Mrs. Spencer's Classroom Blog

Good Afternoon,

I hope everyone had a productive day!

If your family needs to borrow a chrome book from school, please message me on Classdojo as soon as possible. Thank you!

Good Morning and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

I will be available and checking ClassDojo throughout the day.

The readworks articles have been assigned to the class so I will be able to see how the kids are doing.

It is supposed to be a nice afternoon so get those kids outside to run around a bit. Also, a good website for a fun break is GoNoodle.com It is free just create an account.

Just a reminder that Clever and ilearn are available to students at https://dearbornschools.org/student-portal/
There are some good math games on clever and language arts practice on ilearn – Benchmark.

Here is the link for the updated 2nd Grade Lesson Plans.

If you have any questions please message me on ClassDojo or email me at spencej@dearbornschools.org.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14AwjrO5xzXnKYDZLch9DFwD3KaXZB6yBfN04pYCYTF0/edit

Good Afternoon Families!
Staff was at school yesterday so parents could pick up personal items and some academic materials. If you didn’t get a chance to pick up your child’s things, I will let you know if another possibility is available.

All grades wrote lesson plans for their students. These lesson plans are available on the Henry Ford Elementary school website. Click on On Line Learning 3/13 Through 4/13.

Students can read daily. Talk to someone about what they are reading. Write about what they read.
Count by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, 100’s.
There are worksheets on line. You will find links on the 2nd grade lesson plans but you could write some too.
Examples: 26 + 37, 426 + 537, 74 – 29, 579 – 229
Students can write a place value chart to help them. hundreds, tens, ones

https://hford.dearbornschools.org/

I will be checking my email, spencej@dearbornschools.org and Classdojo daily in case you have questions.

I will miss all my students!! Please give them a fist bump for me! 🙂

Our spelling words will remain the same as last week because of our two snow days.

too, soon, fruit, new, grew,

blue, true, truth, July, shoe

Big Read Dearborn KICK-OFFSaturday, March 7 11:00am – 1:00pm The Henry Ford Museum, Anderson Theater 20900 Oakwood blvd, Dearborn, MI 48124

• Free books and seeds
• Keynote lecture by Dr. Selenda Smith of the University of Michigan 
• Tree crafts and more!

Weekly Spelling Words

 out, count, round, mouth, house,

now, brown, town, owl, cow

Valentine’s Day is Friday. Students may bring in Valentine’s for their classmates. There are 18 students in our class. Students may bring in treats if they like but these should be individually wrapped please.

Friday is also pajama day!!

There is no school next week, Monday, February 17 to Friday, February 21 for Winter break. Students should read daily. It would be helpful if they talk about what they are reading with an adult or big brother or sister.

STEAM Night is Tuesday, February 11 from 5:00 – 7:00. I will not be sending homework home and really want to encourage you to bring your child to STEAM night. There are so many fun learning activities and many guests to learn from . Don’t miss it!

Weekly Spelling Words

hope, shape, baseball, mistake, inside,

candle, apple, little, table, purple

We will be starting a new unit in reading this week. We love getting our new books. We will be reading nonfiction texts about inventors.

We will continue learning about water in science.

We are starting a new unit in Social Studies and will be learning about our local government.

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend!

Tomorrow is a half day. Teachers will have professional development in the afternoon.

Weekly Spelling Words – r-controlled vowels

hair, stairs, chair, care, share, square, pear, bear, wear, where

I am looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!!
I hope everyone had a good break and is ready to continue our journey through 2nd grade! 🙂

We are starting a new unit in reading about character points of view and we love getting new books!

We will be taking the NWEA math and reading tests on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please help you child get to bed for a good nights sleep before the tests.

Weekly Spelling Words (r-controlled vowel o)
fork, born, horn, sports, oars, roar, more,
store, wore, before

Weekly Spelling Words! These are tricky!
r-controlled vowels with er, ir, and ur.

bird, hurt, her, nurse, girl, shirt, burn, third, never, winter

Please keep your child reading during the Christmas break! Talk to your child about what they are reading.