Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, March 8th- 2 Hour Late Start, Wear an Irish Shirt

Thursday, March 10th- Book Orders Due

Upcoming Spelling Words

                                 Week Of:

March 7-11

1. helped

2. helping

3. printed

4. printing

5. sliced

6. slicing

7. joked

8. joking

9. dropped

10. dropping

11. clapped

12. clapping

 

Reader's Theater

Students performed their John Henry reader's theater to 3rd graders on Monday. Ask your child to explain to you why John Henry is a tall tale. The students really enjoyed and had fun with this play!

Phonics

All this week in phonics your child worked with irregular plurals. Students learned that sometimes the spelling of a singular noun needs to be changed in order to make the word plural as in man and men. Other words require no change in spelling when going from singular to plural as in deer.

I Love to Read Month

• Keep working on your Readopoly boards. We need 150 Readopoly boards completed in order to go tubing at Powder Ridge on Friday, March 4th.
• Please turn in tubing permission slips and money ASAP. We want to have all forms turned in ahead of time so if we reach our school reading goal we will be all set to tube at Powder Ridge. Keep reading away!!

Upcoming Dates

Friday, March 4th- End of 2nd Trimester, Tubing at Powder Ridge

Spelling

 Next weeks spelling focus is working with words that are singular and plural by changing the spelling of some plural words such as:

tooth-teeth

woman-women

goose-geese

ox-oxen

 

Spelling Words

                                 Feb. 28 - March 4 

1. sheep

2. deer

3. tooth

4. teeth

5. woman

6. women

7. dozen

8. traffic

9. moose

10. goose

11. geese

12. ox

13. oxen

 

Phonics

 Concepts Covered Throughout the Week:

¨ making words plural by adding s, es, or ies

¨ circling the plural ending within words

¨ plural form of nouns

¨ building fluency by reading a text with

plural words within it

 

Upcoming Dates

Monday, February 21st- Presidents Day, No School

Wednesday, February 23rd- Bus Driver Appreciation Day

Thursday, February 24th- PIE Family Bingo Night

Friday, February 25th- Wear a Jersey or Sports Shirt

Readopoly Boards

Keep encouraging your child to work on completing their Readopoly boards. We are getting down to the last week. Remember if we reach our school reading goal we get to go tubing at Powder Ridge!

Spelling

Next weeks spelling focus is working with root words and then making them plural by adding s, es, or changing the y to an i and then adding es as in:

tax-taxes

acorn-acorns

city-cities

 

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Feb. 22-25

1. spice

2. spices

3. acorn

4. acorns

5. apple

6. apples

7. dish

8. dishes

9. class

10. classes

11. tax

12. taxes

13. watch

14. watches

15. pony

16. ponies

17. city

18. cities

 

Math

 Use a clock at home and ask your child the following questions:

¨ What time is the clock showing right now?

¨ What time will it be 10 minutes from now?

¨ What time will it be in one hour?

¨ What time was it five minutes ago?

¨ What time will it be in 15 minutes?

¨ What time was it one hour ago?

¨ What time was it 30 minutes ago?

 

Phonics

 In phonics this week your child worked with contractions.  Your child also sorted high-frequency words and your child looked for contractions found within various reading passages.

 

Summer Fun Basket

We are still collecting any SUMMER FUN items for the 2nd grade basket that will be raffled off at PIE Bingo Fun Night next Thursday. 

Upcoming Dates

Monday, February 14th- Valentine's Day, Wear Pink or Red

Wednesday, February 16th- I Love to Read Book Exchange

Friday, February 18th- Dress Like a Superhero

Reading

This week in reading your child worked on making inferences. An inference is making a guess using clues from within a story or using picture clues.

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Feb. 14—Feb. 18

1. she’s

2. she is

3. it’s

4. it is

5. you’re

6. you are

7. weren’t

8. were not

9. won’t

10. will not

11. didn’t

12. did not

13. you’ve

14. you have

15. they’ve

16. they have

17. we’ve

18. we have

 

Valentine's Day

On February 14th we will take some time to exchange valentines in class. If your child would like he/she can make a valentine box at home to collect their valentines in. If your child does not want to make a valentine box at home I will provide a bag for them. Listed below are student names for our class:

Eli A.            Kamden

Lily               Jack

Sadie            Connor

Lucas            Edwin

Ava               Noah

McKinlie     Adelynn

Cassie          Eli M.

Melody        Addie

Lucian         Indy

Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, February 8th- 2 Hour Late Start (Wear an Irish Shirt)

Thursday, February 10th- Battle of the Books (8:20-9:50), Book Orders Due

Friday, February 11th- Wear Neon or Bright Colors

Math

This week in math students finished up the unit on double-digit addition strategies and next week students will begin learning different strategies to subtract 2-digit numbers.

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Feb. 7-11

1. softball
2. someone
3. nighttime
4. cherry pie
5. fire drill
6. high school
7. good-bye
8. part-time
9. ice-skater 

I Love to Read Month

I Love to Read month is off to a great start and students are working hard on completing each color on their Monopoly game board. If our school turns in a total of 150 or more Monopoly game boards we will go tubing at Powder Ridge on Friday, March 4th. Read away!

Valentine's Day

On February 14th we will take some time to exchange valentines in class. If your child would like he/she can make a valentine box at home to collect their valentines in. If your child does not want to make a valentine box at home I will provide a bag for them. Listed below are student names for our class:

Eli A.            Kamden

Lily               Jack

Sadie            Connor

Lucas            Edwin

Ava               Noah

McKinlie     Adelynn

Cassie          Eli M.

Melody        Addie

Lucian         Indy