1- MONDAYS: Library books returned and take-home folders sent home with new reading passages for the week.

2–  FRIDAY:  Early Out

3- Scholastic Book Order. Books make great gifts. Share this link and our class code with grandparents, family and friends. Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is N8TKQ:  Scholastic Book Club You can also try Scholastic’s “Book Finder” for ideas on books for your child.

Upcoming Dates:

• Wednesday, October 5: Picture retakes
• TUESDAY: October 11th -Lockdown and Evacuation Drill
• Wednesday-Friday, October 12-14: NO SCHOOL Fall Break
• Monday, October 17: Cookie Dough and Beef Jerky pickup
• Wednesday-Thursday, October 26-27: Early Out and Parent Teacher Conferences
• I use Bloomz for Parent Teacher Conferences sign ups. – Bloomz App Please sign up for Bloomz using the link and sign up for an appointment to discuss your student.
• Friday, October 28: NO SCHOOL
• Monday, October 31: Early Out and Halloween Parade

If you have yet to sign up on Bloomz, please do so asap. I will use this throughout the year to communicate with parents along with the blog. I also use Bloomz for Parent Teacher Conferences sign ups. – Bloomz App

The following link is a short survey to help me get to know your child better.  Please take a few moments to fill it out, if you already have done so- THANK YOU. – Parent Survey

Additionally, the follow link is for ways you can meet your required volunteer hours throughout the school year. Please fill out this link as well: VolunteerForm

We have a volunteer opportunity that has presented itself as our new desks will be delivered Monday afternoon. I am looking for a few parent volunteers that would be willing and able with a cordless screwdriver in hand to help put together our desks for our classroom. As well as, hauling the other desks to the gym for pick up. As I have a scheduled medical procedure Monday and will not be at school, I will be asking volunteers to come in Tuesday-Friday to help. Please email me if you would be able to assist putting desks together.

• Monday: LIBRARY DAY
• FRIDAY: Bring back orange take home folders with passages
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• Sept. 5 – Labor Day – No School
• Sat. Sept. 24th- Chalk Art Festival. The Chalk Art Contest will be held at West Haven’s Evening of Art. It is free to enter, fun to participate, and has prizes! The event will be Saturday, September 24th at the West Haven building. Enter here: Chalk Art Festival
• Sept. 27- Fundraiser packets and money due back
• Scholastic Book Order. When you place an order, not only do you get fabulous books for your home library, but you also help our class earn points that we can exchange for classroom books.Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is N8TKQ:  Scholastic Book Club
• EVACUATION DRILL: Tuesday, October 11th (more info to come)
• Fall Break: October 12th-October 14th

Reading in Class:

STRATEGY: We are talking about asking and answering questions to find key details in the text.

PHONICS: Short a and long a

Math in Class:

Reading Passages were sent home Friday with the students for this week. Please return all completed reading passages on Friday with the students orange take home folder.

Make it enjoyable and fun. You can even read to them and then ask them questions!! 20+ minutes a day is a great goal.  Your child should be bringing home decodables in addition to their weekly passage throughout the week. These stories can be read and returned for class money. If they read them 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back. It is so important to read every day and ask fact finding questions from the story to develop your student’s comprehension; this is key to meeting the end of the year benchmark goals for 2nd grade, without practicing and developing this skill of retell it is extremely difficult hitting the end of the year benchmark reading level which begins this week.

HOW TO KEEP TRACK: 

Here are some things to know:

• The fundraiser sale begins NOW
• Money is due by Sept 27
• Checks payable to: Quest Academy
• All orders need to be entered into the Scoreboard app (code QUE266)
• Teacher name is: Nelson

Watch this short, instructional video to get started on the Scoreboard app (there are also instructions in the student packet).  The code you’ll need to enter in the app for Quest is QUE266.

Thank you for your support!

Picture Day is Tuesday, August 30- All students will have their pictures taken. We use these pictures for our name badges and school yearbook.

Wear school UNIFORMS, no spirit shirts (in the Spring there will be a dress down picture day)

A popular item to purchase is a class photo. The class photo is included in most of the packages. It can also be purchased under the “AlaCarte” tab. Please note: class photos will be delivered at a later date than individual student photos.

If you choose to purchase pictures, you can pay online at: Bell Photographers
Online code is: QuestAcadESFall2022
Teacher last name: Nelson

• This Week’s Happenings:
• PLEASE SIGN THE YEARLY PERMISSION SLIP HERE IF NOT ALREADY COMPLETED (LINK BELOW):
• YEARLY PERMISSION SLIP

All cash donations can be paid to the Q1 Office on or before Back to School Night on Monday, or you can pay online here: ONLINE PAYMENTS marking “other” and typing what the donation is for such as: Nelson Supplies, or Nelson Parties, or Nelson Field Trips.  I am asking for the following donations: Supplies $30, Parties $8, and Field Trips $10.

I use the following link for instructions to connect to our class using the Bloomz App.  I will use this throughout the year to communicate with parents along with the blog.  I use Bloomz a lot so please sign up for this amazing app!  – Bloomz App

The following link is a short survey to help me get to know your child better.  Please take a few moments to fill it out. – Parent Survey

Additionally, the follow link is for ways you can meet your required volunteer hours throughout the school year. Please fill out this link as well: VolunteerForm

• Monday: Library Day
• . Friday: No School – Teacher Work Day
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• Sept. 5 – Labor Day – No School

Reading in Class: Review Week

STRATEGY: We are talking about summarizing and how to identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

PHONICS: Short a and short i words (can, cap, cat, nap, mad, nip, tin, pig, six, and pin)

Math in Class:

Reading Passages will begin being sent home next week on Monday (after reading testing is completed this week) to be worked on each day and then returned on Friday of the same week.

Make it enjoyable and fun. You can even read to them and then ask them questions!! 20+ minutes a day is a great goal.  Your child should be bringing home decodables in addition to their weekly passage throughout the week. These stories can be read and returned for class money. If they read them 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back. It is so important to read every day and ask fact finding questions from the story to develop your student’s comprehension; this is key to meeting the end of the year benchmark goals for 2nd grade, without practicing and developing this skill of retell it is extremely difficult hitting the end of the year benchmark reading level which begins this week.

Beginning of level benchmark testing required by the state begins this week. Please make sure your child has a good working pair of headphones as soon as possible if not already brought to school. We use headphones multiple times throughout the day.