October 18th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:

Friday, October 25th - Grandfriends' Day; End of the quarter
Wednesday, October 30th - Halloween Party
Thursday, October 31st - Mission Bake Sale put on by Kindergarten and 4th grade
Friday, November 1st - Grade Cards sent home
Monday, November 4th - Cookie Sale ends
Tuesday, November 5th - Picture Retakes

This week in class

Math - ordering numbers; estimation, rounding to the nearest 10; and even and odd numbers

Reading - long i; medial consonants; comprehension skill: steps in a process; plural nouns adding -s and -es; proper nouns,

Health - discussed caring for eyes and ears; effective ways to communicate

Social Studies - continued discussion of economics concepts: producer, consumer, capital resources, human resources, natural resources, skills, and trading for goods and servies 

Spelling - short i and u words

this   if    its     gum   mud  shut    
fit   into   thing   rug    bug   hunt

*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!!

Book it!

REMEMBER the goal for the second graders is to read 20 minutes 5 times a week.  It is not based on the number of books they read.  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.