Happy Labor Day!

I hope you and your family are having a great day together on this day off.

I wanted to make sure you all knew that I am having some trouble with my school email.  This mainly seems to be happening with yahoo accounts.  Mrs. Brand has reported my problem so hopefully it will be resolved soon.  If you send me an email and don't get a response back at some point that day, then please send a note in with your child. 

If you have not sent in your checks to Scholastic and Scholastic Teacher Store for $6.00 each please send those as soon as possible.  This pays for your child to have a subscription to Scholastic New and Scholastic Map Skills for the entire year.  If you don't remember if you paid, just send me an email and I can check for you.

We will have our Nancy's Ice this Tuesday due to the school holiday on Monday.

We will also take our pre-test for Spelling on Tuesday this week.

This kids have been very antsy to start going to the library to check out books.  We are scheduled to take our Star test this week with Mrs. Brand in order to find out our ZPD's, which is our reading range.  Once we have this, your child will begin checking out books.  Please remind your child to bring their library books to school every day.  Also, remember that our library day is every Wednesday.

Our lunch time is at 11:30.  You are welcome to join us whenever you would like.  You can wait for us by the front office or by the lunchroom door.  We walk by both places on our way.

The kids all did a fantastic job presenting their About Me projects.  We learned so much about each other, and had a fun time doing it! I will post a slideshow to share.

Remember to check your child's binder tomorrow for their homework assignments for the week.  We will have a little more Math homework this week due to the fact that we were late getting all of our Math books.  It will just be a reinforcement of what we have done in class, so your child should feel comfortable doing it independently.

Your child will receive a Science Voc. study guide this week.  We will not test on them until next week.  I just wanted you to have it a little early.  Please make sure they don't loose it before the test.  I will have them put it in the Return to School side of their binder to make sure you see it.  Of course they don't need to return it.  They just need to study the words.

Story this Week: Exploring Space with an Astronaut
Genre: Expository Nonfiction
Phonics: Long Vowels CVCe
Comp. Skill: Main Idea and Details
Comp. Strategy: Text Structure
Grammar: Subject

In Math we are continuing with Number Concepts. 

Thank you for attending our mini cluster conferences last week.  I know I gave you a large amount of information in a small time.  If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.  I am happy to report that we did a great job keying in our reading test Friday.  The kids took their test on paper first, then they keyed their answers in at the computer.  It took us a while because it was our first time, but we did great! I am so impressed with our awesome class of 2nd graders!

Have a SUPER week!