)
Science- Mystery Science
Science Journal Animal Sorting Game (Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Invertebrates)
Social Studies
American Symbols review
Religion- Chapel Wednesday
“Being a Christian is Like Being a Pumpkin…”
When/where can I pray?
Scholastic News
God bless our week ahead!
Antonia Ryan