September 24 - 28, 2012

***CHOIR STUDENTS!  Second grade choir will meet Wednesday mornings.  If your child has missed any choir practices, you should have received a letter last Friday.  Please make sure to attend every Wednesday morning!

***Don't forget $5.00 for Accelerated Reading!   In order to continue using this program, our library is asking you to help.  Please send this week.

***First bookfair begins next Monday, October 1st.  More information coming!

**There is still time to join PTO!!! We need YOU. Membership is $10.00.

***Shaved Ice will be October 3rd.  Please send exact change - $1.50.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Hannah

Lessons for this Week:

Math: We will  count within 1000; skip count by 5's, 10's, and 100's.  We will also mentally add and subtract 10 or 100 to a given number 100 to 900.  (10 more, 10 less, 100 more, 100 less.)

Reading: Our story is "The Strongest One." We will learn about realism and fantasy. Read your story every night!  Online and written reading tests will be on Thursday. 

**Students should be bringing AR books home every night to read, along with their basal reader for the story of the week.

Spelling: We will learn to read and write words with consonant digraphs. (ch, tch, sh, th). Spelling Test is on Friday.

Grammar: We will learn about statements, questions, commands and exclamations. Every sentence must begin with a capital or uppercase letter and end with correct punctuation. Grammar Test will be on Friday.

Social Science:  We will complete our AMSTI study of Balancing and Weighing.