This week:

We are working on comparing and contrasting this week! We will compare and contrast Sam and Buster- two friendly dogs! We will compare and contrast different Christmas traditions. We are also talking about compound words! Compound words are large words made with two smaller words.

Spelling List:

Basketball

Weekend

Birthday

Bathtub

Driveway

Raindrop

Someone

Something

Riverbank

Backyard

Bedtime

Mailbox

High Frequency Words:

Been

Believe

Caught

Finally

Today

Tomorrow

Whatever

In math we are learning about 2-digit subtraction. There are many strategies we can use:

break apart 10s and 1s

Open number line

Compensation

Modeling

Friendly numbers

Remember:

Santa shop is Wed and Thurs! 

Perer Pan Play is this Friday!

Christmas Party is Dec. 18 @ 10:00!

Wampanoags, Pilgrims, Tee Pees, & Pumpkin bread with homemade butter!

This past week was such an exciting week! We spent all day Monday learning about the Wampanoag Native American Tribe. Tuesday we had the iPads, learned how to use an electronic thesaurus, wrote a turkey poem, and continues our study on the Wampanoags. Wednesday, we learned about the Pilgrims. We read and did collaborative work. We wrote about our life as a Pilgrim and read lots of Thanksgiving stories. Thursday, we made our Thankful Turkeys amd wrote about what we were most thankful for. Friday, we had a BLAST! We learned about the First Thanksgiving, wrote about who came, what was eaten, and why Thanksgiving was celebrated. Then, we had a STEM challenge- the students had to build a tee pee (in groups). The challenge was this: they only had a certain amount of paper and tape. They had to think about how the tee pee would stand and how to make it large enough for one student to sit. They tried hard! We also measured and cook homemade Pumpkin bread in the crock-pot! For the pumpkin bread, we also made homemade butter. It was delicious! 

Most of our friends liked the pumpkin bread and butter, but we had a few who didn't. It was a great week! Now onto Christmas Around the World!

Learning about the Wampanoags and Pilgrims:

Beginning our Tee Pee challenge:

Trying to make poles for the Tee Pee:

Homemade Pumpkin Bread:

Veteran's Day!

We studies the history of Veteran's Day this week. We conpleted readings and projects on Veteran's Day. The students worked in groups to complete the history of Veteran's Day timelines:

We ended the week with a Veteran's Day parade!

We saw some awesome Veterans-

Like one of our GREAT custodians, Mr. Fox!

And my Uncle Steve!

Thank you Veterans for all that you have done and are doing and all of your sacrifices to keep our country safe and free! 

Nov. 2-6

This week we will be studying Veteran's Day. We will have a Veteran's Day parade on Friday:) We will also be studying long a: ai, ay, Comparing and Contrasting, and Fairy Tales!

Here is our newsletter:

Halloween tricks and treats!

Thursday and Friday if last week we celebrated Halloween by doing some fun activities! The students completed a spooky madlib and learned about Halloween traditions. They also compared numbers using candy corn- which of course they ate when they finished! :)

 

Oct. 22-23

This is a short week! Fall break was a well needed break and I hope everyone got lots of rest:) This week we are studying BATS! This (short) week will be full of so much fun!! Here is the newsletter for this week:

Oct. 12-16

One week until FALL BREAK!! WHOO HOO!! This is our last full week before we have our well-needed fall break:) Here is what our week will look like-

We will learn about Christopher Columbus on Monday and Spiders Tuesday-Friday! We will complete research on a spider and write a report. Then we will draw and label our spiders on Friday:) This will be a packed week! Let's get to it!

Oct. 5-9

This week we are learning all about PUMPKINS!!! It is finally fall and the weather is cooling down some. The leaves are turning beautiful colors and falling to the ground! Football is on Fridays and Saturdays (and if you are my husband, every other night as well!) and soups go in the crockpots:) I love this time of year! We will begin our October units with pumpkins and then we will continue the unit with bats, spiders, and Halloween. We will compare bats and owls. We will learn how pumpkins grow. Hopefully we will even get to carve a pumpkin somewhere in this month:) Here is what is happening this week:

Sept. 21-25

It's Aggie Week and Apple Week and Penny War Week! Woah! It is a busy week this week. Good thing we are reviewing (YAY!).
Here are the skills we will be reviewing:

Pay special attention to the Dress up days for this week. We will be dressing up each day to support the Aggies! It is homecoming week afterall:) Thursday is Kids day on the Farm. We will learn about and pet different farm animals. A big THANKS to the AHS FFA members!

Let's go camping with Henry and Mudge!

This week we are Camping! We will be reading the story "Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night" in our reading books and talking about going camping. We will learn the stars and moon and all things needed to camp. Our spelling skill is consonant blends (br, bl, cl, str...) . Our Comphrension skill is Character (who is in the story) and Setting (where and when is the story taking place?) . We will continue with chapter 1 in math and practice even and odd numbers, place value, and simple addition.


Spelling Words:
breeze
brave
strap
twin
clip
hand
stop
mask
state
ask
nest
stream

Vocabulary Words:
build
bear
mother
father
couldn't
straight
love

Writing Skill:
We will continue practicing writing complete sentences.
       1. Senctences begin with Capital Letters
       2. Sentences end with punctuation (! . ?)
       3. Sentences must make sense (beginning and end)
       4. Sentences must have a who/what and something being done (follows a verb).
We will talk about Who/what subject) and what is being done (predicates) in the sentence.
      Mudge (walks around the camp fire). --- complete sentence
       subject          predicate

Aug. 24-28

This week we are Exploring Space! We will be reading the story "Exploring Space" in our reading books and talking about the Solar System. We will learn about astronauts and outer space. Our spelling skill is CVCe (sneaky e). Our Comphrension skill is Main Idea and Details. We will begin chapter 1 and practice even and odd numbers, place value, and simple addition.

Spelling Words:
space
vote
blaze
late
page
mice
size
huge
nose
fine
race
hope

Vocabulary Words:
everywhere
live
machines
woman
work
move

Writing Skill:
We will be practicing writing complete sentences.
       1. Senctences begin with Capital Letters
       2. Sentences end with punctuation (! . ?)
       3. Sentences must make sense (beginning and end)
       4. Sentences must have a who and a what

Upcoming Events:
Sept. 3- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night!
Sept. 7- NO School! Labor Day
Sept. 9- Grandparents' Day 9:00-10:00
Sept. 8-11  Book Fair in the library
Sept. 10- Fall Pictures

The First Week of School, a monster, and a case of Tattle-tongue!

This week has been a very busy week! We started Monday with Meet and Greet! We had a great turn-out. Thank you to ALL the parents who were able to take time to join us! Wednesday was the first day and it was definitely a FIRST DAY! We talked about class rules, procedures, and responsibilties. We met Mrs. Stanley (across the hall) and joined her class for some read alouds! I read "David Goes To School" and we discussed what makes a good student and took our Peacemaker Promise. We also learned about a monster who came to school and acted AWFUL! He was so AWFUL, that he was not invited back. But he learned the correct way to behave in school and was allowed to stay. We also learned how NOT to get a case of the TATTLE TONGUE! No one wants a super long, yellow-with-purple-spots, tongue!! We sorted and cleaned and organized and colored... We even learned about our classmates by making an "All About Me" puzzle. It was a great week! I am exhausted. I am now going to rest with my Now-3-month-old-today baby! My how time (and the summer) flies! 

May Events:

Please send in your Muffins for Moms RSVP as soon as possible!

May 1: Downtown Albertville Field Trip

The cost is $5.00- our trip has been moved to May 4th. Please make note of the changes. 

May 8: Muffins for Moms 1:15-1:45

May 19: Field Day

May 25: No School- Memorial Day

May 27: End of the Year Party 10:00

May 28: Last Day for Students

Plants

Plants Unit- This week we studied plants: plant needs, plant parts, how to grow plants, trees, and Earth Day! It has been a busy week! The students helped create a Plant Parts/Need poster on Monday. They used it to help with other activities throughout the week! The students also created individual greenhouses and "planted" a lima bean. They have been able to observe the changes the bean has made and Friday afternoon, they even saw a few sprouts! We are hoping to see lots of changes on Monday!

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day! Wednesday, April 22nd was Earth Day. We read about how and why Earth Day was started. We learned about easy ways to help the Earth in BIG ways by reducing, reusing, and recycling! Then the students wrote a list of ways they could help the Earth.

Earth's Biomes

Class Biome project- the students worked in groups to learn about different biomes found around the world. The students studied the rainforest, temperate forest, desert, tundra, and grassland. The students read about their biomes using PebbleGo.com and other informational text. They wrote a report on the biomes, then create a poster to show what they learned!

Proud Teacher!

I love seeing my kiddos work together!

It's Art Night!

It is 2nd Grade's Night of the Arts! Take a look at the wonderful art work your children have made...

Upcoming Events!

Parents, 

We have lots coming up! 

April 14: Fine Arts Night 6:00-7:00

April 15: DIBELs starts

April 17: Blessings in a Backpack donations due

April 24: Relay for Life Fun Run 12:30-1:00 and pledge money due

April 24: Muffins for Moms RSVP due

May 1: Downtown Albertville Field Trip

The cost is $5.00

May 8: Muffins for Moms 1:15-1:45

Lots to do over the next 2 months! I am still working on conference times. Please remember it is very important to remember your meeting time! 

Money, Money!

Parents, I am excited to add a class website to our growing list of classroom resources! Please take time to visit the classroom website below.

https://sites.google.com/site/mrsrainsclassroom/

 This website will be used to practice our Let's Learn About Money Unit! Please allow your child to visit this website and complete the activities posted.

This week in math we are learning about money! We are sorting, collecting, and counting coins! Here are some pictures of the math lesson we learned today. The students are working with partners and grouping the change into like coins, then arranging them from greatest amount to least amount, before finding the total:)