Sept. 30, 2016

Dear Families, 

We had a great week in school! Here are some highlights from our learning:

Important dates:

*October 4th: Early Fun Run Pledges due

*October 7^th: Deerfield Wildcat Night Varsity Football game

*October 11th:  Deadline for all Fun Run pledges and shout outs.

*October 14^th: Fun Run! (Second Grade10:40-11:00)

*October 31^st: Halloween parties- more info to follow (note home today)

SeeSaw

If you have not signed up for SeeSaw yet, please do so soon!  We are still waiting for a few families to sign up. Directions were sent home with your child’s passwords.    

Character Trait of the Month

Please continue to talk about Empathy with your child and encourage them to complete some of the tasks from the Empathy menu. Ask them about the book that we read this week called, "Those Shoes." This is a wonderful book to teach about empathy. We did a thinking routine called Step Inside, where students "step inside" a character and write from their perspective. We'll share these on Seesaw next week. 

​Box Tops​

We love to collect Box tops for our school! Here is another way to help our school you may not know about. All you do is download the app, take a picture of your grocery store receipt and you can earn double points on certain items. It is super simple!  Here's the website http://www.boxtops4education.com or just download the app on your phone. 

Holiday Donations for upcoming parties

Please see the letter that was sent home today regarding our upcoming team parties.  We are asking for a $7 donation to cover items such as:  Snacks, Craft Materials, Drinks, Game Materials, Paper Products, and Enrichment Materials.   Thanks so much for helping to make our parties great for the children! 

Language Arts

This week we continued to focus on our Reading Workshop Procedures.  We also learned how to write to a prompt while focusing on our Character trait of the month, Empathy.  Ask your child about the books we read and what empathy means.  In writing, we chose a small moment from our lives and began to map out our story.  We rehearsed the story and wrote our first rough draft! The students did a great job! We will continue our personal narrative unit next week.

Math

In math, we continued to review our routines for math workshop. Students learned about compliments of 10, and we practiced strategies for how to find missing numbers in a number grid.  We learned about quick looks and learned how to play the games, “Pass the Paper ” and "Apple Sums. "  We completed lessons 1.6 through 1.9 if you are following along with Home Links.  These do not have to be returned to school, but are a good resource for reviewing concepts learned in school. We will be having a math test this Thursday, Oct. 6th.

WIN (What I need)

This is a time students are able to work on “what they need”.  Students may be doing reading or writing activities, completing unfinished work, or working with the teacher on a skill they need.  We will be rotating between WIN and Science/Social Studies/PBL/Makerspace during this afternoon time.

  

Have a wonderful weekend! 

The Second Grade Teachers