Mrs. Ballnik's Second Grade

Classroom News from Mrs. Ballnik’s Class My email is ballnic@dearbornschools.org
Friday, March 16, 2018
Important Days to Remember
Gym – Tuesday-Please remember to wear tennis shoes and bendable clothes (not jeans or slip on shoes).
FRIDAY SPELLING TESTS
Here are the words for the next spelling test. The spelling pattern will be hard and soft g and c.
The spelling words are:cent, cave, camp, gym, city, cell, page, girl, wagon, cents.
The Dolch words are: every, old, by, after, think
Every Friday there will be a spelling test. Please practice every day with your child so that they will do well on the Friday Spelling test. Corrected tests are sent home on Monday for you to sign and send back to show me that you know the score.
We started to put the 16th word on the spelling test to challenge the students that get the spelling test correct every week. It is just for fun and no one is required to study these extra credit words. They come home in a worksheet each week, that we go over. They are not meant to be second grade level words and we would usually learn to read them and understand them, but not spell them.
MATH MATH MATH MATH MATH
We had our unit 7 test on Thursday. test on Unit 7. Thank-you for practicing with your child and signing the study guide before it was returned to school.. Unit 8 will introduce everyone to fractions.
Science
We have concluded our Earth Science and covered explorations that helped us learn that Earth events can occur quickly (landslides, etc.) or slowly (erosion that carves rivers, canyons, etc.) We made observations and discussed landforms and bodies of water.
Social Studies- .
We will not be finished with Economics before the third report card. This unit includes how our community buys and sells things, as well as, natural, human and capital resources. We are talking about scarcity makes people have choices. Choices involve your wants and needs.
Writing
We will be writing an opinion paper, after going over the best way to begin and end it.
Reading- Read, Read, Read!
BOOK BAGS! Please observe how your child does with these books. Every book at level 20 and 24 for March (the level for second grade at this time) for example, may not be read easily depending on the words. Please ask your child to write a list of the words that they do not know, so you can work on them.
Please keep them in the bag and count the books, so they do not get lost. I will trade out the books every other week or so. Students should reread books until they are smooth and fluent when reading. Students record on their log when they read.

Congratulations to Rahaf Mcheik for being the Star of the Week!

Have a great weekend with your wonderful child and read, read, read!