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