Week 9 October 17-21

9th week of school means that progress reports will be coming home soon.  Watch our for these reports that show your students academic progress at the mid six weeks.  Please sign and return these forms to your child's teacher promptly.

*Parent Education night is tomorrow night!!!  Grades K-2 will meet in the cafeteria from 6:30-7:00p.m. and grades 3-6 will meet in the cafeteria from 7:15-7:45.  Child care will be provided for those that need it.

*Our grade level t-shirts should be in by this Friday.  We are excited to have these and will be passing them out so our students can wear them to show their pride.  Please keep up with them as we will be wearing these to our field trip on Dec. 2 and also for Play Day at the end of the year.

This week in 2nd grade:

Spelling:  Words with c or k at the beginning.

city   kick   close   kept   corner   kangaroo   catch   kitchen   cast   kite   card   king

Grammar:  Subject/verb agreement.  Making sure that the subject of our sentences and verbs agree such as The girls ran. NOT The girls runs.

Writing:  Students will take a pice from their autobiography (weeks 1-3 of school) and expand upon a piece of it through prewrite and drafts.

Reading:  Fiction texts and story elements.  This week the elements of characters and setting are highlighted.

Math:  Adding pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to a dollar.  We also begin graphs.  We will be making bar graphs and picture graphs and using them to answer questions.

Science:  Study of air continues with pinwheels, wind vanes, and kites to study the direction of air.

Social Studies:  Countries, states, and cities and the differences among them.

Thank you for all you do to support our 2nd grade,

Sincerely, 

2nd grade teachers

Week of Oct. 10-14

Week 8 and things are moving very fast!!!

Tomorrow is the PTA program.  4th grade will be performing.  Come be a part of our PTA at 7:00pm

This Friday there will be picture retakes for those students who were not here or want retakes.

Oct. 18 is a parent night in the cafeteria to help gain more discipline strategies for home and school.

This week in our learning:

Reading:  We are continuing to look at and find the main idea (important) and details (interesting) of passages and texts.

Spelling:  Words with inflected endings that do not change spelling
cracks   finishes   dusts   fixes   camps   brushes   calls   wishes   turns   pushes   asks   passes   works

Writing:  We are working on editing and revising our reports from last week.

Grammar:  Focus is still on verbs in the present, past, and future tense

Math:  Place Value to the 100's place and Money.  Students should be able to write a number to the 100's place, read a number correctly, tell a value of a single digit within a number, and use expanded notation.  364 - 300+60+4, the 3 have a value of 300.

Science:  What causes seasons and Bubble in the wind

Social Studies:  A study of our world.  How to read and interpret maps and their key features, bodies of water, continents, etc.

Field trip money and t-shirt money is in.  T-shirts are being ordered this week and field trip tickets have been ordered as well.

Sincerely,
the second grade teachers

Galloway will be hosting a Parents' Education Night "Building a Bridge Between Home and School with Discipline Strategies" on October 18, 2011.   MISD Behavior Specialists Kricia Ponder and Christi Elkins will present.

Parents of Kindergartners, First and Second Graders: 6:30-7:00 p.m.

Parents of students in the upper grades (3-6): 6:45-7:30: 7:15-8:00

Childcare and refreshments provided!

We hope to see you there!

Week 7 - Beginning of 2nd 6 weeks Oct. 4-7

WOW!!!  We have completed our first 6 weeks together!

**We have extended the field trip deadline to Oct. 7.  You have until Friday to get your $8.00 in for field trip and $7.50 in for t-shirt.  If there is a private issue please speak with your child's teacher.

**Oct. 11 at 7p.m. will be our first PTA meeting and 4th grade will be performing

**Oct. 14 will be picture retakes for anyone that was either not here when we took pictures or those that need to have them redone.

This week in our classrooms:

Reading:  main Idea - establishing what is interesting vs. what is important in an expository piece.  your child should be able to distinguish between the 2.

Spelling:  hard and soft g and c
celery   cabin   giraffe   gym   circus   catch   golden   games   cement   cost   giant   guy

Writing:  Focus on prewriting and drafts of a mini report

Grammar:  verbs in present, past, and future tense

Math:  continuing patterns with paired number charts and extending them.  Revisiting place value to the 100's place.

Science:  Continue our weather graphing and begin to focus on the Night sky and comparing the seasons

Social Studies:  Landforms and bodies of water including continents and oceans (mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, streams, peninsula, islands, hills)

***Mrs. Wuest's class has begun a Pizza Hut reading program.  Your child has the opportunity to earn free pizza by simply reading at home each night.  October's goal is 380 minutes.

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.