I am sad to say some money for the Mother’s and Father’s Day sale disappeared off my desk today. If you notice your child has money that you did not give them or has brought home something from the sale and you did not give them the money, please let me know.
Thank you
Our pattern this week is _ore and _oar.
Pattern words – chore, snore, score, wore, tore, store, board, soar, roar, oar.
Sight words – work, people, they, know, outside
Bonus words – estimation, money, consumer, producer, business
Spring fever has arrived in room 211. We are taking frequent breaks to help us keep our minds on our work. We still have a lot of material to cover in the next few weeks.
It is very important that all of the students continue to read throughout the summer. If students don’t keep up their reading skills they will experience “summer slide”. They will need to play catch up in the fall. This can be avoided by weekly trips to the library. Also, garage sales are great places to buy inexpensive books. If students have a computer available to them, they can listen to stories and read stories on myon.com, mobymax.com, and mel.org.
Soon we will begin getting ready for our spring fairy tale plays. We will be doing Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Frog Prince, and the Shoemaker and the Elves. I will send more information soon.
Tonight is Social Studies Night at Henry Ford School. Come join the fun from 5:00 – 6:30. There will be many interesting activities to try.
Tomorrow is gym day!
Thursday is Library check out day!
Our spelling pattern is _eer, _ere, _ear
Pattern words – near, fear, steer, deer, where, there, gear, rear, peer, cheer
Sight words – read, better, little, give, gave
Bonus words – observation, describing, comparing, predicting, identifying
We will be taking the NWEA reading and math test this week. The reading test is Tuesday and the math test is Thursday. Please see that your child gets enough rest and eats a good breakfast for test days. Scores will be sent home when available.
Thank you for your support!
Last week, we did some research with a partner on our school Chromebooks. We were working to find information about animals for our animal reports. We used a safe search engine called Kiddle where we could “safely” search for information.
This week we have been learning how to measure area. We had fun using Cheese-its to accomplish this task.
Weekly Spelling Words
Pattern – __are, __air
stare, share, dare, care, rare, bare, chair, pair, fair, hair
Other – brother, sister, mother, father, family
Bonus – income, opportunity cost, economics, resources, services
We are continuing our new units of plants in Science, economics in Social Studies, and measurement and are in Math.
Please remind your child to read and to practice their spelling words everyday.
Field trip notes are coming home today for the Jiffy Mix Factory on Monday, May 2. The cost is $5.00 to cover the bus. If you would like to chaperon, you need to have a volunteer form on file in the office.
We are in the home stretch with new units in science and social studies, NWEA in a couple of weeks, and Spring fairy tale plays.
We are starting our plant unit in science. We will study the parts of the plants, the needs of plants, and plan some experiments. It should be fun!
It is all about economics in social studies. Our field trip in May to the Jiffy Mix factory should tie in nicely to this unit.
This weeks spelling words have endings of ge, dge, rge, nge, and lge.
Pattern words – cage, rage, indulge, bulge, range, hinge, pledge, bridge, large, charge
Sight words – was, with, sitting, went, running
Bonus words – comprehension, accuracy, fluency, vocabulary, information
We had a special treat for second grade only. We were visited by a flute player from the Dearborn Symphony. He played the flute while one of our district music teachers read the story The Flute Player. It was a wonderful experience for the children!
The Peter Cotton Tail play at the Marquis Theater was a lot of fun! It was great to see a live performance with singing and dancing! Here are a couple of pictures of our exciting trip.
When we returned to school after the play we had a talent show. The kids had a good time singing with their friends on our stage.
I am looking forward to a very productive spring!