February 22-26

SEP Week! I look forward to meeting with you this week and discuss the great things your child is doing! School will be dismissed at 1:15 everyday this week.

Thank you Dainian's parents for coming on Friday!

Big Kahuna this week is Coral! Happy Birthday to Jayden, Dainian, and Coral!

Science Fair Registration Forms need to be turned in by this Friday, February 26th. Please consider doing the Science Fair. It's a great way to get students involved by using their creativity and spark their interest to learn.

Science: Our class has put together a science project. Not to enter in the science fair but just a way to get them interested and familiar with the process. Here's some pictures above showing what we did.

On Friday our school will be having a Magic Show as our reward for getting 100% homework! Also, on Friday I will be adding one more page to homework. It will be a writing page with a prompt. Please have your child write a paragraph and complete the rubric on the back.

Math: Continue practicing double-digit addition and subtraction at home.

This week's math focus:

• Subtraction with regrouping.
• Compare objects according to length.
• Identify the appropriate numbers and operation (addition or subtraction) and use them to solve a story problem.
  

February 15-19

No school on Monday, February 15th for President's Day!

I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day and a good long weekend. Thank you for all returning the field trip permission slips. This Tuesday I will be sending home SEP conference notes. Please sign these and return back as soon as possible to confirm the day and time. SEP week is February 22nd through February 26th. I look forward to meeting with you and giving out report cards.

Thank you, Becky VanLehn, Laurie Caldwell, and Laura Lewis for putting together our Valentine's Party. The students had so much fun! Also, thank you Amber Langston and her mom for coming on Friday and making Valentines with the students. Our contest winners for the best Valentines boxes were Halli and Nathan! Close runner-ups were Kamryn, Kinzie, Philip, and Dainian. Good job guys! The students had a lot of fun with this!

Our Big Kahuna this week is Dainian!

Writing: I will be putting up the students Expository paragraphs in the hall this week if you want to come and take a look!

Science: This week we will be doing a class science project to get the students familiar with the process and to also get them interested. Our project is "How Many Seeds Do Different Types of Fruit Produce?"

Math: We will be finishing up our math camp on money this week.

This week's math focus is:

• Two-digit addition and subtraction with and without regrouping.
• Estimate the sum of 2 two-digit numbers.

February 8-12

Our Big Kahuna this week is Philip!

Thank you, Heath Burchinal, for coming on Friday to talk about being a firefighter. The students absolutely enjoyed it and were extremely excited to have you!

This week is Valentines! We will have our party on Thursday and will pass out Valentines on Friday. Please bring your decorated boxes to school on Friday. Be creative! We will be having a contest.

Language Arts: Prefixes and Suffixes

Writing: We will be making a book about our feelings.

Math: We will continue our math camp on money. Please have students counting a handful of change every night.

This week's math focus:

• Develop an understanding of the position of numbers.
• Round numbers to the nearest multiple of 10 or 100.
• Review and test for Topic 8.
  

February 1-5

Our Big Kahuna this week is Hunter!

Thank you Sindie Mubata for coming on Thursday and sharing pictures and stories of Petra!

Writing: This week we will be finishing up our expository paragraph. We will do our final copy and complete a rubric, where students will grade their own writing.

Math: We will continue our math camp on money.

This week's math focus:

• Read and write three-digit numbers.
• Understand place value.
• Compare two numbers (up to 999) and say which is greater.

Test Prep: At the end of the year (end of April or beginning of May) students will have to take the CRTs. This is a national test to see where individual students rank in Language Arts and Math. Second grade is the first year students have to take this test, so we will be doing some practice tests to get the students ready on how to take the test.