Mrs. Shafer's Second Grade Class

News and Daily Assignments for the week of

September 8, 2008

 

  Our super student of the week will be posted here.

 

The students will learn about complete sentences and endings, and we will be reading The Giving Tree, and stories about Paul Bunyan. We are beginning our Tall Tales genre and will be encouraging exaggerations.

 

Upcoming events: All upcoming field trips, holidays, pictures, and special events will be listed here. 

September 15th: Fall pictures

September 17th: Progress Reports

September 29th: 1st day for lunch guests

October 6th: Student holiday; teacher inservice day.

 

PTA meetings are held at noon on the first Thursdays of the month on the Intermediate campus.

 

Unit 2 Week 2 Spelling words include: just, tax, drift, let, pest, red, spot, snap, man, trip, fad, twig, me, flat, cut, stop, rot, fed, sled, and strap. Bonus word: called

Unit 1 Week 1 Vocabulary words and meanings include: activity (action and movement), addend (numerals needed to complete a sum), city (another word for town is small city), community (a place where people live, work and play together), country (nation), difference (when one number is subtracted from another), movement (something in motion), neighborhood (homes near to one another in one area), state (an area that contains many towns and cities and is led by a governor), and sum (the amount that you get when numbers are added).

 

Just a reminder: Your children’s spelling and vocabulary words can be found in their notebooks that should be taken home daily take home.

 

HOMEWORK:

Monday: Remember to study vocabulary and spelling words, math facts, and complete homework packet.

Tuesday: Begin learning vocabulary definitions, study spelling words and math facts, and continue to work on homework packet.

Wednesday: Review harder spelling words, continue to learn vocabulary words and definitions, practice math facts for week 2, and homework packet.

Thursday: Review/study for spelling and vocabulary tests, prepare math facts and homework packet to be turned in on Friday.

Friday: Spelling, language arts (complete sentences), and vocabulary test.

 

THANKS to all you wonderful parents who battled the weather to attend Parent Night. I hope it was informative and worth your time.

  

Simple Strategies for Creating Strong Readers:

    1. Invite a child to read with you every day.
    2. When reading a book where the print is large, point word by word as you read. This will help the child learn that reading goes from left to right and understand that the word he or she says is the word he or she sees.
    3. Read a child's favorite book over and over again.
    4. Read many stories with rhyming words and lines that repeat. Invite the child to join in on these parts. Point, word by word, as he or she reads along with you.
    5. Discuss new words. For example, "This big house is called a palace. Who do you think lives in a palace?
    6. Stop and ask about the pictures and about what is happening in the story.
    7. Read from a variety of children's books, including fairy tales, song books, poems, and information books.

 

Please write whether your child likes, dislikes, enjoys, or is bored with the books he/she reads in the red folder. You can just use happy, sad, or indifferent faces to speed up the process. This helps me to know what books the children really enjoy so I can buy them for our class library. THANKS for your time.

 

Educational web sites: www.abcteach.com, www.bbc.co, www.candlelightsotires.com, kidslab.com, www.manatee.k12, www.edhelper.com, www.internet4classrooms.com, www.primaryresources.co.uk, and www.aplusmath.com. Thanks to our Title I team for providing these to us.

 

 

AR INCENTIVE PROGRAM

Children who have made 100’s on 10 AR tests will receive a prize from the chest, for 30 AR tests I will buy them a dessert for lunch, for 50 AR tests they make a 100 I will have lunch with them, for 75 AR tests I will let them work at my desk for the entire day and if you make 100's on 100 AR tests you will attend a special celebration at the end of the year!  

Thanks for sharing your children with me I will miss them.

 My conference time is 2:45 to 3:30 on Thursdays (when I'm not conducting tutorials) and Fridays. If you would like to schedule a conference please call the school and leave a message or email me. I try to return calls between 12:45 and 1:15 Monday through Thursday while the children are in P.E. or music.