Dear Families,
The Indians, Pilgrims and Americans are preparing for their wonderful program. It won’t be long now. We will put our finishing touches to our part of the program this week. It will be lots of fun!!!!
Language Arts – We continue to read informational text from our theme work and practicing restating the question to form a complete sentence. We are learning to use pronouns to replace the longer nouns to make our sentences shorter. This type of work will continue throughout this quarter. In our seatwork, we have been doing many varied assignments and there is a vast difference in how quickly some accomplish tasks. These papers do not need to be finished and returned unless it says “Do”. We will be starting Literature Studies beginning in January. This will be coupled with our Anthology books, and will give them more variety. Writing –Our next writing prompt will be on a Narrative about a personal experience with a beginning, middle and end with descriptive words. Benchmark assessments for this prompt will be in December.
Math -We continue on Chapter 6 which is subtraction with regrouping. We worked very hard last week on this concept. I believe all of the kids understand the process as I have worked with all of them individually at some point last week. When working with them at home, remind your child to use the same process each time and you can’t go wrong. That process is looking at the second number in the ones column and seeing if it is bigger than the top number. If it is, we regroup and if it is the same or smaller, there is no need to regroup. We call that kind of problem first grade math, as they did much double digit adding and subtracting last year without regrouping.Their Friday homework this week will be practicing this skill. Please check your child’s work so you can catch any mistakes they are making. Our test on this chapter will be Friday, Nov.22nd. We have worked very hard on this contract, however, not everyone will finish. This will be a requirement since this is such an important concept and the foundation for much of their future math. If your child brings home an incomplete contract in their work envelope on Nov. 25th, it will need to be finished and returned by Dec. 6th. Please continue being faithful in doing a 4 minute Math Drill each night. Many received Math Awards last week. Our goal is to have passed +18 by the end of the first semester, Dec. 13th.
Social Science – Our unit is “Governing the People”.
Bible – We will be focusing on the theme of Thankfulness and being grateful to God for our many blessings.
Thanksgiving Celebration– Our Thanksgiving Blessing afternoon is Monday, November 25th. We will start with a Thanksgiving Feast at lunch time in our room. After lunch and recess we will be making a “Blessing Mix”, doing a craft and having dessert. The festivities will begin at 11:15 A.M. There is sign-up on the door for the needed items for our meal.It will be a wonderful time! Many Thanks! All are welcome!
Thanksgiving Program – We are culminating our study of Pilgrims with a program for our families. Second Graders are the Americans and should wear red, white and blue. If you do not have these clothing items, please do not go out and buy anything. Just wear the closest thing you have. It will be just fine. The program will be on Tuesday, November 26th at 11:00 A.M. at SMC Main. It should be lots of fun. Some have asked if they can take their child after the end of the program and that will be fine if that works best for you. It will not be a heavy academic afternoon!!!!!
Show and Tell – This week is Team B. Your child can bring something to share two times during the week.
Homework Folder and Envelopes – Please be faithful in returning these every Friday. It makes organizing their work so much faster if we have the envelopes. The book project for November is due on Nov. 25th, even though the Rubric paper you got says Nov.22nd. I just wanted to give a little extra time for those who needed it. Your child may still bring it with their Homework Folder on Friday, Nov. 22nd if you wish. Just a reminder that it is a Mystery book. No points will be given if it is just a picture book. The folder for this project came home in the Homework Folder on Friday, Nov. 8th for those who had not already requested it. There will be NO Book Project for December. January genre will be Poetry. The homework and Reading Log coming home on Nov. 22 will be for the first week of December. There will be no new assigned homework for Thanksgiving week.
Book-It – Book-Its for November are due Mon. Dec. 2nd. Twelve entries will earn a pizza certificate.
TOGETHER WE CAN – We will be having a K-12 project that helps those in need during the holidays. You will receive a handout in the Work Envelopes on Tuesday, Nov. 12th. This program will run through Dec 6th. Please check the list of items that we are collecting before you go shopping or raid your pantry. We’re calling it “TOGETHER WE CAN!” All of our collections will be benefiting the Pinedale community. Our High School has a “Book Buddy” program with Pinedale already. Please bring your items to our classroom and we will have a big red bucket to put them in. It is a great opportunity for our children to share with those in need!! We are having a contest between the classes as well,, so let’s work hard for those in need first and maybe even a prize for us at the end.
11-18 – Fundraiser at Sweet Tomatoes – 11AM – 8 PM
11-25 – Blessing Celebration – 11:15 AM
11-26 – Thanksgiving Program – SMC – 11:00 AM
11-27-29 – Happy Thanksgiving – No School
12-11 – Teacher Inservice – School dismissed at 12:00 PM
12-11 – Christmas Program – 5:30 PM – FCS Gym
12-13 – School dismissed at 12:00 PM
12-13 -End of Quarter 2.
12-13 – Happy 8th Birthday Justus Rocha
12-13 – Skating at Cal-Skate
12-16 – 1-3 – Christmas Vacation – Happy Birthday Jesus!
12-19 – Happy 8th Birthday Ryleigh Chavez and Joshua Brown
12-25 – Happy 8th Birthday Cyriche Zarandin
12-29 – Happy 8th Birthday Adrianne Paderna
1-5 – Happy 8th Birthday Tryphena Gunawan
1-6 – School Resumes – Happy New Year!!
1-7 – Happy 8th Birthday Caleb Mynderup
Remember to wear your spirit wear every Friday!!!
Bible Verse – Nov. 18-22
Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel among you. Isaiah 12:6 22 pts.
Spelling – Lesson 16 – Nov. 18-22
our
now
out
how
hour
down
mouth
south
towel
about
flour
flower
houses
around
above
away