Conference Thank You!

Dear 2B Parents,

Thank you for your time during Parent/Teacher Conferences this week. Mrs. Smith and I truly enjoyed meeting with each of you to talk about your sweet scholar. We are so blessed to have so many nice families and great-hearted children! I am impressed with the connections you make to the virtues at home. Mrs. Smith and I are happy to help you in any way that we can so please let us know how we can support you in this effort. We are so excited to be partnering with you this year to ensure your child's success as they grow in intellectual and moral virtue.

I hope that everyone enjoyed their Fall Break and now you have another long weekend ahead :-)! I loved hearing stories from the kids when they returned. We spent time during snack time on Monday sharing our adventures. I heard about everything from trips to California to finding SNAKES while hiking! Oh my :-). Mr. Dombrowski and I enjoyed a few days in San Francisco!


Curriculum for Next Week...

Language Arts: We will continue writing and labeling interesting sentences using a noun, verb, adjective, and adverb! Students will learn about singular and plural nouns, and will learn about mover and shaker sentences (moving words around in a sentence, so it makes it more interesting for the reader)! 

We will start reading Boxcar Children next week (10/31) if you have not already please purchase the book and send it in with your child!

Spalding Words for Next Week: We will have 20 spelling words next week due to the short week.
Tuesday: going, honey, letters, orange, pocket, shoes, shoe, stairs, stream, talks
Wednesday: tiny, words, trust, extra, dress, beside, teach, happen, begun, collect

Math: This past week we spent time reviewing concepts from Units 1 and 2. Some of us are mixing up renaming in addition vs. renaming in subtraction so we will keep working on it throughout the year! 

Next week in math we will start a new unit on measurement! Students will begin by measuring in nonstandard units (paperclips, pencils, cubes) and then learn the important of standard measuring units (if I wanted a couch 67 paperclips long, no one would know what I was talking about)! We will practice measuring length and height, and do a really fun airplane launch experiment with length on Wednesday!

History: We are learning all about Ancient India! Last week we reviewed the caste system and next week we will look at the Festival of Lights and also learn about Buddha.

Science Fun: We "wrapped up" our experiment with Lima Beans are are onto our next unit: The Water Cycle! It all began with an ice cube inside of a cup. Stay tuned for more! We will continue learning about the Water Cycle next week. We talked about solids, liquids, gases, and evaporation this past week. Ask me about the experiment we conducted! Next week we will be making a terrarium and learning about condensation and precipitation. 

Some of our seeds started to sprout!

Another great example of what a seed needs to sprout

Scientists making observations

Recording observations and making predictions

The Water Cycle Experiment

Spelling Bee: Please see these links for spelling bee information ~ Letter to Parents & Spelling List for 2nd Grade

A Special Note From PSO...

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Did you know that collecting Box Tops brought in over $2000 for our school last year? That's a lot of money for just clipping Box Tops! If every student brought in just 10 a month, we could earn $5,400 this year.So start clipping!
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Have a wonderful long weekend!

Love,
Mrs. Dombrowski