Hello Families!

Reading Fluency homework due TOMORROW!

Spelling Test will be TOMORROW!

Field trip to Kackleberry Farms is THIS Friday! Please read information below:

Kackleberry Farms

6421 N Stoney Creek Rd.

Monroe, 48162

Friday is our field trip! Please meet your teacher in the front parking lot of Howe (door 18) to check in. We will be out there from 8:35-9:00am. Then you will leave to meet us there. Please email your teacher ahead of time if you will just be meeting us there, so you won’t be marked absent. It takes about 42 minutes to get there from Howe so please plan accordingly. We will meet in the front and our field trip starts promptly at 10am. Please dress for the weather. We are the only group there so there will be limited food options so everyone must pack a bag lunch. There will be donuts and cider available for purchase. YOU must stay with your child the entire time. Remember, no siblings allowed! Looking forward to a great trip. See you Friday!

Mrs. Angela, Mrs. Schneider, and Mrs. Verrier

A note will also be going home with students attending the field trip.

Important Dates:

Tuesday, October 3rd- No School for Students

Friday, October 6th- FIRST Popcorn Day (send in $1)

Hello Families!

Today we finished our Reading iReady Assessment. Tomorrow we will be taking our Math iReady Assessment. Please let me know if your child will not be here. We need to have all testing done this week and we will not be in the classroom Friday due to our Field trip.

NO Math Homework today!

Important Dates:

Friday, September 29th- Field Trip Day!

Tuesday, October 3rd- No School for Students

Friday, October 6th- FIRST Popcorn Day (send in $1)

Hello Families!

We have our first Spelling Test, Reading Quick Check, and Grammar Quick Check today. A Quick Check is a quiz over the skill(s) that we worked on this week. My goal is to check and send home these papers the same day, but I will be sending home this week’s tests on Monday.

You child will be coming home today with their work from this week. If your child has any unfinished work, it will be going home with them today to complete and return on Monday. Students are given ample amount of time to complete independent work. They are also given extra time throughout the day to complete their unfinished work.

2nd Grade is much different than kindergarten and 1st Grade.  Students are expected to complete much work independently.  Our curriculum also changes from learning to read to reading to learn.  These changes bring much more independence in the classroom. We have been practicing this week completing our independent work, along with following multi-step directions.  Please make sure that your child is completing independent task at home, like chores, getting themselves ready, etc. This will make independence much easier in the classroom.

Important Dates:

Friday, September 29th- Field Trip Day!

Friday, October 6th- FIRST Popcorn Day (send in $1)

Have a great weekend!

Hello Families!

We will be practicing logging to the chromebooks tomorrow to get ready to take our iReady Assessments Monday and Tuesday. It is very important that your child gets a good night’s rest and eats a healthy breakfast before testing. Please let me know if your child will be absent either Monday or Tuesday, I will need to schedule a time for them to make up their test.

Have a great night!

Field trip money (CASH & permission slip) is due by the end of the day today!!! Please make sure it is in or you have emailed me.

Hello Families!

Reminders:

Starting yesterday, students will be getting Math and Reading Homework nightly, expect for Fridays. No Homework over the weekend. For Reading Homework, students will be given a fluency passage that will have our phonics skill of the week. Students will need to read it nightly 3 times and then have a parent sign. On the back of their fluency passage will be 4 questions. Students are to complete 1 question a night (questions are labeled so students know which question to complete which day). Reading Homework will go home Monday and should be returned on Friday. Math homework will be due the next day.

Yesterday, students received their first Daily Check-In each night. The Daily Check-In is between you, me, and your child. Please review the Daily Check-In and sign it. Please use this tool as a conversation piece in your homes. It is a great way to be reflective with your child.

Important Dates:

Wednesday, September 20th- Field Trip Forms Due– TOMORROW!

Friday, September 29th- Field Trip Day!

Friday, October 6th- FIRST Popcorn Day (send in $1)

Hello Families!

We finished our first full week of school!

Starting next week, we will begin our lessons in Benchmark. Going home today in your child’s blue Daily Folder, will be next week’s Spelling Words and High Frequency Words. Each Friday we will have a Spelling Test of all 10 Spelling Words. I will also pick 5 High Frequency Words that will also be on their Spelling Test. We will also have a Reading Quick Check each Friday- this is a quick quiz over the reading skills that we will have worked on during the week.

On Monday, students will be getting Math and Reading Homework nightly, expect for Fridays. No Homework over the weekend. For Reading Homework, students will be given a fluency passage that will have our phonics skill of the week. Students will need to read it nightly 3 times and then have a parent sign. On the back of their fluency passage will be 4 questions. Students are to complete 1 question a night (questions are labeled so students know which question to complete which day). Reading Homework will go home Monday and should be returned on Friday. Math homework will stay the same as this week.

Also starting on Monday, students will be getting a Daily Check-In each night. The Daily Check-In is between you, me, and your child. Please review the Daily Check-In and sign it.

2nd Grade is very different than 1st grade. Classwork will be getting much harder and more rigorous. To begin the year, we will be completing most things in whole group so students know and understand the work expectation. They will be expected to complete work on their own after a few weeks. This being said, if students do not use their time wisely in class, incomplete work will go home at the end of each day to be completed and returned the next day.

Going home in your child’s blue Daily Folder today is work that we have been completing the past week.

Important Dates:

Wednesday, September 20th- Field Trip Forms Due

Friday, September 29th- Field Trip Day!

Friday, October 6th- FIRST Popcorn Day (send in $1)

Have a great weekend!

Hello Families!

Remember, if you have not done so, please return completed iChat Form tomorrow along with a copy of your driver’s license.

Today, Ms. Gould visited our classroom. She will be my long term sub when I am out on maternity leave. Ms. Gould will be coming in multiple times before I go on maternity leave to see how our classroom runs and learn our routines and procedures. Ms. Gould was recommended highly by Mrs. Fournier. Over the next month or so, Ms. Gould will become familiar with our daily routine and will get to know my students so that the transition will go well.

Have a great evening!

Hello families!

Going home in your child’s Daily Folder are iChat forms. These forms need to be completed and handed in with a copy of your driver’s license by Friday, September 15th. Not everyone will be getting an iChat form to complete. I only sent home forms with students that did not have a iChat on file. This list came from the office, so if you think you have gotten one by mistake, please call Ms. Bernadette at (313) 827-7000. I cannot please with this, I am just going off of what was sent to me. All students going on field trips MUST have a chaperone with an iChat Form on file.

There is also note about Our Classroom Blog going home today too. Please fill in your child’s name and the email address that you used to subscribe to my blog.

Student have Math Homework tonight!

Thank you!

Hello Families!

It is going to be a busy week and our first FULL week of school!

Ichat forms were sent home last week and were due today! Your child cannot attend field trips if this is not turned in. Please turn them in tomorrow at the latest. Don’t forget to include a clear copy of your driver’s license. You can even email me a picture of your license.

Today, field trip permission slips were sent home for the field trip that we will be going on with kinder and 1st grade. There are 2 sheets that need to be filled out and returned- a district field trip form and the permission slip for the upcoming field trip. Both of these permission slips and $12 are due September 20th. Please read the permission slip carefully.

We will be starting our math curriculum tomorrow. Each night students will have math homework. There is a parent help sheet that will be sent home with each night’s homework also.

Next week we will be starting our ELA Benchmark curriculum. This Friday students will bring home a sheet with our focus for the week and spelling words to study. Spelling tests will be every Friday. Students will have their spelling words which follow the spelling pattern for the week then they will have ten sight words to also study. Students should study at home all week as needed. I also recommend students take a practice test at home Thursday so they are ready for Friday. Students will also be given a fluency passage with the week’s spelling pattern that will go home Mondays and should be returned on Fridays. Each night they are to read the passage a few times, get a parent signature that they read, and then complete the assigned questions on the back.

Thanks to those of you that signed up for the PTA. If you haven’t yet, please consider doing so. Forms were sent home last week. Our goal is to have our whole class signed up!

The PTA is starting Popcorn Fridays once a month. Flyers went home today.

Book Fair is this week! Students will come home with a wish list tomorrow and they can bring in money on Wednesday to purchase books.

I hope that everyone has a great week!