9/16/19
And we’re off!
You may have seen the book bags that started coming home last week. Students will pack books up every Monday-Thursday. They can read for 10-15 minutes at the start of the year. Please make sure those book bags return each day. Let me know if you have any questions!
This week is safety week, the district did send out an information letter and we will practice each drill this week. Today we started off with a fire drill, we will also practice an evacuation drill and tornado drill this week.
The first book order came home the first week of school but if you would like to order books online here is the link: https://clubs.scholastic.com/
Our class code is QJMYM
The order is due September 30th.
Upcoming Events:
9/16-9/20: Safety Week
9/24: Family Night (a sheet will come home this week)
Homecoming week 9/23-9/27 dress up days:
10/2: Picture Day
10/4: No School
Specials this week:
Monday: Gym and Library Skills
Tuesday: Gym and Music
Wednesday: Library Check-Out and STEAM
Thursday: Gym and Music
Friday: Gym and Music
Reading:
This week in reading we will learn how 2nd graders work hard to solve tricky words. We will remind ourselves things we learned in 1st grade and talk about how we use more than one strategy at a time. How words need to make sense and look right to our eyes. We will also learn about beginnings and endings or words and how sometimes in the middle there are vowel teams that we work hard to be flexible with.
Writing:
In writing this week we are starting a new unit called: Learning from the Masters. We talked about how master authors write stories that are meaningful and made an impact in their own lives. We received a tiny topics notepad to record our ideas. We will then work on stretching those meaningful stories and zooming in to the important parts of the story.
Math:
This week in math we are continuing to work on relating subtraction and addition, solving for unknown addends, and solving for unknown totals. We will also dig deep into understanding what the equal sign really means, odd and even numbers, and strategies to solve two, three, and four addend problems.
Researcher’s Workshop:
This week in researchers workshop (our new name for science or social studies) we will be starting our first science unit! Our first topic is Animal Biodiversity. This week we will learn about biodiversity, classification, and patterns with animals. We will also start to talk about habitats and species.
You may have seen the book bags that started coming home last week. Students will pack books up every Monday-Thursday. They can read for 10-15 minutes at the start of the year. Please make sure those book bags return each day. Let me know if you have any questions!
This week is safety week, the district did send out an information letter and we will practice each drill this week. Today we started off with a fire drill, we will also practice an evacuation drill and tornado drill this week.
The first book order came home the first week of school but if you would like to order books online here is the link: https://clubs.scholastic.com/
Our class code is QJMYM
The order is due September 30th.
Upcoming Events:
9/16-9/20: Safety Week
9/24: Family Night (a sheet will come home this week)
Homecoming week 9/23-9/27 dress up days:
- Monday-Hat/Crazy Hair Day
- Tuesday-Crazy Sock Day
- Wednesday-School Spirit Day! Wear Purple/NDLC Attire. Homecoming Parade 6:00, meet at 5:15 at Holy Cross if you are interested in walking in the parade. An adult must walk with the child.
- Thursday-Disney or Super Hero Day
- Friday-Orange and Black Day
10/2: Picture Day
10/4: No School
Specials this week:
Monday: Gym and Library Skills
Tuesday: Gym and Music
Wednesday: Library Check-Out and STEAM
Thursday: Gym and Music
Friday: Gym and Music
Reading:
This week in reading we will learn how 2nd graders work hard to solve tricky words. We will remind ourselves things we learned in 1st grade and talk about how we use more than one strategy at a time. How words need to make sense and look right to our eyes. We will also learn about beginnings and endings or words and how sometimes in the middle there are vowel teams that we work hard to be flexible with.
Writing:
In writing this week we are starting a new unit called: Learning from the Masters. We talked about how master authors write stories that are meaningful and made an impact in their own lives. We received a tiny topics notepad to record our ideas. We will then work on stretching those meaningful stories and zooming in to the important parts of the story.
Math:
This week in math we are continuing to work on relating subtraction and addition, solving for unknown addends, and solving for unknown totals. We will also dig deep into understanding what the equal sign really means, odd and even numbers, and strategies to solve two, three, and four addend problems.
Researcher’s Workshop:
This week in researchers workshop (our new name for science or social studies) we will be starting our first science unit! Our first topic is Animal Biodiversity. This week we will learn about biodiversity, classification, and patterns with animals. We will also start to talk about habitats and species.
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