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Welcome back. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family. We have just over 3 weeks before our next break. It’s going to be a busy time! Here’s a look at what we have going on this week:
Math: Problem solving (two-step within 20) Reading/Language Arts: Key details of informational text Writing: Informational writing (topic of choice) Science: Completing Energy and beginning Forces (pushes and pulls) *We are collecting recycled materials for an upcoming STEM project. We’re looking for cardboard boxes, tissue boxes, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, plastic cartons, etc. If you send in any plastic cartons that have had milk or juice in them, please rinse them out before sending in. Thank you! *We have ILC on Friday. Remember your books. *As the weather is starting to cool down, please make sure your child dresses appropriately! *Tuesday December 6th is our Performing Arts field trip. These permission slips went home at the beginning of the year and have already been returned. We will be going to the Cobb Civic Center to see The Nutcracker ballet. Please have your child wear their maroon Tritt shirt!
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  Thank you for all the items donated for the food drive. As a class, we donated 46 items. What a great lesson to teach our children. Today we celebrated Veteran's Day by researching, "What is Veteran's Day? Why and how do we celebrate?" and we listened to a Veteran share about his job and service. We even saw and sampled their food they eat while on duty. Ask your child all about it! Information:
Reading: How rhythm, rhyme, and repetition provide meaning in fictional text, poems, and songs Writing: Use our research gathered to organize and draft an informational writing piece of choice Math: one and two step word problems with a focus on explaining how we used a strategy to find the solution Content: Energy and Forces Word Work:
We had a great time watching The Boxcar Children movie and enjoying snacks from the vending machine and me. We also enjoyed Pirate Booty and a lollipop from the PTA for winning the Kindness Award at the Dash.
Reminders: *We will go to the ILC on Monday *No school on Tuesday (teacher work day) *Send in nonperishable foods for Tritt’s annual food drive! *Set your clocks back on Sunday What are we learning in 302? Reading: complete our unit on how nonfiction text features help us as readers and begin our unit on how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story Writing: we’ll complete an informational writing piece on our heroes and focus on some fun How-tos Math: using the open number line to subtract and begin to solve 2-step word problems Word Work: root words and r-controlled e, I, u syllable patterns (bird, fern, worm, nurse, Earth) Content: energy (heat, light, motion) What a fun week! The Tritt Tiger Dash on Friday afternoon was a great success! The kids had a GREAT time. Thank you to everyone who came out to help and to cheer us on! As always, thank you for your continued support of our PTA. With your help, the PTA raised over $84,000!!! 100% of those donations stay at Tritt! THANK YOU!
Math: Addition within 100 using a number line Reading/Language Arts: Nonfiction text features and how they are helpful to the reader Writing: How to writing piece and begin to gather research for an informational piece Science: Energy – heat, light, motion *We met Goal 5 for our Tiger Dash fundraiser. We will watch a movie, have popcorn, and a trip to the vending machine on Friday. More information will come next week. *In honor of Halloween on Monday, we will be “Going Batty”. All day our activities will involve bats :) *ILC book check out on Friday. *Guidance on Thursday. *Please remember that your child needs to wear sneakers on PE days. No boots please! See the specials calendar (on the back of the daily folder) for our PE days. Thank you all for coming in this week for conferences! It was great to see everyone and spend time talking individually. Next week we are back to our normal schedule and FAST classes will resume. We’ve had a great start with our PTA Tiger Dash fundraiser!! Monday the 24th is our next count day! We are working towards our 4th goal/reward which is pj and game/electronics day.. Don’t forget the day of the DASH is Friday, October 28th and our time is 12:15. Come and cheer on Woolley's Winning Warriors!! Math: Addition and Subtraction within 100 using a hundreds chart Reading/Language Arts: Nonfiction text features and root words Writing: Writing a guided informational writing piece on James Oglethorpe Social Studies: Mary Musgrove *ILC on Friday. Remember to return all ILC books to choose new ones on your level! *Author Diane Shore is coming to visit Tritt on Thursday! Conference week is next week! We will have an early release schedule all week. Lunch will be from 11:25-11:45 Please remember your conference time and knock on the door when it is your turn. Twenty minutes goes by quickly so in order to stay on schedule, you can knock and open the door at the time of your conference. If for some reason you need to reschedule at the last minute, let me know so I can adjust my schedule accordingly. I will share your child's report card with you, as well as talk about strengths and weaknesses. Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have questions. I am looking forward to meeting with all of you!
Math: Addition within 100 using base-ten blocks (BTB) Reading/Language Arts: Author's Purpose and Character point of views Writing: Letters to the troops (The Bert Show’s Big Thank You) Social Studies: James Oglethorpe and Tomochichi *Our first collection day for the Tiger Dash is Monday October 17th! Please send in all collection envelopes. Please DO NOT seal the envelopes. Thank you for your continued support! All 2nd grade classes have the same incentives for the Tiger Dash. They are as follows…. Level 1 ($525 raised as a class) – Extra recess with popsicles! Level 2 ($1,050 raised as a class) – Lunch in the classroom with a movie! Level 3 ($1,575 raised as a class) – No homework for a week! Level 4 ($2,100 raised as a class) – PJ and game day! *On Friday we had a chance to stop by the Media Center to preview the Fall Book Fair. Your child made a list of books he or she thought looked interesting. These lists were sent home in their orange folders. Come check out the book fair next week while you're here for conferences! Your child may also bring money to school and will be able to visit the book fair in the morning before announcements. (There are lots of posters and knick-knacks by the register, so make sure your child knows what he/she should spend the money on!) *Square 1 Art order forms came home this week. Orders are due Thursday, November 3rd! We had a fun time at the Safety Village. Thank you to Mrs. Murner for coming along.
We are wrapping up the first quarter of second grade. How is it already this time? Information for this week: - On Friday, we will have our Tiger Dash kick off. Please have your child wear their Tritt shirt. -Look for emails about the Dash and please raise money for Tripp PTA. Remember all of the money raised stays at Tritt and a portion comes directly to me to buy items for our classroom. -On Friday we will visit the Book Fair to preview the books available. Your child will bring home a list of books they like to make it a little easier for them to purchase them on their own the following week. -The Book Fair will be open during conference week. Book Fair Hours: : Mon-Thurs: 7:20-7:50 am Mon & Tues: 12:20-6:00 pm Weds & Thurs: 12:20-4:00 pm What are we learning in 302? Reading: We will read information text about Sequoyah to identify the purpose of the text (what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe) Writing: we will finish our personal narrative for first quarter Math: We will review place value to 1,000 and look at telling time. Word Work: We will learn to use commas correctly when writing letters. We will write letters to the troops for the Bert's Big Thank You. If you would like to write a letter to send in with ours, we would love extras. Just send them in with your child. r-controlled -we'll focus on r-controlled a syllable patterns (shark) Content: We will finish our unit on Creeks, Cherokees and Sequoya Enjoy your fall break!
Over fall break, please take a picture of your child doing something and send it in with them on Monday. It can be something they did on vacation or just them relaxing in their pjs. We will use these pictures to help us in writing. Looking ahead... International Walk To School Day at TrittWednesday, Oct. 5 We would like to invite you to walk/ bike to school on Wednesday, Oct 5. You can walk/bike with your parents or you can join the Tritt Staff at the following spots:
Our Safety Village field trip will be Wednesday, October 5th. What are we Learning in 302 the week after break? Reading: We will ask and answer questions as we read about the Creek and Cherokee Indians and Sequoya. Writing: We will write our final narrative for quarter 1 using a strong beginning, sensory details, and a closure. Math: Graphing Content: Creeks, Cherokees, and Sequoya Word Work: Long i digraph syllable patterns (pie, night) This week we made class posters and attended a pep rally to pump us up for next Tuesday’s Kickball game! Go Tritt Tigers!
Next Friday we will be going to the ILC for our lesson. Don’t forget to bring your library books! Also, next week we will have a fire safety lesson from the Cobb County Fire Dept. to prepare for our upcoming field trip. Have a great weekend! What are we learning in 302? Math- One step word problems to 20 and solving word problems with nickels, dimes, and pennies. Reading- Understanding key details (W questions), using context clues to figure out new words (use information gained from pictures & words), plurals (s, es, and ies) Word Work- Long e spelling and reading patterns (peach, yield, key, bee) Writing- Personal Narratives (small moments) Social Studies/Science- Regions of Georgia STEM- 3D Regions Challenge
Reminders:
*-Bring in Box Tops for the school collection. The class with the most wins a Popsicle Party. -Please purchase your tickets for the Tritt vs. Mt. Bethel Kickball game. I will be in the crowd cheering on Tritt with William and Charlotte! -record your 20 minutes of reading on reading logs -bring back ILC books on Friday What are We Learning in 302? Reading: continuing with asking questions and making predictions to understand our text better and answering questions about our reading Writing: revising and editing our small moment narrative and publish it in the computer lab using Word. Math: using our understanding of related facts and missing addend to make equations true and balance the equations making both sides equal Social Studies: learning and applying cardinal directions while learning the major rivers in GA and Georgia's regions. Word Work: through reading and spelling we'll study long o digraph spelling patterns: boat, crow, hoe STEM: We will look back at our structure we build a few weeks ago and revise and improve our plans and rebuild the structures to be more successful |
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