2nd Grade - Week 7

All three, second grade classes will be taking the NNAT3 (Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test) next Monday.  This is a tool that is used to help identify gifted students within the district.  This tool can also assist in identifying students for TAG, who might not otherwise be identified.  Please try to have your child get a good night sleep, eat breakfast, and be to school on time.  The assessment will take between 30 and 45 minutes. 

We have had 32 days of school so far this year!  Students have learned a lot, made new friends, and are much more comfortable at school.  As students are becoming more comfortable with each other and myself school rules and personal boundaries are beginning to be challenged.  Our biggest challenge as a whole group is listening and being respectful to the speaker.  We will continue to work on listening at school and not interrupting the speaker.  Discussing school expectations at home, as a family, always provides much needed support in the classroom.  If you could take a few minutes over the weekend to reinforce this skill at home it would be greatly appreciated.

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. When we get back from the parade we will be having a Fall Harvest Celebrations in our classroom.  A sign up sheet for volunteering and snacks will be hanging in the hall outside our classroom door the week of October 14^th.

Academic Areas of Focus for Next Week:

Literacy:        Lucy Calkin’s Reader’s Workshop

                                    Reading Priority Standard – Describe how characters in a story

                                    respond to major events and challenges.

                        Lucy Calkin’s Writer’s Workshop

                                    Writing Priority Standard – Write narratives in which they recount a

                                    well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to

                                    describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal

                                    event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Mathematics:  Unit 2 – Addition and Subtraction: Mental Strategies and Developing

                                         Number Sense

                                                -Discovering number patterns

                                                -Looking at how addition facts relate to one another

                                                -Finding all the 2-addend combinations for numbers 0-20

                                                -Looking at how subtraction facts relate to one another

                                                -Listing subtraction facts for the numbers 0-18

Science:  Plant Adventures

Upcoming Events:  

            *No School – Teacher Inservice – Friday, Oct. 11^th

            *Kinderkonzert Field Trip – Tuesday, Oct. 15^th

            *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

Have a Great Weekend!

Mrs. Hawksford (ahawksford@pps.net)