Jan.19-23

This week the students got a day off on Monday! I hope everyone had a wonderful day off:) Beginning Tuesday, we will start our Unit 3 review and Penguin unit! This will be a fun week. I love teaching about penguins and the students usually love learning about them! We will be finding facts around the room, reading about Tacky the Penguin, using the iPads for penguin research, and much more!! 

We will continue our data and graphing lessons in math. We will survey other classrooms and create different types of graphs using that data. I can't wait for this week and all the fun we will have! 

I will be working on setting up an Instagram and Facebook page for our classroom. I will begin posting different information for the classroom & school and activities we will be doing! Please be one the lookout for more information and invites:)

Here are some pictures from what we did last week during Unit! The students worked together to read and find facts about MLK Jr. The students were so eager to tell me what they learned!

The students loved reading and working together! 

Jan. 12-16

This week in reading we are learning about Facts and Opinions! Facts are pieces of information that can be proven true or false by reading or asking experts. Opinions are statements of feelings, or what you think!
We are also learning about comparing objects using the -er/-est endings. Remember: when you add an ending to a word with y, you change the y to i then add the ending. If you add an ending to a word that is VC, you double the final consonant and then add the ending:)
We are studying biographies in writing. We are learning about George Washington Carver and Martin Luther King, Jr. We will be writing mini-biographies for both.
In math, we moved on to Chapter 10! We are learning about collecting data and putting it in charts and graphs. This is a fun chapter and I hope your children love learning all there is to know about graphs and charts:)

HF Words:
only
taught
question
neighbor
clothes
hours
money

Spelling Words:
(-er, -est endings)
fatter
fattest
hotter
hottest
smaller
smallest
sooner
soonest
happier
happiest
busier
busiest

Important Dates:

Jan. 18- no school for students
Feb. 10- Jack Hartmann Concert at the AHS Fine Arts Center
              The cost is $3.00 per student. Please send in the persmission form and money as soon as possible!!

Jan. 5-9

Welcome Back!! I hope everyone is well rested and ready to begin the 2nd semester of 2nd Grade! Whoo Hoo! I am so excited to see what this semester brings for these kiddos. I know they will amaze me with what they learn and how much they grow over the next few months!

Just a few reminders: We will begin DIBELing soon. Our DIBELs date is Jan. 12. Please be sure that your child is well rested and practices reading fluently everynight!

Report cards will go home on Jan. 9!

We will be out of school on Jan. 19 for MLK Jr. Day.


This week:

In Reading, we will be learning about sequence. This is putting things in order (using first, next, then, last). We will also be reading Rosa and Blanca.

Phonics- We will be studying the long i sound (i, ie, igh, y).

Spelling Words-
right
cry
flight
spider
myself
blind
wild
fly
sky
find
child
bright

HF Words-
alone
daughters
buy
half
youngest
their
many

Math- We will finish up chapter 5 (2-digit Subtraction)!

Christmas Break

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe break, full of family and food and fun! :) I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I will see you all in 2015! (I can't believe this year is almost over!)

Mrs. Rains

Nov. 17-21/Dec. 1-5

It is almost Thanksgiving Break! Whoo Hoo! We have a busy schedule over the next few weeks, working our way to Christmas. This Thursday, Nov. 20, We have our Field Trip to Disney on Ice! I am so excited to see this show. It will be GrEaT! We will be out of school next week for Thanksgiving Break. We have talked all week about the wonderful holiday we will celebrate next Thursday. The students have shared what they are thankful for, learned about the First Thanksgiving, how the Pilgrims came to America and survived over the first winter, and learned a play about a turkey visiting for Thanksgiving!

Enjoy the week next week! Get much needed rest and spend lots of time with family and friends:)

When we come back, we will be learning about Christmas around the world. We will be visiting different classrooms to discuss, learn, and create crafts from various countries who celebrate Christmas. It is an exciting time! We have already got our Christmas decorations up and the kiddos love them! We will be creating ornaments for each country we visit and then some other keep-sake ornaments for our tree. The Santa Shop will be here beginning the first week of December. We will also have a Christmas movie day with hot chocolate and popcorn and our Christmas Party:)

Dec. 1-5

Our story for this week is Dear Juno. We will be writing friendly letters, learning about drawing conclusions, and practicing the vowel pattern oa, ow. We will have our tests like normal: practice test on Thursday and Reading test on Friday.

Spelling Words:

goat

hold

snow

most

toast

ago

open

told

toad

slow

High Frequency Words:

answer

company

faraway

parents

picture

school

wash

Upcoming Events:

Santa Shop- Dec. 4 & 5, 11 & 12

Eye Screening- Dec. 10 Please send in the forms as soon as possible!

Christmas Party- Dec. 19 at 8:00

Christmas Break- Dec. 22-Jan. 2

Students return on Jan. 5 (Monday)

Oct. 27-31

This week is RED RIBBON WEEK!! We will have dress up days each day. Please look at your newsletter daily to see what your child needs to wear.


This week we are reading The Bremen Town Musicians. We will practice words with inflected endings/plurals. Our spelling skill is plurals (change y to i, add s, add es). We will continue with plural nouns in Grammar.

We will finish up chapter 3 in math this week. We will test on chapter 3 on Thursday.

Spelling Words:
baby
babies
story
stories
lunch
lunches
switch
switches
note
notes
tune
tunes

High Frequency Words:
bought
probably
scared
shall
sign
people
pleasant


Upcoming Events:

Oct. 27-31: Red Ribbon Week

Mon- Red day, Tue- Camo day, Wed- Sunglasses

Thurs- Favorite Team T-shirt, Fri- Super Hero  Day

Oct. 31: School is out at 1:00.

Nov. 11: Veteran’s Day No School

Oct. 20-24

Congratulations Aggies for the win on Homecoming! Whoo Hoo!!

This week we will learning all about those creepy, crawly, spiders. We will read about them during reading and write about them in writing. We will write a report (expository) writing about different kinds of spiders. This week is going to be jam packed with the creepy, crawly arachnids! 

Our phonics skill is er, ir, and ur (the er triplets!). We will have spelling words and phonics practice on this skill. 

Our comprehension skill is Facts and details. We will also learn about opinions. 

In math we will continue in chapter 3!

Spelling Words:

purse

dirt

person

curl

curb

birth

nurse

turtle

turn

skirt

serve

her

Vocabulary Words:

toward, whole, word

enough, above, ago

Upcoming Events:

October 24: Pumpkin Character Due

October 27-31: Red Ribbon Week

Mon- Red day, Tue- Camo day, Wed- Sunglasses

Thurs- Favorite Team T-shirt, Fri- Super Hero Day

October 31: School is out at 1:00.