Valentine's Day

Class News Feb. 11-15

What’s New

in Grade Two?

Feb. 11- Feb.15, 2013

The kids are having a great time exploring our blog and videos.  I'd have to say it has been most helpful with coding our sentences in the morning.  The adjective and grammar songs help with identifying parts of speech that are usually pretty difficult at this age.  You would be so proud to hear us when we're busy coding.  We rock!

I am sending home a sign up sheet for conferences.  There is only a 2-hour window, so I am only requesting conferences on the 18^th with a few people.  If your child does not bring one home, I do not need to meet with you on this day.  Either your child is meeting academic/behavioral standards, or I have spoken to you recently about your child. 

Mark 1, 2, 3 for your choices of times.  Send this in as soon as possible, and I will let you know which time was available.

We will have our class Valentine party on Thursday at 1pm.  This will be a time for the kids to pass out any valentine cards, candy, etc to their friends. We will post pictures on Valentine's Day so you can see us during our party!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful children with me.  Each one of them has so much potential to be someone great!


Important Dates

Feb. 14            Valentine Class Party

Feb. 21            Class Picture Day!

Mar. 11-15       Spring Break

Mar. 29            Good Friday

Apr. 23-26       TCAP Testing

May 22            Last day of school!

 Reading/Language Arts

Story: Firefighters

Comprehension: Main Idea

Grammar:  Pronouns

Fluency:  Accuracy, Pace, Intonation  Current goal = 84-94 wpm

End of year goal = 120 wpm

Spelling/Phonics: Suffixes -ful, -ly, -er, -or

Vocabulary: Homographs, Context Clues

Spelling words

cheerful   visitor   slowly   weekly   teacher   helper  

hardly   graceful   yearly   quickly   fighter   sailor

Dictation Sentences

We walked slowly down the steps.

Mom said I am her good helper.

Math

• Identifying coins by their attributes: face, color, size, value, edges, and name
• Showing money amounts using different combinations of coins
• Adding and subtracting money

Social Studies

• Natural resource vs. Finished product
• Major products of Tennessee
• Money vs. Barter
• Imports vs. Export

Science

• Compare the life cycles of various organisms       
• Realize that parents pass along physical charcteristics tot heir offspring 

Winners of Chocolate Sales!

 Armando is the 3rd place winner for our school!  He sold 187 candy bars!  He has earned $25 cash and a trip off campus with Mrs.Cramer to eat lunch!  Way to go Armando! 

I tried really hard to sell more candy bars than any other teacher!  Even though I sold 700 candy bars, Mrs. Flowers beat me by only 7 bars.  What a tight race!  Our sweet principal decided to reward us both with a 1/2 day off work while she subs for us.  Mrs. Cramer must be anxious to get back in the classroom!

The top sellers in our classroom are:

1st place-Armando ($10 gift card to any place he wants, 5 no homework passes)

2nd place-James ($5 gift card to any place he wants, 5 no homework passes)

3rd place-Evelyn (5 no homework passes)

Evelyn, Armando, Maricela, Manuel, William, James, Aryana, and Viviana will be attending our classroom picnic for selling at least 20 candy bars! 

Class News Feb. 4-8

What’s New 

in Grade Two?

Feb. 4- Feb. 8, 2013

Our World’s Finest Chocolate fundraiser is almost over!  We desperately NEED a play-set that is more modern and up to date!The only way to get it is to SELL, SELL, SELL!

To help us sell more, I have added some bonus prizes just for our class...
Sell 20 chocolate bars=Enjoy a class picnic during lunch while we rock out to music!
Top Seller:
1st=$10 Gift card to any place you choose and 5 No homework passes!
2nd=$5 Gift card to any place you choose and 5 No homework passes!
3rd=5 No homework passes!

Parent/Teacher conferences will be February 18^th from 1-3.  I would like to meet with each family this time, but it will be impossible to see everyone on this day.  I am hoping to make arrangements with many of you to meet right after school during the week before.  I will be sending home a sign- up sheet soon.  Be on the lookout!

Mrs. Allen

Important Dates

Feb. 7-8           SACS Visit Days (There will be important visitors in the building!)
Feb. 8              Last Day to sell Chocolate!
Feb. 18            No School
                        P/T Conferences 1-3pm
Feb 21             Class Picture Day!
Mar. 11-15      Spring Break
Mar. 29           Good Friday
Apr. 23-26       TCAP Testing
May 22            Last day of school!

Reading/Language Arts

Story: Helen Keller and the Big Storm by Patricia Lakin

Comprehension: Fact and Opinion
Grammar:  Adverbs:how, when, and where, Review Adjectives
Fluency:  Accuracy, Pace, Intonation  Current goal = 84-94 wpm
End of year goal = 120 wpm
Spelling/Phonics: Vowels oo, ui, ew, ue, u_e
Vocabulary: Homographs, Context Clues

Click HERE to play games about this week's skills and story.
Click HERE and HERE and HERE to learn more about Helen Keller.
Click HERE to visit the Braille Bug Site!  This is a really fun site!  You can see your name in braille!


Spelling words

too    new   fruit   blue   cool   suit   spoon   clue   
juice   drew   flew   cruise   shampoo   nephew

Dictation Sentences
The fruit juice was too sweet!
He drew the true size of that spoon.

Click HERE to play games on spellingcity.com. Choose the title of this week's story.

Math

Money: Identifying coins, Identifying and making coin combinations

Click HERE to practice identifying money.
Click HERE to play online games about money!

Science

Recognize that plants and animals are made up of smaller parts and use food, water, and air to survive.
Compare the life cycles of various organisms.
Realize that parents pass along physical characteristics to their offspring

Click HERE to play games all about how living things live and grow. 

Social Studies

Natural resource vs. Finished product
Major products of Tennessee
Money vs. Barter
Imports vs. Export

Too wet to play outside!

70 degrees in January?  Something isn't right!  Strong gusty winds and heavy thunderstorms rolled through our city last night, so we couldn't go outside today.  That's okay...free time inside is always fun!



These sweet girls decided to spend their free time sorting work in our mailboxes!  Thank you, ladies!

Corduroy!

Our weekly phonics skill is the sound /oi/ spelled oi or oy.  After learning on Monday that one of our spelling words is corduroy, Evelyn brought her book to school, and Claudia and Viviana wore corduroy pants to help us understand the new word!  Thanks girls!

We can subtract!

We have been studying subtraction, with and without regrouping.  Check out some of our activities!

More pictures coming soon!