Mrs. Tabor’s 2nd Grade Weekly
News
12/14 – 12/18
Dear Families,
Greetings! It is
hard to believe we have only five more days of school until winter break! I know this will be a fun and exciting week
for the students and I am excited to share it with them. Thank you so much for all of your generosity
in sending in items for our classroom’s Husky Helping House child. I know the students are excited to wrap the
presents and help to make someone else’s holiday special. Please be sure to see the “Other Information”
section at the bottom of the newsletter.
It contains important information for this week.
Related Arts for Next Week: Music
Daily Lunch Time: 10:43 – 11:08 am
Daily Homework:
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Read 15 minutes
each night and record title in student agenda.
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Word Wall
Words: face, dog, food, happy, sat
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Homework
Notebooks due on Friday.
Reader’s Workshop:
How should the character’s voices sound?
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This week
students will conclude Unit 3 and begin Unit 4.
In Unit 4, The Wild West, students will read a variety of tall
tales. We will study the characteristics
of folktales, compare and contrast different versions of the same story, and
write our own tall tales. To build the
student’s schema about tall tale characters and to practice fluency, we will read
several Reader’s Theatre scripts this week based on the characters Paul Bunyan,
Pecos Bill, Johnny Appleseed, and Slue Foot Sue.
Word Work:
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Word Wall
Words: face, dog, food, happy, sat
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Word Work
patterns: None this week.
Math Workshop:
How do I skip count? How can
skip-counting help me when counting money?
How do I count combinations of
coins?
What equivalent combinations can I
make?
How do I find a total?
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This week we will
practice counting coin combinations and finding equivalent combinations
(different ways to make the same total).
At the end of the week students will pretend they are Holiday Shopping
in order to practice creating a budget, finding a monetary total, and making
change.
Social Studies:
What holiday traditions are important to
Israel? Germany? Mexico? England? Italy? Me?
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This week we will
learn about winter holidays in other parts of the world. With each country we will read a book,
complete a craft, and fill in a pretend passport explaining what we
learned.
Writer’s Workshop:
What is alliteration?
What is a haiku?
How can I create a shape poem?
How can I write free form poetry?
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This week students
will continue what we learned about the elements of poetry in reading workshop
last week to now create their own poetry.
Other Information:
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I am looking for
sales flyers from the Sunday newspaper (preferably Wal-Mart, Meijer, and
Target). If you have any you do not
need, please send them in at the beginning of this week. We will use them to pretend we are doing some
holiday shopping during math workshop.
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Our school
sing-a-long will be the afternoon of December 17th. Due to limited space and fire regulations,
this event is for students only. The
second graders are welcome to bring in a Santa hat or holiday/festive hat to
wear during the sing-a-long.
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Thursday,
December 17th is also a school-wide Polar Express Pajama Day! Students may wear their pajamas this
day. However, please do not allow
students to wear slippers or robes.
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Our class party
will be on Friday, December 18th from 9:30-10:40. Students are encouraged to bring in a drink
and snack of their choosing for the party. Parents are welcome to attend.
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Winter Break
begins December 21st. School
will be back in session on Monday, January 4th.
