- This Week’s Happenings:
- Tue: – Library Day–REMEMBER BOOKS!!
- Fri: Spirit Shirts. Early Release Day 1:20
- Upcoming Dates:
- Tuesday, Feb. 14 – Valentines Exchange
- Monday, Feb. 20 – No School – Presidents Day
Valentine Exchange:
- We will have a Valentine exchange for the students. If you child chooses to participate, please make sure they bring enough Valentines for every student. Please do not have your child write who the cards are to, just who they are from. It is very time consuming when passing them out. We have 26 students in our class. Students can decorate a Valentine box, or something similar, to bring in on that day. I will have a bag to give to students who do not bring a box from home. Students are able to hand out small, prepackaged treats. These treats will be sent home with students and are not to be eaten in class. Students will have to have a permission form filled out by parents to receive treats from their classmates. **Please keep in mind while buying treats, we have a student with SEVERE peanut allergies.
- Valentine Permission Form
Reading in Class:
- The essential question is: How can we understand nature?
- Comprehension Strategy and Skill: Visualize to retell and determine the theme.
- Spelling Pattern: r-controlled (eer, ere, ear)
Math in Class: Word problems with money. – Students should be able to solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. For example, if you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?
Reading Passages (optional, but highly encouraged!!)
**Please read with your child. 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 each Friday in their green folders. 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.