Curriculum News

With this next week being a very short week, our time will be very limited.  During our Reading/Literacy Block time, we will be turning our attention towards the Thanksgiving holiday and looking more closely at some fun stories that talk about this fun and special time of year.  We will be continuing to work on writing paragraphs about some of our own special Thanksgiving Traditions.  Keep reading, even over break, because spending more time reading is the absolute best way to continue to grow as readers!  During our Math time, we will be starting to look at adding 2-digit numbers and doing some fun “Thanksgiving Math Story Problems”.  We will also be continuing to work on some of our lower case cursive letters.  Students are doing a fantastic job getting these cursive strokes down!  Keep it up second grade!

*There will NOT be a spelling test this next week because of the extremely short week.  We will be practicing some “festive” Turkey Day words during our Word Work time instead!  Enjoy the week off from studying Spelling!

Announcements/ Reminders

There will be an early dismissal at 11:30 on Wednesday, November 25th.  On that day there will be some very special festivities for Grandparents to take part in beginning at 8:45.  Students have been practicing and preparing for a few weeks now and are always so excited to have the opportunity to show their grandparents around their school!  We have been looking forward to that day for some time now.  It will not last too long but will conclude with some refreshments and an opportunity to visit with the children before it is over.  There is also no school on Thursday and Friday of next week so that we are able to enjoy some very important time with our families!  I am so thankful to have your children in my class this year and hope that everyone has a very blessed Thanksgiving!

Mrs. Johnson