Sept.30-Oct.4

This Week In...
Reading: Cause & Effect; Facts & Details; Background Knowledge 
Math: Place Value to 100; Odds and Evens; Using a hundreds chart
Language Arts: Singular & Plural Nouns
Science: Spiders

Homework:
M: DEAR Log, Math Practice 5.4, MClass Math Practice
T: DEAR Log, Math Practice 5.5, MClass Math Practice
W: DEAR Log, Math Practice 5.6, MClass Math Practice
Th: DEAR Log, Math Practice 5.7, MClass Math Practice
F: Get behavior card signed over the weekend and return on Monday

Sept. 23-27

This Week In...
Math: Place Value to 100
Reading: Author's Purpose; Text Structure; Contractions
Language Arts: Proper Nouns; Writing biographies
Science: Water Cycle

Homework: 
M- DEAR Log, MClass Math
T- DEAR Log, Math Practice 5-1, MClass Math
W- DEAR Log, Math Practice 5-2, MClass Math
Th- DEAR Log, Math Practice 5-3, MClass Math
F- Get behavior card signed and return on Monday

News-
We are learning lots about Abraham Lincoln in Reading this week! Ask your child what he/she can tell you!
Last week the students finally added Mr. Potato Head's last piece and earned a potato chip party for good behavior. Students chowed down on Doritos today while doing our Team Time Tuesday activity, which was interviewing a classmate to gather info for our biographies!

Check out these pictures. See what we've been up to!

We've been working on making contractions this week so we performed some contraction surgery.

Meet "Dr. Ken Traction"!

This month we have been reading many David Shannon books! Here's just some of the work we did after we read the stories.
We made inferences while reading No, David! 

We made connections while reading Alice the Fairy. Students wrote about what they would do if they had a magic wand like Alice.

We made predictions about who our Mystery Reader would be. No one predicted correctly though! Our September Mystery Reader was Mrs. Adams! She read Pirates Don't Change Diapers by David Shannon to the whole 2nd grade. Mrs. Adams even dressed up and talked like a pirate! 

We wrote about what we saw, heard, and felt in the desert.

We wrote different types of sentences on apples and added them to the correct trees.

We had a very patriotic week when we learned about September 11th and the Star Spangled Banner. 

Students who memorized and sang the Star Spangled Banner got a prize and were named National Anthem Stars. 

Way to go Delaney, Madelyn, Connor, Josalynn, Nadia, Aiden, Kyle, & Cameron!

Sept.16-20

This Week In...

Reading: Cause & Effect; Summarizing

Math: Working with Equal Groups

Language Arts: Common Nouns; Friendly Letter

Science: Water Cycle 

We will have a MYSTERY READER on Friday!

Homework:

M: DEAR Log, MClass Math, Math Practice 4.1

T: DEAR Log, MClass Math, Math Practice 4.2

W: DEAR Log, MClass Math, Math Practice 4.3

Th: DEAR Log, MClass Math, Topic 4 Study Guide

F: Get behavior card signed over the weekend

CHECK BACK AT THE END OF THE WEEK 

FOR PICTURES OF THINGS WE'VE BEEN DOING IN CLASS! :)

Sept.9-13

This Week In...
Math: Subtraction strategies; Topic 3 test on Friday
Reading: Unit 1 Review--> Character & Setting; Main Idea & Details; Synonyms, Inflected Endings
Grammar: Review--> Subject, Predicate, Types of Sentences
Social Studies: National Anthem Project; September 11th 

Homework:
M: DEAR Log, Math Practice 3.4
T: DEAR Log, Math Practice 3.5
W: DEAR Log, Math Practice 3.6, 9/11 Interview
Th: DEAR Log, Topic 3 Practice
F: Get behavior card signed, return Monday

Sept. 3-6

This Week In...
Math- Subtraction Strategies
Reading- Facts & Details; Predictions; Fantasy vs. Reality
Language Arts- Exclamatory and Imperative Sentences
Science- Desert

Homework...
Tues.- DEAR Log (front & back), Math Practice 3.1
Wed.-DEAR Log (front & back), Math Practice 3.2
Thurs.-DEAR Log (front & back), Math Practice 3.3
Fri.- Get this week's behavior card signed by a parent

August Student of the Month

Miss Donahue's Student of the Month

Nadia

August 2013

Also as Student of the Month

chosen by Mrs. Kamplain

 Brooklyn

August 2013

Way to go, girls!