Hello Everyone!
Once again we had a busy week in second grade!  We have continued to work hard at practicing the routines of the Daily 5 and have now been able to do all of them including:  Read to Self, Work on Writing, Work on Words, and now Read to Someone and Listen to Reading.  YEY!  We will finally be able to do start the actual Daily 5 this week!
During our lessons for Read to Someone, we practiced being a good reading coach and reminding our partner of reading strategies to help them with difficult words or for checking for understanding! Here are some pictures of Read to Someone.  Look at how some of them have their coaching bookmarks in their hands, ready to jump in and coach their partners!

We are also starting our first unit in the LEAD 21 Literacy curriculum.  Unit 1's theme is about the roles we play at home, at school and in our community and how these roles may change as we get older.

We are finishing our unit 1 in math with a review of first grade skills.  We will have our math unit 1 assessment on Tuesday.   Last week, one of our math games was to build a building with base 10 blocks and then calculate the value of the buildings!  We had some "valuable" buildings!

EXCITING NEWS in 2A!!! Our caterpillars and wax worms have arrived!  We have been busy observing eating and eating!!!! They are very hungry! We are excited to watch the changes that they will be going through soon!

REMINDERS:

Please remember to send $27.00 with your child if they want milk for afternoon snack.  

If they do not want milk, please send me a note!  Thanks!

Please send $4.00 for the holiday party fund if you haven't already done so!  Thanks so much!

SPELLING TEST ON FRIDAY! Please try to practice the spelling words at home with your child! Here's the list in case you cannot find the one your child brought home.

Remember they have 6 words on their list that work on the spelling rule for the week which is silent k, they have two review words, and two tricky words each week.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND YOUR CHILD'S BEE FOLDER EVERYDAY TO SCHOOL!

I really appreciate this!

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO A GREAT WEEK WITH YOUR 2ND GRADER!

Mrs. Tuchek