Week 10

 Dear Parents,

         This week we continued working on two digit subtraction. We added writing our own word problems and adding to check. Thank you for all your support with this difficult skill. We review on Monday and test on Tuesday. 

         In writing we were wrapping up our personal narratives and began writing imaginative stories. We also made a creepy spider with our four types of sentences. After that we continued with the spider theme and wrote a cinquain poem.

         In reading we studied a type of folktale- fairytales. We looked at the story structure, and filled out our own graphic organizer after practicing one together. We also joined Mrs. Frazier for a digital Citizenship fairy tale story. We loved waving our wands when the characters were not being safe on line.

         In science we finished up our unit on changing and combining matter and began a unit on energy- light, heat and sound! We are looking forward to many fun investigations next week.

 

• Needed items for our classroom- More large glue sticks. We are running through the ones sent in already. Thank you to

 

* If your child  has a pictures of Veterans to be included in the Veterans Day Tribute Video, can you please forward them to me, the cutoff for submissions is next Friday, Oct. 30^th.

 

 

 *RED RIBBON WEEK - Oct. 26-30 

October 26 (M): Rally In Red Against Drugs - wear RED to kick off Red Ribbon Week

            October 27 (T): Follow Your Dreams, Don’t Do Drugs - wear pajamas

October 28 (W): Put a Cap on Drugs - wear caps, hats

            October 29 (TH): Dress for Success - wear nice clothes (picture day)

October 30 (F): Be a Good Judge of Character - Book Character Day

 

See below links to find out more about Red Ribbon Week and activities or discussions you can have with your child.

 

Red Ribbon Campaign

LISD RRC Website

DEA RRC Website

LISD RRC Conversation Starters 20-21

English Spanish

LISD RRC Smore 20-21

 

Week 9

 Dear Parents,

          It seemed like a super quick week, but a lot of learning has taken place. In math we were working on two digit subtraction with and without regrouping. This skill is a difficult one to learn for second graders. Thank you for working through the homework papers with your children to help support the learning at school. I know it was tough, but they are persevering.

           In language we continued to work on our high frequency words. These come home on Mondays. Please practice them all week as your child gets tested on Friday. There are ten words a week. Five weeks are put together to become a reading grade. The class loves learning about how to manipulate phonemes to create different words. We also learned about the prefixes -un and -re. We are deep into our personal narratives. We are taking them through the entire writing process. We will publish these as a book. In reading/social studies we learned about Christopher Columbus, his voyages and why we had a holiday on Monday. We learned to make connections as we read stories: text to text, text to self, and text to world. I was so impressed that as I was reading aloud The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane . I was stopped by several students who wanted to share their connections. I love when children apply what they learn! We also read a Scholastic News about boats made out of pumpkins! Just ask your child how much a seed from a giant pumpkin costs! They could not believe it!

             In science we continued learning about changing/ combining matter with a talk read, talk write activity. We also had a day to do pumpkin science. We estimated then measured the weight, height, and diameter. We also got to dig out the seeds and count them!

          

            *Please consider joining our PTA! We need your support more than ever as with social distancing there are challenges. The money collected for your membership goes directly to your children in many forms. 

 

* Coyote Ridge PTA Website - https://coyoteridgepta.membershiptoolkit.com/home

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