December 10 - 14

AN EXCITING WEEK AWAITS US!


This is the last full week before Christmas Break.  Yes, we will have school next week, but it will be filled with frivolous fun in place of our usual hard work.  The students deserve a few less strenuous days since we have been working very hard.
REMEMBER THESE DATES:

Monday, December 10th:   SCIENCE PROJECTS DUE!  Please return science notebook, take-home test, and project.  We will begin sharing these in class.

Tuesday, December 11th:   SUPPLIES FOR GINGERBREAD HOUSES DUE!  Everyone should supply their own icing - can or squirt bottle - as well as requested candy item.

Thursday, December 13th:  Parent Involvement.  We will be creating our Gingerbread houses here at school.  We will begin promptly at 1:45.  

Monday, December17th:    8:45 AM - 9:30 AM  SOUND SCIENCE FIELD TRIP!
ALSO NOTE!  I have moved our pajama day and movie to Monday afternoon.  Tuesday would have been tricky since it is an early release day (11:45).  SO MONDAY, DECEMBER 17th will be our PAJAMA DAY IN ADDITION TO SCIENCE FIELD TRIP!!  BUSY!  Tuesday will be a day of clean up and preparing for Winter Break.

This week in 2nd Grade:

READING:
We will be learning a bit about Germany this week since the idea of a gingerbread house originally came from the Grimms Brother's fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel.  In addition to learning a bit about the country and its language, we will be looking a two different versions of Hansel and Gretel and will compare these text using a Venn Diagram.

ADJECTIVES WILL BE OUR GRAMMAR FOCUS


MATH:
We have concluded our study of bar graphs and pictographs.  We will touch on the pictograph using our gingerbread house creations on Thursday.  However, now it is time to challenge the students' minds with some tricky pre-algebra story problems.
Yes, this week we will be looking at how to solve some very tricky problems.  Please take the time to review your child's homework.  It will reflect exactly what was covered in class.   The concepts presented this week are challenging, so be prepared to take the time to answer potential questions.

We will have one final 80 problem addition time tests this week.  After Winter Break we will move to subtraction.
SPELLING:
Last week (with the exception of make-up tests) for our high frequency words.  When we return from break we will also return to Words Their Way.

SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week will be filled with learning about our country's government, our state government as well as our local government.