Second Grade Newsletter

Thank you for taking the time to attend your child's Parent-Teacher Conference. I value our partnership in your child's education and want the best for each student in our classroom. It's amazing to see them learn and grow so much throughout the school year. Thank you for your continued support. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

• Using Pictures to Subtract
• Subtraction Using a Number Line
• Making a Number Line to Subtract
• First Word Problems-Subtraction

This week we will continue to learn about: The Ancient Greek Civilization. Students will listen to, discuss and answer questions to the following topics:

Lesson 8: Marathon

Lesson 9: Thermopylae

Lesson 10: Great Thinkers of Greece

Lesson 11: Alexander

Our 2nd grade students will get to participate in our very own "Greek Olympics" for our culminating activity. Students will get to choose one of the five events to participate in, which consist of: the jump rope, the discus (a frisbee), 50 yard dash, long jump and a relay race. Students are encouraged to start practicing the different events so they can try them and see which are their favorite and are ready to participate.

We will focus on the following skills this week:

- Introduce commas and quotation marks

- Practice reading cvce words, phrases and sentences

- Continued practice with writing process with a fictional narrative

I am going to start differentiating spelling words for students based on what they need. Some students need more review on the previous spelling patterns, others are doing fine with the on-level and some need more of a challenge. Your child will write their spelling words for the week in their agenda. This week it'll be two groups (on-level and above level) and next week, we'll start with three different groups. You will also see the different levels of spelling words in our weekly newsletter. If you feel that your child needs more practice, is up for a challenge or needs to stay with the on level group, please let me know. This can change by the week, depending on what your family has each week.

We will have 10 spelling words this week, due to the short week.

We will have our next Star of the Week when we get back to a full week of school.

Students will also have the opportunity to make their own toga at home using any resources that you may have. It can be made from a plastic table cloth, a blanket, piece of fabric, anything. Students get to wear them to school when we have our Greek Olympics, which is scheduled for Thursday, October 22nd. Below are some links to videos that you watch for ideas on how to make your own toga.

At the beginning of the school year, I sent home your child's QR code. You can use this link (Please bookmark the Clever sight for ease of access.) and click on the Clever Badge Login. Scan your child's QR code with your device's camera. Your child is able to use the different apps on Clever to get extra practice.

We also have Tumble Books and Epic where students can listen or read books.

Epic - the class code for Epic is tcn5041

Tumble Books - the username is lasd & the password is books.

Typing Club and Nitro Type are also encouraged to be used as students will need to type their responses for some of their testing in 3rd grade.

If your child forgets their AR Book, please have them pick a book from their home to read. You can even check if their own books that you have at home or your child checked out from the library are AR Books by going to arbookfind.com. Then, type in the name of the book and see if it pops up as an AR book. If they are, your child is welcome to also read those books and bring them in to test on them, as well. Or you can write the name of the book in your child's agenda and I can look up the code for your child. Please be sure to keep AR books away from younger siblings and pets. Lost or damaged books will need to be replaced or paid for.

Please consider joining our wonderful PTA and help plan fun events for our students and staff. For $5.50, you can join the PTA and help make a difference at Mountain! The PTA funds classroom supplies, field trips, teacher appreciation, and so much more. Click here to join now or go to www.mountainpta.org to learn more. Please consider joining our wonderful and helpful PTA!

The Mountain Halloween Carnival will be on October 17th. Our PTA is looking for volunteers to help with our upcoming Halloween Carnival. Volunteer sign up to help with the carnival can be found on the Mountain PTA website.

Oct. 12th - No School - Indigenous Peoples Day

Oct. 14th - Evacuation Drill at 9:30

Oct. 16th - Fall Picture Day - Individual Photos

Oct. 17th - Halloween Carnival at Mountain Elementary

Oct. 21st - Unity Day - Wear Orange Today!

Oct. 21st - Fire Safety Presentation

Oct. 22nd - Greek Olympics

Oct. 23rd - Purple Pinky Day (During Lunch; More Information will go home soon.)