Updates & Reminders!

Picture Day!!
September 28
Please make sure your child has either their picture envelope into school by this Friday or you have prepaid for pictures online. 

Fall Lunch Grill Out

 September 28

Second Grade 12:15

Our first Lunch Grill Out of the year is planned!

Everyone is welcome to join us for lunch. Bring a beach towel or picnic blanket! 

Student lunch is $2.75 and Adult lunch is $3.85. You are also welcome to pack your own picnic lunch. The menu for the Grill Out is available HERE 

Popcorn Fridays

Every Friday the PTO make and deliver over 400 bags of popcorn to the students at Westwoods. They do this in an hour and a half on Friday afternoons. If you would like to help bag and deliver popcorn on Friday afternoons please sign up here! Volunteers are always needed!

Box Tops

We are starting to collect box tops! Please send in all and any box tops you have!

The classroom that collects the most Box Top by October 22, 2018 will get a prize. WAHOO!

Oleson’s Receipts

Help Westwoods Girl Scouts get FREE MONEY for the school! Oleson's gives back 1% of total receipt. They never expire. Please spread the word to family, friends and coworkers to help collect. Receipts can be turned into office. Over $500 was raised for the school in the last year and the Girl Scouts would like your help to double that, this year! We just need Oleson receipts (not Tom's... and alcohol/ tobacco purchases cannot included!) with "community share" points (located at the bottom of each receipt).

Freckle

This week we have another new math website we are using!

Freckle

If students would like to use this at home, here is the login information.

www.student.freckle.com

Click - student sign in

First Name: students first name

Last Name: FIRST letter of students last name

Class Code: 3w6wdx

Friendly Letters

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 something that happened in their family

elaborate on their details. 

 

Mrs. McNitt's Peace Class

This Thursday we started our Peace Lessons with Mrs. Sulecki! Most kids already know what to expect with Peace Lessons, since many classrooms last year did this. However, this year we will build on previous years topics as well as come up with a new class name!

Mrs. McNitt's Peace Class

Mrs. Sulecki is always the one who has lead peace talks. She is our school social worker, who we all know and love. We will have our peace lessons each Thursday afternoon for twenty minutes.

Constitution Day!

Today we celebrate Constitution Day!

We talked about what it means to have rights and responsibility as a second grade citizen. We read through a Scholastic, did a whole group and partner activity, and then we watched a Brain Pop video. 

Ask your child what their rights and responsibilities are at school AND at home. 

We had an awesome discussion!

 

Home Websites

This week students were assigned their own computer...to stay at school! This is very exciting for second grade. It is the first year we are one to one on computers!

Along with getting their computer, students were introduced to new websites we are slowly implementing. Thanks to our PTO, we were able to purchase a few educational websites for classroom and home use. Two you have seen come home today with logins for your child.

Sum Dog is a math based website.

www.sumdog.com

The log in page below your child brought home this past Friday with all their info.

Epic Books is a reading based website that opens up books of interest to that user.

At the bottom of their Sum Dog login page they wrote their necessary info. If it didn't get completed correctly, here is what it should say.

www.getepic.com

sign in (top right corner)

Classroom Code is UVR-7921

If you have any additional questions or concerns please let me know.

Picture Day

Picture day for Westwoods is Friday, September 28th

All picture forms for our classroom went home on this past Friday. If you would like to fill out the form and send it in before our picture day feel free. I will hold on to it.

If not, please make sure your child has their order form by the day of the 29th.

Thank you!

Sept. Scholastic Book Order

Our first Scholastic Book Order went home for September!

If you would like me to place your order by sending the catalog order back to school then please follow directions stated on the catalog. Please also remember to write a check with any orders made out to Scholastic Book Club for the exact amount. (One check for the total amount).  Please NO CASH

If you would like to turn in an order please have it back to school by

Monday, September 17

If you are completing your order online, you are welcome to make your order when you want, whenever you want, as many times as you want.  

Our Class Activation Code HFPT3

Math Mountains

We have been doing a lot of exploring with addition and subtraction equations. What we know and what we need to work on. 

A tool that has been a helpful resource this week have been Math Mountain Cards. These show a total (in all) at the top and two addends (partners) at the bottom. These give a visual representation of a total breaking apart into smaller numbers (addends). 

Math Mountains helps with:

Addition: Having two addends at the bottom to add together making a top total

Subtraction: Having a top total and needing to find an unknown addend

Students have learned to write addition and subtraction fact family equations that they can make from a variety of mountain cards.

* You will notice students bringing home math mountain cards of their own to cut out. Please have your child cut these out and use as math cards at home. 

Learning Buddies

We began our year long adventure with our fourth grade friends of Mrs. DePlaunty's classroom. They will be our learning buddies once a week! 

We meet on Tuesdays, in the afternoon, for 30 minutes. Mrs. DePlaunty and I select different themes for the week, whether it be reading, math, or a fun STEM project for all buddies to participate in. This keeps the students engaged and eager, ready and excited for the next time we meet with our learning buddies! 

Today we met our fourth grade friends and read outside on this beautiful day! It was nice to not only enjoy the sunshine but to also meet our future learning buddies! 

We are going to have an awesome year exchanging learning experiences with our fourth grade friends!