Week of Oct. 30

Thompson Class News Week of Oct. 30

Parents don’t forget pumpkin reports are due TOMORROW.  Please send back the Conference letter ASAP.  I will send home confirmation letters on Thursday to let you know what day and time we will meet.  We will also have Math and Reading CBAs next week.  Please make sure your student is well fed and well rested.  Shirts are coming home today.  We would like to all wear our shirts on Friday.  Book Fair is open all this week.  What a busy week!

This Week in our Learning:
Reading: character traits
Math: telling time to 5 minutes
Science: weather/water cycle
Social Studies: Elections
Writing: Personal narratives
Spelling: ee/ea patterns

You're Invited!

I meant to send home notes today, but  in the hustle and bustle of the end of our day it was forgotten....(some days I am shocked we make it out to the porch on time). However, I wanted to invite you to my church's Trunk or Treat, tomorrow from 5:30-8:00. It's First Christian Church of Mesquite at 827 S Galloway Ave.  We'll have trunks of course, a bounce house and food.  All free and all welcome!  So if you haven't already got plans for tomorrow night, stop by and say hi!

(Also look for parent conference letters Tuesday.  Parent conferences will be Nov 5th, 6th and 7th, so start thinking about which day/times would work best for you.)

Red Ribbon Week

Today was clean and green day!   We wore green for Red Ribbon week.  We choose to be drug free.

Tomorrow is cap day.  Wear your favorite cap to class.  Have a great week.




And here is the class keeping a cap on drugs.

Tomorrow is College Shirt/Jeans for "JEANious" Day

Week of Oct 22

Thompson Class News Week of Oct. 22

It’s getting closer to Halloween.  While we’re not allowed a party, we are allowed to pass out treats at the end of the day if you’re interested in sending them.  We have 20 students.  Speaking of Halloween, remember book report pumpkins are due Oct. 31.  We will have a lesson using egg cartons tomorrow, if you have an extra one or two we are in need.  My kids at home are tired of eating eggs!  Next Monday will be a staff development day, so NO CLASS.

This week in our learning:

Reading: elements of fiction                                   

Math: Money

Science: weather tools

Tues. wear red and crazy socks Wed. wear green Thurs. wear caps Fri. jeans and college shirts

Research writing and Egg Cartons

Today we began our research writing and chose topics that were related to our science curriculum

We're studying weather in Science, so we researched different weather phenomena.  

Next week we will need egg cartons for one of our lessons, if you happen to have any empty egg cartons we  could sure use them.

Week of Oct 15

Thompson Class News Week of Oct. 15

We made it through testing week, hooray!  Book order forms that went home last week will be due this FRIDAY!  If you care to order anything please have your money in by then.  I enjoyed a great football weekend.  I got to see students shining outside the classroom.  If your student is involved in extra curriculars let me know, we love to go see students perform.

  Oct 31 we will be holding a schoolwide Mock Election in observance of our upcoming election.  Exciting stuff is happening in Second Grade.

Our learning this week:

Reading: Main Idea

Math: comparing numbers to hundreds place

Science: Weather instruments

Social Studies: Government (local/state/federal)

Spelling: ai/ay

Writing: nonfiction writing

If you need me don’t hesitate to email/call/hunt me down in the hall: sthompson@mesquiteisd.org or 972 882-5101 x3000

  

Week of Oct. 8, 2012

Thompson Class News Oct. 8, 2012

Parents we will have early release on Wed. at 11:55.  This is earlier than in years past, we will eat lunch in the classroom before dismissal.  CoGAT testing begins tomorrow.  Make sure your student gets enough rest and eats breakfast.  It makes a difference!  We have about 4 students that need to turn in money for t-shirt.  Please get that in to me by the end of the week.  If you don’t want your child to get a shirt please let me know.  This week is college week, we will be talking up college here in the class.  I encourage you to keep the discussion going at home. 

This week our focus is:

Reading: Nonfiction text features/interesting vs. important

Math: Patterns/place value

Science: Weather

Social Studies: Government

Spelling: c/k words

Writing: report writing

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/a/edandearnings.htm

One of the reasons why a college education is so important

Extra Practice

Looking for another website to practice concepts in the classroom?  Just looking for some good sites to send your student to online?  Never fear!  More ideas on the way!

khanacademy.com

This recommendation comes from our very own principal, Mrs. Mingle.  She turned me on to this site and said there are some great math/science games and videos on the site. It's always great to have administrators that want to support what we do in the classroom and actively seek out sources that can reinforce these ideas at home. Thanks Mrs. Mingle!

Time for Science

Well today after P.E. we found time for a little Science experiment.  Science makes us all smile!  Ask your student what they learned about balloon rockets.  We learned lots while having fun too.

Week of Oct. 2

Thompson Class News Week of Oct. 2, 2012

Parents I hope you had a terrific Fair Day!  It’s hard to believe it is October already.  If you haven’t already sent back the t-shirt form please do so as soon as possible.  We want to order these soon, so that we can wear them throughout the year.  Report cards will go home next week.  Thursday is Math CBA. Please make sure your student gets plenty of rest and eats a good breakfast Thursday morning.  Next week we will begin COGat testing. It’s not too late to join PTA, so far we have one lonely student bring in the green form. If you need another copy let me know.  Graded papers will be sent home today since I was not here Friday afternoon to pass them out.

This Week in our Learning:

Reading: setting a purpose

Math: patterns/CBA (curriculum based assessment)

Science: weather

Social Studies:  Maps

Writing: Nonfiction

Spelling: high frequency words

As always I can be reached at sthompson@mesquiteisd.org