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March 26 Newsletter

 

 

3/26/12

Dear Parents:

 

Although Spring is in the air, we have another full week of instruction!! 

Learning is occurring from bell to bell… all day every day.

What are we doing this week?

Math-  learning about multiplication problems by using repeated addition, skip counting on a number line, and creating arrays. 

Writing-  learning how to write to persuade (persuasive essays). 

English-  identifying the parts of speech and using quotation marks. 

Social Studies-  identifying the contributions of Jimmy Carter

Science- determining the sequence of the life cycle of common animals. 

Thanks For All You Do,

Simone Rogers

I have read this newsletter.  I have looked at the attached, graded work.

X_____________________________              X_____________________

Parent Signature                                                      Child’s Nam

January 30, 2012 Newsletter

January 30, 2012

 

Dear Parents:

 

The 100^th Day of school was a lot of fun!

I cannot believe that we have been in school for 100 days!!

Tomorrow, I will be at a teacher in-service.  Please remind your child to be on his/her best behavior for the substitute. 

Look through the attached, graded work with your child.

Using a red pen, your child is to make corrections to the following assignments:

• Homophones
• 2-sided reading comprehension (“The Cake House” and “A Hot Water Leak”)

 

What Are We Learning This Week? 

Math-  Fractions are parts of a whole.

Writing-  Non- fiction writing can be interesting and exciting.

English- Homophones are words that sound alike, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

Social Studies-  Martin Luther King, Jr. made our world a better place. 

Thanks For All You Do,

Simone Rogers

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_____I have seen all attached, graded work.

_____My child corrected the 2 assignments mentioned above.

X_______________________________                            X___________________________

Parent Signature                                                                            Child’s Name

Newsletter...October 17

 

 

 

Dear Parents:

Our Fall Festival is right around the corner and our class basket is EMPTY!  We are going to create our Fall Festival Basket with the help of two other second grade classes.  The “Show Me the Money, Honey” basket will be created by the classes of Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Logan, and Ms. Twilley.

If you would like to help “fill our basket”, please send in scratch off lottery tickets or gift cards.

The Fall Festival will be held on October 29^th! 

Our basket is due THIS WEEK!!

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I am keeping the graded work from this week to discuss with you during conferences.

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What are we up to this week?

Writing – We are putting the finishing touches on our personal narratives

Math- We are working with graphs; picture graphs, bar graphs, charts and tables

Science- We are reviewing the three types of matter

Social Studies- We are reviewing the Creek Indians and how they used their resources.

Thanks For All You Do,

Mrs. Rogers

X__________________________                 X______________________

Parent Signature                                                    Child’s Name

October 10th...Newsletter

October 10, 2011

Dear Parents:

 

Conference letters are coming home today.  Please send the bottom half of the form back to me tomorrow.  I am not sending any graded work home today; I am saving work samples to discuss with you during conference week. 

 

Wednesday is Picture Day.  Stevie B’s Night is also on Wednesday starting at 4:00. 

 

A Note From The Cafeteria:

In support of our school lunch program, we ask that you do not bring in food from restaurants.  Also, carbonated drinks are not allowed in our school dining room.

 

Monday’s Homework:

 

Check When Completed	Assignment
	Conference Letter Returned
	Start studying “Rivers of Georgia” study guide- test will be on Wednesday.
	Literature Circle reading and summary

 

 

 

Thanks For All You Do! 

Simone Rogers            

Newsletter September 19th

9-19-11

 

Dear Parents:

 

Wow!  We packed a lot of learning into last week!  We read our Social Studies textbook, summarized facts about each region in Georgia and wrote paragraphs about each region.   We are using these summaries to create our “Georgia Books”.  These books will be coming home periodically for you to read with your child in preparation for Social Studies Summative Assessments. 

 

Starting this week, your child will be taking a Spelling Dictation Test every Friday.  I will choose 5 out of the 10 Spelling words that your child has worked with all week.  The rubric for this assessment is attached. 

 

Your child must have his/her A.R. book at school every day.  The expectation is that your child is reading an A.R. book at home every night AND reading an A.R. book in class every day.

 

What Are We Working on THIS Week?

 

Math-

We will be investigating relationships of time such as seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, and hours in a day.  You can help your child with time concepts by having him/her predict how long a daily activity will take (brushing teeth, taking a shower, etc…) and then time the event and discuss predictions vs. actual elapsed time. 

Language Arts-

We will be investigating short and long vowel i sounds and using correct punctuation and capitalization in our writing. 

Social Studies-

We will be describing the regions in Georgia where the Creeks and Cherokees lived and how  the people used their local resources. 

Writing-

We will continue to summarize information about the regions of Georgia.  We are concentrating on making sure that our paragraphs are indented and our sentences are capitalized and punctuated.  

Newsletter August 29, 2011

8/29/11

Dear Parents:

We are off to a great start in 2nd grade.  Just a few reminders: 

Keep your child’s behavior sheet in his/her Take Home Folder…I will remove it when it has been completely filled out. 

• Your child will keep all of his/her morning work in the Take Home Folder all week.  On Thursday evenings your child is to look over this work in preparation for a quiz on Friday.   
• Make sure you look at the menu change slip that is in your child’s Take Home Folder. 
• Graded work will be sent home on Mondays.  Please look through this graded work WITH your child.  Celebrate success and discuss areas that need some work.  Please have your child make any corrections to graded work with a red pen. 

What we are working on:

Writing:  How do we edit our writing?  Why do we edit our writing?

Math:  Adding two digit numbers with regrouping

Social Studies:  5 regions of Georgia

Spelling- Consonant blends

Thanks For All You Do,

Mrs. Rogers

WELCOME TO SECOND GRADE!!

WELCOME TO 2nd GRADE!

Newsletter...August 22

 

 

 

Dear Parents:

We are off to a FANTASTIC start in 2^nd grade!! 

Our lunchtime has been adjusted slightly.  We are now eating at 11:41 at table 2. 

Attached to this sheet, you will find your child’s first timed tests.  Our goal is to be able to complete 100 facts in 5 minutes.  Please purchase sets of addition and subtraction flash cards for use at home and practice these facts daily. 

Students are encouraged to bring a water bottle and a healthy snack every day. 

Please look at your child’s behavior sheet every day. 

What We Are Up To This Week:

Social Studies:  Cardinal and intermediate directions on a compass

Writing- What did you do this summer?

Math- Expanded form and drawing hundreds, tens and ones to represent numbers. 

Language Arts-  The blends sm, tr, dr, and sl

 

Thanks For All You Do,

 

Simone Rogers

I have read this newsletter and seen my child’s graded work.

X____________________________________    X___________________________

Child’s Name                                                                                   Parent Signatu

Parent Information

August 16, 2011

To The Parents of _______________________:

We had a fabulous first day!  I can already tell this is going to be one AMAZING year!

Take a moment to look below at your child’s transportation plan: 

THIS IS HOW YOUR CHILD WILL BE SENT HOME EVERY DAY UNLESS I HAVE A WRITTEN NOTE:

____       Bus Slot #______

______  Car Rider

_____     ASP

_____     Day Care ____________________

DO NOT EVER E-MAIL ANY TRANSPORTATION CHANGES TO ME.  IF THE DAY IS EXTREMELY HECTIC, I MAY NOT SEE THE CHANGE UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE.

An Explanation of the Behavior Sheet:

Each day your child will circle where his/her star ended up on the Behavior Wall: 

Bright, Shining Star- You are doing a fantastic job.

Shining Star- You have been warned, but you are doing a great job.

Flickering Star- WATCH IT!  Your recess has been reduced by 5 minutes.

Fading Star- RED STAMP (An example of the red stamp is on the back of this sheet)

Crashing and Burning Star- You don’t even want to know!

Stars will be moved for: 

• Not listening and/or talking during instructional time or in the hallway
• Not doing (YPB) Your Personal Best on all assignments
• Being off task
• Being disrespectful to anyone

**** A red stamp is earned immediately for not completing all homework*******

**** 5 Red Stamps in one 9-week period will affect the Behavior and Work Study portion of your child’s report card. 

I have read all of the important information on this sheet.  X________________________________

2ND GRADE MATH STANDARDS

Concepts/Skill to Maintain

Fluency with single digit addition/subtraction facts to 18

Fair trades with coins or bills

Duration and sequence of events

Number patterns-skip count, odd/even

Fact families

Fractions: halves, fourths

Tally marks

Picture graphs

Estimation: rounding to nearest ten

Telling time

Measurement – estimating, comparing, and ordering

Basic geometric figures and spatial relationships

 

M2N1. Students will use multiple representations of numbers to connect symbols to quantities.

 

a. Represent numbers using a variety of models, diagrams, and number sentences (e.g., 4703 represented as 4,000 + 700 + 3, and units, 47 hundreds + 3, or 4,500 + 203).

 

b. Understand the relative magnitudes of numbers using 10 as a unit, 100 as a unit, or 1000 as a unit. Represent 2-digit numbers with drawings of tens and ones and 3-digit numbers with drawings of hundreds, tens, and ones.

 

c. Use money as a medium of exchange. Make change and use decimal notation and the dollar and cent symbols to represent the collection of coins and currency.

 

M2N2. Students will build fluency with multi-digit addition and subtraction.

 

a. Correctly add and subtract two whole numbers up to three digits each with regrouping.

 

b. Understand and use the inverse relation between addition and subtraction to solve problems and check solutions.

 

c. Use mental math strategies such as benchmark numbers to solve problems.

 

d. Use basic properties of addition (commutative, associative, and identity) to simplify problems (e.g. 98 + 17 by taking two from 17 and adding it to the 98 to make 100 and replacing the original problem by the sum 100 + 15).

 

e. Estimate to determine if solutions are reasonable for addition and subtraction.

 

M2N3. Students will understand multiplication, multiply numbers, and verify

results.

 

a. Understand multiplication as repeated addition.

 

b. Use repeated addition, arrays, and counting by multiples (skip counting) to correctly multiply 1-digit numbers and construct the multiplication table.

 

c. Use the multiplication table (grid) to determine a product of two numbers.

 

d. Use repeated subtraction, equal sharing, and forming equal groups to divide large collections of objects and determine factors for multiplication.

 

M2N4. Students will understand and compare fractions.

 

a. Model, identify, label, and compare fractions (thirds, sixths, eighths, tenths) as a representation of equal parts of a whole or of a set.

 

b. Know that when all fractional parts are included, such as three thirds, the result is equal to the whole.

 

M2N5. Students will represent and interpret quantities and relationships using

mathematical expressions including equality and inequality signs (=, >, <, ≠).

 

a. Include the use of boxes or ___ to represent a missing value.

 

b. Represent problem solving situations where addition, subtraction or multiplication may be applied using mathematical expressions.

 

MEASUREMENT

Students will understand length, time, and temperature and choose an appropriate

tool to measure them.

M2M1. Students will know the standard units of inch, foot, yard, and metric units

of centimeter and meter and measure length to the nearest inch or

centimeter.

 

a. Compare the relationship of one unit to another by measuring objects twice using different units each time.

 

b. Estimate lengths, and then measure to determine if estimations were reasonable.

 

c. Determine an appropriate tool and unit for measuring.

 

M2M2. Students will tell time to the nearest five minutes and know relationships of

time such as the number of seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour and

hours in a day.

M2M3. Students will explore temperature.

 

a. Determine a reasonable temperature for a given situation.

 

b. Read a thermometer.

 

 

 

 

GEOMETRY

M2G1. Students will describe and classify plane figures (triangles, square,

rectangle, trapezoid, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, and irregular

polygonal shapes) according to the number of sides and vertices and the sizes of angles (right angle, obtuse, acute).

 

M2G2. Students will describe and classify solid geometric figures (prisms,

pyramids, cylinders, cones, and spheres) according to such things as the

number of edges and vertices and the number and shape of faces and angles.

 

a. Recognize the (plane) shapes of the faces of a geometric solid and count the number of faces of each type.

 

b. Recognize the shape of an angle as a right angle, an obtuse, or acute angle.

 

M2G3. Students will describe the change in attributes as two and three-dimensional

shapes are cut and rearranged.

 

DATA ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY

 

M2D1. Students will create simple tables and graphs and interpret their meaning.

 

a. Create, organize and display data using pictographs, Venn diagrams, bar graphs, picture graphs, simple charts, and tables to record results with scales of 1, 2 and 5.

 

b. Know how to interpret picture graphs, Venn diagrams, and bar graphs.

 

Terms/Symbols:

place value: thousands, sum, difference, product, factor, multiple, multiply, regroup, array, numerator, denominator, inch, foot, yard, centimeter, meter, polygon, right angle, obtuse, acute, edge, face, vertex/vertices, prism, plane, >, <, =, ≠, +, -, x, minute, hour, Venn diagram, pictograph, scale, symbol for equality, symbol for inequality