Spelling/Phonics

Our focus this week is the Long O sound using words with “oa” & “ow”.  

1. coat
2. snow
3. soap
4. grow
5. road
6. blow
7. goal
8. row
9. toast
10. know
11. four*
12. mother*
13. where*

*Word Wall/high frequency word

Reading

Our discussion and focus this week will be about the Main Idea & Supporting details of a story or passage.  Last week we learned about the Main Topic & the Smaller Topics of a nonfiction text.

Math

Our focus the last two weeks has been about Place Value.  Last week we discussed the ones & tens place.  This week we will discuss the hundreds & thousands place.  We are also learning the different way to represent a number. 

Reminders

November 22nd: Senior Citizens Luncheon- Secondary Cafeteria @ 12:30

November 25th-29th: Thanksgiving Break

December 19th: 2nd Grade Seussical the Musical @ 9:00 am

December 20th: Christmas Parties- Time TBD

December 23rd-January 6th: Christmas Break

*Reminder*  Wednesday, October 30th is an early release day at 11:30.  There will be no Boys & Girls Club.

Spelling/Phonics

This week’s focus is on the long a sound using “ai” & “ay”.  Here is our list of words for this week:

1. play
2. main
3. say
4. chain
5. may
6. wait
7. gray
8. trail
9. tray
10. rain
11. into *
12. just *
13. could *

*High Frequency/World Wall Words

Reading

We are continuing our focus on dialogue this week by reading Creepy Carrots.  We will be using different tones in our voice while reading to emphasize what the character is thinking and how the character is feeling. 

Math

We are continuing to learn about graphs.  Last week we learned how to take a survey, make a tally chart and then use the data to complete a bar graph.  This week we are learning about Pictographs (Picture graphs).  A pictograph is a graph that uses pictures to show the data collected.  The key on a pictograph shows what picture is being used throughout the graph and what the value of each picture represents.

Reminders

October 30th: Pajama Day- Dress Code Appropriate

October 31st: Book Character Dress Up Day (Please no scary or gory costumes, hair paint, face masks or props such as plastic swords, knives, etc.)

November 1st: Spirit Day

November 25th- 29th: Thanksgiving Holiday

Spelling/Phonics

This week our focus will be on “oo” sounds and how there are 2 different sounds the “oo” can make.  Here are our words for this week:

1. boot
2. school
3. food
4. cook
5. bloom
6. look
7. soon
8. shook
9. scoot
10. good
11. have*
12. there*
13. any*

*Word Wall/High Frequency Words

Reading

Our focus this week is Dialogue, what it looks like and sounds like when reading a story.  We will discuss how dialogue between two or more characters can be shown using speech bubbles and quotation marks or talking marks.  When a character is talking we read with more expression or use the correct expression.  Whether the character is just talking, yelling, asking a question or showing excitement.

Math

For the next couple of weeks we will be learning about tally charts, bar graphs and picture graphs (pictographs).  This week we are learning how to collect data by conducting surveys, organizing our data or information using tally charts and then putting that information on a bar graph.  

Reminders

October 28th: Student-Led Parent Conferences (Please make sure to sign up for a time on Sign Up Genius.) https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0d4ba5ad29a0fa7-fall

October 28th- November 1st: Red Ribbon Week (A note went home today with information about what we will be wearing each day that week.)

October 30th: Early Release at 11:30, Teacher PLC Training 

Parents if you haven’t already, please sign in on Sign Up Genius for a Student Led/Parent- Teacher Conference. 

Please click on the link below:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0d4ba5ad29a0fa7-fall

Phonics/Spelling

This week we do not have a spelling/phonics pattern, instead we will be working with high frequency words.  Here is our list for this week:

1. seen
2. this
3. would
4. become
5. very
6. when
7. little
8. happy
9. almost
10. everything

Reading

This week we are reading and learning about Stellaluna, a bat who thinks she’s a bird.  We will be comparing bats to birds and making a foldable with lots of different activities.

Math

We are continuing to work on part/part/whole problems with missing addends.

Reminders

October 21st: Student Holiday/Teacher Workday

October 28th: Student Led Parent Conference (If you haven’t already, please be sure to sign up for a time on Sign Up Genius. A note went home last week with a link to the website and a QR Code that can be scanned with your phone.)

October 30th: Early Release/PLC Training for teachers at 11:30 (No Boys & Girls Club)

October 28th-Nov. 1st : Red Ribbon Week

The field trip to the White Oak Fire Station has been cancelled for tomorrow due to unforeseen weather.  It will be rescheduled and I will let you know as soon as I have that information.

All Primary Students will be taking a trip to the White Oak Fire Station on Tuesday, October 15th.  2nd Grade will be visiting from 9:45-10:30 and we will be taking buses.  Since it is a short trip, we will not need parent chaperones. Please send a pair of socks with your child if they don’t wear them on that day because we will also have bounce houses.

*I have a few things that have been laminated that I could use help cutting out.  If you are interested in helping please let me know and I will send it home with your child.  Thank you so much for your help and for all you do!

Phonics/Spelling

This week in spelling/phonics is initial blends of a word.  Our word for this week are:

1. sky
2. skip
3. spot
4. trash
5. clap
6. swim
7. flip
8. grill
9. slide
10. string
11. them
12. because
13. from

Reading

We are continuing our focus on nonfiction text.  We are reading, discussing and researching bats.  We are also writing what we are learning about bats as we research.

Math

We are learning about Part/Part/Whole and Missing Addends.  We are learning 3 strategies to help up find the missing part or addend in our addition problem.

1. Counting on or counting up using the part and the whole
2. Drawing the whole and circling the part we know to find the part we don’t know
3. Subtracting the part we have from the whole to get the missing part (addend)

Reminders

October 21st: No School- Teacher Work Day

October 28th: Student Led Parent Conferences (Please click on the link to sign up for a time) https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0D4BA5AD29A0FA7-fall

Oct. 28th- Nov. 1st: Red Ribbon Week

Monday: Wear Red

Tuesday: Wear a team jersey or shirt

Wednesday: Pajama Day (Please wear school dress code appropriate pj’s)

Thursday: Book Character Dress-Up Day (No mask, face paint or colored hair)

Friday: Spirit Day

Oct. 30th: Early Release- Teacher Work Day (PLC) at 11:30

Phonics/Spelling

We do not have a spelling pattern for this week so we have 10 word wall/sight words, plus we will have 2 oral sentences using those words and other word wall words on the spelling test.

Reading

Our focus this week is learning about Nonfiction text features such as: 

1.Table of Contents

2. Index

3. Glossary

4. Captions

5. Labels

6. Maps

7. Charts/Graphs

8. Photographs

9. Illustrations

10. Bold Print

11. Diagram

12. Timeline

13. Headings

14. Subheadings

Math

We are learning about Odd and Even numbers using different strategies.  In our discussion today we learned that even if the number has 2 or 3 digits and some are odd digits and some are even digits that we always look at the number in the ones place to determine if it’s odd or even.

*Please continue to work on counting a collection of coins.  

Reminders

October 5: Monster Truck Rally at 7:30 (A free student admission ticket went home today)

October 21: No School/Teacher Workday

Oct. 28th-Nov. 1st: Red Ribbon Week