*Second Grade is collecting canned corn for our Thanksgiving Food Drive until November 11th*
Monday October 31st: Day C: Special is Music. Library books should be back at school by this time if they go home.
Tuesday November 1st: Day D: Special is Art. Book Exchange. End of Marking Period 1
Wednesday November 2nd: Day A: Special is Gym. Lesson 7 Storytown reading and spelling tests will be on this day.
Thursday November 3rd- Day B: Special is Art.
Friday November 4th – No School for students
Looking ahead:
Thursday November 3rd is the last day to sign up for conferences. Please contact me if you need assistance with this.
On Thursday November 3rd, I will be one of the teachers who will be sleeping on the rooftop of Pequea. We are inviting families to come back to the school at 7:45pm to socialize and watch us get lifted onto the roof by the local fire department at around 8pm. We plan on doing a live stream bedtime story at 8:45pm. The link for that will be in Dr. Murray’s weekly Friday email.
Wednesday November 9th VIP breakfast and Book Fair shopping day
Tuesday November 15th Picture Retake day
Reading Lesson 8 in Storytown:
Story Genre: Pourquoi Tale- a kind of folktale. Look for a reason why something happens in nature.
Focus Skill: Making predictions- use story details and use prior knowledge to help you make a prediction of what may happen next while you are reading.
Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns- Proper nouns name a specific person, place, thing, or animal. Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
Writing Skill: Paragraph writing with a topic, 3 detailed sentences and a conclusion sentence. To capitalize a proper noun. To use basic rules of punctuation.
Math: Module 3 Place Value, Counting, and Comparison of Numbers to 1,000
Lesson 1: Put together and count ones, tens, and hundreds up to 1,000.
Lesson 2: Count up and down between 100 and 220 using ones and tens.
Lesson 3: Count up and down between 99 and 1,000 using hundreds, tens and ones
Content-Science:
This week we introduced abiotic and biotic factors and learned important characteristics of fish and amphibians.
Next week we will learn about the following animal groups; reptiles, birds and mammals.