Mrs. Spencer's Classroom Blog

Tomorrow is Halloween! We will do Apple Day activities for about an hour in the morning. Then we will do our Reader’s Workshop. After lunch, 1:00, we will put on our costumes and get ready for the parade. Parents are welcome to watch the parade  at 2:00 on the upper elementary playground.  We will do a Halloween craft in the afternoon as well. Individually wrapped treats are welcome for our 26 students.

Weekly spelling words. Our pattern this week is long a spelled with ai and ay.

Pattern words – main, sail, play, stay, may

Sight words – wait, tail, train, say, day

Friday is a half day. The students will be dismissed at 11:45.

Parent – Teacher conferences are coming up. I will send home more information later this week.

Happy Halloween!

Weekly Spelling Words

This week, the pattern we will be working on is blends at the beginning of words.

Pattern words – slide, sled, skip, step, spell

Sight words – kind, come, make, some, sleep

Our social studies test about Communities is Wednesday, October 26. Please continue to help your child study with the study guide. Thank you!

Halloween will be here soon! It is also the day we do Apple Day in my classroom! Students will do several activities with apples. Counting, measuring, reading about, and cooking with apples are just a few of the things we will be doing on Monday, October 31st in the morning.  If possible, please send in an apple with your child this week.

I will send more information about Halloween later in the week.

Our first Social Studies test will be on Wednesday, October 26. The test will be  read to the students and taken on the computer. We have been learning about our local community and why people live in communities. I am sending home a study guide tomorrow.  Please read over the study guide several times  with your child during the next week.  We will review in class as well.

A healthy snack will now be provided at school Monday through Thursday . Snack may include apples, pears, pineapple, carrots, broccoli, etc. We never know what we will get. We have enjoyed an apple and fresh pineapple so far.

Please send in your empty toilet paper rolls for a Halloween activity.

It will be Halloween before we know it!

Weekly Spelling Words – CVC, CVCe with the letter u

Pattern words – cut, cute, tub, tube, cub

Sight words – blue, use, apple, here, find

Math

We will continue to discuss the relationship between addition and subtraction by using fact triangles. Story problems will be introduced this week. Students are encouraged to draw pictures to help them solve problems. Students will also be asked to prove why a number is even or odd by drawing a picture.

Social Studies

I will be sending home a study guide for the first unit test in Social Studies, Our Community. Please read over the practice guide with your child several times. Our test will be on Wednesday, October 26.

Science

We are continuing to learn about the properties of matter. We will do a fun activity this week!

Thank you for the food donations.

Mrs. Spencer

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Last week, we did a science activity to see which materials would best protect our heads and face from the sun. Our supplies were limited. Here are a few examples of the hats kids made.

Sorry for the late notice.

Please send in a clean pair of socks with your child tomorrow to be used for a science experiment. They will come home after the experiment.

Thank you!

We are continuing with our cvc and cvce pattern with o this week.

Pattern words – hop, hope, fox, pop, cone

Sight words – cold, open, own, old, hold

Thursday is library day. Please help your child remember to bring their two library books to school.

Reading testing is done. Many students reading levels are lower than they were in the spring. It is very important that students are practicing their reading skills at home as well as in school. We have a lot of ground to make up. Our reading level goal for the end of second grade is level 28.  If we work together, we will get there.      

Please encourage your child to read for 20 minutes each day, then color in the pumpkin on their reading log. I received 11 out of 26 reading logs for September.

I will send home reading information later in the week.

It is jacket time! The mornings will be quite chilly this week. Please be sure your child is dressed for the weather. We go outside everyday weather permitting.

Weekly Spelling Words

Our cvc and cvce patterns continue with i this week.

Pattern words – bit, bite, hid, hide, hike

Sight words – his, ride, if, him, into

The students will get an additional 5 words on the test that follow the pattern  to see if they can generalize the concept.

September Reading logs are due on Monday, October 3. Students brought home a Pizza Hut Book It Calendar for October. Students should color a pumpkin for each day they read 20 minutes. If students reach their reading goal, which is 20 minutes a day (600 minutes), they will receive a Pizza Hut coupon for a free personal pan pizza.

We will continue with number patterns this week as well as comparing two numbers in math. One of our goals is to have students be able to explain their thinking in math.

Homework will be coming home 4 days a week starting Monday. It may be a worksheet reinforcing something we have learned or a math game. Students need to continue to read and practice their spelling words daily.

Students have two websites available to them through the school district. They are myon.com and mobymax.com. These are available on the student resource page at the district website https://dearbornschools.org/resources/students. Students log in is their student number and their password is their birth date.