Week 27 March 26-30

This is the 5th week in the 5th 6 weeks. That means we have only 9 weeks of school remaining in our second grade year!

Let us remind ourselves and our students that 4th grade will be taking the Writing STAAR, and 5th grade will be taking Reading and Math STAAR over the next 2 days, Tuesday and Wednesday

Friday, April 6, will be a holiday so NO SCHOOL!

Play Day is sneaking up on us.It will be May 25, so mark your calendars now if you plan to attend.

This week in our learning:

Reading: Drawing conclusions, Plot, and Theme of fiction text

Spelling: R-controlled Vowels -ar -or
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Grammar: complete sentences with subject/verb agreement

Writing: response to the setting of a story ex: Was the setting important to the story? Why or Why not? OR Do you like the setting? Why or Why Not?

Math: Review graphing, comparing 100's, and measurement

Science: Balance and Motion through The Pencil Trick, Mobiles, and Tops

Social Studies: From the Soil to the Shelf

Week 26 March 19-23

Sorry about not having our blog updated yesterday. We had a power outage at school and I couldn't get it done.

Our learning this week:

Reading: Review story elements and inferencing with fiction text

Spelling: double medial consonants.
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Grammar: Review complete sentences with subject/verb agreement

Math: Review double digit subtraction and whether to use addition or subtraction

Science: Balance and Motion

Social Studies: producers and consumers

Week 25 March 5-9

It's College Week in MISD!!!
Monday - Receive your Gear Up for College Bracelet
Tuesday - Galloway kid are college bound - Wear your Galloway class shirt
Wednesday - Hats off to your futrue fill our heads with knowledge - wear favorite college hat
Thursday - Be all that you can be - wear camouflage OR dress as the career you want to be
Friday - Galloway kids are college bound - Wear a college shirt and jeans OR the colors of your favorite college if you don't have a shirt

This is the 3rd week in the 5th 6 weeks so that means that progress reports will be coming home when we return from Spring Break.

**PTA (3rd) Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00p.m. in the cafeteria.

**Spring Pictures March 8 - no money required until they come in and you decide then if you want them.

**Spring Break next week!!!

Our learning this week:

Spelling: Drop e when adding -ing
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Reading: Inferencing with Cause and Effect in expository text

Math: Time, Addition and Subtraction with base 10 blocks

Grammar: Prepositions and Prepositional phrases

Writing: Write response to Expository text

Social Studies: Needs vs. Wants

Science: Balance and Motion study with Trick crayfish and triangle and arch