Week 6 Sept. 27-30

This week will complete our first 6 weeks together!!!  Grades will be turned in on Friday so make sure your students have all work completed and turned in.

Letters went home last week about our field trip to the Dallas Children's Theater on Dec. 2.  Please make sure you fill them out and return them with money by Oct. 4th.  Field trip cost if $8 per person, that's $16 if you plan on attending with your student.  Grade level t-shirt information also went home last week and the cost is $7.50 also due on the 4th.  The frond will have Wild About 2nd Grade with some animals and the back will have your child's teacher's name on top with a large 02 for second grade.

Next Monday, Oct. 3, is our Fair so there will be no school!!!

This week in our learning:

Spelling:  This is a review week.  We will have 20 words that review the cvc (short vowel) pattern, cvce (long vowel) pattern, 1 syllable words with blends, digraphs ch sh wh and th, and degraphs ink ank and ng.
map       his        sunset        bedbug        guide        whine        cupcake        bedtime        plane        slept   
present       brake       chicken       whale       which       check       length       belong       blanket       blinked

Writing:  This week students will construct teaching books on topics a topic of choice.

Grammar:  Students are responsible for what we've studied this 6 weeks - beginning capital letters, ending punctuation, declarative and interrogative sentences, nouns, proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, complete sentences, and subject/verb agreement.

Reading:  We are continuing to monitor comprehension by asking questions.  These questions are student generated and text based. 

Math:  Working with patterns and paired number charts.  Students should be able to state the pattern in the chart.
   EX:  there is 1 cat with 4 legs.  How many legs are there on 4 cats?
              cats     legs
                  1       4 
                  2       8                      pattern is counting by 4's or adding 4 each time
                  3      12
                  4      16

Science:  We are continuing our study on weather with watching the clouds and measuring rain.  Your child will learn the difference in cumulus, stratus, and cirrus clouds and be able to identify them.

Social Studies:  We will be working on mapping our communities and our map skills.  Your students will learn how to use the compass rose, map key, and map symbols to read maps.

We have enjoyed working with your students this 6 weeks and look forward to the remainder of this year!
Sincerely,
second grade teachers

PTA, t-shirts,and field trips

PTA envelopes went home on Tuesday. We would love to have as many parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. join as possilbe. The money generated from PTA goes to purchase items for the kids to use in their everyday learning.

Field Trip letters went home today!!! We are asking that your money be in by Oct. 1if at all possible. We are excited to be going to the Dallas Children's Theater and seeing Mufarro's Beautiful Daughters. This play is a cultural version of the cinderella tale most children know and is based on John Steptoe's book by the same title. Field trip cost is $8. There are 16 spots available for parents and they will be given on a first come first serve basis. If interested in going with us, please get you money and background check in as soon as possible to reserve your spot.

T-shirt letters also come home today in the packet for field trip. Our theme this year is Wild About 2nd Grade at Galloway. The teachers are going to get polos with this pic on it

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and the stuents will have a version of this pic on theirs in white. The cost of the shirt is $7.50. We are also having the backs printed on this year like a jersey. Your child will have their teachers name at the top and 02 for second grade. We are excited to be adding this difference this year.

MRS. FRIEDMAN

SEGUNDO GRADO!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is the 5th week of school! One more week to go and your child has successfully completed their 1st 6 weeks in the second grade!!! Esta es la 5a. semana!! Una semana mas y su hijo/a habra completado el primer periodo de seis semanas en Segundo grado!!!!!

Here is an overview of our week: Aqui le presentamos una vista general de nuestra semana de trabajo:

Reading: We are working on questioning and finding the answers in expository or non-fiction text. Your child should be able to generate their own questions before, during, and after reading and be able to use the text and text features to answer these questions.

Lectura: Estamos trabajando en preguntas y encontrar las respuestas en textos expositorios o de no-ficcion. Estudiantes deberan se capaces de generar sus propias preguntas antes, durante y despues de leer asi como ser capaz de usar el texto asi como las caracteristicas del mismo para contestar estas preguntas.

Writing: We are making question/answer books and writing mini informational reports. Escritura: Estaremos trabajando en libritos de pregunta/respuesta y escritura de mini-reportes informacionales.

Spelling:ORTOGRAFIA: Espanol =g Ingles=bl, cl, fl, tr, br, fr

Math: we are still working with subtraction and relating it to addition. Later in the week we will begin to learn about patterns.

Matematicas: Restas-sumas y patrones

Science: We begin our study on weatherKeep your eye out for pictures of our latest experiments on air resistance with parachutes here on the blog coming soon.

Ciencias: Empezaremos nuestro estudio del clima/tiempo.

Social Studies: We are studying different types of communities: urban, suburban, and rural.Estudios Sociales:Estudiaremos diferentes tipos de comunidades: urbana, suburbia, y rural.

Keep your eye out for PTA envelopes to join, field trip information, and class t-shirt information coming soon to a home near you!!!

Pronto recibira informacion acerca de nuestra proxima excursion, camisetas, y sobres para PTA, este pendiente!!!!!!!

Sincerely, 2nd grade teachers

Atentamente: las maestras de Segundo grado.

Week 5 Sept. 19-23

It is the 5th week of school!  One more week to go and your child has successfully completed their 1st 6 weeks in the second grade!!!

Here is an overview of our week:

Reading:  We are working on questioning and finding the answers in expository or non-fiction text.  Your child should be able to generate their own questions before, during, and after reading and be able to use the text and text features to answer these questions.

Writing:  We are making question/answer books and writing mini informational reports

Spelling:  Digraphs -ink,-ank,-unk,and ng
chunky   blinked   shrink   chipmunk   blanket   drank   song   belong   sung   length   clang  wink

Math:  we are still working with subtraction and relating it to addition.  Later in the week we will begin to learn about patterns.

Science:  We begin our study on weather
Keep your eye out for pictures of our latest experiments on air resistance with parachutes here on the blog coming soon.

Social Studies:  We are studying different types of communities:  urban, suburban, and rural

Keep your eye out for PTA envelopes to join, field trip information, and class t-shirt information coming soon to a home near you!!!

Sincerely, 2nd grade teachers

Week 4 Sept. 12-16

Welcome to the 4th week of school!  We have a busy week ahead of us and I wanted to keep you updated on what we are studying.

Spelling:  words with digraphs at the beginning and end (ch, sh, wh, and th)
Third   Path   This   Chicken   March   Each   Shirt   Brush   Wish   Which   Whale   While
**Homework is expected to be completed in spelling journals

Grammar:  Proper Nouns - the names of people, places, and things should be capitalized

Reading:  Noticing text features of expository (non-fiction) text and their importance
   (photographs, captions, labels, diagrams, illustrations, bold words, italicized words, titles)(

Math:  Comparing and ordering numbers to 999 with greater than >, less than <, and equal to =.
  Also we begin subtraction by taking apart and counting back

Science:  Unit on Air continues with pushing on Air, Air and water fountains, and balloon rockets

Social Studies:  Celebrate Freedom Week

Remember that you can always get to our blog by going to the galloway website, clicking on staff, and clicking on second grade.

Leave any comments or questions and we will address them promptly.

Thanks,
Second grade teachers

MRS. FRIEDMAN-SEMANA 3

Gracias a todos los padres de familia que asistieron a la "Open House" el pasado jueves.

Por favor asegurense de regresar todos los formatos y papeles que recibieron la primera semana, tales como: carta de asistencia, la tarjeta rosa para la enfermeria, la ultima pagina del codigo de conducta, la forma para la transportacion/autobus, el formato para el almuerzo gratis/precio reducido (si aplican), etc.

Algunos de los temas a estudiar esta semana seran:

Lectura: monitorear comprension. Necesitamos que los estudiantes comprendan lo que leen y cuando algo no tenga sentido lo vuelvan a leer. Mantener actualizado su registro de lectura.

Ortografia: No olviden hacer una actividad cada dia y entregarlas todas el viernes.

Matematicas: Empezaremos a trabajar con valor posicional (unidad, decena, centena) y bloques de base 10. Escribir numeros de diferentes maneras: palabras, digitos, etc.

Ciencias: continuamos nuestra unidad acerca del aire.

Estudios sociales: Estudio de las diferentes comunidades y caracteristicas de los buenos ciudadanos.
Como siempre, si tiene alguna pregunta no duden en contactarme.

Week 3 Sept. 6-10

Thank you to all the parents who came to Meet the Teacher Night.  We had a really great turn out and that makes us that much more excited about this year.

Please make sure you have returned all papers from the first week of school: attendance letter, code of conduct last page, nurse's form, and free and reduced lunch form if applicable.

Here are the topics for this week of study:

Reading:  Monitoring Comprehension - We want the students to understand what they are reading and to notice when things are not making sense.  We encourage them to stop and reread if a breakdown has occurred.

Spelling:  one syllable words with blends - plane   present   slept   skip   stamp   grin   fast   bend   flag   start   brake   start

Math:  Place Value - We introduce place value with base 10 blocks and the FLU board.  (F-flats, L-longs, U-units)  We also correlate the flats with 100's, longs with 10's, and units with 1's.  We encourage students to make the number in a variety of ways.  ex:  34:  3 tens 4 units; 2 tens 14 units; 34 units, etc.

Science:  our study on Air takes us into Air under water; parachutes; and pushing on air

Social Studies:  Continuing our study on communities and good citizenship, you child should be able to answer What is a Community and tell how good citizenship is being shown throughout the community.

As always if any questions feel free to call at 972-882-5101 or e-mail at

kwuest@mesquiteisd.org

dcooper@mesquiteisd.org

sthompson@mesquiteisd.org

sfriedman@mesquiteisd.org