Ms. Barnes 2nd Grade Web

This weeks story is Hedgehog Bakes a Cake. Tomorrow the students will be getting into groups of 4 and making some cupcakes of their own. Keep your fingers crossed.

Our spelling words this week are words with k and ck,bark, look, black, took, clock,book, duck, rock, pick, stick, and work.

Our vocabulary words are batter, yellow cake, buttery, perfect, recipe, and smeared.

 In math we are working on doubling. We will be reading the Magic Pot and making our own pots that can magically double anything that we put into it.

On Wednesday the Ashland Nature Society will visit us bringing along with them some of their most interesting creepy crawly friends.

I sent home all the conference conformation notices on Thursday and Friday. Unless you have a problem or a concern I will be here waiting to visit with you on your day and time. If any problems come up please call the school 323-2975 and let us know so we can reschedule your time.

Monday night is Math Night. I am hoping that you can come along with your child. Your child will be the teacher and will show you how to play 2 different math games. You may also go to other grade levels to see how all of this ties together. Each game is taught with the intention to involve your child in mathematics in a fun way and at the same time get them to understand mathematical concepts.

Our reading story this week is Lemonade for Sale. This story deals with making and reading a graph. during the week I will be giving the students other work involving graph making and reading.

Our spelling words this week are corn, shore, your, more, born, store, short, north, four, story, corner,and before.

Our vocabulary words this week are stand, glum, announced, arrived, members, and rebuild.

Last week in social studies we make a model of a globe and are working on a step book about our place on the globe. This week we will be making a map of our classroom.

Last week was very exciting for our class. All 7 of our Monarch larvae went into their chrysalis and came out in our habitat as beautiful butterflies.We released them on Wednesday. We are all hoping that they make it to Mexico in time for the Monarch Festival.

Our new unit will be Geography. We will be looking at maps and making some maps of our own.

Our new reading story is Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly a Plane. We will be working on sequencing along with plural nouns. Our vocabulary words are crane, twitch,worry, directions, and promise.

Our spelling words are words with ou and ow. They are now, sound, out, mouth, cloud, town, clown, found, outside,  crowd, around, and mouse. 

In math we have learned 3 math games that the students can share with you at home. Ask your child to show you how to play Go Fish 10, the Memory game and Add 1 or 2 Bingo. I hope you will be able to come to our Family Math night ,October 22nd from 6:30 to 8, where we will be sharing with the parents our math games.

Welcome to October and welcome to Fall.

I for one am looking forward to the cool temperatures that fall usually brings.

This week the students have been told is a review Testing week.

The spelling words and the vocabulary words that they have received so far are going to be reviewed and used all week long.

They will bring the spelling journal home each night to practice.

We will also have a new member to our classroom Ms. Fasten who is a student from Wilmington University. She will be with us for this term helping with reading centers and giving extra help when needed.

This week in science we will be watching closely our Monarch Larvae. With any luck and kindness they will all live and change right before our eyes.

I have also given each student a Book It form. Each student is to read 11 books in the month of October. When they have done this they are to return the form to be signed by you and they will receive a coupon from Pizza Hut.