Meet our OSI Student from Fitchburg State University

Meet Miss Hannah Dziewietin from Fitchburg State University! Hannah was an OSI student of mine last year and I am happy to have her back. She joins us three mornings a week and in January will hopefully be student teaching full time in the classroom. The students enjoy having her in the classroom and she is having a great time working in small reading and math groups. This is a photo of her teaching one of our Second Step Anti-Bullying lessons!

SEVEN CONTINENTS AND FIVE OCEANS QUIZ

STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE A STUDY GUIDE ON MONDAY AND WILL NEED TO KNOW WHERE THE SEVEN CONTINENTS AND FIVE OCEANS ARE LOCATED. STUDENTS WILL TAKE A QUIZ ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12. A WORD BANK WILL BE GIVEN BUT SPELLING WILL STILL COUNT.

PICTURES FROM FLAT STANLEY'S JOURNEY THROUGHOUT THE USA AND WORLD!

Open House on Monday - 5:30 to 7:30!!!!!! Hope to see you there!

Unit 1 Week 1 Reading Skills

Each week you will receive a copy of the skills and strategies taught throughout the upcoming week. This coming week students will be learning about fantasy stories, how to visualize key events, and how to locate important details. We have been practicing how to work at the different centers such as fluency, working with words, and vocabulary. You will see the work coming home that ties in with this week's unit  throughout next week.

HOMEWORK

     Students will receive orange homework folders on Monday. Inside there is your child's spelling list, which will consist of ten to twelve  high frequency words students should know how to spell. Students will be tested on their spelling words on Fridays. Keeping the spelling list in a visible location, such as your refrigerator, is recommended so that students can easily practice their words. Students will also be tested on the spelling patterns learned in Fundations, our phonics/spelling program,  at the end of each unit.
     In addition, students will receive a reading log and they are expected to read for twenty minutes each night (Monday through Thursday). Please sign the log nightly and return it to school inside the orange folder on Friday. Students are also expected to read a fluency passage one time each night for one minute. Please time your child on his/her reading of the passage, and help your child count how many words he or she read. We will be practicing this in class on Monday, so your child should be able to model this for you.
    Symphony Math is not up and running yet. Once that is set, I will send home the usernames and passwords for students to work on as well.  Thank you for your support at home!

Second Grade Dirt Cup Challenge

This year students in the second grade will be working to master their addition and subtraction facts. Students will work toward building a dirt cup throughout the year, and in June we will have a dirt cup party! Please help your child practice his or her addition and subtraction facts. Using flash cards is a great and easy way to practice and memorize the basic facts. A copy of this picture will remain in your child's orange homework folder which is going home on Monday. On Fridays students will color in the sections they have mastered and you will be able to see how they are doing when the orange homework folders come home on Mondays. Students will need to pass each number a total of three times within a minute in order to move onto the next station.