Ms. Reed’s Weekly Newsletter
Week of August 22nd, 2016
Free Choice Friday: Every Friday for the
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last 20+ minutes of class, students get to
have choice time in the classroom. This is a
reward for having Expected Behavior all
week!
Important Dates
8/26/16 – Dress Down Day
8/31/16 – SFA Reading and Grouping begins
Homework
1. Look for a math packet this week to
complete at your child’s pace.
2. Practice spelling words for our test on
Friday
Owl Points: The whole class earns Owl
Points (tallies on the board) for Expected
Behavior. Once we reach 50, we’ll vote on
a reward, such as a Stuffy Day.
Incomplete Work: If you seen an “I” on
any worksheets sent home in yellow
folders, this means it was started at school
but still needs to be finished and then
returned. If it has a star or teacher’s mark,
you can keep it at home, we’re done.
What We’re Learning
Writing: We will review what makes a complete sentence. Students will review that a complete sentence is
made up of a subject and predicate. We will review conventions of a complete sentence.
Spelling: We will start Weekly Spelling tests this week. Students will receive their list on Mondays. Tests will
be on Fridays. The back side of the spelling list will have a practice worksheet. The words start out fairly
easy but progress quickly and are appropriate for 2nd grade.
Math: Unit 1 is centered on Addition and Subtraction fluency and strategies. The strategy for this week is
“Make Ten”. Students use 10 frames to make ten when adding numbers. For example, 8+4=12 because 8 +
2 = 10 and 2 more makes 12. We want students to become fluent and readily use many strategies.
Science: We will start the first unit called “Air & Weather”. During Investigation One, students will explore
properties of air (a gas). They will experiment with air as matter and learn that it takes up space and can be
compressed. They will construct and compare parachutes and balloon rockets. This week, we will explore
how air can move things and answer focus questions: “What can air do?” and “How does a parachute use
air?” Vocabulary includes: air, blow, gas, matter, move.
Handwriting: We will work through our Handwriting without Tears curriculum, “Printing Power”, which
reinforces letter formation learned is first grade.