Another Fine Second Grade Day of Learning

We are working on finding the pages in the hymnal and in our classroom books. Please keep quizzing your students and playing "find page number ____". This skill is improving and the students are smiling because they can find the pages we need to use.

Our Math series begins with some reviewing.  We have homework on our fact page #9 and on the Homework sides B for page #8 and page #9.  This work should move along for your students.  They are confident in their skills.  

       I would like you to have some fun counting money with your students.  How many different ways can you make 20 cents? (Electronic Homework - Please respond to this blog post with your answers. Due on Friday evening)

We have all enjoyed having the AR tests available right away in the morning.  It is part of our morning procedure time.  Students change their shoes for gym, bring in their material, unpack their homework, and grab and ipad to take their test!  Our morning procedures also include 3 students completing the Calendar Board.  If your child is in Thursday's row they will be anxious to get here early enough to do the tasks tomorrow. They will need to know 4 different ways to make 13 cents with some pennies, nickels, and a dime.

7 Students brought in items for the food pantry today!  I will match those items and bring in my own donation.  Tomorrow the students will take my items to the food pantry shelves by the office.  I am glad all of you are willing to help other families in our city!  You have the "Nerve to Serve" one another.  It is such a fitting way to follow our theme for the school year.

ELECTRONIC HOMEWORK - due Friday

Please respond to this blog with 3 words that rhyme with your spelling words for Unit 2

     (your student has the list in their boomerang folder)

How many ways can you use coins to make 20 cents

HOMEWORK Due Thursday

Math - Fact side 9B and Homework #8 & #9 

     (We did side A together and they had work time for side B.)

Spelling - Review Unit 2 words

     (Try making speghetti noodles, cooling them off, and creating the words)

Reading Workbook - pages 21 - 25

Page 22 is the biggest one to check over.  We did numbers 1, 2, & 3 in class.  Problems 3, 4, &5 need the students to write more detailed sentences with correct spelling.  

           An example would be...

                   Without Feelings                               Feelings Added                        

               #3.  I live with my family.            I happily live with my loving family.      

Memory - Review and Sign for Tuesday

Read for AR - Please be ready to take a test on Thursday morning

Art, Camp Trip, & Homework

The students finished painting an Art project today.  If you find any paint on their clothing please use COLD water and dish soap to work on the stain before you wash it.  Mrs. Germain stressed being careful, and I didn't see any stains.  However, please use COLD water and soap before washing to get any stains out of clothing.

We completed our first crossword puzzle in their reading workbooks.  This is a difficult task for students.  I did mine on the board and they followed along step by step.  The puzzle should not have any capital letters.  If the letter is p or g it needs to hang down out of the bottom of the box.

Everyone also worked on adding subjects together today.  This workbook page was completed verbally and then we worked on one sentence at a time.  The students surprised me when I realized they were not using a captial letter for all of the names on the page.  Please remind them that all proper names begin with a captial letter.  They will end up with 10 capital letters and 5 periods.


HOMEWORK

Finish drawing and coloring 6 pictures in their Religion Booklets on page #6. (Due Fri.)
Work on rereading the 3 Religion Stories so far.  Remembering to work on fluency.
     (Creation & the 1st Sin, The Great Flood, and God's Promise to Abram)
Checking and completing Reading Workbook pages 15 & 16 (Due Fri.)
Study Spelling Words for Unit 1 (Test Monday)
Read for AR (Test Friday)

Interesting Insights

Rereading information is so important.  The students are bringing home the story "Henry & Mudge" to reread to you.  (It is not very often that we have the luxury spending 8 school days on our Reading Story.)  You will notice our fluency (rate of reading) sounds more like a story than a one word at a time fresh reading.  You will hear our character voices and 3 word phrasing.  If you do not hear these traits please begin to work on them when you read together with your child each night.

Locating pages is an interesting event.  Please use their Reading Book tonight and write down the number of a page you want them to find.  You can guide them with words like "turn the pages forward"  or "you need to go backward".  You can provide helpful suggestions like "turn more than one page at a time" or "do you think page number 14 would be in the back of the book or close to the front of the book".  The students need to practice the skill of finding pages.  I am hoping to have your help practicing this skill a couple times a week or more.  Please don't wear down your students, but 5 minutes of practice each time will definitely help us improve this skill.

HOMEWORK

Say & Sign Memory Work (Due Thursday)
Reread "Henry & Mudge"
Practice Spelling Words for Unit 1
Locate Pages in a Book
Read AR book
Finish Any Homework
*Find a rock to bring to school by Friday morning

Conversations with Patrick and Spelling

This is our class pet.  His name is Pumpkin Patrick, but we call him PatPat for short.  He is 5 years old, and he loves to talk to the students and staff at St. John.  PatPat does not make noise unless his feelings are hurt or someone is not behaving.  He loves to hear the stories students write, tell his own stories, and give advice.  You need to listen with your heart to hear him.  Sometimes he needs a Guinea Sitter.  Two of the students got to help out today and be Guinea Sitters.  PatPat is glad this is a small class so he has more time with each student in second grade!

Unit 1 Spelling Words

1.     sad

2.    jam

3.    glad

4.    flat

5.    mask

6.    as

7.    pad

8.    dig

9.    stick

10.   list

11.   win

12.   if

13.   fix

14.   rip

15.   kit

16.   his

These are the Spelling Words for our first test.  The test will be on Monday, Sept. 15th.  We will also have a Unit 2 Pretest on Monday, Sept. 15th to help you know which words your student needs help learning.

If you know words that rhyme with our Spelling Words please post them on this blog and share those rhyming words with all of us!  We will all appreciate help finding rhyming words because we will need to use them during each spelling unit.

It Ended

Hollis shared this picture of the bunnies they found in their garden.  They are quite a team of brothers and sisters.  They have grown since this was taken.  The bunnies are probably ready to leave the nest now.  Ready to have new adventures just like this year's second grade students.

The school year has ended.  It went by quickly and then ended just as it should.  There were tears, joys, giggles, and smiles.  Your students are ready for third grade!  They need to begin new tasks, expand ideas, and have more experiences.
 
Summer has started! That is a good thing.  The baseball season has begun.  Camping weekends, cook outs, playing tag until darkness falls, catching lightning bugs, and having a game of catch in the yard. The memories that are made in the next couple of months are grand life adventures even if it means you played board game, a card game, or made popcorn and watched a movie.  We are all so blessed!!

Thank you for sharing your children with me for 9 months of their lives.  They are forever wrapped in my heart, prayed for often, and cherished.  

Lunches, Memory, and Fun

We dance!  I don't know if you know, but we dance almost everyday.  Please play Christian Rock music this summer and dance together.  I will play music, dance, and think of each of you!

We read!  We read everything, but maybe you don't know that we read outloud everyday!  We read with the voices of the characters.  We read smoothly and move the words right along like a recorded storybook!  We love to hear each other read.  Please read all summer!  Call your friends, read the same book, and talk about it as you read.  I will be reading too!  I will share books with my friends and talk about books.   When I read I will be thinking of each of you!

We continuously learn!  Learning doesn't stop in 2nd Grade for any of us.  Please try new ideas this summer, fail at them, and then keep practicing!  You will conquer new thoughts, new puzzles, new games, and new skills!  I will be doing the same when I take a college class and when I learn new computer skills this summer.  I will fail at first, but I will think of all of you and...
We will all KEEP TRYING!

HOMEWORK for Thursday is learning and signing our last Memory Verse,  packing a cold lunch, and maybe finishing some giraffe math.  Thursday we will celebrate earning our 20 point party.  We will have a class yearbook signing party.  We will listen to some of our favorite songs from the year and dance!

Memory Work and Field Trip

Memory Work is Due on Tuesday and Thursday!

Tuesday
Field Trip INFORMATION
Please wear a T-Shirt for protection from the sun.
Please wear tennis shoes.  Flip Flops are not appropriate for this trip.
Any sunscreen or bug spray must be applied at home.

Mr. Steffen, Mrs. Krueger, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Knospe, Mrs. Wiesneski and Alexa's Aunt are in charge of small groups as we enjoy the animals at Wildwood Park.  We are all looking forward to this last trip of joyful adventure in God's creation!

Wednesday 
We will have time to sign yearbooks in our classroom!