Kudos to Jackson, Jane, Olivia & Julian for their kindness in bringing in a combined $27.49 for UNICEF! The timing was great, as we began our study of money in math – everyone had a part in counting the change!
Coming…
* tomorrow – the fall goals we set at conference time will be taped into your take-home folder, to serve as a reminder for you. I also plan to return graded tests & book reports soon.
* “Pilgrim Children on the Mayflower”, Tuesday morning at 10:15, 11/24. A reenactment by the Second Grade Historians in Room 203. Parents are welcome to come.
* 2nd Grade Kindness Market, Tuesday morning, 12/15. This is a holiday market in which each family contributes homemade crafts to be sold. Buyers are 1st and 2nd graders, Longfellow staff, and parents. The profits raised by this event are donated to a charity chosen by the children in the 2nd grade classes. Past charities have included the American Red Cross, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, and the Oak Park Education Foundation. This Kindness market gives continued practice of the lessons learned in our Kindness reading unit, and also reinforces both our math (money) and social studies (economics) curriculum. More information will come next week. Some people find the Thanksgiving break to be a good time for making these crafts.
Our second camouflage story is “They Thought They Saw Him”, a fictional story about how a chameleon escapes its enemies. The vocabulary words for this story are: swoop, ridge, wakeful, grip, glistens. Our spelling words give practice with the different spellings of the long /a/ sound, and the extra workbook pages focus on the important use of base words, prefixes & suffixes. Each student has chosen & we are now editing his/her best writing of the fall.
This week’s math activities focus on counting out the change in different ways to purchase different items, reading analog clocks, and connecting time to the events of our day, and collecting data which we represent in a bar graph.
Our Social Studies/Tasting travels take us to Antarctica… the only place we visit that is not a country!
Our science study of erosion continues with investigating water & wind erosion. When the weather cooperates, we will do this on a little walking field trip to Longfellow Park’s sand area.
Homework
Daily: Maybe a Home Link. Read aloud for 20 minutes and fill in your November Book It Calendar (now available on the Longfellow home page); count coins, practice your spelling & vocabulary words; use the vocabulary words in your conversations!
Due Wednesday: bring your library book if you want to check out a new one! Spelling workbook, pages 50-53; those doing challenge words, write a meaningful sentence with 5 of the challenge words instead of doing pages 52-53. Leave your sentences in the spelling workbook, at this week’s lesson. For Friday: reading & vocabulary tests, spelling test on long /a/ sounds in words.
For next Monday: Story Map on a book you read at home, Mad Minute packet C2, gym shoes
I’m off today, enjoying an early Thanksgiving weekend with my children & sons-in-law.
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