The Best Week!

WOW! What a fantastic week we had celebrating our love of reading! I will post a slideshow of our activities along with our field trip to the Rosa Parks Museum.  A great big thank-you to all of you parents that helped to make this a super fun week for us. 

We have a very busy academic week coming up this week.  I am hoping that we will be ready to test on Money and Telling Time this Friday in Math.  This will be our last test grade for this nine weeks.  We will have other daily grades for Math, but this will be the last test grade.  Please continue to work with your child on both of these very important skills.

We will begin our Unit 5 Spelling words this week.  Your child has the new list in their binder. 

Please turn in the money for our McWane Center field trip that will be coming to our school.  The cost is $4.00.  You may make out a check to Blount or send the exact amount.  I am unable to make change.  This money is due by this Wednesday.  I also wanted to give you a heads-up that we will be going to the Lanark Nature Center later this month as well.  You will receive information about that soon.  We certainly have been busy in 2nd Grade!

I need a little help with homework reminders.  I have been receiving homework in the homework basket much later than it was due.  If your child comes back home with their homework in their binder that should have been turned in that day, they may need some reminders from you.  We need to work on our responsibility with this before we are big 3rd graders.  Part of their morning routine is to turn their homework in the homework basket for that day that is due.  I have been hearing some pretty sad stories about how there just wasn't enough time to do it.  I know with ball season coming up this only gets harder.  I try very hard to keep homework at a minimum because it is 2nd grade and I feel like it should only be a review of what we have learned that day.  For this reason, your child should be able to sit down and get it finished in a timely manner and independently on most days.  The exception to this is if we have a test coming up and their work needs to be checked for accuracy.  Thanks for your help with this.

Story this week: Fire Fighter!
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Phonics: Suffixes -ly, -ful, -er, -or
Voc. Strategy: Word Structure
Comp. Skill: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Comp. Strategy: Text Structure
Pronouns

Please email me with any questions or concerns.  Have a super week!