Happy Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Today we will be having our school wide Halloween Parade at 1:30 p.m.  Our class party will follow.

Please be sure to sign into your child's Seesaw account to stay directly connected to what they are working on in the classroom.

This week we will continue to work on our How To writing. We will be wrapping up our place value unit in math and continuing to become experts in reading.

Liquid into Solid

Today I dumped 4 ounces of water over a student's head, but he did not get wet!?! Ask your student about what happened. :)

October 24

Important Dates:

October 25 and 27 - Parent Teacher Conferences

October 28 - NO School

October 31 - Halloween Parade at 1:30 p.m. -please have students bring their costumes to school.

The students have been working hard on their opinion writing.  This past week the students worked to stretch their opinions and supporting reasons over a booklet. The used linking words and worked to develop concluding statements.  

Students have been working with expanded notation and applying place value to word problems in math. We learned a new game, place value toss, to practice building numbers, writing numbers, and stretching numbers. This week students will solve number riddles and represent numbers in more than one way.

Our reading stamina is back on track and we are reading more and more! The students re-visited the expectations for reading with partners this week and talked about their reading with each other.  Students have been jotting notes as they read and turning those jots into written retells.  

October 17th

Today is Picture Day!!! 

We enjoyed a visit to the fire station this past week.  Students crawled through a pretend tunnel of smoke with a firefighter and sat inside a fire truck.

Students have been writing their opinions about favorite foods and least favorite foods.  They have been working on describing their opinions and making the reader feel the same way.

This week, we will continue to work with place value and building numbers.  We will focus on expanded notation and comparing numbers.

Please check your child's Blue Eagle folder for your finalized conference time.

 

 

October 10

We had a busy week last week!

Our class worked with another second grade class to study acorns and begin growing our own oak trees.  Be sure to ask your student about how the holes are made in acorns and what is inside of an acorn.

We began our place value unit in math, continued our first round of book clubs, and celebrate the completion of our narrative writing unit!


This week we will continue to build numbers in math, solve problems, and talk about zero digits in three and four digit numbers.  We will kick off our opinion writing unit, focusing on fact vs. opinion, and we will continue reading in our books clubs.

Important dates:
Monday October 10 - No School
Thursday October 13 - Our class will visit the fire station

Upcoming Dates to Remember

October 10 - No School (holiday)

October 17 - Student picture day

October 18 - Hampton pk-8 PTA meeting at 7:00 at Hampton Academy

October 25 - Community Forum on the proposed new Hampton Academy at 7:00 at Hampton Academy.  

October 25-27  - Parent Conferences.  Sign up information coming home this week.  Please check Eagle Folders and return completed form by the date requested.

October 28 - No School (teacher workshop day)

October 31 - Halloween Parade at 1:30 PM in front of Centre School.  Students will BRING IN costumes to school and will get changed at school prior to the parade.  Please join us out front of the building for this special day!  

October 3

Happy October

This week, we will be starting our new math unit! Our unit will focus on place value.  Students will be building numbers, problem solving, and exploring the base 10 system. 

In reading we will continue to look at vowel teams, prefixes, and endings to help us decode unknown words.  We will also continue to think about word meaning.  We have been discussing how some words we can read but we also need to know what they mean.

I’m learning all about your children through our personal narrative writing unit.  We are working on a shared writing of the day our sink erupted in the classroom!  Ask your student to share the story with you!