Dear Second Grade Parents,

Tomorrow is our field trip to Ann Arbor Hands On Museum ! Your child will explore science related concepts.

Students will need:

• A disposable bag lunch (we will not be able to store lunches after our scheduled lunch time)
• Wear your spirit wear or Gear Park colors if possible.

If you are one of the four chaperones please arrive to school by 8:45. Buses will leave at 9:10.For those who are planning to meet us there,make sure to get there by 10:00.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Students became surgeons today by practicing how to cut a word and make contractions.

Monday, November 26: PTA Pizza Monday, $1.00 per slice sold after school

Wednesday, November 28: Picture Retake Day

Friday, November 30: Geer Park Spirit Day, wear your GP shirts & Popcorn Day, .50 per bag

Also Friday, second grade field trip to the Hands on Museum.

Spelling for the week of Nov. 26

Beginning Consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, wh

1. chill

2. sheep

3. think

4. while

5. chase

6. canyon

7. ocean

8. changes

9. moral

10. hundreds

11. opinion

12. with

13. carry

14. reason

15. together

Please practice these words with your child. Students will have an addition of five words following the same pattern. The spelling test will be Friday!

This is what students wrote in their planners:

Complete heroes around me, it’s due on Monday, Nov. 26.

Read for 30 min each day

30 min Study Island NWEA reading

30 min Study Island NWEA math

The spelling words for this week are:

 Vowel pairs ea, ee, y (long e)

1. neat

2. queen

3. beet

4. baby

5. mean

6. hold

7. seven

8. drink

9. only

10.  glacier

11.  compare

12. plural

13. contraction

14. connection

15. plateau

Please practice these words with your child. They will have five additional words that fall in the same pattern. The test will be Friday!

TUESDAY NOV 13 – Parent Teacher Conferences 3:45 – 6:45

WEDNESDAY NOV 14 – Math Test/ Parent Talk 4/7 2:00 – 3:30

THURSDAY NOV 15 – Parent Teacher Conferences 3:45 – 6:45

FRIDAY NOV 16 – 8:45 PTA mtg / Parent Ed mtg. Also, map projects are due.

The following link is an electronic copy for the map project, the project is due Friday, Nov. 16,2018. In order for the project to be graded, students will have to return the project sheet signed.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/188tgv6P7FNUAKn8X4N_9L8kFvjHQCylIjkidAEF3_zc/edit?usp=sharing