Second Grade News

October 6, 2017

Important dates:

All of October: Socktober Help us make a difference in our community by sending in new
sock during the month of October to give to those in need (adult sizes needed most). This
is a nationwide movement started by Kid President Lets do something AWESOME!

October 9-13

Monday Art, Crazy Sock Day for our Kick off to Socktober!

Tuesday Music, McTeacher Night at the New Albany McDonalds 5-8pm

Wednesday Wellness, Late Start,

Thursday Technology

Friday Art

Can you help us? We need a Junior Achievement Volunteer. This Volunteer will teach
about 5 lessons using provided curriculum. Well learn about our community and economics.
These lessons will take place in late January- February, about once per week. See the
attached sheet if you are interested you can send in the sheet or just email me your
information. Thanks!

Current Learning:

Classroom Technology: Everyone has now had a chance to login in and explore Big
Universe. Most kids have added 5 or more books to their personal bookshelf. If you want
to use Big Universe at home: username is last name.# (the number is assigned by the
school district and is not their mailbox number in class, they have been practicing it in
class and in technology), password is eagles2!, and the group name is newalbany. We are
now working to get everyone started in Moby Max. The username and password are the
same and there should not be a group name. If it asks for your school name, look for New
Albany, OH and Primary School all the buildings are listed separately, so keep scrolling.
Moby Max has a variety of games in different subject areas and I can see how they are
doing with my teacher account. Feel free to help them get started at home, even if
theyve not had a chance to get on at school yet. They are excited to get on, but it takes a
lot of time to help them log on to the school computers and then the site, so it can be slow
going for everyone to learn the process. Any help at home is greatly appreciated!
Language Arts: In writing, we continue our unit on Personal Narratives, which goes along
with our Genre Study on realistic fiction. Last week we worked on beginning our small
moment stories with emotion. Weve been reading some wonderful mentor texts to
support these ideas and continue to show use of feelings, emotions, detail This week we
will continue to show dont tell about our moments.

Fundations: WOW The Unit 3 tests were amazing! Keep up the great work! We
continue to work on Unit 4 with a focus on suffixes (s, es, ed, ing, er, est). Well also
introduce the vowel teams: oa, oe, ow, ou, oo, ue, ew. Please work on these trick words at
home with your child: again, please, animal, sure, use, used. This is a two week unit, so we
might be ready to test next Friday. Look out for the Unit 4 Fundations newsletter and
packet of extra practice this week!

Math: Unit 2 is well underway. Weve been focusing on estimation, place value, using
groups of 5s & 10s, and beginning measurement (using Unifix cubes). We had two
different checkpoints this week. When you see a checkpoint come home, remember that it
is just a quick check to see how each child is progressing so far. They sometimes ask
questions that might be extensions of what we are learning or might be taught in more
depth further into the unit. These are just a snapshot. They help me group kids so I can
meet specific skills they are ready for. If your child is missing questions that just helps
me to know that we need more instruction in that area. If your child did a great job, then
I know he/she is ready to move on. I will always work with kids who have difficulties with
sections of any checkpoint or test. Hopefully these checkpoints will help us all stay on
track so each child is prepared to be successful on our Unit Assessments.

Social Studies/Science: We continue our Atmosphere and Weather Unit. Our Big Idea
Question is: How do we measure weather? Fridays focus was specifically on how different
types of clouds can effect weather changes. We learned about Cirrus, Cumulus, and
Stratus clouds. We made observations as Ms. Weber created a cloud and we witnessed
condensation and precipitation!

Please check out our classroom website once and a while for updated pictures of our
amazing learning!!

Have a GREAT week!