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