• A new math game came home today, but it does not have to come back Monday.  If you don’t get a chance to play this weekend, play one night next week and then send it back by Wednesday or Thursday after you have played. 🙂
• Red spelling notebooks should be returned Monday with the completed activities.  We will also take our test on Monday.
• Next Friday, October 14th will be a half day of school for students.  Dismissal is at 11:45.
• We had great spirit week participation.  PJ day had every single one of us showing up in our comfy clothes!!  Thanks so much for making this week such fun.  Here is a picture of us from “dress to impress” day on Thursday.

Spirit week is off and running.  Today was college sweatshirt day and not only did we look great, but I found a fellow Olivet Comet in our class – awesome!!!

Tomorrow is pajama/comfy clothes day 🙂

OOPS!!  All that updating I did in yesterday’s post, lol, and I totally forgot to mention the reading calendar that came home.  Sorry!  The October calendar that came home is part of our reading homework and the Pizza Hut Book-It program.  Students should color in the cat on the days that they read at least 20 minutes at home.  Calendars should be returned to school the first week of November.  All students who read at least 21 days will earn a free personal pizza certificate.

While we are on the subject of reading, you may be wondering when reading books/bags will start coming home.  I am still working on giving many of our kids a developmental reading assessment.  When that is all done, I will start matching books that are a good fit for your child.  Towards the end of this week or early next week, keep your eyes peeled for reading bags/folders with some quick homework – just to start getting us in the swing of things 🙂

Oh, AND I forgot to give a huge THANK YOU to the many parents who were able to come in and help us decorate notebooks.  All the kids were able to finish in record time.  You guys are awesome and very much appreciated!!!!

• Today everyone brought home a bag with cards and directions for a math game. This game provides practice on some of the skills we are working on during Unit 1.  Please return the bag on Monday or Tuesday after you have had a chance to play 🙂
• Spelling test on Monday and red spelling notebooks will be checked and graded.
• Math test for Unit 1 will be on Wednesday.  You can use our pretest as a study guide if you would like to.  Just click unit-1-math and print it out.
• Next week is Spirit Week.  The theme came home in a note on Wednesday.  In case you missed it, the days will be…Monday: College t-shirt/sweatshirt,  Tuesday:  pj’s/comfy clothes,  Wednesday:  Dress as your future career/dream job, Thursday:  Dress to impress,  Friday:  show your Howard spirit
• We had an assembly for International Peace Day on Wednesday.  Students made pinwheels in art and learned a song about peace in music to go along with our assembly.

• Last, but not least, we did a fun science activity that focused on properties of matter.  Students had to use their supplies to build a hat that would block out the sun.  I think they did a pretty great job 😉

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  
  

• New spelling words came home today in the red spelling notebook. The notebook is due back with the activities completed on Monday.  I also sent home yesterday’s spelling test.
• Please help your child collect pictures and stickers to help them decorate their work on writing notebooks.  Just to give you an idea of what our notebooks will look like, I googled this image: We will do the decorating on Friday.  I have 2 parent volunteers so far and would love one more if possible 🙂

• A white envelope came home today for our first fundraiser of the year.  I wish I could give you more information, but that was all I was given so far.  As soon as I find out more, I will pass it on to you.

We have been focusing on place value this week and today’s practice was extra special.  We built our numbers using hundreds, tens, and ones of a different variety…food!  Learning and snacking – does it get any better, lol?!!

Sorry for the late post – technical difficulties have been preventing me from blogging.  Just 3 quick things for tomorrow:

1.  We go back to the book fair to make our purchases in the morning.
2. We have gym in the afternoon so please make sure your child is wearing appropriate shoes
3. Our day for getting library books has changed from Friday to Thursday.  Please send library books back tomorrow.  If you didn’t read this in time, no worries, for this week only I will ask the media secretary to let them come Friday anyway 🙂

No homework today for your child, but YOU have homework, lol.  Please read all the info on the emergency card that came home and verify that it is correct.  If something needs to be changed or deleted, you can write the changes on the card.  All cards should be returned on Monday, if possible.

Coming up next week:

• The book fair will be here.  We visit on Monday just to look.  Then we will go back on Thursday to make our purchases.
• Picture day is Friday.  If you are filling out a picture envelope, you can return it any time next week and I will hold on to it until Friday.
• Spelling starts Tuesday.  Look for a red notebook 🙂

We have been practicing Read to Self this week as part of our Daily 5 routine in our literacy block.  Our stamina is up to 14 minutes – that’s awesome!!  I snapped a few pics just to share how good we look 😉

Enjoy your weekend!!!!

You guys are awesome!!  What a great night we had at Open House. I hope you enjoyed yourself and got a pretty good tour from your 2nd grader.   Thank you so much for taking time to visit our classroom (and me, lol) 🙂

We started card flips today for behavior.  Please check your child’s planner for their color.  If they changed their color, I did write a note so that you know what happened.  If your child changed their color to blue, you will find a “think sheet” in their home folder that needs to be signed and returned.

So far, it looks like we will have gym class on Thursdays.  Please help your child remember to wear the correct shoes so that they can participate.

I cannot believe that I forgot to send home the Open House invitation today!  Here is a preview – I will make sure it comes home tomorrow 🙂