***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.
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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
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