Week of Feb. 25

Thompson Class News

We’ve got another exciting week here in second grade.  Don’t forget this is the last week for tutoring.  Spring Break is the week of March 11^th, which is just two short weeks away.  This year is really flying!  Thanks to those who participated in the Living Museum, it was a huge success.  I was glad to see so many parents/family members join us.  Parents we recently found out that because of the number of second graders we now have, we will not have room on the bus for any parents.  Will send home info about possibly carpooling out to the theatre. 

This week in our learning:

Reading: Main Idea and details

Math: Capacity/weight

Science: Food chains 

Social Studies: Wants and needs

Spelling: Contractions ( wouldn't, could've, shouldn't, I'll, she'll, don't, won't, can't, we've, you're, that's, isn't)

English: Nonfiction writing

Week of February 18

What a frazzled week.  I can't seem to kick this crud that is going around.  I show up and it's Wednesday already.  Second grade tutoring will come to an end next week.  Starting in March we will start tutoring upper grades for STAAR testing.  Spring break is the week of March 11th and classes will resume on March 18th.  If your student is planning to present for the Living Museum you can come watch them perform at 12:30.  I can't wait to see how well they do, they seem so excited.  They did an outstanding job on their Inventor projects, I had lots of positive comments from other teachers about the job they did.

This week in our learning
Reading: Author's purpose/main idea
Math: Fractions/Capacity
Spelling: prefixes/suffixes (re,pre,un,ly,ful)
Science: Habitats
Social Studies: Jobs
English: revising/editing

Spelling words

I forgot to put up spelling words for this week, don't shoot me!  Also, next Monday is Teacher in service day, the kids get to stay home.

Words: board, stray, foam, hopping, slow, loop, coat, playing, stopped, balloon, took, make, shoot, crow, bellow

Week of Feb. 11

Thompson Class News Week of Feb. 11

We had Reading CBA this morning, ask your student how they did.  Tomorrow is the Math test.  African American Inventor projects are due Friday.  If you are still looking for an inventor try african-americaninventors.org. There are lots of inventors on that site.  Mrs. Sadler in the library is selling lollipops for $1 until Valentine’s day.  Don’t forget tutoring lasts until 4:00 now. 

This week in our learning

Reading: review of genres

Math: fractions/measurement

Science: plant systems

Social Studies: inventors

Spelling: review patterns

Writing: details/strong middles

If you would like to bring goodies for Valentine’s day we will pass them out the last 20 minutes of class.  We have 21 students in our class now.

100th Day!

Happy Hundredth Day!

 We were hard at work on the 100th day

 Working with partners is always nice.

 Lending a helping hand

100 days smarter means things are getting easier.

We learn lots from our friends.

Week of Feb. 4

Parents you should have received Progress reports on Friday.  If they didn’t make it home check backpacks.  We will be studying plants this week in Science, if you happen to have any leaves out in the yard we could have we could use them.  I know it’s crazy to ask for leaves in winter but…Starting this week TUTORING will be 3:10-4:00.  TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY until 4:00!!!  Looking ahead a little bit, next week will be CBAs for Math and Reading.  We will be sending home a letter about the African American living museum.  We would like to encourage as many participants as we can.  We will be studying inventors for the next two weeks in Social Studies and those goes right along with the museum.

This week in our learning:

Reading: Poetry

Math: measurement/area/fractions

Writing: Personal narratives

Spelling: sounds of “oo”

Science: plants

Social Studies: inventors