October 25th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:

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 - counting by 3's and 4's; and ordinals

Reading - antonyms; grammar skill: plural nouns; comprehension skill: compare and contrast; r-controlled er, ur, and ir; plurals: adding -s or -es

Health - Product labels

Science: Traits inherited by parents in plants and animals

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

Spelling - adding -ed and -ing

    want    wanted    

    look     looking

    call      calling

    pick      picked

    walk     walked

   watch    watching

*words are on www.spellingcity.com/ellerbrock

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. Once reading logs are completed please have your child turn them in to receive their free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut.

Behavior

Some students have not been showing proper Christian behavior on the playground and in the classroom.  There are several students who are yelling at one another at recess and throwing balls at them when they don't get their way. They are even telling their peers they are no longer their friends. When this happens, the game that is being played is taken away.  In the classroom, the students have been talking when others are, shouting out instead of raising their hands, and also making noises.  I am really trying to get the students to follow the classroom and school rules.  Please talk to your child about proper behavior.  There are several students who have not picked from the prize box because of their disrespectful behavior.