March 31-April 4

Good Monday Morning!

I hope everyone had a restful Spring Break. I did some spring cleaning and redecorating!

This week we will read Bad Dog, Dodger! (Pgs. 212-225). We will work on Plot (beginning, middle, and end of the story) and the Theme. All of our tests will be on Thursday!

Words to Know:

practice, grabbed, chewing, chased, 

treat, wagged, dripping

Spelling Words

wr, kn, gn

Test Thursday

1.   knock

2.   sign

3.   knee

4.   wrong

5.   write

6.   climb

7.   wrap

8.   wren

9.   gnat

10. lamb

11. comb

12. knob

Challenge Words

13. knuckle

14. plumber

15. wrestle

Upcoming Events:

*April 4^th: Trip to the Circus! Our SPELLING TEST will be THURSDAY due to the field trip. Study Study Study!!

* DIBELS will be at the end of the month. Your child should be reading 87 words per minute to benchmark. READ,READ!

From the Teacher:

*Please send in Lysol Wipes, Kleenex, and Germ-X! We are need of all these products!

Please remember that Friday is our trip to the circus. Your child needs to wear comfortable shoes and comfortable clothing. If your child is bringing a lunch from home, please send it in a lunch sack, NOT a lunch box. We will throw away our lunches when we finish. Also, Please have your child to school on time. We will be leaving by 8:00 Friday morning.

Let's get back to it! Have a great week:)

March 17-21

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope everyone remembered to wear GrEeN today:) I know my kiddos looked very festive today!!

This week we are reading the story One Dark Night (pgs. 184-203). We are working on sequence (first, next, then, last/finally). Our phonics skill is Prefixes...

pre- before... prepay (pay before)

re- again... reread (read again)

dis-/un- not... disagree (do not agree)/unhappy (not happy)

Please practice these prefixes with your child each night. This skill is the focus in our spelling words as well.

Spelling Words:
1.unsafe                  6. retie                  11. preschool2.preheat                7. rewind              12. disagree3. rerun                  8. unpack                 *prehistoric4. disappear           9. unplug                  *unfortunate5.unlock               10. regroup                *reunion*=Bonus Words

We will be continuing our Measurement unit this week in math. We will be using a ruler to measure objects in inches and feet! Let your child practice at home by giving them a ruler and allowing them to go to town measuring all kinds of household things!

This week is our last week before.....

~~ SPRING BREAK!!!~~

The kiddos are more than ready for this BrEaK. They are going stir crazy in the classroom and are ready to be OUTSIDE! To be honest, I am too:) These pretty days, full of sunshine, are making me want to be outside running and reading! I will be sending home some reading homework over the break, BUT before you get all upset about having homework to check, it will be fluency. It won't take too long each day and it will help your child to stay on track! DIBELS will be coming up again soon and the goal is

87 words per minute.

 That seems like a lot of words for your child to read in 1 minute but I know with consistent practice your child can and will MAKE it!!! 

The week we come back from Spring Break, we will be going to the Circus. It will be April 4th, in Huntsville:)

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

March 10-14

WHEW!!! We made it through last week! What a fun and crazy BUT tiring week:) We had lots of great times last week and did lots of fun crafts:) Here are a few pictures of last week...

We had so much fun! Lisa Spence and Hannah Rains were some of our Guest Readers! We even took a trip to the AHS Fine Arts Center to watch Jack Hartmann to ~DANCE~.

This week is back to normal (or at least 2nd Grade normal(:) 

Our Reading Story is Fire Fighter! pgs. 158-171. We are studying the skill: Suffixes (endings) -ly, -ful, -or, -er.

-ly.... in a ______ way (quickly.... in a quick way)

-ful.... full of   (powerful.... full of power)

-or/-er.... a person who (sailor.... a person who sails/teacher.... a person who teaches)

Spelling Words:

1.   cheerful

2.   visitor

3.   slowly

4.   weekly

5.   teacher

6.   helper

7.   hardly

8.   graceful

9.   yearly

10. quickly

11. fighter

12. sailor

*13. gardener

*14. competitor

*15. extremely

Words to Know: station, building, roar, masks, quickly, tightly, burning

Upcoming Events:

*March 24^th-28^th: Spring Break!

*April 4^th: Trip to the Circus! If you haven’t paid $20.00, Please do so as soon as possible!

From the Teacher:

*Please send in Lysol Wipes, Kleenex, and Germ-X! We are need of all these products!

Contact info:

Jennifer Rains

jrains@albertk12.org