The Second Grade “Scoop”
Date: October 23
For the Week of: October 26-30
Reminders:
*Oct. 24: Zion Lutheran Church service at 5:00PM
*Oct. 25: Zion Lutheran Church service at 8:00AM and 10:45AM
*Oct. 27 and 28: Picture Retakes—Students can be ready on Oct. 27th for retakes. If they are absent on that date, they can have them done on the 28th.
*Oct. 28: Report cards go home.
*Oct. 29 and 30: Parent/Teacher Conferences: Forms for sign-up times were sent home and returned. I will do my best to honor requested times! Scheduled times will be sent home soon. Please call if you cannot make your scheduled time. Thanks!
*Oct. 28: Our first field trip! We will be having a skating party! In place of a Halloween party, we will go skating at the Wagon Wheel Skating Rink. Permission forms have been sent home. Please return these by Monday. We will take some time on Thursday (Oct. 29) afternoon to do a Reformation craft and to have a special snack.
*Oct. 28: Unit 4 Social Studies Test—The study guide was sent home last week. Students will need to study outside of class. Please have your child let me know if he/she needs a new study guide! (The study guide is also posted on our blog from last week.)
*Oct. 30: No School—Parent/Teacher Conferences
*Save the Date: November 11 at 12:45PM: Mrs. Brewer’s second grade leads chapel.
NEEDED: Each student needs a plain, white T-shirt for our chapel. It needs to be a T-shirt that does not need to stay white. These are needed by Monday, please. Thanks!
Spelling:
We will be on unit 11 for the book list, and list 4 for the challenge list. The pretests will be Monday, Oct. 26, and the final tests will be Thursday, Oct. 29.
Memory Work:
Memory work for this week is enclosed. Students may say their memory work any morning next week.
Math:
We will continue to work on our sums of 13 and 14, and will begin working on addition facts with sums of 15, 16, 17, and 18.
Reading:
*New sight words will go home Monday, Oct. 26, and will need to be returned THURSDAY, OCT. 29.
*Also, we have begun a reading program where students can keep track of their at-home reading for each month! A calendar was sent home at the beginning of October. Our goal is 15 minutes of reading a day, or 465 total minutes for the month of October. All calendars are due Monday, November 2nd, since a new calendar for November will be sent home this week Friday. If your child needs a new calendar, please have him/her see me! Read, read, read!
English/Language Arts:
We continue to work on writing descriptively.
Science:
In science class, we have begun a unit on animals and their habitats. Enclosed is information about a habitat project that will be due November 9th. Students have chosen their animals, and have been given information about how to do the project, but they may need some parental assistance with researching their animal and its habitat. If your child has any questions about the project, please have him/her ask me! Thanks!
Social Studies:
A study guide for unit 4 was sent home last week. The test will be Wednesday, October 28th. We have gone over this material in class, and we will review together. Students will need to study at home as well. Students will begin bringing their books home each afternoon to practice good study habits.
On a final note…
*Please continue to check your child’s HOME folder and assignment book each evening.
*Just a reminder that you can access our class blog by going to www.zionmrsbrewer.blogspot.com OR by going to the school website (www.brightonzionlutheran.org), clicking on School, Class Pages, and Mrs. Brewer’s name.
*If your child has a fever, please keep him/her at home.
*I will be sending out book order forms from Scholastic soon. If you or your child would like to order books, please fill out the form and make a check payable to Scholastic. (The orders should have plenty of time to be returned before Christmas.)
In Christ,
Mrs. Brewer
Spelling Words—Unit 11
For the week of Oct. 26-30
bell
off
dress
add
hill
well
egg
will
grass
tell
Review
11.at
12.hot
Challenge
13. brass
14. skill
Spelling Words—Challenge List 4
For the week of Oct. 26-30
hour
monkey
becoming
hoping
finest
airplanes
midnight
earth
across
painter
weeds
itself
protest
loud
Challenge:
coward
should
Memory Work
For the week of Oct. 26-30
The Ninth Commandment:
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house.
The Tenth Commandment:
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
