March 10, 2017

Dear Families,

We had another busy week!  We had a great time on our field trip, had a great guest speaker, Mrs. Dorogi, come in to talk to us about our business plans, and had our bake sale.  So much fun!

*Thank you for helping your child in making their business a success. We appreciate all of the time and effort you all have put into the planning, the baking, the purchasing the fleece and doggy things and the cutting of the fleece! We couldn't do it without you and we truly thank you for all you do!  

Volunteers:

We hope the blisters aren't too severe, but we really appreciate all of your help cutting!

Some important dates to remember:

*March 23rd: Second Grade Spring Concert, 7:00-8:00 pm

* March 24th: Records Day/ half day,  Dismissal is at 12:30 pm.

*Spring Conferences: 

• Spring conferences are on March 30th in the evening. These conferences are on as needed basis. If we, the teachers, feel we need to meet to talk with you about your child, we will email you.

*April 3-7: Spring Break

*April 28th: Celebration of Learning during the school day in the afternoon.  More information to come!

Reading:

This week we continued to work on a nonfiction strategies.  We are learning strategies to help us to better understand nonfiction articles and that help us to comprehend.  

Writing: 

We finished our Business Plans and wrote persuasive signs and posters for our bake sale and Pet Sanctuary Collections.

Math: 

We continued to review Partial Sums and learned a new thinking routine called Claim, Evidence, Reasoning where we claimed our answers, proved with evidence, and wrote out our reasoning. We also caught up in our workbooks and practiced some more story problems. 

*Our unit 6 test will be Friday, March 17th. 

IXL SKILLS FOR UNIT 6

E.12, E. 18, E.20, G.9, G.14-- Addition Word Problems 

F.10, H.9, J.5-- Subtraction Word Problems 

Section M--Place Value

Section R--picture and bar graphs only 

Social Studies:​ 

This week we finished our business plans, and learned about setting up a business and all of the hard work it entails from our amazing guest, Mrs. Dorogi!  We loved learning about entrepreneurship and learning about her business and businesses that have been started by kids! We loved the Zollipops!  Students spent time making advertisements for their businesses and then got to put their plans into action during our bake sale.They had a blast and really learned how to sell their products and how to package and set up their displays. All proceeds from our bake sale will go to the TLC Animal Sanctuary:  http://www.tlcanimalsanctuary.com/home.html 

Have a great weekend!

The Second Grade Teachers