This is the week...

THAT THE MCWANE CENTER COMES!!!!
Thank you so much for all getting the money turned in by the due date.  We can't wait for Wednesday!

In other big news, Nancy's Italian Ice will now begin coming to Blount EVERY MONDAY instead of every other week.  Please make sure your child has $1.00 if you would like for them to purchase some Italian Ice. 

We would love for our class to have 100% membership for PTA.  If you haven't joined yet, please consider it.  I am convinced that we have the best PTA in the State!!!!  You just would not believe how much they do for Blount!

We used a new favorite web site this week to help us learn our spelling words.  It has been over on the side in the links section if you would like to use it at home.  Trust me, your kids LOVED Spellingcity.com! Give it a try at home if you need something new when learning spelling words.


I have a few changes to tell you about for this week with our Reading and Spelling. At the beginning of the school year the 2nd grade teachers waited the first week to start our reading story due to the fact that the kids were taking the Benchmark test and it was a very big task for them as new 2nd graders. However, we have now been told that we are still required to give the end of the Unit test this week from downtown. Due to this, we took our reading test early last week as an open-book test. If you haven't checked your child's scores on Pearson Success, they did fabulous on it! We started another story, which happened to be a play, on Thursday. We will finish that story at the beginning of this week. That grade will not count due to the fact that we didn't have our regular amount of time to be prepared for it. This works out well because we have really been enjoying acting out the play. Speaking of the play, you will see a slide show of several pictures posted after this post. You may notice your child in a very peculiar pose or with a very unusual expression. Do not be alarmed, this is just your child "in character" for the play. They insisted that I get them in action. I have quite the class of actors and actresses as you will see! What a great time we have learning together!!

We will have regular spelling words this week as well.  These will be the last spelling words for Unit 1.  Normally during an end of the Unit Test week we will not have spelling words.  This week is an exception.  We will take the unit test toward the end of the week. 

Story:  The Strongest One
Genre: Play
Phonics: Consonant Digraphs
Comprehension Skill: Realism and Fantasy
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor and Fix Up

Last week in Grammar along with Statements and Questions, we also learned about Commands and Exclamations.

We will have a Math Test this Thursday.  Please look for the review sheet to come home Wednesday night.

A great big thank-you to Piper's family and Mallory's family for sending in the items for our place value activity in Math.  We had a blast learning place value with food! This made learning SO MUCH FUN! Thank you!

I am going to go ahead and send home the new Science Vocabulary words for Chapter 2 and a Social Studies study guide.  We will not test on either this week, but I wanted to give them to you plenty of time ahead to look over a little bit each night. 

Our Writing Center is BY FAR the absolute favorite center in the room.  We love to write in room 124!! Due to this love, our writing center is always in need of re-stocking.  We can use just about anything to make a book or a beautiful piece of writing.  We are always in need of staples and tape.  If you have anything at home you would like to send in, please feel free!

Thanks for everything you do! I appreciate you sharing your world changer with me every day! Your child sure does make 2nd grade a very happy place to be!

Email me with any questions or concerns.