Monday News for Nov. 30th

Performing a Readers' Theatre

I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!  It is great to be back to school!  We will resume spelling this week with words coming home on Monday for the week.  We have also begun a new unit in Math so look for the Unit 3 parent letter in your child's homework folder.  Many of the concepts that the children will be working on in this unit will be explained.  Also, we would like to suggest that on the evenings when your child does not have math homework, that this would be a good evening to practice math facts for about 10 minutes.  If your child does not know their doubles facts this would be a great place to begin.  If your child has their doubles memorized, then move on to doubles plus or minus one facts. For example, 5+6=11.  They can use one of their doubles to help them solve this problem.  If they use the higher double they subtract one and if they use the smaller double they add one.  If you have any questions, please let us know!

We are continuing our unit on Long Ago.  We will be focusing on Colonial Times

 over the next few weeks.  The second grade team will be holding Colonial Craft Day on December 17th from 1:15 - 2:30, as a culminating activity to our unit.  In order to make this possible we will be looking for parent volunteers to help us out by running a craft center.  We will have it all organized and will show you what to do.  You don't have to be crafty to participate!  We will also be asking for donations of supplies and will have a sign-up genius where you can sign up to make a donation.  We will be sending further information with the link to the sign-up in an e-mail.  We should be sending it out in the next couple of days.  This is a great afternoon and we would love to have your help!

Have a great week ahead!