Mrs. Ballnik's Second Grade

ClaClassroom News from
Mrs. Ballnik’s Class My email is ballnic@dearbornschools.org
Friday, September 28, 2018
Important Days and Notes to Remember
The Book Bag and Math Homework note was sent home yesterday. Thank-you for reading it.
School calendars are located under the District news at the Dearborn Website.
Gym on Monday-Please remember to wear tennis shoes and bendable clothes (not jeans).
Parent Conferences are on November 8, 13 and 15 from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m.… Thank-you for signing up for parent conferences at Open House. If you were not able to come to Open House, please send me a note with the date/time and I will tell you if it is taken. If you email me, it will be easy for me to reply.
BOOK BAGS- PLEASE SEND IN A BOOK BAG THAT YOUR CHILD USED IN FIRST GRADE, IF YOU HAVE ONE. Thank-you if you have sent in your book bags, already. I am only loaning out book bags, if you did not send one in. The Book Bags have to be returned to me at the end of the year, if they are not yours.
Record the books on the Book Log.
PLANNER -Please bring them every day. Use it as a homework folder, or supply your own, if you choose.
Please read through the Planner with your child. There are many things about what we do at school and useful items, such as the number grid inside the back cover.
FRIDAY SPELLING TESTS – Next week’s spelling words follow the pattern of /e/ at the end of the word often makes a long vowel in a CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) and the vowels will be the /o/.
The spelling words are; fox, lock, poke, pop, cone, bone, hope, hop, joke, box. The 5 Dolch words will be; one, my, me, big, come. These are the 15 spelling words for October 1-5.
Every Friday there will be a spelling test. Please study the words and the spelling pattern. They will also get 5 words from the Dolch words (very common words in reading list) to practice. These will be written by your child in their planner on Mondays. Please practice every day with your child so that they will do well on the Friday Spelling test. I have added an extra credit word from the words I introduce in reading for the whole class. This word will be above grade level and randomly chosen from these 5 or 6 words. It is to challenge the student that gets a star on their spelling every week. I do not expect all students to study these very hard words. We will have a worksheet each week to expand vocabulary. these words are good to know and above the second grade spelling level. Your child will not be marked down if they miss the 16th word on the spelling test.
Spelling tests will be corrected and sent home on Monday. I don’t have time to correct and record them on Friday.
MATH – Keep reviewing addition and subtraction homework as it comes home. Homework is usually due the next day. Please continue to review addition sums to 10 and then above to 20 with your child. Thank-you for saving the Parent Helper homework sheets for review at home.
I hope that the addition fact review homework is easy for your child. If your child has a hard time with the addition/subtraction homework, please work with real objects and flashcards because we will be using much higher numbers, eventually.
SCIENCE
We will guess a few mystery bags a day. Keep asking your child to describe things using their 5 senses. We did some work on Matter.
We will continue to learn that our world is made up of Matter and ways TO DESCRIBE THAT MATTER, such as, words that tell its color, size, texture and shape. Can your child describe the mystery object that they ate on Tuesday? I brought it in a paper bag.
SOCIAL STUDIES- We continue to learn what a community is in Unit 1. Take a walk around your neighborhood and talk about the community (stores, parks, homes…). We learned what are 6 traits in our community.
READING- Read, Read, Read!
Please be sure that your child reads something at least 30+ minutes per day. In addition, reading aloud to your child is important also.
We are starting to improve our reading stamina and I am testing everyone in reading. This takes a while.
Star of the Week!
We started the Star of the Week by having a name picked out of the can of sticks with everyone’s name on it. Each child will make an “I like (student’s name) because” _______page for the Star of the Week book that each Star will get. The Star also takes home a poster to fill out and bring back the next day to present to the class. Star students will get to be the line leader and have other special jobs!

Congratulations to Mohamad Hazimeh for being the Star of the Week!

Remember, the easiest way to communicate with me is by email, ballnic@dearbornschools.org and look at my BLOG on the Dearborn schools website.
2 important links that should be on the children’s individual levels are:
Reading
https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login
If needed, User Name is:
bcheryl2
Math
https://student.freckle.com/#/login
use the class code of :
balln3
Have a great weekend with your wonderful child!

Remember, the easiest way to communicate with me is by email, ballnic@dearbornschools.org and look at my BLOG on the Dearborn schools website.
2 important links that should be on the children’s individual levels are:
Reading
https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login
If needed, User Name is:
bcheryl2
Math
https://student.freckle.com/#/login
use the class code of :
balln3
Have a great weekend with your wonderful child!