Upcoming Dates

Thursday, December 9th- Winter Concert @ 6:30pm., Students arrive at the classroom at 6:10pm.

Spelling Focus

Next weeks spelling focus is working with words that have an r-controlled vowel within them as in ar, air, and ear. As your child studies his/her spelling words next week have him/her highlight the r-controlled spelling pattern within each word.

 

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Dec. 6-10 

One-Syllable Words

1. blare

2. hair

3. bear

4. flare

5. pair

6. wear

Two-Syllable Words

7. repair

8. cherry

9. barely

 

Math

 Please spend time practicing with your child as often as you can basic addition facts such as: 7+7, 6+4, 3+7, etc. Being able to solve basic math facts quickly is an important part of second grade math. Using flashcards or shaking a pair of dice are great ways to reinforce these basic facts. Also counting money and telling time are additional areas you can work on at home with your child.

 

Guided Reading

Guided Reading is going very well within our classroom. Please make sure your child is spending time every night reading one of their guided reading books that are sent home in their bookbag. The most important thing to remember about guided reading is that your child is reading books at his/her own level!

Winter Clothing

Please remember to send warm winter clothing to school with your child each day for morning movers and recess!

Upcoming Dates

Monday, Nov. 22nd- Library Day

Thursday & Friday, Nov. 25 & 26- Thanksgiving Break- No School

Spelling Focus

The spelling focus for Week 10 is working with words that have ear, ir, and ur within them. As your child studies his/her spelling words draw attention to the e, i, and u r-controlled letter patterns within each of their words.

Spelling Words- Unit 10

No Spelling Test next week due to a short week!

Nov. 22- Dec. 3

One-Syllable Words

1. learn
2. girl
3. turn
4. heard
5. twirl
6. churn

Two-Syllable Words

    7. person

    8. dirty

    9. turnip

Writing

In writing this week your child worked on coming up with a strong and powerful introduction to their Personal Narrative. As a class we talked about how their Personal Narrative could start with a:

• Question? (Hook)
• Sound Words (Onomatopoeia)
• A sentence that tells when or where
• A sentence that uses dialogue " "

Items Needed:

 If able please donate any of the following items for an upcoming project by Monday, Nov. 22nd.

• Plain White Tube Socks- Adult Large 

• Colored Socks for Hats 

• Poly-fil 

• Colorful Buttons 

• Ribbon

• Orange Pom Poms 

   

Wednesday Lunch Menu Change

We will be adjusting Wednesday's number one option from Walking Taco to Beef Nachos. Doritos are out of stock at the moment.

Veterans Day

 Please encourage your child to wear red, white, and blue tomorrow in honor of Veterans Day!

Upcoming Dates

Thursday & Friday, Nov. 25 & 26th- No School, Thanksgiving Break

Math

 In math students are working on identifying and counting various combinations of coins up to $1.00 and beyond. Grab some change at home at practice counting money with your child.

Spelling Focus

 Next weeks spelling focus is working with words that have the or pattern within them as in score and fort. As your child practices his/her spelling words all next week, encourage him/her to write some sentences using some of their spelling words.

 

Spelling Words

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Nov. 15-19

One-Syllable Words

1. score

2. fort

3. horn

4. shore

5. short

6. thorn

Two-Syllable Words

7. before

8. forest

9. hornet

 

Items Needed:

 If able please donate any of the following items for an upcoming project:

• Plain White Tube Socks- Adult Large 

• Colored Socks for Hats 

• Poly-fil 

• Colorful Buttons 

• Ribbon

• Orange Pom Poms 

   

Writing

This week in writing your child worked on the Brainstorming part of their Personal Narrative. Students focused on:

• Who was there?
• Where were you?
• What was going on?
• What did you see?
• What did you hear?
  

Upcoming Dates

Monday, November 8th- Teacher Workshop Day- No Students

Tuesday, November 9th- 2 Hour Late Start (Wear an Irish Shirt)

Thursday, November 11th- Book Orders Due, Veterans Day

Spelling Words

 Nov. 9-12

1. smart
2. scar
3. shark
4. start
5. star
6. spark

Two Syllable Words 

1.  market
2. garlic
3. party
   

Guided Reading

This week in Guided Reading your child spent time identifying the main idea and details within various stories. Please make sure to sign your child's yellow guided reading sheet each night once math and reading has been completed so your child doesn't lose 5 minutes of recess time.

Battle of the Books

This week your child was introduced to what the Battle of the Books is. Students are not required to participate in this competition but I would love to see many of my students participate. If your child is going to participate in the Battle of the Books be sure to send back to school the signed permission slip along with who his/her partner will be. Happy Reading!!

Winter is Near

The chilliness has arrived in the air. Please make sure your child is coming to school with a warm coat, a hat, and gloves.

 Happy Halloween

Math

In math students are working on:

• Place Value Patterns Within Numbers
• Skip Counting by 5, 10, 100, and 1,000
• Comparing Numbers Using Place Value
• Comparing Numbers Using a Number Line
  

Upcoming Dates

Monday, Nov. 8th- Teacher Workshop Day, No School

Tuesday, Nov. 9th- 2 Hour Late Start, Wear an Irish Shirt

Thursday, Nov. 11th- Book Orders Due

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Nov. 1-5

One-Syllable Words

1. bright

2. pie

3. sigh

4. high

5. flight

6. lie

Two-Syllable Words

7. brightly

8. lightning

9. tighten

 

Good Readers...

This week during Daily Five our class revisited some CAFE strategies to help students become even better readers such as:

• Good readers use pictures, graphs, and charts to figure out unknown words.
• Good readers reread.
• Good readers look for known chunks within words.
• Good readers make predictions before, during, and after reading a text.
  

Writing

This week in writing your child started working on the steps needed to write a Personal Narrative. A Personal Narrative is a true story about something that has happened in life. The main focus this week was brainstorming a list of topics and then narrowing down those topics to one idea to write about.

Monday Lunch Menu Change

 On Monday the lunch menu will be pancakes instead of french toast sticks.

Upcoming Dates

Monday & Tuesday, Oct. 18 & 19th- Evening Conferences

Tuesday, Oct. 19th- Students may buy at the Book Fair

Wednesday, Oct. 20th- All Day Conferences, No School for Elementary Students 

Thursday & Friday, Oct. 21 & 22nd- No School

 

Fall Celebration

We will be having a Fall Celebration in our classroom on Friday, Oct. 29th. If students choose they may bring a costume along to school to change into in the afternoon. Costumes are optional. Some students have asked about bringing a treat to school that day to share with the class. Students may bring treats to school to share with the class as long as the treats are store bought. We have 17 students in our classroom.

Spelling Words

No spelling words for the week of  Oct. 18-19. Students will be tested on the words below on Friday, Oct. 29th.
One-Syllable Words

1. dream

2. feel

3. yield

4. cream

5. wheel

6. field

Two-Syllable Words

7. greedy

8. increase

9. relief

 

Irish Store

This week your child got the opportunity to go to our new Irish Store. Students had a tough decision to make; use their shamrock tickets now for a prize on Tier 1 or save their shamrock tickets to add onto next months total to get a bigger prize from Tier 2, 3, and 4. Great lessons were learned this week on how sometimes we need to keep saving in order to get something bigger that we may want. Ask your child what he/she might be saving up for!

Warm Clothes

The weather changed quickly this week. Please make sure your child is bringing sweatshirts and jackets to school for those chillier days.

Phonics

In phonics your child worked with words that had the long o sound within them as in boat, show, and toe. We spent a lot of time focusing on the letter patterns oa, oe, and ow within words.

 

Book Orders

Please be patient as we patiently await for our Scholastic Book order box to arrive. Like everything right now, Scholastic is experiencing shipping delays. Hopefully the books will arrive soon!

Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, Oct. 12th- 2 Hour Late Start, Wear an Irish Shirt

Friday, October 15th- Wear Orange

Spelling Words

Oct. 11-15

One-Syllable Words

1. float

2. doe

3. grown

4. boat

5. shown

6. toe

Two-Syllable Words

7. below

8. yellow

9. toenail

 

Planners

 Thank you for looking at and signing your child's planner every night. This is a great way for home/school communication. If there is ever a time that you would like to ask me something or you think I should know about something, write it in your child’s planner. I check everyone's planner each morning.

 

Bookbags

Bookbags are just starting to come home this week. We are still practicing what it looks like to sign, read, and return bookbags daily so your child may have the same book in his/her bookbag for several days. If this happens have your child read the same book again to work on fluency or choose a book from home to have your child read. Once I get through all reading groups bookbags should be coming home almost every other day with a new book in it to read. Please make sure to sign your child's yellow reading sheet daily and also have your child do some type of math each night and write it on the yellow reading sheet as well. Some math ideas include: Prodigy, Sumdog, flashcards, shake dice, play a math game, do a math sheet, etc.

App Practice

In class your child has been using the following apps to help them practice additional math skills and their spelling words. Your child is able to get to these apps through Clever which is taped inside their planner. The apps your child have been working with are:

• Prodigy
• Sumdog
• Spelling City
  

Wear Orange on Friday

Students are encouraged to wear orange on Friday to show kindness and to show that bullying is not allowed at MLE!

Phonics

In phonics your child worked with open syllable patterns within words as in be, he, shy, dry, go and so.

 

Upcoming Dates

 Tuesday, Oct. 12th- 2 Hour Late Start, Wear an Irish Shirt

Clasroom Fund

 If able to we are asking families to send $10.00 to school by Oct. 8th. Please make any checks payable to your child's teacher. This money will aide in our journey of learning by funding many needed educational supplies throughout our academic school year. Thanks for your support. The best learning is HANDS ON LEARNING!

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Oct. 4-8

One-Syllable Words

1. train

2. stay

3. eight

4. sprain

5. tray

6. freight

Two-Syllable Words

7. complain

8. obey

9. raisin

 

Homecoming Dress Up Days

Next week is Homecoming week. Check out the following dress up days we will have in the elementary.

Monday, Oct. 4th- America Day

Thursday, Oct. 7th- Class Color Day-2nd Grade Wear Blue

Friday, Oct. 8th- School Spirit Day

Book Fair is Coming

The Book Fair will be in person this year. Check out the following dates that the Book Fair will be open to the public.

Monday & Tuesday, Oct. 18th & 19th: Open to the public- 9:15am-7:30pm

Wednesday, Oct. 20th: Open to the public - 8:15-11:30am

Wellness Wednesday Tomorrow

 Wear workout clothes on Wednesday!

Wednesday Lunch Menu Change

Due to some product availability issues, a menu change is necessary for Wednesday's lunch options.  The grain bowl option will not be available and instead will be replaced with spaghetti with meat sauce. Thank you.

Spelling Focus

 Next weeks spelling focus is working with words that have open syllable patterns within them as in cry, go, she, etc.

 

Spelling Words

Week Of:

          Sept. 27-Oct. 1          

One-Syllable Words

1. cry

2. go

3. she

4. fly

5. we

6. so

Two-Syllable Words

7. baby

8. robot

9. tidy