Week of October 22-26

Hello families,

What a fun week we had with our field trip to visit and learn more about community helpers! Many students told me they went back to the library right after we visited to check out the awesome STEAM kits the Miss Sarah showed us! The kits are checked out for three weeks at a time and have different math/science activities to do at home.

In reading this week we will read a book called Enemy Pie. Enemy Pie is good story for teaching kids about friendship. We will learn some new vocabulary words and do some writing about the book during the week.

In writing, we are getting our writing ready to be shared using an editing check list. We will fancy up one of our favorite pieces to get ready to share stories with other second graders.  Students worked with week on adding juicy words and making revisions to stories.

Unit 2 in math is all about addition strategies. We will work on the doubles facts, the turn around rule, how the turn around rules works (or doesn't work!) for subtraction and we will practice even numbers with equal addends. 

In social studies we will focus on getting ready for our first social studies test. We will discuss Urban, Suburban and Rural communities. We will make community circles to think about ourselves on the map - our city, state, country, continent and the world! Have your child practice their address and phone number to ready for the assessment. Students will be getting a study guide to use at home to help prepare for the test. The study guide will come home on Thursday, Oct. 25th. Test will be on Tuesday, Oct. 30th.

In word study we will continue working with long vowels, working on the CVCE pattern (silent e).  I will introduce the rule for long o and read a poem containing long o words, we will stretch and write words in sound boxes, we will sort long o words, then we will check the words on Friday.

Upcoming dates to remember:
Oct. 26  - book orders due!
Oct. 26 - Trunk or Treat (after school on the walking path)
Oct. 31 - Halloween parade at 10:30 with party to follow
Oct. 31 - Half day of school, 12:09 dismissal