Dear Parents,

On Monday, December 19, our Santa’s Workshop will start at 9:30.  I am still missing CDs and $1 from many children.  They are due Dec. 15^th.  Right now I am planning on Becky Cotter, Mike Kitson, Kristin Whipple, Kaci Roller, and Scott DeRuiter.  Please be here around 9:20.

Our Christmas party will be in the afternoon on Tuesday, December 20.  I do not need any parent help, but I do need help with treats.  Please look below for your child’s name.

Carsten-1 quart of vanilla ice cream

Reese-1 quart of vanilla ice cream

Kayda-1 quart of vanilla ice cream

Anna-a big bag of chips

Karly-a big bag of chips

Hunter-a 2 liter of root beer

Aleah-1 quart of vanilla ice cream

 Karri-paper plates and napkins (at least 27)

Alex-plastic spoons (at least 27)

Derrick-12 oz. or larger plastic cups (at least 27)

Macy-a 2 liter of root beer

Wesley-a 2 liter of orange soda

For the gift exchange at our party, I would like each child to bring in a small gift for everyone.  You could go to a dollar store or Wal-Mart and find one item that you can get multiples (for example:  rubber insects, snakes, frogs, bouncy balls, stickers, candy, pencils, erasers, etc.).  This is not meant to break your pocket book.  Please try and keep it under $4.

On Wednesday, December 21, we will have a sing along in the morning and movies in the afternoon.

Thanks and Merry Christmas!

Mrs. Wimmler                                                                             

 

 

 

Second Grade News

December 5-9

Here is a peek at what we will be working on this week.

Reading:  Our new vocabulary words for this week are: 

          friend                   show                    since                    those

          giants                   gripped                batter                  thousand

          pitched                bounced              advice                  approaching

          bound                  pitching               returned              serious

          terrible                been                    baseball

This week we will practice summarizing the stories we read.  This means that we will be telling about the most important parts of a story in a few short sentences.  As you read at home with your child, please take a few minutes to help your child summarize the stories.        

Spelling:  The new spelling list for this week is stapled to this letter.

Math:  We will continue practicing how to make change from a dollar.  We are learning how to count up from the cost of an item to 100.  For example, if an item costs 26 cents, the students are learning to start counting up from 26 until they reach $1.00 to determine the amount of change due back .  Please take a few minutes every night to make up a few problems to practice with your child.     

Elementary Christmas Program:  We will have our program on Monday, December 12 at 7:00 in the high school gym. 

Santa’s Workshop:  This will be on Monday, December 19 from 9:30-11:00.  Please make sure your child has a CD and $1.00 sent in by December 15 so we can get everything purchased and set up for the workshop.  We could use 1 or 2 more parents to help with this.  Please let me know if you can come to help for a little while that morning.

Classroom Christmas Party:  Our party will be on Tuesday, December 20.  Please have your child bring in 25 small items for our gift exchange.

 Have a great week!

Mrs. Wimmler          

Second Grade News

November 28-December 2 

I hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving with your families.  Here is a peek at what we will be working on this week.

Reading:  Our new vocabulary words for this week are: 

         bore          insult                 ripe                     squeeze
         hurled       exclaimed        patch                  impatient
         prodded    ridiculous

We will be reading and comparing fiction and non-fiction stories about spiders.  We will also be looking at the sequence of events in a story, and we will be looking for sequence clue words such as:  first, second, next, then, last, and finally.  As you read at home with your child please take a few minutes to discuss the sequence of events in a story and look for sequence words.

Spelling:  The new spelling list for this week is stapled to this letter.

Math:  This week we will be counting combinations of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies.  We will also be learning how to figure out how much change we would get back from a dollar.  For example, if an item costs 26 cents, the students will have to determine which coins would be needed to purchase it.  Then they will have to determine how much change they would receive if they bought a 26 cent item with a dollar bill.  Please take a few minutes every night to make up a few problems to practice with your child.           

Elementary Christmas Program:  We will have our program on Monday, December 12 at 7:00 in the high school gym. 

Classroom Christmas Party:  Our party will be on Tuesday, December 20.  For our gift exchange, I am asking each child to bring in 25 of a small item to pass out to the members of our class.  Please keep the items small and inexpensive.   Please do not spend more than a couple of dollars for the items.  Ideas of items to give out would be bouncy balls, pencils, erasers, colored pens, candy canes, gum, stretchy shape bracelets, tiny toys, etc. Just use your imagination.

Library:   We visit the library on Wednesday.  Please make sure all books are returned. 

Bookbags:  Please make sure your child has turned in his/her November reading calendar. 

 Have a great week!          

Second Grade News

November 14-18

Reading:  This week we will be reading and comparing fiction and non-fiction stories about snakes.  These are the new vocabulary words for this week:

          enemy                 medicine             slither                  scales

          slimy                    peels                    shed                     protect

          flicking                underneath

Please put this list in a handy spot, and have your child read through it a couple of times each day. 

Spelling:   The new word list is attached to this letter.

Math:  We have been working on subtraction.  This would be a great to get out the flashcards and help your child finish memorizing these facts.

Library:  We return to the library on Wednesday.  Please make sure all books are returned so that more may be checked out. 

 Veteran’s Day Visitor:  Last Friday we had the privilege of having Sarah Barber speak to our class.  Sarah is in the army and is currently serving in Kabul, Afghanistan.  She told us what she does in her position, and she told us about what life is like for the Afghan boys and girls. Our elementary is attempting to collect 3000 nonperishable and canned items for the troops in Sarah’s company.  We are collecting items until November 18.  Have a great week!

Mrs. Wimmler

Second Grade News

November 7-11

Reading:  These are the new vocabulary words for this week:

          animals                before                 between             knew

          why                     woodpile             dinosaurs            swallow

          few                      slither

Please put this list in a handy spot, and have your child read through it a couple of times each day.  Thanks so much for doing this as I am seeing great improvement in the reading of the boys and girls who tell me that they are practicing these words at home.

Spelling:  Our new spelling words for this week are:  after, camper, shower, over, mother, father, hurt, burn, turn, furry, hurry, and person.

Conferences:  These will take place on Thursday, November 11.  Please return the green conference sheet as soon as possible so that I can make any needed schedule changes.  I look forward to meeting with you on Thursday.

Feed the Troops:  Our elementary has been challenged to collect 3000 nonperishable and canned items for troops in the 527^th MP Company in Kabul, Afghanistan.  This is the company in which Sarah Barber, a recent McBain graduate, is serving.  If you are able to make a donation, please send it to school before November 18.  Have a great week!

Mrs. Wimmler

News for October 28th

                                                                                                                        October 28, 2011

Parents,

Here is a peek at what we will be working on next week:

Reading:  This is a list of our new vocabulary words.  Please put the list in a convenient spot and have your child read through it a couple of times each day.

            almost                       around                      another                    food  

            under                         scurries                    wheel                         bottle

            cage                           content                     follow                        raccoon

Our new phonics skill is the sound of er as in her, ir as in first, and ur as in turkey.

Math:  We continue to work on fact families as we review our addition and subtraction facts.  Several students have told me that you are helping them review with the triangular shaped flashcards which were sent home as homework.  Thanks so much, and please keep up the good work

Spelling:   Our new list for next week is attached to this letter.

Conferences:  We have Parent-Teacher Conferences on Thursday, November 10 from 1-8 pm.  Please mark your calendar.  Your child’s conference schedule will be sent home soon.  I look forward to meeting with you then.

Halloween:   We will have our Halloween activities on Monday afternoon.  At 1:00 we will parade downtown in McBain.  Then we will visit the fourth grade wax museums.  We will finish with snacks and a video.  Please send your child’s costume in a bag with his/her name on it.  Also, please remember to send in one cup of a munchie food item for our trail mix (no peanuts or peanut butter).

No School on Tuesday, November 1:  This is a professional development day for teachers. 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wimmler

October 24th News

                                                                                                                        October 24, 2011

Parents,

Thank you for being so understanding when we had to adjust our field trip plans to Klackle Orchards.  The boys and girls had a wonderful experience. 

Here is a peek at what we will be working on this week:

Reading:  Our new vocabulary words for this week are as follows: 

            because                    carry              don’t              goes               whole

            microscope             pupil              hidden          amount         messages

            telescope                 thumb           brain              mirror           skull

Our phonics skill is the long vowel sound made by the letters igh in words such as sight and might.  Our new comprehension skill is steps in a process.  This week as we read informational stories we will be looking for the clue words of first, next, then, and last to help us make sense of the order in which events are occurring.

Math:   We will be learning about fact families and using the idea for fact families to help us learn our addition and subtraction facts.  For example, the numbers 2, 9, and 11 are a fact family and go together to make these problems:      2+9=11            9+2=11          11-2=9       11-9=2 

Spelling:  The new words for this week are attached to this letter.

Halloween:  We will be celebrating Halloween on Monday, October 31^st in the afternoon.  Please have your child bring his/her costume in a bag with your child’s name on the bag. We will be parading downtown starting at 1:00.  After the parade, we will return to the classroom to have a Halloween snack and to watch a video. 

We will be making a trail mix for our snack at the party.  I am asking each child to bring in one cup of an item to add to the trail mix.  You may want to choose from one of these suggestions:  raisins, miniature marshmallows, dry cereal, popcorn, goldfish crackers, small pretzels, chocolate chips, m+m’s, skittles, etc.  Please make sure that there are no peants or peanut butter in your contribution.  You may send it in at any time. 

Have a great week!

Mrs. Wimmler

News for October 14

                                                                                                                        October 14, 2011

Parents,

Here is a peek at what we will be working on next week:

Reading:  Our new reading vocabulary words are :

            keep              mother                     myself                       new                warm

            beak               chipped                    duckling                    explore         hatch

            huddle          laid                             paddle                       surface          webbed

Please put this letter in a handy spot and have your child practice reading the words a couple of times each day.

Our new comprehension skill is compare and contrast.  We will learn that authors can teach us about two or more things when they describe how things are alike and different.  In our reading, we will be comparing and contrasting fiction and non-fiction stories about ducks.

Spelling:   Our new spelling words are:  passes, passing, teaches, teaching, wishes, wishing, mother, myself, danger, and paint.

Math:   We are working on memorizing our addition facts.  This week we practiced our doubles facts (2+2, 3+3, 4+4, etc.).  Next week we will use our doubles facts to practice doubles +1 and doubles -1.  The students will learn that if you know a double, you know the 1-more and 1-less sums.  For example, if you know that 4+4=8, then you know that 4+4=9 and 4+3=7.  Please take a few minutes each night to make up a few doubles +1 and doubles -1 facts for your child to practice.

Homework and Bookbags:  I am so pleased with the homework and bookbags that are returned every day.  This takes real commitment on your part.  Thanks so much for all the support you and giving to your second grader.

Library:  We return to the library on Wednesday.  Please make sure all books are returned so that more may be checked out.

Field Trip Reminder:  We visit Klackle Orchards on Thursday.  Please make sure all notes and money are sent in by Monday.  Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wimmlerj

October 7th News

                                                                                                                                    October 7, 2011

Parents, 

I would like to thank everyone who attended the Title reading and math night.  Your support makes a huge difference in your child’s education.

Here is a peek at what we will be working on this week:

Reading:   Our new comprehension skill is drawing conclusions.  We will learn that sometimes when you read a story, you can use what you know about real life and what the author tells you to figure out more about the characters and what is happening.

 Our reading vocabulary words are: 

            house                         off                   these              took                birdhouses

            repair                          whisper          backpack        guess              tomorrow     

            messy                         lawn                rake                pile                  single 

            pleased                      surprised        never              completing

Please put this list in a handy spot and have your child practice reading the words a couple of times each day.

Math:  We will be working on addition facts to 20.  There will be more Home Links math pages coming home this week.  Please look for them in your child’s folder.  Be sure to look over your child’s work and have your child make any needed corrections.  Also, please initial the Home Links so I know your child has shown the paper to you.  Remind your child to return the paper the next day.

Spelling:   The new list is attached to this letter.

Bookbags:  Thanks for listening to your child read aloud for a few minutes every evening.  The boys and girls are doing a good job of remembering to return their bookbags to school every day. 

Field Trip to Klackle Orchard:   We will be going to Klackle Orchard on Thursday, October 20. Please send in the permission slip and money by Monday, October 17. 

Delayed Start:   School begins at 10:00 on Monday.

Progress Reports:  Your child’s first progress report is being sent home today. Please look for it in your child’s folder. Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wimmler

                                                                                                                                    October 7, 2011

Parents, 

I would like to thank everyone who attended the Title reading and math night.  Your support makes a huge difference in your child’s education.

Here is a peek at what we will be working on this week:

Reading:   Our new comprehension skill is drawing conclusions.  We will learn that sometimes when you read a story, you can use what you know about real life and what the author tells you to figure out more about the characters and what is happening.

 Our reading vocabulary words are: 

            house                         off                   these              took                birdhouses

            repair                          whisper          backpack        guess              tomorrow     

            messy                         lawn                rake                pile                  single 

            pleased                      surprised        never              completing

Please put this list in a handy spot and have your child practice reading the words a couple of times each day.

Math:  We will be working on addition facts to 20.  There will be more Home Links math pages coming home this week.  Please look for them in your child’s folder.  Be sure to look over your child’s work and have your child make any needed corrections.  Also, please initial the Home Links so I know your child has shown the paper to you.  Remind your child to return the paper the next day.

Spelling:   The new list is attached to this letter.

Bookbags:  Thanks for listening to your child read aloud for a few minutes every evening.  The boys and girls are doing a good job of remembering to return their bookbags to school every day. 

Field Trip to Klackle Orchard:   We will be going to Klackle Orchard on Thursday, October 20. Please send in the permission slip and money by Monday, October 17. 

Delayed Start:   School begins at 10:00 on Monday.

Progress Reports:  Your child’s first progress report is being sent home today. Please look for it in your child’s folder. Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wimmler

                                                                                                                                    October 7, 2011

Parents, 

I would like to thank everyone who attended the Title reading and math night.  Your support makes a huge difference in your child’s education.

Here is a peek at what we will be working on this week:

Reading:   Our new comprehension skill is drawing conclusions.  We will learn that sometimes when you read a story, you can use what you know about real life and what the author tells you to figure out more about the characters and what is happening.

 Our reading vocabulary words are: 

            house                         off                   these              took                birdhouses

            repair                          whisper          backpack        guess              tomorrow     

            messy                         lawn                rake                pile                  single 

            pleased                      surprised        never              completing

Please put this list in a handy spot and have your child practice reading the words a couple of times each day.

Math:  We will be working on addition facts to 20.  There will be more Home Links math pages coming home this week.  Please look for them in your child’s folder.  Be sure to look over your child’s work and have your child make any needed corrections.  Also, please initial the Home Links so I know your child has shown the paper to you.  Remind your child to return the paper the next day.

Spelling:   The new list is attached to this letter.

Bookbags:  Thanks for listening to your child read aloud for a few minutes every evening.  The boys and girls are doing a good job of remembering to return their bookbags to school every day. 

Field Trip to Klackle Orchard:   We will be going to Klackle Orchard on Thursday, October 20. Please send in the permission slip and money by Monday, October 17. 

Delayed Start:   School begins at 10:00 on Monday.

Progress Reports:  Your child’s first progress report is being sent home today. Please look for it in your child’s folder. Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wimmler

                                                                                                                                    October 7, 2011

Parents, 

I would like to thank everyone who attended the Title reading and math night.  Your support makes a huge difference in your child’s education.

Here is a peek at what we will be working on this week:

Reading:   Our new comprehension skill is drawing conclusions.  We will learn that sometimes when you read a story, you can use what you know about real life and what the author tells you to figure out more about the characters and what is happening.

 Our reading vocabulary words are: 

            house                         off                   these              took                birdhouses

            repair                          whisper          backpack        guess              tomorrow     

            messy                         lawn                rake                pile                  single 

            pleased                      surprised        never              completing

Please put this list in a handy spot and have your child practice reading the words a couple of times each day.

Math:  We will be working on addition facts to 20.  There will be more Home Links math pages coming home this week.  Please look for them in your child’s folder.  Be sure to look over your child’s work and have your child make any needed corrections.  Also, please initial the Home Links so I know your child has shown the paper to you.  Remind your child to return the paper the next day.

Spelling:   The new list is attached to this letter.

Bookbags:  Thanks for listening to your child read aloud for a few minutes every evening.  The boys and girls are doing a good job of remembering to return their bookbags to school every day. 

Field Trip to Klackle Orchard:   We will be going to Klackle Orchard on Thursday, October 20. Please send in the permission slip and money by Monday, October 17. 

Delayed Start:   School begins at 10:00 on Monday.

Progress Reports:  Your child’s first progress report is being sent home today. Please look for it in your child’s folder. Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wimmler