Mrs. Spencer's Classroom Blog

Thank you parents for your support this year! All of the students have grown in so many ways.

Here are a few articles and resources for parents.

Happy Summer!

This is a good article about what parents can do when their child isn’t understanding what they are reading.

https://www.readbrightly.com/helping-children-understand-words-they-read/?ref=PRHBFAFAC27DC&aid=randohouseinc28715-20&linkid=PRHBFAFAC27DC

Summer reading list for second graders!  Take this list with you when you go to the library.

https://www.educationworld.com/summer_reading/2nd_grade.shtml

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lists/17-18/2018-summer-reading-challenge-book-list-for-grades-1-2/

The website below has great information about parenting.

https://www.pbs.org/parents/parenting/

This article is about how young children are not developing their fine motor skills which are very important for writing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-14/ipad-generations-fingers-not-ready-to-write/9143880

This article is about the importance of reading aloud to your child. It just takes 15 minutes a day. 

Reading to kids for 15 minutes makes a difference in development

A Math Blog with free math websites

https://www.upperelementarysnapshots.com/2017/06/summer-math-websites-for-your-kids.html

It’s that time of year when students are bringing home notebooks and other stuff from their desks. 

Please remind your child to empty their backpack before they come to school tomorrow.  They are very heavy. 

Thank you

Last Spelling List of the Year – compound words

Pattern words – football ,everybody, grandmother, bedroom, downstairs,anything,playground, someone, sunshine, something

Sight words – because, taught, caught, treat, learned

Homework this week will be to study the Social Studies Unit 6 study guide that I will send home tomorrow. The test will be on Thursday. 

Please check around the house for school reading books. Reading bag books have stickers on them with box numbers. 

My classroom books have my name on the inside cover and a number in the corner of the cover. Thank you!!

ALL Henry Ford Library books are due. Please remind your child to bring their books to school tomorrow.

There is a used book sale this weekend. This is a great place to get some books for your child for summer reading.

SUMMERTIME 2018 BOOK SALE June 1st- noon til 7 pm June 2nd- 9 am til 7 pm
                              DISC /Ice Arena 14900 Ford Rd Dearborn 48126

Weekly Spelling Words   – prefixes

Pattern words – reread, redo, preview, pretest, unable,  unjust, disagree, dismiss, preschool, unlike

More pattern words – night, light, right, high, sigh

Please remind your child to clean out their backpacks. Many students have been carrying math book 1 back and forth from school to home for about a week. 🙂  They can keep  it at home.

Next week, we will be having our last Social Studies Test. A study guide will come home soon.

May Reading Logs are due on Friday. 

Weekly Spelling Words (Irregular past tense verbs)

Pattern – hid, went, wrote, spoke, sold, stood, told, made, gone, began

Sight – cousin, said, little, pick, snack

Last week, we enjoyed a beautiful day visiting the Jiffy Mix Factory in Chelsea and then ate lunch and played at the Timber Town park. 

 We completed the reading and math NWEA tests and  I will continue to test students in reading for next 3 weeks. 

There is no school on Friday, May 25 and Monday, May 28th. 

The Henry Ford PTA Carnival is CANCELLED today due to the weather. 

Weekly Spelling Words

Pattern –  friendly, likely, helpful, slowly, careful, kindness, coldness, likable, washable comfortable

Sight – know, they, our, night, before

Monday is the PTA Carnival from 5:00 – 7:30. The cost is $7.00 per child. 

NWEA testing is Tuesday and Wednesday this week. 

LATE START Wednesday, May 16. 

Jiffy Mix Factory field trip is on Thursday this week. Students will need to bring a lunch and a drink (no pop or glass bottles please). 

Happy Mother’s Day!!

Weekly Spelling Words

Pattern –  bigger, biggest, liked, liking, talked, talking, faster, fastest, looked, looking

Sight – many, these, only, own, together

LATE START  Wednesday, May 16. School begins at 9:40.

Summer is coming!! What will you do to keep your child reading??

If students don’t read all summer they will fall behind and have to make up the reading levels in the fall. 

Here is an article with suggestions to prevent summer slide. 

https://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/developing-reading-skills/three-ways-to-prevent-summer-slide

Have books available to your child. You can do this by going to the library or getting books from garage sales. 

If you are traveling overseas this summer, don’t forget to pack a few books. 

Thank you so much for the Kleenex donations!!

Weekly Spelling Words

 Pattern – woman, women, man, men, goose, geese, mouse, mice, foot, feet

Sight – because, first, next, then, last

April Reading Logs are due on Tuesday. 

We will have the Unit 5 Social Studies Test on Friday. A study guide will be coming home. Please read over the study guide daily with your child.

We will be revisiting place value, plus 10, plus 100, and money in our new Math Unit 10. 

Students have been writing wonderful poems that will be entered in the Henry Ford Annual Poetry contest. 

Spring has arrived and our days are getting longer. Because it is lighter later, children want to stay up later. It is really important for children to get 10 – 12 hours of sleep a night. We still have a lot to accomplish between now and June. Please have your children continue to keep a consistent bed time. Thank you! 

We will be going to the Jiffy Mix Factory in Chelsea on Thursday, May 17th all day. Students will need to bring in a bag lunch (no glass please). The cost of the trip is $4.00 (for the bus). The tour of the factory is free. If you would like to chaperone, please be sure you have a form on file in the office. 

With spring comes allergies. We are out of Kleenex. If you have not sent in a box of tissue this year, please consider sending in a box for the class to share.