Rockstars Second Graders

Thank you for the fun Valentine's Day party and for all my valentines.  Thank you for the parents who helped and sent in items to make the party special!  The class had a great time! Please make sure your child has boots and a change of shoes during this  season.  The playgrounds can get very muddy!  Please make sure your child has shoes to wear so they can participate in gym and walk around the classroom and building.  We would suggest putting a plastic bag inside the boots to remind your child to make sure shoes are in the backpack.  We will try to be outside so please make sure your child is dressed for the weather! We worked with "ea", "ee", "ey" vowel combinations.    We learned that usually the first vowel will do the talking.   Thank you for your support at home with the Fundations homework and spelling practice.   We enjoyed reading  The Picture Book of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln  and learned facts ab...

The Valentine's Day party will be on Friday, February 14 at 1:30 p.m.  Please make sure your child brings in a valentine for every child in the class so there are no hurt feelings.   A class list already was sent home.  Please have your child write who the card goes to on the outside envelope. We have 20 total students.   Please have the children be festive and wear  red or pink  on Wednesday, February 14.  We had fun celebrating the 100th day of school.  We wrote if we were 100 years old and what our life would be like.  We even had our pictures taken if we were 100 years old.  They were really funny!  As a class we came up with 100 kind words that we hope you are hearing at home!  We had fun doing some 100 day math activities! We cannot believe that we are over halfway done with 2nd grade. We worked with "ay" "ai" and "a_e" long "a" vowel combinations.  We learned that when two vowels are together we call ...

We discussed Martin Luther King, Jr. life and put his important life events in chronological order. We learned about his life and how he was a peaceful and kind man. We have been working with the various spellings of the "r controlled vowels".  Please review with your child the words that have "ar", "or", "ir", "er", and "ur".   Thank you for working with your child on their spelling skills.   We have been working with number story problems and using diagrams to organize the problems.  W e have been working with coins and making change.  The students are doing a great job using different coins to the show the same amount of money.  We are also working on addition and subtraction strategies.   Please keep practicing math addition and subtraction facts. We learned about forces and motions through literature and hands on  activities.  We enjoyed the stories I Fall Down, Magnets Work , and Forces and Motion .  The ...

Happy New Year!  I hope you are having a good start to the New Year! The students came back from break ready to work and learn! We started off the New Year by writing goals for the year and picked one word we can focus on this year to help others and ourselves.  We finished the 1st semester of 2nd grade.  It is amazing how fast the year is flying by!  This is a great time for the students to focus on a goal or two to work on during the 2nd semester.   Report cards will be coming home next Tuesday in your child's backpack.  Please go over the report card with your child and sign and return the envelope. The students are showing growth with their reading skills.  Thank you for helping your child choose books at the correct reading level.  I am so proud of their growth.  Keep reading! We enjoyed the story  Stranger in the Woods  and answered questions from the story.  Ask your child who the stranger was in the wo...

We did an excellent job at our Winter concert.  The childrens' singing got us all into the holiday spirit!   We learned about the open syllable and practiced spelling words with the open syllables. We learned that a syllable that ends with a long vowel sound is called an open syllable.   The students are doing a great job applying the spelling rules.  We have been enjoying reading about prairie dogs, turtles, eagles and bears through our Wonders reading series.  Ask your child to tell you something new he or she learned about each animal. We wrote Dear Santa letters and created a Tree-a- Claus to decorate our classroom for December.   Thank you for supporting your child's reading at home.  The students are doing well on the accelerated reading quizzes on the books they read on the monthly reading log.  The December reading will be due on December 18 so the children can take their accelerated reading quiz on the books they have read befo...

We had a great day celebrating our veterans at our Veterans Day program and parade.  Our class had 9 veterans that we honored.  Thank you to Chloe's dad, Everett's dad, Adam's grandpa, Sam's grandpa, Elizabeth's grandpa, Paige's grandpa, Anton's grandpa, Clare's grandpa, and Mary's grandpa and great-grandpa.  Our stars we created to honor our veterans look great in the hallways! We continued to work on addition and subtraction strategies.  The students are doing great on learning the math facts through games and applying their math strategies.  We had fun creating a 2 or 3 digit number turkey. We learned a new syllable type- vowel-consonant-silent E (v-e).  The children are doing a great job with marking up the new syllable type. We enjoyed the stories  The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Wolf, Wolf!   Ask you child what lesson was learned from the stories.  Also ask how the stories are alike and different. PTA is sponsoring their annual Re...