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End of the Year News!

News and Notes from 2nd Grade!

Thank you so much for a wonderful year!  It is hard to believe this school year is almost over.  This newsletter is to give you some information to help you wrap up your 2^nd grade year and get ready for 3^rd grade!

 

For now: We will continue to learn until the end of the day on the last day of school!  Please continue to remind your child to come to school ready to learn and do their personal best each day.  We are not done yet!  Each class will continue to stay on their daily schedule and keep days as normal as possible.

 

Next week:  Wednesday and Thursday are both early release days.  Dismissal will begin at 12:10.  Please do not bring anything, including backpacks, with you to school on Thursday.  If you want to bring lunch on Thursday, make sure everything can be thrown away when you are done!

 

Report cards:  Report cards will be completed after the last day of school.  If you have sent in 2 stamps, your child’s report card will be mailed to you.  If you have not sent in stamps, you will need to pick up the report card during office hours after June 3^rd.  It is not too late to send in 2 stamps if you have not done so already!

 

Fees:  If your child has an outstanding fee such as ASP, lunch charge or missing media center book, their report card will be held at the school until that fee is settled.

 

Summer Skills:  Although we all you want you to have a fun and relaxing summer, please don’t take the summer completely off!  Make sure you read EVERY DAY!!!!  Even a few weeks off will cause your child’s reading abilities to slide backwards.  They have worked so hard this year!  It’s also a great idea to keep a journal of activities over the summer.  This will give your child a chance to keep using their writing skills.  Don’t forget math!  Keep working on memorizing the basic addition facts for fluency.  If you’ve got those down, start working on learning the multiplication facts to get ahead for 3^rd grade!  Keep your math brains working!!  Also, your child will be bringing home their incomplete math book from this year.  Please feel free to work on those pages to practice the skills we have learned.

 

A note from your teachers....

First, We would like to tell you what a pleasure it has been being a part of your child’s life this year.  We have truly enjoyed watching them learn and grow.  What a great class this has been!  We look forward to checking in on them as they go through school and continue to learn.  Please make sure you continue to remind your child how important their responsibility in learning is.  It is essential that they do their best, ask questions and look at school as an important job. 

Have a wonderful summer!

Thank you for a fabulous year!

 

 

Field Day Information

FIELD DAY INFORMATION

FRIDAY, MAY 10^TH 8-11:15 AM

1. BRING $2.00 FOR KONE ICE & $.50 FOR DILL PICKLES
2. Bring a water bottle. Be sure to label it.
3. Wear a hat and/or sunglasses if you’d like, but remember you must keep up with all your own belongings. Label all items.
4. Put on sunscreen BEFORE coming to school.
5. Please note: there will be sack lunches
6. Please no towels or fans

 

Newsletter for the Week of May 5th-10th

Week of May 5th

Mark Your Calendars!

May

7th: Muffins for Mom 7:15-7:45 am

7th: Student Art Show 5:30-7:30 pm

10th: Field Day (Parent volunteers needed) 7:45-11:15

16th: Career Day (Parent volunteers needed)

21st: Stevi B’s Night

23rd: Last day of school

 

Send in 3 Postage Stamps Please

Please send in 3 postage stamps to mail report cards home at the end of the year. If stamps are not sent in, you may pick up your child’s report card over the summer.

 

Spring Fling

Thank you so much to all the families that came out to the Spring Fling. We hope you had a wonderful time. Our basket had a lot of people bid on it. Thank you so much for helping make the Spring Fling successful for another year!!!

 

No More Homework

As we have stated before, in order for your child to get a 3 on his/her report card for the 4th Nine Weeks, he/she must fluently know his/her addition facts. We want students to have ample time to practice their facts, so instead of formal homework, please use this time to practice on Fast Math or with flash cards. Reading for 15 minutes each night will still be required. There are many websites to download flash cards from, or if you want some blank index cards to create your own flashcards, please let us know.

 

Field Day

Field Day is this Friday. Please make sure your child wears tennis shoes. Each child may bring in a water bottle to carry with us to the stations. Sun screen and a hat are also good ideas. Please let us know if you have any questions.

 

What will we be learning this week?

Reading: Fables: comparing two fables

Math: Representing and interpreting data

Writing: Writing a fable

Science:  Life Cycles

 

Math

Represent and interpret data - Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object. Show the measurements by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole-number units.  

 

Science

Students have learned that plants and animals pass through stages of life

called life cycles (birth, becoming adults, having offspring, and dying). We have also studied that offspring look like their parents.

 

 

 

 This Week’s Homework

Please read 15 minutes and practice addition facts nightly.

 Schedule for next week (A/B):

Monday: PE

Tuesday: Art/Music

Wednesday: PE

Thursday: Music/Technology

Friday: Field Day

 

 

Newsletter for the Week of April 22- 26th

Week of April  22nd 

Mark Your Calendars!

APRIL

22nd: Spring Fling basket items due

May

3rd: Spring Fling 5-8 pm

7th: Muffins for Mom

7th: Student Art Show 5:30-7:30 pm

10th: Field Day (Parent volunteers needed)

16th: Career Day (Parent volunteers needed)

21st: Stevi B’s Night

23rd: Last day of school

 

ASP Will Be Cash/Cashiers Check Only

ASP will only accept cash or a cashiers check for the remainder of the year. Please plan accordingly, thank you!!!

 

Lunch Time Change

Due to 5th grade remediation, our lunch time will change beginning April 22nd  until the end of the year. Our new lunch time will be from 10:38-11:08.

 

Volunteers Needed

We are in need of volunteers for both Field Day and Career Day. If you can volunteer please let us know, and we will get you in contact with the appropriate people.

What will we be learning this week?

Reading: Fables

Math: adding and subtracting two 3 digit numbers

Writing: writing a fairly tale

Science:  Life Cycles

 

Fables

A fable is a very short story which promises to illustrate or teach us a lesson which is also called a moral. Usually if not always, fables are stories having animal characters that talk like humans.

Many common sayings come from Aesops Fables like "Honesty is the best policy," and "Look before you leap" are familiar examples of fables. Aesop is believed to have been a Greek slave who made up these stories. Nobody is really sure if Aesop made up these fables. What is certain, however, is that the Aesop's Fables are timeless. They are so wonderful that they have been told over and over again for several thousand years.
Read more at http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/fables.htm#OPvsqlxADR8wJpt1.99

 

Math

Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction-Uses addition and subtraction within a 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.  

 

Science

In the second grade, students should be making observations of their immediate

surroundings, any changes taking place, and infer the causes of those changes. Making

inferences is the use of logical thought to show a relationship between observations or to provide an explanation of an observation. This idea will be further developed in third

grade when students begin to take a closer look at soil and the various components that

make up soil.

 

This Week’s Homework

To help families with planning, all homework is due Friday.

 

Monday: Reading comprehension sheet, read 15 minutes

Tuesday: Math pages 197-98, read 15 minutes

Wednesday: Parts of Speech, read 15 minutes

Thursday: Math pages 199-200, read 15 minutes

 

Optional Enrichment Activities: Folktales and Fables

 http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/

 

 Schedule for next week (A/B):

Monday: PE

Tuesday: Science Lab/Art

Wednesday: PE

Thursday: Art/Music

Friday: PE

 

 

Earth Day Games Online for Kids

http://resources.kaboose.com/games/michael-recycle.html- Help Michael recycle! Pick up all the litter in the park and stop all the litterbugs before time runs out!

 

http://funschool.kaboose.com/globe-rider/earth-day/games/game_clean_up_your_world.html- pick up the trash and put it in the correct bin (glass or plastic or paper)

 

http://pbskids.org/sid/cleansup.html- picking up litter with Sid the Science Kid

 

 

Earth Day Webquest

 

 

http://teach.fcps.net/trt2/Webquests/earth_day_scavenger_hunt.htm

Great Reading Website!!

  Into the Book website!

Newsletter for April 15th-19th

Week of April 15th

Mark Your Calendars!

APRIL

16th : Stevi B’s Night

22nd: Spring Fling basket items due

May

3rd: Spring Fling 5-8 pm

7th: Muffins for Mom

7th: Student Art Show 5:30-7:30 pm

10th: Field Day (Parent volunteers needed)

16th: Career Day (Parent volunteers needed)

21st: Stevi B’s Night

23rd: Last day of school

 

2ND GRADE WILL NOT BE TAKING THE CRCT THIS YEAR!!!!

Last year, 2nd grade took the “mock” CRCT as formal administration was not required by the state or county.  Due to the roll out of our new Common Core Standards, the mock CRCT no longer aligns with what we have studied this year.  Therefore, it would not be a valid instrument to administer to measure student progress.  We have many other pieces of data to analyze student performance levels.  Those include DRA’s, running records, RTI computation and problem solving probes.  We will also be giving our end of year math common assessment designed by our 2nd grade teachers.  If you have questions about any of this, please feel free to contact us. The CRCT practice packets have still been a valuable tool to help your child prepare for the ITBS that they will be taking in September of next year.

 

Free Braves Tickets

The Atlanta Braves is offering free tickets for “All-Star Student Achievers”.  A letter for each student was sent home Friday, April 5th in Friday Folders.  It provided the requirements and method to redeem the tickets. 

 

What will we be learning this week?

Reading: Prefixes and suffixes

Math: adding and subtracting two 3 digit numbers

Writing: informational writing Jimmy Carter

Science: Jimmy Carter/ Start Life Cycles

Math

Practice adding using place value strategies: Addition strategies for 48 + 37 may include:

* Adding by place value: 40 + 30 = 70 and 8 + 7 = 15 and 70 + 15 = 85.

*Incremental adding (breaking one number into tens and ones); 48 + 10 = 58, 58 + 10 = 68,

68 + 10 = 78, 78 + 7 = 85

* Compensation (making a friendly number): 48 + 2 = 50, 37 – 2 = 35, 50 + 35 = 85

 

Practice adding and subtracting 10 or 100 to a given number (100-900) using mental math strategies. This may include:

Examples starting at 256:

* counting on by 100; 256, 356, 456, etc.

* counting on by 10; 256, 266, 276, 286, 296, 306, etc.

* counting back by 100; 256, 156, 56

* counting back by 10; 256, 246, 236, 226, 216, 206, 196

* 100 more than 256 is _____ (356)

*10 less than 256 is ______ (246)

* Start at _ _ _. Count up by 10s until I tell you to stop

 Science

1. Metamorphosis - change in shape and form during development.

2. Egg – first stage in life cycle from which larva hatches.

3. Larva – juvenile phase with different physical appearance from adult.

4. Pupa – intermediate phase between larva and adult.

5. Adult – mature phase of insect (phase that is able to reproduce).

6. Cocoon – protected chamber for pupa while body undergoes transformation.

7. Caterpillar – larva phase for butterflies.

8. Chrysalis – essentially pupa stage of development within which the caterpillar undergoes the

transformation to become a butterfly.

9. Life cycle – cyclic pattern of life from birth to death.

 

This Week’s Homework

To help families with planning, all homework is due Friday.

 

Monday: Reading comprehension sheet, read 15 minutes

Tuesday: Counting Coins word problems, read 15 minutes

Wednesday: Prefix sheet, read 15 minutes

Thursday: Snack Shack Menu, read 15 minutes

 

Optional Enrichment Activities: Subtracting Fun

http://www.fun4thebrain.com/subtraction/alienmunchsub.html

 

http://www.fun4thebrain.com/subtraction/pingpongsub.html

Schedule for next week (A/B):

Monday: Art/ Music

Tuesday: PE

Wednesday: Music/Technology

Thursday: PE

Friday: Technology/ Science Lab

Spelling List for the Week of April 15th

This week were are studying the rules for adding suffixes.   The words below are the words that will be tested.  Please feel free to practice other words that also follow the rules.  The rules are listed below.

 

Spelling List Week of April 15, 2013

1.  liking

2.  coming

3.  hoping

4.  truly

5.  cried

6.  happily

7.  dropped

8.  hottest

9.  hopped

10.clapped

 

For words ending in a silent "e":

• When the suffix begins with a vowel, drop the "e": like/liking; noise/noisy

 

For words ending in "y":

• When the "y" is preceded by a consonant, change the "y" to an "i" before adding a suffix: beauty/beautiful; worry/worrisome

 

Adding suffixes to words ending with a consonant: the rules of doubling 

• If the word has one syllable and ends in a consonant preceded by one vowel, double the last letter: bed/bedding; drop/dropped; hot/hottest.

 

 

 

Kona Ice Reminder

KONA ICE IS COMING!

Kona Ice is coming to Acworth TOMORROW!!!

 

Friday, April 5th for Cultural Arts Day!!!

 

Bring $2.00 for a tropical cup of Kona Ice !

 

Only one size will be served :)