Good morning 🙂   I enjoyed meeting those who came to Open House. If you did not come and would like to sign up for a conference time, please email me at herrodl@dearbornschools.org and I will let you know what times are still available. Otherwise, I’ll just assign a time and day to you.

NWEA testing for Second grade is this week. Our class will be testing part of Tuesday morning and part of Thursday morning. Please make sure your children get a good night’s sleep and eat breakfast.

Our spelling words this week focus on the short e and o sounds: went, jet, dog, job, rub. The Dolch reading words are: yes, not, but, put, jump

Our reading strategy this week will focus on asking and answering questions about a text. Readers are always asking questions about who, what, where, when, why, and how as they read. They then answer those questions using the book (text).

We are continuing our personal narrative writing this week. We wrote our opening sentence last week and today will write our first action.

Math this week will review reading and writing numbers using base 10 blocks.

Properties of Matter is the focus of our Science unit this semester. Mystery Bags will be coming home with directions for filling. The students always enjoy this activity.

Why do people live in communities? To get their basic needs met (food, clothing, shelter) will be the topic for Social Studies.

Whew! Lots of learning going on for week 3 🙂

Enjoy your week.