Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all our wonderful 2nd graders!!!  I hope you enjoy your day off of school and have a safe evening of trick or treating if you choose to participate.  Get plenty of rest and be ready for a week of learning and CBA testing on Wed. and Thurs.
                                    

SEMANA 10

***Special thanks to all the parents who attended the Parent Night on Oct. 18th for taking time out of your busy schedule to help us bridge the learning between home and school.

GRACIAS A TODOS LOS PADRES que asistieron a la junta del 18 de octubre.

***Progress reports will be coming home this week. Please look these over, sign, and return to your child's teacher. Any zero's or grades lower than a 70 need to be in by Friday of this week in order to receive credit.

Reportes de progreso de las primeras 3 semanas se enviaron el viernes. Favor de revisarlos firmarlos y enviarlos de regreso.

***If your child brings home any graded papers below a 70 they are allowed to redo them adn return them for a grade of 70, if returned in a timely manner. Check reading log and conduct report.

Si el estudiante saca menos de 70 el estudiante puede hacer el trabajo nuevamente y regresarlo al dia siguiente para subir su calificacion a 70. Asimismo es importante entregar todas last areas y actividades. Revisen el registro de lectura y tambien el reporte de conducta semanalmente.

***This is Red Ribbon Week - Choose to be Drug Free. We will be having special days all this week as to what we wear or do. Please be sure and read the social studies section to know what to do on each day!

Esta semana es llamada del liston rojo- Libre de drogas. Tendremos dias en los que vestiremos ciertos colores especiales.

***Congratulations to the students who got to attend the Glow Party today for PTA. Thank you to all the parents who joined PTA to help support our kids here at Galloway!

Felicitaciones a los estudiantes cuyos padres se suscribieron al PTA ya que asistiran a la Glow Party!!!!!!

Our learning this week:

Esta semana aprenderemos

Spelling:

ORTOGRAFIA: Focus: mp/mb, nf/nv patterns (2.23Avi)

enviar, cambiar, invitar, tampoco, confortable, también, confiar,envolver, invierno, comprar, enfrente

Focus: long o vowel patterns (CVCe and CVVC) o_e/oa (2.23Biii)

home, soap, those, globe, close, plot, broke, goal, stole, coat,

Writing: Students will be revising personal narratives for sentence fluency and word choice.

Escritura: Revisaremos narraciones personales para fluidez en las oraciones y seleccion de palabras.

Grammar: Adjectives (descriptive words)

Gramatica: Adjetivos(palabras que describen): bonito, horrible, inteligente, etc.

Reading: Continue our study of fiction text and its elements. Special focus on the element of characters and their traits and feelings.

Lectura: Continuaremos nuestro estudio dde textos de ficcion y sus elementos. Especial atencion a los personajes,sus caracteristicas y sentimientos.

Math: Finish up graphs and study time to the hour, half hour, and to the 5 minute intervals. Students should be able to tell time on a digital and analog clock and know how to match the 2, read and write time, and complete the hands on an analog clock if given a time.

Matematicas: Graficas de barras y pictograficas. Estudio del reloj: media hora, 5 minutos de intervalos,cuanto falta para, etc. Decir la hora en relojes digitales y analogos emparejarlos, leer y escribir la hora, completar las manecillas en relojes analogos para mostrar una hora dada.

LES SOLICITO APOYEN A SUS HIJOS MOSTRANDOLES LA HORA, PREGUNTANDOLES QUE HORA ES, CUANTO FALTA PARA IR A CIERTA ACTIVIDAD, ETC.

Science: Continuation of air and weather investigation with comparing weather graphs, The Night Sky, and The Moon.

Ciencias: Continuamos nuestro estudio del aire y el clima. El cielo nocturno y la luna.

Social Studies: Red Ribbon Week - Choose to be Drug Free!!!

Estudios sociales: Semana del liston rojo- Elijo ser libre de drogas!!!!!!!

Monday: Wear jeans and a red shirt for "Drugs make me see Red so, be a "Genius" and don't do drugs!"

Lunes: jeans y camiseta roja

Tuesday: Wear CAMO for "Be all you can be...drug free!"

Martes: camuflaje

Wednesday: Wear Black for "Black out drugs!"

Miercoles:: Vestir color negro

Thursday: Wear your Favorite Cap for "Put a cap on drugs!"

Jueves: Usa tu gorra favorita

Friday: Wear your favorite TEAM ATTIRE for "Team up against drugs!"

Viernes: Usa la camiseta de tu equipo favorito

TESTS-EXAMENES!!!!!!!

IMPORTANTE!!!!!!MIERCOLES NOV. 2 TENDREMOS EXAMEN CBA DE LECTURA DE 9:00 A 10:00

JUEVES EXAMEN CBA DE MATEMATICAS DE 8:30 A 9:30.

PRESTEN ESPECIAL ATENCION A LOS RESULTADOS DE ESTOS EXAMENES.

Thank you again for all your support,

your 2nd grade teachers

Week 10 October 24-28

***Special thanks to all the parents who attended the Parent Night on Oct. 18th for taking time out of your busy schedule to help us bridge the learning between home and school.

***Progress reports will be coming home this week.  Please look these over, sign, and return to your child's teacher.  Any zero's or grades lower than a 70 need to be in by Friday of this week in order to receive credit.

***If your child brings home any graded papers below a 70 they are allowed to redo them adn return them for a grade of 70, if returned in a timely manner.

***This is Red Ribbon Week - Choose to be Drug Free.  We will be having special days all this week as to what we wear or do.  Please be sure and read the social studies section to know what to do on each day!

***Congratulations to the students who got to attend the Glow Party today for PTA.  Thank you to all the parents who joined PTA to help support our kids here at Galloway!

Our learning this week:

Spelling:  Long a spelled ai/ay - Students should realize that when a word ends with the long a vowel sound it is usually spelled ay not ai.
grain       tray      waist      today      snail      spray      chain      clay      train      stay      sail      may

Writing:  Students will be revising personal narratives for sentence fluency and word choice.

Grammar:  Adjectives (descriptive words)

Reading:  Continue our study of fiction text and its elements.  Special focus on the element of characters and their traits and feelings.

Math:  Finish up graphs and study time to the hour, half hour, and to the 5 minute intervals.  Students should be able to tell time on a digital and analog clock and know how to match the 2, read and write time, and complete the hands on an analog clock if given a time.

Science:  Continuation of air and weather investigation with comparing weather graphs, The Night Sky, and The Moon.

Social Studies:  Red Ribbon Week - Choose to be Drug Free!!!
Monday: Wear jeans and a Red shirt for "Drugs make me see Red so, be a "Genius" and don't do drugs!"
Tuesday:  Wear CAMO for "Be all you can be...drug free!"
Wednesday:  Wear Black for "Black out drugs!"
Thursday:  Wear your Favorite Cap for "Put a cap on drugs!"
Friday:  Wear your favorite TEAM ATTIRE for "Team up against drugs!"

Thank you again for all your support,
your 2nd grade teachers

Week 9 October 17-21

9th week of school means that progress reports will be coming home soon.  Watch our for these reports that show your students academic progress at the mid six weeks.  Please sign and return these forms to your child's teacher promptly.

*Parent Education night is tomorrow night!!!  Grades K-2 will meet in the cafeteria from 6:30-7:00p.m. and grades 3-6 will meet in the cafeteria from 7:15-7:45.  Child care will be provided for those that need it.

*Our grade level t-shirts should be in by this Friday.  We are excited to have these and will be passing them out so our students can wear them to show their pride.  Please keep up with them as we will be wearing these to our field trip on Dec. 2 and also for Play Day at the end of the year.

This week in 2nd grade:

Spelling:  Words with c or k at the beginning.

city   kick   close   kept   corner   kangaroo   catch   kitchen   cast   kite   card   king

Grammar:  Subject/verb agreement.  Making sure that the subject of our sentences and verbs agree such as The girls ran. NOT The girls runs.

Writing:  Students will take a pice from their autobiography (weeks 1-3 of school) and expand upon a piece of it through prewrite and drafts.

Reading:  Fiction texts and story elements.  This week the elements of characters and setting are highlighted.

Math:  Adding pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to a dollar.  We also begin graphs.  We will be making bar graphs and picture graphs and using them to answer questions.

Science:  Study of air continues with pinwheels, wind vanes, and kites to study the direction of air.

Social Studies:  Countries, states, and cities and the differences among them.

Thank you for all you do to support our 2nd grade,

Sincerely, 

2nd grade teachers

Week of Oct. 10-14

Week 8 and things are moving very fast!!!

Tomorrow is the PTA program.  4th grade will be performing.  Come be a part of our PTA at 7:00pm

This Friday there will be picture retakes for those students who were not here or want retakes.

Oct. 18 is a parent night in the cafeteria to help gain more discipline strategies for home and school.

This week in our learning:

Reading:  We are continuing to look at and find the main idea (important) and details (interesting) of passages and texts.

Spelling:  Words with inflected endings that do not change spelling
cracks   finishes   dusts   fixes   camps   brushes   calls   wishes   turns   pushes   asks   passes   works

Writing:  We are working on editing and revising our reports from last week.

Grammar:  Focus is still on verbs in the present, past, and future tense

Math:  Place Value to the 100's place and Money.  Students should be able to write a number to the 100's place, read a number correctly, tell a value of a single digit within a number, and use expanded notation.  364 - 300+60+4, the 3 have a value of 300.

Science:  What causes seasons and Bubble in the wind

Social Studies:  A study of our world.  How to read and interpret maps and their key features, bodies of water, continents, etc.

Field trip money and t-shirt money is in.  T-shirts are being ordered this week and field trip tickets have been ordered as well.

Sincerely,
the second grade teachers

Galloway will be hosting a Parents' Education Night "Building a Bridge Between Home and School with Discipline Strategies" on October 18, 2011.   MISD Behavior Specialists Kricia Ponder and Christi Elkins will present.

Parents of Kindergartners, First and Second Graders: 6:30-7:00 p.m.

Parents of students in the upper grades (3-6): 6:45-7:30: 7:15-8:00

Childcare and refreshments provided!

We hope to see you there!

Week 7 - Beginning of 2nd 6 weeks Oct. 4-7

WOW!!!  We have completed our first 6 weeks together!

**We have extended the field trip deadline to Oct. 7.  You have until Friday to get your $8.00 in for field trip and $7.50 in for t-shirt.  If there is a private issue please speak with your child's teacher.

**Oct. 11 at 7p.m. will be our first PTA meeting and 4th grade will be performing

**Oct. 14 will be picture retakes for anyone that was either not here when we took pictures or those that need to have them redone.

This week in our classrooms:

Reading:  main Idea - establishing what is interesting vs. what is important in an expository piece.  your child should be able to distinguish between the 2.

Spelling:  hard and soft g and c
celery   cabin   giraffe   gym   circus   catch   golden   games   cement   cost   giant   guy

Writing:  Focus on prewriting and drafts of a mini report

Grammar:  verbs in present, past, and future tense

Math:  continuing patterns with paired number charts and extending them.  Revisiting place value to the 100's place.

Science:  Continue our weather graphing and begin to focus on the Night sky and comparing the seasons

Social Studies:  Landforms and bodies of water including continents and oceans (mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, streams, peninsula, islands, hills)

***Mrs. Wuest's class has begun a Pizza Hut reading program.  Your child has the opportunity to earn free pizza by simply reading at home each night.  October's goal is 380 minutes.