Nov. 17, 2011 | MITCH Charter School

November 17, 2011

Hello Families of M.I.T.C.H. 2^nd graders,

It has been another great week in 2^nd grade. We are making huge progress in our writing and developing a deeper understand of parts of speech and our writing dress-ups.

Homework the week of Nov. 21^st-23^rd:

Monday

Riggs Homework: Letter Writing Practice

Saxon Homework: 39b/Fact Homework 39b

Reading for a minimum of 15 minutes

Tuesday

Riggs Homework: Practice Addressing Envelopes, Finish Thank You Letters

Saxon Homework: Problem Solving Practice 40a/b

Reading for a minimum of 15 minutes

Wednesday

Riggs Homework: Dress-up Practice

Saxon Homework:  40b Fact Practice

Reading for a minimum of 15 minutes

Coming this week in 2^nd Grade

Riggs

This week in Riggs we will be learning how to write a proper thank you letter and addressing an envelope. We will use this opportunity to write thank you letters in class this week. We will also continue to practice dressing-up our writing.  

Excellence in Writing

This week students will finish up their buffalo paragraph from last week and begin working on a paragraph about adventurer Jedediah Smith.

Saxon 

This week we will be working on telling time to five minute intervals, identifying a.m. and p.m., identifying the number of minutes in an hour and hours in a day, using a drawing or table to solve a story problem, and we will have a fact assessment on Tuesday afternoon.

History and Geography        

This month we will be studying Westward Expansion. This week we will be discussing life for settlers, Native Americans, and the Trail of Tears.

Reading

This week we will be reading the tall tale John Henry.

Sayings & Phrases

We will be learning two idioms this week. The first is where there is a will there is way; the second is eaten out of house and home.

Poetry

Buffalo Dusk and Something Told the Geese are the Core Knowledge poems we will be studying this week.

Parent Updates & Important Dates:

Miss Willner’s class has earned a class prize!!! They have voted to have Crazy Hair Day, due to science fair for the upper grades next week we have postponed our celebration until Thursday December 1^st.

• Thursday November 10^th 7:45 am   K-2 Science Fair
• Friday November 18^th 10:00 (Selnau) 11:15 (Willner)  Mad Science at M.I.T.C.H.
• Wednesday November 23^rd           Dismissal at 12:00 pm (no after school program)
• Thursday December 1^st                   Crazy Hair Day & No Uniform (Miss Willner’s Class)

 We look forward to seeing you tomorrow for the Mad Science guest speaker and we hope you all have a good weekend.

Thank you,

Miss Willner & Mr. Selnau

M.I.T.C.H. Charter School

(503) 639-5757

2^nd Grade

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