Update January 22nd

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Hello Wonderful Families!
So many of you have submitted book orders this month, and I want to say THANK YOU!  Every scholastic order you place through our class helps us earn free books for our classroom library.  If you were still wanting to submit your order, but haven’t had time, today will be the last day, so please submit before the end of the night.
Our homework folders looked much better this week.  Thank you so much for your help with this matter. If you could continue to help students empty out their homework folders each weekend, that would be greatly appreciated.
January Poems went home the first week of January and will be recited the week of January 28th.  If your student has lost their copy please let me know and I can get them another one.
Remember, there will be no school this Monday, January 21st in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

 2nd grade will be celebrating the 102nd day of school on Tuesday, January 29th. We will be doing some fun Dalmatian themed STEM activities that day. We are encouraging students to dress in black and white polka dots (or black and white) that day. Dressing up is not required, so if students don't want to, they may dress in their regular Dress for Success attire.
The last day to take AR quizzes for this trimester will be February 28th. Remember you can always check in on your child’s AR progress by clicking on the Renaissance link on the left side of this page.
Just a few updates for the coming week:
This week in Math:
Topic 8: Money and Time Assessment
Topic 9 Numbers to 1,000
  • Pretest
  • Understand hundreds
  • Models and 3 digit numbers


This week in Language Arts:
Reading: Point of view, Character Responses, Main Idea and Key details
Grammar: Helping Verbs
Spelling: -er and -est endings: bravest, cutest, fancier, higher, widest, sweetest, weakest, nicer, softer, latest
Vocabulary:
  • attention: notice taken of someone or something
  • harm: to hurt
  • factory: a building where things are made
  • present: happening now
  • smooth: a flat surface
Writing: Opinion Writing
  • Consider opposing opinions
  • Support your reasons with examples
  • Organize writing into paragraphs
This week in Leadership and Science:
Leadership: Kindness journals, MLK activities
Science: States of Matter - Physical changes
Homework: “Find the Evidence” will go home on Tuesday  and must be returned by Friday. Math worksheets and reading logs need to be completed nightly.  There will be no Math Tuesday or Wednesday night due to assessments.
Looking forward to another great week!
Alison

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