A Christmas Carol

Hey there! We have been reading the classic story, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  We will now be doing a mini play of the story while in 3 groups of 9 and each child has a part. 

The groups are: 

Group 1: Grace, Talia, Harley, Natalie, Peyton, Christina, Amara, Anycia, Bree

Group 2: Kaiser, Damian, Annabelle, Caleb, Liliana, Bryce, Jesse, Heather 

Group 3: Ryder, Jimmy Jason, Paige, AJ, Valen, Andrew B., Myah

I have sent home a full play with your child today (November 30th). I highly encourage you to read it over at home. The students will be making head bands with their character on it. Any additional clothing (optional) to add to the part is welcomed. You can send it in with your child on Wednesday, December 7th as we will be showing the final performance. 

I am looking forward to our festive activity next week! Thanks! 

Happy Thanksgiving

I wish all of our room 8 families a grateful Thanksgiving with loved ones! This season I am extremely thankful for the opportunity to be here at Marshall.  With the blessing to relocate and the chance to be apart of your child's second grade year my heart could not be more full. We have had many great days together and I look forward to many more before the school year is over! 

Weekly Update for 21 and 22

Reminders:

·      The holiday season is quickly approaching, I wish for a happy and healthy holiday season for all my families!

·      Many activities, readings, crafts, and treats will take place over the next few weeks.   I am reaching out to families for help with this. I appreciate those who are always willing to help out, if you have not donated items thus far this year I highly encourage your help.  I want to make this season a festive and memorable one, but can only do that will family help! Here is a link to a sign up genius with items and dates needed: PLEASE check it out! :]

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/409094BADA92BA3FB6-room

·      The weather has cooled down, please be sure your child is dressed appropriately.  All clothing items should have names!

·      We have had many opportunities to show our core value this month; cooperation.  I enjoy seeing the students work in groups to complete a task.  As we work in groups we are working on our listening and reflecting skills. We often start statements with “In my opinion…” and “Maybe we could…”.

·      I apologize for my recent absences, I have been included in a wedding party, the big day was last weekend! Our friends and family had the best time together! I will be gone tomorrow as I will be running my first half marathon this weekend!

·      Save the Dates:

o   November 23-25- No School

o   December 8^th- Half Day

o   December 9^th- FOOD DRIVE! Start collecting!

o   December 14^th- Classroom Holiday Party (time TBD)

o   December 19-January 2^nd- Holiday Break

Next Week

Literature

We started reading “Thanksgiving on Thursday” this week, and will finish over the 2 days next week. Our story takes place during the Pilgrim times as Jack and Anna learn about the teachings of the Native Americans and they first feast the two parties shared.  The kids have LOVED the story!

Social Studies

Our election unit was a huge success, I heard many respectful and truthful comments and we followed the campaign.  We are double dipping with the history of Thanksgiving through the Magic Treehouse for Literature and Social Studies. 

Math

What hard working mathematicians we have! The kids have LOVED using the vertical strategy to solve, and it has been nice to see a concept that has been known for generations. We will continue to work on word problems and adding within 1,000 over the next couple lessons. 

Science

No science due to the short week!

Separating Particles

Today we read about particles and discussed how they can be combined to create mixtures.  Our challenge: use tools to separate particles. 

Weekly Update for the week of 11-14

Reminders:

-       Thanksgiving lunch will be on Monday, at 12:05. Lunch prices were sent home on a yellow flyer on Thursday. We would love for families to join!

-       I am looking for any chaperones that would like to join us for the field trip! Please message me if you would like to attend. We will be leaving school around 8:50 and will return around 12:15. 

-       All permission slips need to be in by Tuesday, other arrangements will be made if the slip is not turned in.

-       On Monday we will be learning about the significance of Veteran’s and will be writing to those who have and continue to serve our country. If you have a Veteran in your family, we would be happy to write to them! Please let me know via Dojo, this way we can address the letter to them.

-       Looking for tissue boxes!!!

-       Save the Dates:

o   November 7^th- Thanksgiving Lunch

o   November 9^th – Morning Field Trip

o   November 10^th – Ms. Reger is out

o   November 11^th- No School

o   November 23^rd-25^th – No School

Next Week:

Literature/ Social Studies

Next week we will be focusing on the nearing holiday, Veteran’s Day. We will read about the significance and importance of recognition of those who have served and are currently serving. Students will also be working on American Flag and Statue of Liberty readings and crafts.  On Election Day, we will be holding our own class election! The students have been working hard during our election unit. I highly encourage all students to watch the results on Tuesday night, as we will be graphing and reflecting on them on Wednesday.

Math

Room 8 has kicked off Module 4!  I am looking forward to grading the Module 3 assessments this weekend. I think we have a much better understanding of number forms and base 10.  Module 4 will consist of adding and subtracting within 200 and word problems within 100. I highly recommend checking the FUSD math website, there are great parent resources there! www.fsd1.org

Science

We will conduct another liquid investigation as we describe properties of liquids!