2nd Grade News - Week 8

Our annual Halloween Parade to Odd Fellows is coming up on Thursday, October 31^st.  Students will be allowed to bring their costumes in their backpacks the day of the parade.  We will be changing after lunch.  For this to be a smooth process we will need a few parent volunteers to help the students change into their costumes and walk with us during the parade.  Please email me if you would be interested in helping out or sign up on the flyer outside the classroom door. I will only need 4 volunteers for this activity.  When we get back from the parade we will be having a Fall Harvest Celebration in our classroom.  A sign up sheet for volunteering and snacks is hanging in the hall outside our classroom door.

Eating breakfast in the classroom has become a bit of an ordeal in the morning.  Breakfast is served in the cafeteria from 7:30 – 7:50 am.  Ideally, I would like students to eat breakfast in the cafeteria during this time period.  I realize a few students do not arrive at this time.  I will allow students to eat in the classroom until 8:00 am.  After that, we must start our school day and breakfast must be disposed of.  I have spoken to the students about this policy.  Please go over it again with them this weekend.  Thanks!

Literacy:        Lucy Calkin’s Reader’s Workshop – Wrapping up Unit 1

                                    -Review character traits, setting, and story sequence

                                    -Study how whole books click together

                                    -Practice story retell/summarizing

                                    -Learning lessons from books

                        Lucy Calkin’s Writer’s Workshop

                                    -Learning how to make our writing powerful from our favorite authors

                                    -Trying out craft moves we learned from mentor authors

                                    -Emulating mentor authors while revising

                                    -Thinking about word choice in our writing

                        Words Their Way – Differentiated phonics lessons

Mathematics:  Zearn Math on-line – More information to come home soon

                          Fact Families

                          Multiple strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems

                          End of the quarter review and assessments

Science:  Plant Adventures – We are doing our last Mystery this week!

Upcoming Events:  

            *Dine Out at Hopworks – Monday, Oct. 21^st

            *October Birthday Celebration/T-Shirt Day – Friday, Oct. 25^th

            *Fall Festival – Friday, Oct. 25^th

            *Halloween Parade – Thursday, Oct. 31^st

            *End of 1^st Quarter – Thursday, Oct. 31^st

            *Teacher Planning Day/No School – Friday, Nov. 1^st

            *Picture Retake Day – Tuesday, Nov. 5^th

Have a Great Weekend!

Mrs. Hawksford (ahawksford@pps.net)