Halloween Celebration

Halloween celebration notice came home in all students communicators today! If you would like to donate any of our classroom goodies or supplies please let me know.

Thank you!

McNitt Updates

Conferences

Parent/Teacher Conferences are quickly approaching! I look forward to meeting with each one of you to discuss your child's progress so far in second grade. Please make sure you have signed up for a time and date to meet.

Wednesday, October 21

Tuesday, October 27

Thursday, October 29

All from 5-8pm

During this time the Scholastic Book Fair will also be at our school for students and parents to shop! Please stop in before or after conferences to check out all the great book selections. 

The book fair will be at WW from Oct. 21-29.

A Scholastic Book order form also came home from our classroom as an extra avenue of book shopping for all families. Order forms are due back to for this to the classroom on Friday, Oct. 23. 

There are MANY great books and series to shop for and two different places to do it! 

Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Friday Folders

Coming home in your child's Friday Folders you will see many activities students completed in regards to new concepts learned throughout the week in CKLA (Core Knowledge Language Arts). These are lessons that we discussed and practiced, that students then use and apply to their reading and writing. 

If time permits, look over these pages and ask your child about the different topics they were introduced to. 

Very awesome to hear and see the effects this has on the students when they apply it to areas outside CKLA!!

Weather

Colder weather is quickly approaching! We saw that this weekend...

Please make sure your child has all the necessary outside gear needed to stay warm. They are outside before the school bell rings, and then twice for a 30 min. recess. 

Hat

Gloves/Mittens

Winter/Heavy Coat

Sooner than later....boots 

Halloween Celebration

Friday, Oct. 30 from 1:25 - 2:25 (we have Spanish at 2:30). 

During this time students will be able to put their costumes on, play games, have a snack, then return back to their school clothes. More details and information to come this week. 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

Addition & Regrouping

Last week students were adding three digit numbers while regrouping in different place values.

They were turning ones into tens and tens into hundreds. 

In the process, students were able to see the visual with base ten blocks and work with their small groups or math partners to combine different thoughts and ideas. Some students pushed their thinking by finding different ways to make a number. 

For instance, 348

3 hundreds 4 tens 8 ones

OR

3 hundreds 3 tens 18 ones

This helped the students to see how many ones are in a strip of ten to then manipulate the number around their place value mat. With that understanding, they could even see that 348 would also make 3 hundreds 2 tens and 28 ones.

Then students were able to take their understanding of regrouping and draw their math sentences and base tens on white boards. When students felt comfortable and were close to mastery with the idea of regrouping, they tried problems without the visual. 

REGROUPING WITH ONES

REGROUPING WITH TENS

 At Home!

Ask your child about regrouping. Better yet, have them show you!

Now that they have a firm grasp on the concept, they are excited to keep exercising what they have learned! 

Mad minutes sent home each week will help students know their math facts in a snap. This will help in quick recall in their ones,tens and hundreds when working with three digit addition. Instead of counting on each time in their head or on their fingers. 

*Mad minutes do not need to be returned to school and can be kept at home for continued practice. 

Thank you for your continued help and support!! 

Best Pals

One of the forms of writing the students are working on is narrative writing. They each have a goal sheet they use when writing narratives to address different areas in their writing to strengthen. This example, students were writing about their best pals. Whether it was someone local or far away, an animal or a pet, or even an adult or a child. They had to write: 

one sentence that begins leads into their writing (Intro)

three sentences to describe (variety of details) in regards to their best pal

one sentence that concludes and wraps up their piece

This is a work in progress that we will continue to add to, edit and finish.

Chapter 2: Adding to 1,000

Students rocked chapter one!! They did an awesome job throughout the lessons, with different activities, involving themselves in peer and group work, and especially with whole group discussion. Their efforts showed through with my informal observations and even on their formal chapter one tests. We are ready to move on!

Within chapter two, students will be 

Use the base-ten blocks to add numbers with & without regrouping

Adding three digit numbers up to 1,000 with & without regrouping

Use mental math to add and subtract

Solve real-world addition problems

Homework

Spelling and new homework packets are coming home today!! 

Spelling list contains words with the sounds 

/n/

/ng/

/nk/

Tricky Word: should 

Please help your child to develop a plan for the week to complete assignments for school. 

Thank you for your continued support!

Move it! Move it!

Move A Thon was a blast!! 

Many students made goals of their own for the amount of laps they hoped to achieve today! How awesome! They certainly persisted to meet that goal! Great fun!

  

 Congrats to Brodie Stone for being our classroom winner with 13 laps!! 

Nice Job Brodie!!

All donations for Move A Thon are due by Friday, October 16.

The Ham

Thursday, the students brought home a story they have been reading in class called The Ham. It is a story from their reader The Cat Bandit. Please have your child read the story to themselves and also to someone at home. Talking about the story for comprehension will be a good check to see how well your child understands the text. 

Students are also to complete the Tricky Words page connected to the story The Ham. Words in the word bank are tricky words that we have addressed in the classroom. Students should be able to tell you tricky words have spellings and sounds that don't follow the ordinary rules. These are words that just need to be memorized. 

McNitt Updates

Homework

A new homework packet is coming home today. Students are continuing to do a fantastic job organizing their time to get their schoolwork and reading done! Very proud of them! 

This week students will have a word ladder that is similar to the "chaining"we do within our language arts (CKLA).

They will also have a math page reviewing place value and comparing numbers (greater than and less than).

Please make sure your child is finding time to read or be read to each night.
Thank you for your continued help and support!

You will see a new set of spelling words coming home. We reviewed all words today and noticed the suffix -ing that we worked with last week. Students were able to point out different root words that changed (double consonant) and root words that stay the same when adding a suffix. Using that knowledge will help students with their spelling list this week. Students will also see their spelling words in the different Cat Bandit stories and other phonics activities and writing assignments this week. Please help your child remember to practice their words at home, in the car, at sporting events, etc. Thank you! 

MOVE-A-THON!!

Running for Reading!!

This Friday Oct. 9

GOAL: Raise 15,000 for literacy!!

Online donation option: 

www.thegetmovincrew,com

Collection dates:

October 9

October 16

(Oct. 16 is the FINAL day to hand in money for prizes)
* Please send money in an envelope with 
your child's name
 teacher's name

Volunteers are needed!! 

Here is the link to sign up to volunteer for the event:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4daaac2ca5fd0-12th

Lost and Found

Just a little note that our Lost and Found is already getting pretty full.  Please remind your child of the Lost and Found area if they are missing a sweatshirt, jacket, lunchbox’s, etc. The Lost and Found is located outside the cafeteria entrance. Thank you!

Bully Awareness
Friday, October 23
Wear blue or your bully free shirt for bully awareness

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To honor loved ones and community members who have been touched by this disease and to increase knowledge and awareness, wear PINK on Friday, October 15^th.

Family Fun Night
November 4th @ 6pm
Westwoods will be having a family fun night at Incredible Mo's. Money raised will support different literacy programs in our school for all grade levels. Programs such as workbooks for CKLA that your child is continuously using each day. It will also support the upper grades with a an opportunity called NewsELA. This is used for both reading and writing workshops with current events.
More details to come soon. Please mark your calendars!

The Hot Dog

Coming home today in your child's communicator you will find two pages for students to do over the weekend.

The Hot Dog story

We read this story in class from our readers, The Cat Bandit. The Hot Dog was one of a few stories we have read so far involving the cat bandit character. See if your child can recall and connect similarities to The Hot Dog, The Chicken Nugget, and The Snack Mix. 

All stories in our readers we have used to connect different lessons (syllables, tricky letters (g & c), tricky words, onomatopoeia, suffixes, sequencing, etc) thus far. Students have even noticed our spelling words popping up many times through our different discussions and stories!  

Please encourage your child to read The Hot Dog story at home to a partner who can help read along.

Tricky Words

Students can fill in the blanks using the appropriate tricky words from the word bank. 

See if they can tell you why some words are called tricky words.