• This Week
• Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!
• Friday: Spirit Shirt Day. Early Release 1:10
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• DADDY-DAUGHTER Dance Friday, March 15, 6:00-8:00pm
• SPRING PICTURES- Friday, March 15
• MOTHER-SON Dance Friday, March 22, 6:00-8:00pm
• Spring Break April 1 -5

Reading in Class: We are reading biographies this week and learning how to summarize. PHONICS: We are learning about diphthongs (a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable [oi, oy]

Math in Class: We are continuing with our measurement unit. Students will explore measuring an object in different units. 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.

• This Week
• Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!
• Friday: Dr. Seuss Day – All students are invited to wear Dr. Seuss inspired clothing or dress as their favorite Dr. Seuss character.  Early Release 1:10
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• DADDY-DAUGHTER Dance Friday, March 15, 6:00-8:00pm
• MOTHER-SON Dance Friday, March 22, 6:00-8:00pm
• SPRING PICTURES- Friday, March 15

Reading in Class: We are reading biographies this week and learning how to summarize. PHONICS: We are learning about diphthongs (a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable [ou, ow]

Math in Class: We are continuing with our measurement unit. Students will learn how to measure with inches, centimeters, feet, yards, and meters. 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.

• This Week
• Monday: No School – President’s Day
• Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!
• Friday: $1 Dress Down – Early Release 1:10
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES

Reading in Class: We are reviewing the strategies and skills we have learned so far. PHONICS: We are reviewing r-controlled vowels [eer, air, are, ere, ear]

Math in Class: We just starting our measurement unit. Students will learn how to measure with inches, centimeters, feet, yards, and meters. 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.

• This Week
• Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!
• Wednesday: Valentine Exchange from 2:00-3:00
• Friday: Early Release 1:10
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• Feb. 19 – No School (President’s 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. 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 learning about poems and how author’s express themselves through their words. PHONICS: We are learning words that have an r-controlled vowel [air, are, ere, ear]

Math in Class: We will be taking our money test on Monday, and then we start learning about time. Students need to know how to read an analog clock and show it digitally. 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.

• This Week
• Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!
• Fri.: Aquarium In-house field trip – Early Release 1:10
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• Valentine exchange Feb. 14 (26 students)
• Feb. 19 – No School (President’s 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. 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 [eer, ere, ear]

Math in Class: We are learning about money and how to add the different coins. 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.

• 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.

• This Week
• Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!!
• Fri. : $1 Dress Down- Early Release 1:10
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• PTC’s Jan. 31 & Feb. 1
• Valentine exchange Feb. 14 (26 students)

Reading in Class: We are working on finding the main idea and key details in a story. PHONICS: We are learning words that have an r-controlled vowel [er, ur, ir, or]

Math in Class: We are still learning strategies to add & subtract 3-digit numbers with regrouping. 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.

Parents, Middle of year testing continues this week. Please make sure your student is getting plenty of rest and a good breakfast. Some students get test anxiety. To help them, practice timing them for 1-minute while they read out loud to you. Then have them tell you about what they read after the timer goes off.

• This Week
• Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!! Math Diagnostic (2-3 day test)
• Wednesday: Acadience Reading Test
• Fri. : Spirit Shirts – Early Release 1:10
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• PTC’s Jan. 31 & Feb. 1

Reading in Class: We are working on finding the main idea and key details in a story. PHONICS: We are learning words that have a silent letter in them [ mb, sc, gn, wr, kn]

Math in Class: We are still learning strategies to subtract 3-digit numbers with regrouping. 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!!) : We are testing Jan. 16.

**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.

Parents, we will be completing our Mid-year testing from Jan. 12 – Jan. 18. If your student will be gone these dates, please let me know so we can test them before they go. Please make sure they are getting plenty of rest and a good breakfast. Some students get test anxiety. To help them, practice timing them for 1-minute while they read out loud to you. Then have them tell you about what they read after the timer goes off.

• This Week
• Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!!
• Fri. : *Math Acadience Testing – Spirit Shirts – Early Release 1:10
• UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
• Jan. 15 – No School – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Middle of Year Testing – Jan. 16 *Please have your children reading out loud every night.
• PTC’s Jan. 31 & Feb. 1 = Signups will be posted by Tuesday Evening (1/09)

Reading in Class: We are working on finding the main idea and key details in a story. PHONICS: We are learning the different ways to spell the long u sound in words. [ u, u_e, ew, ue]

Math in Class: We will be taking our mastery check for adding 3-digit numbers with regrouping on Monday. Then we will be learning strategies to subtract 3-digit numbers with regrouping. Please see the family letter below and consider doing the activity with your child at home.

Reading Passages (optional, but highly encouraged!!) : We are testing Jan. 16.

**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.