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Week 12

2A Families, Thank you for joining us for parent teacher conference week!  It was a pleasure to meet all of you and share about your child’s progress.  We now have the sign up geniuses for classroom volunteers!  You can find the links on the volunteering tab on the homepage.  As a reminder, Read-A-Thon is on Thursday. Please no pop culture costumes!  We also have a half day this Friday. Students will be dismissed at 11:45am. MATH Our next unit is weight! A fun little activity at the grocery store during next week: use the scales to see how much a pound of fruit or vegetables weigh. Add and subtract the items to see the different weights! LITERATURE Scholars read Chapter 5 of The Boxcar Children. Our vocabulary words are kettle and bundles. We will discuss resourcefulness as a character trait and how it relates to the children in our story.  POETRY Recitations of “Merry Autumn Days” begin and will be carried on throughout the week.  SPALDING There are 20 words this week.

Week 11

Good morning 2A Families, Just a reminder, this week consists of half days for our conference! Dismissal is at 11:45 for first pickup, 12:05 for second pickup and 12:35pm for third. There will be  no tutoring this week  as well due to conferences. There will be no lunch served, however we recommend going forward supplying either a large snack or two snacks. 2nd grade will be having their second snack closer to 11am. If  you have not signed up for conferences, please follow this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4ca8af2fa3f94-quarter If you are unable to make any of the remaining times listed, please reply to this email so that I may schedule a phone conference with you next week!  Introducing the The Boxcar Children Diorama project ! Using a shoebox, scholars are going to create a diorama showing the Alden children’s home— the boxcar! They will decorate the outside of the box to look like a boxcar and include five specific items from the story that show how the ch

Welcome Back!

Good morning 2A Families! I hope everyone is refreshed and rejuvenated from fall break!  Just a note about report cards, it is very common to see 2s and 3s for the first quarter report card! Checklists will follow along these guidelines: 4- Student is completely independent in this area/standard. 3-Student is mostly independent with occasional guidance. 2- Student needs frequent guidance in this area/standard. 1- Student needs complete teacher guidance/aide.  If you have not signed up for parent-teacher conferences, feel free to follow this link:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4ca8af2fa3f94-quarter Please also keep an eye out for volunteer signups happening after our conferences! Math  Welcome back everyone, we are beginning our Length Unit! Wednesday we are doing a fun activity with paper airplanes and measuring how far they are taking flight! If you have any spare measuring tape, please send it in! It will be easier to use in measuring our plan

It's Time for Conferences!

It's my favorite time of year! (One of my favorites). You can find the SignUp Genius Link Here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4ca8af2fa3f94-quarter Conferences will last 25 minutes each and will be a great time to meet face to face now that school has been going! It is also a time where we will be soliciting classroom volunteers! Please reach out if these times do not work, I will gladly do a phone conference with you if you cannot make it in. :) Warmly, Mrs. Guevara