• This Week
• Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!!
• Weds & Thursday: Early Release 1:10, PTC 2:00 – 7:30
• Fri. : No School – Teacher PD
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• Valentine exchange Feb. 14 (26 students)

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. We have 26 students in our class. Students can decorate a Valentine box, or something similar, to bring in on that day. The opening on the box should be about a 3×5 or 4×6 size. Please do not bring it any sooner than the 14th. 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 peanut allergies. PERMISSION FOR TREATS

Reading in Class: We are working on finding the author’s purpose of a story. PHONICS: We are learning words that have an r-controlled vowel [ore, oar, or, & ar]

Math in Class: We are learning strategies to add several 2-digit numbers. We will probably test on Wednesday. Please see the family letter below and consider doing the activity with your child at home.

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.  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.

DECODABLE STORIES: Your child should be bringing home stories each Friday in their orange folders. Your child can read these stories and return them for class money. If they read them 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back.