October 15, 2018

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Here are the notes for the week:

1. Notes from the office I received today:  

a) Parents should no longer be escorting their children to their classrooms in the morning.

b) The office is requesting that if your child has had breakfast at home in the morning, they are not to come in for toast as they are currently feeding over 300 children a day, and that is quite unmanageable. I will be talking with the children about this tomorrow, and if you could reinforce it at home as well that would be great.

2. Book orders are due Wednesday. Thank you for those that have ordered online, and brought orders in! :)

3. There is no school this Friday, October 19, as it is a Professional Development Day.

4. The spelling words for the week are:

1. grade
2. green
3. great
4. ground
5. proud
6. prize
7. print
8. try
9. treat
10. trick

5. We will be continuing to skip count forwards and backwards by 2,5's, and 10's this week, as well as the doubles plus one strategy for mental math. They are catching on well to both! :)

6. In Writer's Workshop, we will be focusing on zooming into a small moment, and writing as many details in order about that moment in order, with a beginning sentence, closing sentence, and using transition words (first, next, then, after that, finally).

7. In Readers Workshop, we are focusing on stopping and thinking about our reading, as we read a story. We have talked about the many ways we can become a stronger reader in Grade 2, and they are doing wonderfully. The next step we will take also has to do with comprehension, and asking the three main questions when we are reading, to self monitor and comprehend the text.

1. Does that make sense?
2. Does that look right?
3. Does that sound right?

We have a wonderful group of workers in this class!

Thanks again all! Have a glorious week.

Sarah