Newsletter

Reading

We’ve been working on a variety of skills and strategies such as: identifying cause and effect, using illustrations, summarizing, context clues, word parts, and using a thesaurus (antonyms and synonyms).  For phonics, we’ve worked on all the long vowel sounds and digraphs and blends such as:  ch, sh, th, wh, ph, scr-, spr-, and str-.  We’ve also read many interesting and enjoyable fiction and non-fiction stories in our basal.

Good News!!!!!

     My webpage is up and running!!!  The glitches have finally been fixed thanks to the wonderful computer technicians at Norwood-Norfolk.  The following are some of the items available to you on my webpage:

  • Daily Homework Assignments
  • Monthly Calendar of events (for my classroom)
  • Spelling words for the week
  • Homework Helpers (internet sites)
  • Snack Calendar
  • Newsletters

To access the site, type in the following address into your computer’s address bar:

        www.nncsk12.org

Then follow these steps:
  1. Click on the Elementary School button.
  2. Click on my name in the column of 2nd Grade teachers.

Please let me know if there is anything I can add or change to make this site more user friendly or beneficial for you and your child.

**Note**  All notes, letters, etc. will still be sent home on a hard copy.  My webpage is just a backup source in the event that something was forgotten at school or for a parent that wants to access it away from home.

Writing and Grammar

 

This period of the day has been very busy!  There has been a lot to cover like: action verbs, letter punctuation, proper use of commas, abbreviations, sentence punctuation, present-tense and past-tense verbs, the verb “have” and sentence combining.  We’ve created a snowman/woman “biography”, “I have a dream” quilt pieces, and we are starting some poetry pages that will focus on rhyme and descriptive words.  I can’t wait for you to see the finished products!

Math

Addition facts! Graphs! Geoboards! Money! Symmetry! Measuring! Polygons! Fractions! Wow!!  What a fun time we all had using geoboard to create polygons, using tiles and rulers to measure things around the room, and using coins to count money.  Just just a blob of paint and a folded piece of paper created many unique pictures.  This was done during our study of symmetry.

Science

     In Science, we’ve just finished our unit on plants and have moved on to a new and exciting unit on animals.  We will be learning about the 5 different types of animals:  mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and birds, what they eat, the kind of habitat they live in, their predators, and much more