Classroom Volunteers

Come October we would love to invite in classroom volunteers!

Duties would include helping with our book clubs from 10:55-11:55. 

During that hour, you would be meeting with three separate book clubs to help guide students through selected reading activities or books. 

Classroom volunteers/helpers are a huge resource that help make this hour successful! The adult assistance needed helps students to stay focused, encourage questions, make connections, and enjoy the time doing it!

If volunteering in our classroom is something you would like to do, you first need to please complete the online TCAPS volunteering applications form. Link is below.

online TCAPS volunteer application form

After that is completed please click on the classroom helpers link below to find a date(s) that work for you!
*Sign ups go through the end of November for now

Thank you!!

Classroom Helpers

Pumpkins for Patients

Today we gathered with Mrs. Yascolt's kindergarten classroom to decorate pumpkins for a cause! All pumpkins that were decorated are going to Munson hospital to become special arrivals for all patients. We have done cards like this in the past and it was a huge hit! I expect this will put just as big a smile on many faces.

Friendly Letter

This week we learned how to write a friendly letter. 

Students should be able to identify and label the five parts of a letter. 

date

greeting

body

closing

signature

While writing a friendly letter, students were also able to: 

use commas correctly

write a body about a topic and elaborate on their details

Homework

All students brought home work to do over the weekend for math.

There are two pages of review work that we learned this week.

Please help your child find a time to complete for Monday.

Thank you!

Move-A-Thon

 Friday, October 4th

Second grade is MOVING at 11:20

Please register your child(ren) for the Move-A-Thon

https://www.thegetmovincrew.com/

Registered students that receive at least one donation will get a prize!  

Donations may be made by cash, check (payable to: Westwoods PTO) or online. 

Students that raise $150 or more will get a special prize and the classroom that raises the most will also get a prize.

Pledge forms below went home on Thursday.

Students can bring their own water bottles on the day of the Move-a-thon. 

Uncompleted Work

When your child comes home with work that has this strip attached, it means they will need to complete work at home and then return it the following day.

This is a new procedure I am implementing to encourage students to stay focused and complete work on time. This can be used as a communication tool between home and school about student work completion.

Thank you for your continued support!

Journeys: Lesson 3

This week we are continuing to build understanding on information texts. We have two focus read alouds:

Dogs

Helping Paws

These informational text describe a familiar subject with all students - dogs! Students will regularly encounter those kind of text in textbooks, through research, and for independent reading. The text contains some how-to elements. Through our reading students will also encounter some informational text features:

captions

bulleted lists

headings

feature boxes

Our key learning objectives are to 

Read to understand the author's purpose

Compare and contrast information

Learn about dogs that help people with disabilities

Understand how captions tell about pictures

Below is our focus wall for the week that shows all students what to expect for the week and what will be continuously returning throughout each days instruction and activities.

Vocabulary cards this week! 

 Ask your child to explain what each vocabulary word is and if they can use it in a sentence.

Be the i in Kind

We did different activities around the idea of being kind, and what it means to be kind.

The students had GREAT ideas and understood why some words hurt and how to be kind in tough situations.

Dot Day

The Dot is the story of a caring teacher who dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities by being brave enough to “make her mark”.