*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.

This week is Red Ribbon Week! Every day will be a different spirit day where students are encouraged to participate by dressing up. Check out the different dress up attire below

Monday October 24th: Day B: Special is Art. Wear red clothes

Tuesday October 25th:  Day C: Special is Music. Wear a team jersey or Penn Manor gear. Our Storytown reading and spelling tests are scheduled for this day. Library books should be back at school by this time if they go home.

Wednesday October 26th:  Day D: Special is Applied Engineering.  Wear Mismatched Clothing. Library Book Exchange is today

Thursday October 27th- Day A : Special is Gym. Wear pajamas but please no slippers.

Friday October 28th- Day B: Special is Art. Wear house color shirts and sweatpants.

Looking ahead:

November 4th- No School for students

November 9th- We will be having a VIP breakfast. One person can come and have breakfast with their student at the school. A purple form came home with more information about this last week.

November 9th- Scholastic Book fair

Thanksgiving food drive ends November 11th- Second grade is collecting canned corn

Reading Lesson 7 in Storytown:

Story Genre: Realistic fiction- the story is made up but could really happen in real life.

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: Singular and plural nouns

Writing Skill: Paragraph writing with a topic, 3 detailed sentences and a conclusion sentence.

Math: Module 2 Addition and Subtraction of length units.

Lesson 9: Measuring lengths of string using measurement tools and using tape diagrams to compare and measure lengths.

Lesson 10: Apply understanding of measurement by solving two-step word problems

Review of Module 2

Module 2 Test tentatively scheduled for Friday October 28th

Content-Social Studies:

This week we finished our geography unit and will be starting our animals unit first by learning abiotic versus biotic factors then transitioning to our animals unit where students will learn the characteristics and differentiate between the following animal groups; birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and arachnids.

Monday October 17th: Day A: Special is Gym

Tuesday October 18th:  Day B: Special is Art

Wednesday October 19th:  Day C: Special is Music.  Decades Day -Students dress according to their favorite decade: 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s.  . Library books should be back at school by this time if they go home.

Thursday October 20th- Day D : Special is Applied Engineering. Book Exchange

Friday October 21st- Day A: Special is Gym. Information regarding conference sign-ups will be going out on this day.

Looking ahead:

Week of 23rd- Red Ribbon Week: there will be spirit days scheduled for each day of this week

November 4th- No School for students

Reading Lesson 6 in Storytown:

Story Genre: Auto-Biography- a person’s story of his or her own life

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: Nouns- a noun names a person, place, thing, animal or idea.

Writing Skill: Paragraph writing with a topic, 3 detailed sentences and a conclusion sentence.

Math: Module 2 Addition and Subtraction of length units.

Lesson 7: Measure and compare lengths using standard metric length units and non-standard length units; relate measurement to unit size.

Lesson 8:  S will solve addition and subtraction word problems using the ruler on a number line.

Lesson 9: Measuring lengths of string using measurement tools and using tape diagrams to compare and measure lengths.

Content-Social Studies:

Last week we focused on directions on a compass, making a map of our classroom and how to use directions to get to different locations.

We will be wrapping up this unit this week and transitioning to our animals unit where students will learn the characteristics and differentiate between the following animal groups; birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and arachnids.

Monday October 10th: No School -Columbus Day

Tuesday October 11th:  Day A: Special is Gym

Wednesday October 12th:  Day B: Special is Art. Fire Trucks visit the school!

Thursday October 13th- Day C : Special is Music. Library books should be back at school by this time if they go home.

Friday October 14th- Day D: Special is Applied Engineering. Book Exchange

Looking ahead:

Monday October 10th-No School

Week of October 10th- Fire Prevention Week

Week of 16th- Bus driver Appreciation week

Week of 23rd- Red Ribbon Week

Reading Lesson 5 in Storytown:

Story Genre: Non-Fiction- a story that gives facts about a topic

Focus Skill: Main Idea & Details and Characters

Grammar: Review Parts of a Sentence and types of sentences

Writing Skill: Paragraph of information

Math: Module 2 Addition and Subtraction of length units.

Lesson 5: Develop the ability to estimate by applying prior knowledge of length

Lesson 6: Measure and compare lengths using centimeters and meters.

Lesson 7: Measure and compare lengths using standard metric length units and non-standard length units; relate measurement to unit size.

Content-Social Studies:

This past week we focused on the different qualities of maps and globes, different types and features on both.

Next week we will be focusing on directions on a compass, making a map of our classroom and how to use directions to get to different locations.

Please consider donating and sharing our page for our school fundraiser. Our classroom has reached 95% of our goal. Only $42 away!!! If we reach $925 our class will win a silly string party (:

Click here to register on behalf of your student now.

The money donated will help fund field trips, supplies, recess equipment and more for Pequea! We have 13 days left. The last day to donate is October 21st!

Please consider donating and sharing our page for our school fundraiser. Our classroom is currently in 2nd place out of all of the classrooms in the school. If we reach our goal of $945 our class will win a silly string party (:

Click here to register on behalf of your student now.

The money donated will help fund field trips, supplies, recess equipment and more for Pequea! We have 18 days left. The last day to donate is October 21st!