Toys, pokemon cards, and fidget spinners

I am having a problem with kids bringing toys, pokemon cards and fidget spinners to school. Fidget spinners are not aloud here at quest academy. My personal policy is no toys or cards aloud at school, unless given special permission by me for star student, or show and tell. Otherwise, all toys are not aloud here. If I see them, I take them and allow them to have them back at the end of the day. If I take something for a second time, keep until a parent can come pick it up. 

I do this because toys are a distraction for their learning. Also, these things get lost and stolen all the time here at school. I also see problems with kids saying a student can have a pokemon card then changing their mind later and wanting it back. These are all problems we can avoid by just keeping them at home. 

I would appreciate your support and help in keeping the toys, pokemon cards, and fidget spinners at home. 
Thank you! 

Mrs. Woodrow

Updated Reading challenge!

New Addition to our Ice Cream Reading Challenge

 

 

In order to keep our students motivated during this Ice Cream Sundae Reading Challenge, we are adding another element to the contest.   There will now be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prize for the top three readers in Second Grade. 

The Second Grader with the most reading minutes overall will win a drone:
image001

The reader with the 2nd highest overall reading minutes will win a magnet science kit:
image002

And the reader with the 3rd highest total reading minutes will win a slime Kit:
image003

Each of these extra prizes are courtesy of Chelsea Bonney at Farm Bureau Financial Services.  Thank you Mrs. Bonney for your willingness to motivate our little readers!

Homework this week!

Reading minutes still need to be logged on the blog along with the signed log from parents. 
 Monday: 2.7 math sheet
Tuesday: 15+ minutes prodigy
Wednesday: 15+ minutes prodigy 
Thursday: 15+ minutes prodigy 

You can also work on math facts! Print outs for those are on the homework tab under MATH LOG IN INFORMATION tab.

Here are the spelling words for those that want to work on them:
SHORT O & LONG O
box
fox
dog
lock
pot
cone
home
nose
poke
rope
side
line
have
off
took

Ice Cream Reading Challenge

Ice cream sundayWe are doing an ice cream reading challenge! I am so excited to work with Farm Bureau financial services to pay for ice cream if the students read!! 
Heres how it works: 
  • Students will read as much as they can and earn parts of an ice cream sunday! 
  • Parents will sign a weekly count of minutes for your student.
  • Students will turn in their count every Monday! 
  • Sign this permission form to allow your kids to have an ice cream sunday. 
  • Challenge ends October 29th. Students will turn in last count on October 30th. 
***WEEKLY MINUTES MUST BE SIGNED TO COUNT
So… How much do you have to read to earn the whole ice cream sunday??
440 MINUTES
Heres what each part of their sunday is worth:
Bowl= 20 min.
Spoon= 20 min.
Banana= 40 min.
1st scoop= 60 min.
1st scoop’s fudge= 40 min.
1st scoop’s cream/sprinkles= 40 min. 
Cherry on top= 20 min. 
2nd scoop= 60 min.
2nd scoop’s fudge= 40 min.
2nd scoop’s cream/sprinkles= 40 min. 
3rd scoop= 60 min. 
3rd scoop’s fudge= 40 min. 
3rd scoop’s cream/sprinkles= 40 min.
** If you lose the form to log minutes click below to print new one.
Reading Log

Spelling words

I have had a few parents request to have their child’s spelling words! The school doesn’t want us to do spelling homework! But I am willing to post them, if parents want to practice with thier child. 

Our sounds this week are long i and short i 
The test may also have words from last week with short a and long a 
Also, We have high frequency words and I pick two to test on. 
did
fin
pick
line
pipe
tip
mix
five
side
hike
cape
made
all
any
says

High frequency: 
all
any 
goes
new
number
other
right
says
understands
work