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Second Grade News
Mrs. Visser’s Classroom
NOVEMBER NEWS
Thank you
for coming to Parent-Teacher Conferences.
I enjoyed talking with you about the
progress your child is making in second grade.
Let’s continue to work together for a
great year of learning for your child.
Our reading
skills continue to improve.
This nine weeks we will be working on
fluency and stopping at periods. We will also be listening to make sure that we are adding
endings to words when necessary.
Please take the time to listen to your
child read. Remember
to read and record the minutes for the monthly
reading calendar.
It counts as part of our reading grade and
is also the way to earn a Pizza Hut certificate.
Details for a November book report will be
sent home soon.
In math we
are working with counting coins.
We will introduce how to count back change
also. Extra
help at home counting money is always appreciated.
We also will begin two- digit addition
without regrouping and then with regrouping.
Also, we are working on improving our
addition skills by doing a “math 2 minute”
paper each day.
The children are working hard to earn a
skittle for keeping their
score the
same or by improving their score.
These math facts are the foundation for
many future activities.
This month in social studies we will be working on
two units. We
will learn about life long ago with the Pilgrims
and early settlers.
Also, we are working on a maps and globe
unit. We
will be learning about a compass rose, a map key
and other important map skills.
We will save many of our papers to make a
map booklet.
During the month of November we will be doing
various writing activities about Thanksgiving and
family traditions.
We will continue to work on the two-finger
check when writing, as well as adding adjectives
as a way of making our sentences more interesting.
We will also work on learning how to
identify nouns and verbs in sentences.
This month
the children are encouraged to share with the
class books from home about Thanksgiving,
Pilgrims, and families.
Please remember to have your child put
their name inside the book so they get the right
book returned to them.
Please
listen to the weather and send warm clothes
including hats and gloves as the weather continues
to get colder.
Most days the children will go outside for
recess.
Thanksgiving Break begins with a 2:00 PM dismissal on
Wednesday, November 26.
We will return to class on Monday, December
l, 2008.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Visser
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