This Week at a Glance

ELA

1.We will be working on verbs this week. We will begin with action verbs and move into linking verbs.
2.Centers and Guided Reading are going underway in full force this week. The students will be rotating in centers throughout the week. I will begin to meet with guided reading groups this week as well.
3.Writing- We are continuing to practice writing paragraphs. Writing will also be incorported into centers this week in the form of friendly letter writing.

Math
1. We will be working on strategies for basic addition facts this week. We will practice strategies for doubles facts (where both addends are the same) and turn around facts (where the addends are reversable..i.e. 4+2=6 is the same thing as 2+4=6).  We will be talking about the +9 shortcut as well. This is pretend you are just adding 10 instead of 9, and then take 1 away from the sum.

Social Studies
1. During the beginning of the week we will learn about Mary Musgrove. During the rest of the week the kids will pick activities to do on a Tic-Tac-Toe choice board. A choice board allows the students to pick their activities to demonstrate their knowledge, but with some control. They all must complete the center square, but they can pick two other activities that make "three in a row" with the center square.

Important Notes
1. Do not forget that WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12 is Picture Day. Please have your child looking spic and span!
2.On THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 13 I will not be at school. APS new teachers will be at a workshop. They will be with a substitute that day.
3. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14 will be Pajama Day as a reward for Boosterthon. I will remind you and the kids later in the week.

Class Party

Thank you to everyone who came and contributed to the class party tonight. It is always great to see the kids playing together outside of class!

Thank you to Eve and Thayne Conrad for opening your home to our class.

We are the Champions My Friend!

We are the 2nd grade door decorating winners!! The class is SO excited!

Thank you SO much to everyone for helping your child create their car for the door.

A HUGE thank you to the moms who helped transform our door for Boosterthon! Michelle Constantinides, Angie Winckler, Elizabeth Lietz and Chrissy Prescott. If I forgot anyone, please please let me know!!!

Fun Run And Mystery Reader

Our class had a great time at the Fun Run today! Everybody did their best and had great attitudes!

Thank you to Eve Conrad for being our Mystery Reader today!

A Treaty Has Been Signed!

In Social Studies, we are still learning about important people in Early Georgia. We are currently learning about Tomochichi, the Yamacraw Native American who formed an alliance with James Oglethorpe.

Today we talked about the word "treaty" and what it means. We learned that James Oglethorpe and Tomochichi signed a treaty agreeing to peace between the English and the Yamacraw.

To really understand what a treaty is, we created our own treaty today. Half of the class was the Yamacraw tribe and the other half were English settlers. Each group came up with conditions they wanted, and we reconvened to decide what we wanted to put in our very own treaty.

This activity really fostered taking turns speaking, working in groups, and higher order thinking. They had to work hard to think of things either the Yamacraw or English would find important in a treaty.

Here are the groups working on their "wants" for the treaty!

Tonight's Homework

Tonight's ELA homework is a sentence vs. fragement sheet instead of the originally planned verb sheet. I felt it fit what we did today better.

Do not worry about the Tomochichi graphic organizer listed on the homework sheet. We are doing something differently in class.

Thanks!

Computer Problems and Boosterthon

Good evening!

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up and let you know that my school laptop got a virus, and I cannot use it right now until Client Support comes to hopefully fix it. If I do not respond to an e-mail as quickly as usual, I just wanted to let you know that the reason is my computer is out of commission! Hopefully this will be fixed really soon so I can be in better contact and so we can use the Promethean board again!

Reminder - Boosterthon Fun Run is on Thursday. Second grade goes I believe at 1:05. If your child still needs a smaller tee shirt, I have plenty still that I got from the Boosterthon people. Please just have them bring back the big one and I will exchange it out for them.

Spelling- We are still waiting on our spelling program to arrive. Stay tuned!

AR- I brought home all the AR stuff tonight, so I am going to get individual AR info sent to you for Home Connect.

Homework- Just a reminder that for anything in Home Links for math you and your child should tear it out of the book and then they can turn it in the next day :)

I think that is all as of now! Thanks!