September 27th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:

Friday, September 27th - Midterms sent home

Monday, September 30th - Picture Day
Tuesday, October 1st - Bake Sale

October 10th-13th - Book Fair

Thursday, October 10th - Spaghetti Supper
Friday, October 11th - Dads and Donuts
Monday, October 14th - Cookie Dough Sale Begins

This week in class

Math - Finished addition and subtraction concepts

Reading - long e spelled e and y; inflected ending -ed; commands and exclamations; reading comprehension skill: drawing conclusions

Science - Reviewed parts of a plant and animal life cycles

Health - Finished discussing systems of the body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous)

Social Studies - Began discussing the different forms of government and their leaders and national symbols 

Spelling - review of Lessons 1-5

camp     fat      flat      for     fort     play     sing     book

can      could     like    pack    second   sick   brave    brother

great    ground   sweet   and   desk     different    jump

land   boxes    dishes    lions    nights   wishes

*words are on www.spellingcity.com/ellerbrock

Leaders Farm

Continue to read 15 books to receive free admission to the MAiZe at Leaders Farm.  If your child reads 15 books and returns the reading log sent home with this newsletter, they will receive a free admission to the MAiZe  along with a free order of CinnaSquares from Marco's Pizza.  Please sign the reading log when your child completes it and return it to me.

Pop Tabs

Continue to bring in pop tabs!!

Field Trip

Thanks to everyone who came along on the trip to the Toledo Zoo.

On Wednesday, October 16th we wil be going to Leaders Farm.  The cost of the trip will be $6.25.  Permission slips will be sent home next week Tuesday for this trip.  We will need drivers.

Midterms

Midterms were sent home today.  Please sign them and return to me on Monday.  If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me.  

Book it!

We are doing the Book It program again this year.  The goal for the second graders is to read 20 minutes 5 times a week.  I know that weeks can be busy and life happens so reading 5 days a week may be difficult at times.  So I told the students that they may read for 40 minutes one night and count it as 2 days of reading.  Please encourage your child to read and ask them questions about what they are reading.  Part of reading is comprehension, which is being able to retell the story using their own words.  This begins Tuesday, October 1st.

September 20th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:

Wednesday, September 25th - FIELD TRIP to the Toledo Zoo
Friday, September 27th - Midterms sent home
Monday, September 30th - Picture Day
October 10th-13th - Book Fair
Thursday, October 10th - Spaghetti Supper

This week in class

Math - subtraction concepts; counting up to subtract, fact families, and missing addends

Reading - long e spelled ea and ee; statements and questions; final consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th); setting

Science - Finished discussing kinds of animals such as mammals and reptiles; life cycles of a butterfly and frogs

Health - Continued to discuss systems of the body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous)

Social Studies - Citizenship and Constitution 

Spelling - words adding es or s

boys       girls

streets    lunches

dishes     boxes

rooms      lions

nights      peaches

wishes      foxes

*words are on www.spellingcity.com/ellerbrock

Leaders Farm

Continue to read 15 books to receive free admission to the MAiZe at Leaders Farm.  If your child reads 15 books and returns the reading log sent home with this newsletter, they will receive a free admission to the MAiZe  along with a free order of CinnaSquares from Marco's Pizza.  Please sign the reading log when your child completes it and return it to me.

Book Adventure

We began reading books for book adventure.  Your child is encouraged to read books and then check their comprehension by completing an online test.  There is no grade taken on these tests, it is clearly to monitor the progress your child makes when it comes to reading comprehension.  On the front of their assignment pad is the website along with their username and password so they can also do this at home.

Pop Tabs

Continue to bring in pop tabs!!

Field Trip

We have room on the bus for 2 chaperones per class.  The remaining chaperones will have to drive to the zoo; perhaps carpool.  Here is the list of chaperones:

Rina Belmares

Jane Engel - Rachel Greenlaw's Aunt

Anne Irving - will have Baby Ella

Maria Pullen - will have Rosa

Cathy Smith 

Laura Storch

Andera De la Roca

IF YOU HAVE A ZOO PASS PLEASE BRING IT TO SCHOOL ON MONDAY SO THAT I CAN MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS ACCOUNTED FOR WITH PAYMENT.

September 13th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:

Saturday, September 14th & 15th - Turtle Fest
Friday, September 20th - 2nd Grades plan mass
Wednesday, September 25th - FIELD TRIP to the Toledo Zoo
Friday, September 27th - Midterms sent home
Monday, September 30th - Picture Day

This week in class

Math - subtraction concepts; counting back to subtract; related subtraction and addition facts

Reading - reviewed long vowels with final e; predicates; short vowels; initial consonant digraphs ch, sh; and author's purpose

Science - Began discussing kinds of animals such as mammals and reptiles; life cycles of a butterfly and frogs

Health - Discussed systems of the body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous)

Spelling - words with mp, nd, nt, sk, and st

jump              and

friend            went

ask                just

bump            land

hand             different

desk             must 

*words are on www.spellingcity.com/ellerbrock

Leaders Farm

Continue to read 15 books to receive free admission to the MAiZe at Leaders Farm.  If your child reads 15 books and returns the reading log sent home with this newsletter, they will receive a free admission to the MAiZe  along with a free order of CinnaSquares from Marco's Pizza.  Please sign the reading log when your child completes it and return it to me.

Book Adventure

We began reading books for book adventure.  Your child is encouraged to read books and then check their comprehension by completing an online test.  There is no grade taken on these tests, it is clearly to monitor the progress your child makes when it comes to reading comprehension.

Pop Tabs

Continue to bring in pop tabs!!

Field Trip

On Wednesday September 25th Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade will be going to the Toledo Zoo.  The cost is $6.00.  If you have a zoo pass, you will not have to pay the $6.00, however, your child must bring the zoo pass with them.  I will keep track of the passes for you if you are not able to chaperon.  If you have any questions about this, do not hesitate to ask.  

September 6th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:

Tuesday, September 10th - No School (Teacher In-service)

Saturday, September 14th & 15th - Turtle Fest

This week in class

Math - Addition concepts: doubles +1/-1; adding three addends, adding four addends

Reading - short e and o; homophones; character

Science - continued learning about the parts of the plant and their functions.

Health - Discussed how our body grows and changes

Spelling - words with br, gr, st, and sw

bring             sweet

break            brave

grade            brother

stand            great

stick             ground

state            swing

*words are on www.spellingcity.com/ellerbrock

Leaders Farm

Continue to read 15 books to receive free admission to the MAiZe at Leaders Farm.  If your child reads 15 books and returns the reading log sent home with this newsletter, they will receive a free admission to the MAiZe  along with a free order of CinnaSquares from Marco's Pizza.  Please sign the reading log when your child completes it and return it to me.

Book Adventure

We began reading books for book adventure.  Your child is encouraged to read books and then check their comprehension by completing an online test.  There is no grade taken on these tests, it is clearly to monitor the progress your child makes when it comes to reading comprehension.

Pop Tabs

Continue to bring in pop tabs!!

Gym Class

Monday is Gym class.  Please make sure your child brings a change of clothes so that they can participate in gym class.  Every class that they do not have clothes results in a decrease in their gym grade. We are learning kick ball!

Cafeteria 

Be sure to read the Cafeteria News letter that came home in the blue folder today.  There are changes!!