Mrs. Tally – February 18, 2014

Dear Families,

 I trust you had a wonderful three day weekend spending time with friends and family.  After this week we will be  back to the five day school week!!!! We are certainly on the down hill slope of  second grade.  It hardly seems possible that this much time has gone by, but as the saying goes, “Time flies when you’re having fun”, and having fun we ARE!!!

 THANK YOU – We had a wonderful Valentine’s Day.  Our party was lots of fun and the children loved looking at their valentines as well as the hearts with sweet messages from their classmates. Thank you for all who sent goodies for our celebration. 

LANGUAGE ARTS –   We are working on answering all questions with complete sentences as well as working on the next benchmark in Writing which is a Fictional Narrative.  We will have one of our narratives judged for the Young Author’s competition. Three are chosen and the first place child will have his/her  copy of their story for sale at Open House in May.

BOOK PROJECT – Second Graders have their next book project due on Friday, February 28th. We will NOT be having a book project for March, rather the children will be working on their speeches and heritage doll.  The speeches will be during the end of March and the beginning of April. You will receive the schedule in their Work Envelope on Tuesday. It was supposed to be in their homework folder, but COMPUTER ISSUES!!!!  All will take place before Easter Vacation.

MATH –  We continue on a unit on Multiplication and Division. They are so enjoying this unit and surprising themselves how easy it is.  We will continue with Division this week. Some children are struggling a bit with this, however, it is a first time exposure and when the children learn all the multiplication facts in third grade, this will be much easier. Because in reality, it is just multiplication in reverse, just as subtraction is adding in reverse. This will serve as a great motivation to really know these facts well. The Chapter Review will come home on Tuesday, Feb.18th, and will be due Tuesday, Feb 25th. We will have our test on that day as well.  In Math drills, Second Graders should be on subtraction to 20 and many are on multiplication.  Good Job!!!

FIVE – A DAY –  We began reviewing Math and Language skills in a booklet called Five -A- Day.  There are five problems in both Math and Language for each day of the week.  These are done independently.  The children will circle in red the ones they miss and make the corrections at home. We discuss these together as a class to make make sure we know what the corrections should be.  Please note the kinds of mistakes your child is making as this will be beneficial to you as you work with them. You do not ned to return these to school.

SOCIAL SCIENCE – We are on “People Make a Difference”and Mapping.  We are also be reviewing what country we live in, the state, and the city, as well as the seven continents. 

BIBLE – We will study Saul.

HEALTH –  February is Dental Health month. We are learning about good dental hygiene and the proper care of our teeth.

PHYSICAL FITNESS TESTING – This will take place on March 5th, 7th, 12th, 14th and 19th. It will be in the afternoons. If possible, please try not to schedule appointments for that week.  If it is unavoidable, there certainly will be make-ups. 

 FCS AUCTION– The FCS auction is underway! This is our largest fundraising event each year. We are excited about setting our goals even higher than last year. The auction is a great way to donate to our school. Your donations will bless the lives of others. You received the information about our class basket which is a “Game Night” theme.  Please start thinking about your gift or donation. We are asking each child’s family to contact family, friends, neighbors, and merchants to make a donation to our auction.  Students will be given a ticket for every 10 points they earn in donations.  I am hoping that each family will find that special something to donate to the auction.  I would like to encourage you to support this event by giving or getting donations of services, trips, items, desserts, and/or dinner tickets.  The dinner/silent and live auction will take place  on Saturday, March 15th, from 5:00 to 9:00 P.M. in the FCS Gym.

SHOW AND TELL – This week will be Team A.

Bible Verse – Feb. 18-21

Never forget to be truthful and kind.  Proverbs 3:3  10 pts.

Second Grade Spelling – Feb. 18- 21  – Lesson 26

live

living

lived

fly

flying

flies

drop

dropping

dropped

love

loving

loved

carry

carrying

carried

carries

worker

Tuesday