Dear 2B Families,
Can you believe September is here? Give a big cheer! We are one step closer to cooler Fall temperatures, football season, and pumpkin spice lattes! I hope your family has a wonderful long Labor Day weekend. Rest, relax, and enjoy! There is no homework this weekend.
On a personal note, September is one of my favorite months. Not only because it is my birthday month (I'm turning the BIG 3-0 this year) but it's also Childhood Cancer Awareness month and my very own niece, Elizabeth, is a retinoblastoma survivor! My heart feels so grateful during this month that Elizabeth beat this rare eye cancer. I hope that we can keep the children and families affected by childhood cancer in our thoughts always, but especially this month.
Testing & Tutoring: Your children did a great job this week with DIBELS testing and reciting our poem from August: Bed in Summer. We still have a few more to finish next week and I will send home their scoring rubrics next week. I also look forward to communicating the results of our DIBELS testing very soon. It was a great opportunity to sit one-on-one with each scholar to hear them read out loud to me. If I feel that your child is a candidate for tutoring, I will reach out to you on an individual basis. We will use BURST reading intervention during our academic day and I am planning math tutoring after school two days a week.
Shout Out: Yay Lilah! She was our very first scholar who volunteered to recite Bed in Summer! She showed courage!
The students would love to have a basketball to play with at recess.
Here is a preview of what we will be learning next week (9/6-9/9):
Language Arts: Literature: In Charlotte's Web the students will continue to watch Wilbur and Charlotte's friendship blossom and the Avery family travels to the fair! We will identify Charlotte’s talents, our own talents, and talents in our friends! Students will take a close look at spider webs, to see how intricate they are, and how they are formed!
We created a Friendship Web this week! We threw a ball of yarn to each classmate telling them how they show friendship. We also SPELLED out FRIENDSHIP and earned a class celebration/reward.
Time to move on to our next classroom virtue: PERSEVERANCE - WOW! Let's see when we can earn all 12 letters!
Spalding: Due to the short week we will only have twenty spelling words this week. 10 will be given on Tuesday and 10 on Wednesday. We will continue to learn about punctuation rules and discuss why they are needed.
Tuesday: stamp, light, coming, come, night, pass, shut, easy, ease, bone
Wednesday: cloud, draw, drink, garden, goose, hopping, hop, knife, mouth, oak
Poem: We will be practicing stanza two from Something Told the Wild Geese.
Math: We will continue to practice our mental math within 1000 through practice, practice, and more practice! Singapore's coined saying is "practice makes permanent". This week we will be working hard to make those math facts permanent!
Students have been modeling problems with place value discs. It has helped us to visualize each math problem. Here are two pictures...
History: Island Projects are due on Wednesday, September 7th and we are excited that these will be presented during class. Your young geographers will be also be recalling facts about North, South, and Central America through playing a trivia game next week. On Friday there will be a "Geography of the Americas" quiz. Afterward, we will briefly introduce the next stop on our travels: Japan! Our scholars will locate Japan on the map and identify Japan as a country made up of four main islands. We are excited that Mrs. Smith will share some of our knowledge about Japan since she is half Japanese!
Science: Next week we will move from learning about the seasonal cycle to learning about life cycles. We will begin by studying life cycle of a chicken. What came first, the chicken or the egg?Here is our new "Seasons" bulletin board:
Other announcements: We will be focusing on a new virtue for the month of September! We will be talking about Citizenship, and doing our part. We will introduce a service project for the month of September on Tuesday. We will be requesting dog toys, treats, food, and beds for a dog rescue called Underdog Rescue!
Wishing you a safe & relaxing Labor Day Weekend!
Mrs. Dombrowski
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