Dear Second Grade Families,
Thank you for taking a little time of your day to meet with me during conference week. It was great talking about the progress your child has made throughout the 1st trimester. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email.
We continue practicing for the CHRISTMAS PROGRAM, which will be next week on December 18th at 6:30 p.m. Today, a letter will go home from Mrs. Lyle describing suggested clothing.
We will be writing our letters and card to our Flat Person hosts.
Here’s a look at our academic week and what we hope to accomplish:
Homework: Remember, we started a new READING LOG. This week we will continue working on writing a complete sentence for our reading log and focus on neatness along with the FLUENCY IXL homework P.3…if your child finishes in less than 20 minutes please move on to P.4.
RELIGION: Chapter 6 review …We will focus on Immaculate Conception, writing a birthday card to Jesus, loving others and getting our hearts ready for Christmas finishing chapter 6. Our quiz will be on Friday.
LANGUAGE ARTS: We will finish A Trip to the Firehouse focusing on main idea and details. At the end of the week we will begin our special Christmas stories and vocabulary, rhyming and Dictionary work (guide words and thesaurus); creative writing; and language arts of the season.
Last week, we had Captain Romero come visit our class with a fire truck. The children had a great time learning about firefighters daily routines. The students even volunteered me to become Firefighter Vazquez. A big thank you, to Captain Romero for taking the time to visit and educate our students. We had a blast!!!!!
We finally sent out our Santa Letters today. We hope to receive a response on December 2oth.
Spelling: Unit 14: Spelling: Unit 14: ‘long e’ words in spelling; Dictionary work (guide words). We will have our spelling test on Thursday.
MATH: We will work on shapes with geoboards and time. We will work on everyday math unit 3 lesson 4-6 this week. We will continue learning about base ten blocks (longs, cubes and flats)
Science: We begin Motion and Force. This week we will focus on the vocabulary words; friction, pull, push and force. We will read lesson one this week.
******STUDENT OF THE WEEK…Matthew******
Important: I spoke to all of you about the reading level your child is currently in for reading. I recommend Scholastic BookWizard. Click on Search my Reading Level (A-Z). Type in your child’s level and it gives you a list of books. There are also apps that help you find out the level of book your child is reading. Please match the level I recommended with a book your child is reading. If you have forgotten the book level, please let me know and I will send you an email. I am looking into a great website which has leveled books on line and comprehension questions and quizzes that go along with your child’s reading level. This will help with comprehension. I will keep you posted on this site in my next newsletter.
If you have further questions regarding our conference please let me know.
Blessings,
Mrs. Vazquez
