Christmas Party

Ok, I caved.  Ms. Thompson's class will also participate in the book trade.  So please bring a chapter book wrapped for the Christmas party on the 20th if you wish to participate.  Girls will trade with girls and boys with boys.

Field Trip and Christmas party!

Field Trip:

As Mrs. Wuest said in her post, our field trip to the Dallas Children's Theater is on Friday. Parents who are attending with us please be at school in the foyer at 8:45 so we can load the buses.  Your child (and you if you bought one!) should wear the green second grade shirt purchased earlier in the year.  Be sure to send your child in comfortable schools and hopefully the weather will allow us to have the picnic we have planned.

Christmas Party:

My class is also going to have a chapter book exchange for any student who wants to participate. You may send a gender specific book because girls will exchange with girls and boys with boys.  Be watching for more party information during the next week.

Mrs. Cooper's class is learning double digit subtraction with regrouping!

We also had a little fun at the end of our activity!
We worked so hard today with making numbers, regrouping and subtracting using base ten blocks.  I am impressed how quickly many students are picking up this new skill!

Week of Nov. 28-Dec. 2

Tomorrow Night is our Health Fair. Please make plans to attend from 6-7p.m. and get lots of healthy snacks, free books, and information.

This Friday is our field trip to the theatre to see Mufarro's Beautiful Daughters. Parents who are attending plan to meet us in the front hall at 8:45 so we can load up on the buses.

This is the 3rd week in the 3rd 6 weeks. Progress Reports should be coming home either at the end of this week or beginning of next. Please keep a lookout for those and sign and return promptly.

Christmas Parties will be December 20 if you want to make arrangements to attend. Please be watching for information concerning the party.
We will be exchanging chapter books, not coloring books or small children's books, so please make arrangements to have one if you will be participating in Mrs. Wuest's class. Each student just needs one wrapped book.

Our learning this week:

Reading: We are studying media literacy. It can be broken down into 3 categories: media we listen to, media we view, and media we read. Students are to think about what type it is, who the message is from, who the intended audience is, what is the purpose of the media, and what things draw your attention.

Spelling: Inflectional endings that require doubling of the consonant before adding ing, ed, or er
planning bigger tipped dropping shopper trapped
stepped grinning slipping chopped swimmer hopper

Writing: We are editing and finalizing our procedural/sequential How-to's

Grammar: Adverbs, time words first, then, next, later, tomorrow, etc.

Math: Two-digit subtraction with regrouping

Science: uses of plants, minerals, and air; living and nonliving; and begin our study of insects with mealworms

Social Studies: How did the United States become its own country?

Fun with Math

We are busily learning how to add two digit numbers when you have to regroup so we pulled out the base 10 blocks and are working with the concept.

These students are hard at work and having fun!

 Look how carefully they are counting the blocks to ensure success!

 You can see the wheels in their heads turning as they are learning.

And to end with some more wonderful two digit addition.

Week 13 Nov. 14-18 and 21-22

This entry will remain the same for this week and next week since we only come on Monday and Tuesday of next week.

***Dollar to make a Difference is due by this Friday if you choose to participate.

***November 21 will be PTA night at 7p.m.

***Book orders in Mrs. Wuest class are also due by Nov. 21 if ordering

***Nov. 23-25 is Thanksgiving Break

***November 29 is the Galloway Health Fair from 6-7.

Our learning :

Spelling:  Long e spelled ee or ea
week   cheese   queen   sneeze   speech   bean   dream   peace   sheep   cheap   read   leaf

Reading:  Expository text structures
**Procedural text: sequencing and telling how to do something
**Cause and Effect structure
**Comparison/Contrast structure

Writing:  how to's or Procedural text.
***Please have your student bring a recipe by Wed. of this week

Grammar:  Adverbs or time transition words
**first, second, next, then, after, finally

Math:  Addition and Subtraction with two-digit numbers (regrouping may be necessary)

Science:  Water in its states of matter (solid, liquid, gas)

Social Studies:  Giving Thanks

Happy Veteran's Day!!!

Thank you to all Veterans who have served or are serving in our military to keep our country safe.
Thank you for all you do.

Recipes Needed...

We are beginning to study procedural texts, texts that tell you how to do something, and writing How-to papers.  We, the teachers, are requesting that each child bring a family favorite, or student favorite recipe to class.  They need that ingredients needed as well as how to make the recipe.  Please send your recipe to school with your name and your child's name on it by Wed., November 16, 2011

Math Fact Competition

We will be having a campus wide math fact competition the week before Christmas.  Second graders will be quizzed over addition and subtraction facts to 12. Up to 12+12. If your child has access to a computer they can practice for the competition at www.arcademicskillbuilders.com  There are several games you can use to help with fact automaticity.

Week 12 beginning of 3rd 6 weeks

Wow!  Can you believe we are beginning the 3rd 6 weeks of the school year?  That means we are quickly approaching our half way period:)

CBA's went well last week and we have looked at data and learned a lot about our children.  We look forward to sharing the information with you in parent conferences the 14th-16th of Nov.  Please be sure you have signed and returned conference letter schedules to your child's teacher:)

This week in learning:

Reading:  We are beginning to focus in on Literary non-fiction.  These are stories that are non-fiction but also contain certain elements like fiction such as characters, setting, and events.

Spelling:  Words that end in the /k/ sound spelled k, ke, or ck
pack   check   pickle   sock   asking   silk   honk   pork   poke   flake   alike   spoke

Math:  We are beginning probability.  Is something certain, less likely, more likely to happen

Science:  We are studying the Water Cycle of our Earth

Social Studies:  The New World and how the Native Americans felt about the explorers

Grammar:  Pronouns

Writing:  We are writing our own biographies over various people

As always thank you for your support

Science fun with air resistance

our class had fun with learning about air resistance by releasing parachutes from the top of the stairs and learing about how they fall.  We hope you enjoy our pictures:)

Semana 11

Carta Semanal

Week 11 brings the end of the 2nd 6 weeks!!! Any late work, redo's, or missing work is due Wed to receive credit as grades are being finished up for report cards.

Esta es la semana 11 y el fin del Segundo periodo de seis semanas!! Trabajos y calificaciones deberan terminarse esta semana para imprimir boletas de calificaciones.

Conferences

Conferencias: Este pendiente ya que he comenzado y muy pronto recibira un aviso para la suya si es que aun no ha hablado conmigo individualmente.

Wednesday will be a Reading CBA (Curriculum Based Assessment)

Thursday will be a Math CBA

Los alumnos tomaran dos examenes muy IMPORTANTES: CBA de lectura el miercoles y CBA de matematicas el jueves. Digales a sus hijos que lean con cuidado, piensen, analicen sus respuestan y hagan todo lo que la maestra les ha ensenado.

***PTA has been rescheduled from the 8th to the 21st of November***

***Health Fair will be at the end of this month on the 29th from 6-7. Please make arrangements now to attend***

La Feria de la Salud sera el 29 de Nov. 6 a 7 pm.

This week in our learning:

Reading: We are doing a study of settings ad plots in different fiction works by the same author

Lectura: Estudio de escenarios y argumentos en trabajos de ficcion por el mismo autor.

CBA es un examen de comprension. Los alumnos necesitan leer cada texto con atencion, comprenderlo, leer cada pregunta y sobre todo regresar al texto a buscar la respuesta o la evidencia/pista que le ayude a saber cual es la mejor respuesta. Tambien se le podria pedir que escribiera la respuesta a la pregunta. Hemos practicado en el salon y tambien enviare una practica para tarea para la casa el martes. Por lo tanto martes no tienen que hacer ortografia, ni el reporte de lectura.

Spelling: Review week

Spelling Focus: b/v patterns (2.23Av) Words: cantaba,íbamos,nadaba, ibas, activo, daba, iba, iban,jugaba, viva, pensaba, pensativo, motivo,

Focus: long i vowel patterns (CVCe and CV) i_e/ _y/ _ie (2.23Biii) while, by, lie,my, like,five,try, price, thin, why,side

Ortografia: revision

Writing: Finish up editing and publish personal narratives

Escritura: Terminar de editar y publicar narraciones personales

Grammar: Review verbs, nouns, and adjectives

Gramatica: revision: verbos, nombres, adjetivos

Math: Review for CBA on Thurs.

topics eligible for testing are addition and subtraction strategies, place value to 100's place, comparing and ordering numbers to 100's place, patterns, paired numbers charts, money, graphs, and time

Matematicas: Revision para CBA el jueves

Temas elegibles para evaluacion CBA son: suma, resta y sus estrategias, valor posicional (unidad, decena, centena) , comparar y ordenar numeros ><= de centenas, leer y escribir numeros con digitos y letras, patrones, pares de numeros, tablas, dinero, graficas de barras , pictografias, dinero y los relojes/hora. Resolucion de problemas usando UPSL, en fin todo lo que hemos visto y estudiado desde el principio del curso.

Science: Objects in the night sky

Ciencias: objetos en el cielo nocturno

Social Studies: Natural resources and how they meet our needs

Estudios sociales: Recursos naturales

Sincerely,

2nd grade teachers

Week 11 Nov. 1-4

Week 11 brings the end of the 2nd 6 weeks!!!  Any late work, redo's, or missing work is due Wed to receive credit as grades are being finished up for report cards.

Wednesday will be a Reading CBA (Curriculum Based Assessment)
Thursday will be a Math CBA

***PTA has been rescheduled from the 8th to the 21st of November***

***Health Fair will be at the end of this month on the 29th from 6-7.  Please make arrangements now to attend***

This week in our learning:

Reading:  We are doing a study of settings ad plots in different fiction works by the same author

Spelling:  Review week of hard/soft c/g, adding -s  -es  -ing when spelling doesn't change, c/k at the beginning of the word, and long a spelled ai/ay
This week's list:
celery   giraffe   guide   cabin   circle   fixes   finishes   cracks   plays   melting   corner   kitchen   city   kingdom   kangaroo   bait   waist   spray   today   rainbow

Writing:  Finish up editing and publish personal narratives

Grammar:  Review verbs, nouns, and adjectives

Math:  Review for CBA on Thurs.
topics eligible for testing are addition and subtraction strategies, place value to 100's place, comparing and ordering numbers to 100's place, patterns, paired numbers charts, money, graphs, and time

Science:  Objects in the night sky

Social Studies:  Natural resources and how they meet our needs

Sincerely,
2nd grade teachers