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.