The week: 2/25 - 3/1

3/1 Winter Carnival 5:00 - 9:00 - Can't wait unit the Carnival on Friday!!!!!

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Morning Meeting Schedule: Each student will have a time where they can share.  We will start with a greeting and then students will have two minutes to tell a story, show or talk about something they would like to bring to share with the class.  They will ask for three questions or comments.  If they are bringing in an item to share, it must fit in their backpack.

Here is our schedule:

Mondays: Davis, Nolan, Audrey, Connor
Tuesdays: Lizzie, Brayden, Josiah and Elias
Wednesdays: Emmy D., Owen, Julia and North 
Thursdays: Genevieve, Alonso, Emily O., Caden and Rory 
Fridays: Jackson, Kaia, Rein, Amelia and Barbara

Our lesson from SecondStep (Social and Emotional Learning): We will continue to talking about Managing Problems. The students are learning strategies to help calm themselves down in different situations and ways to talk to their peers in situations.

Ms. Rasicot's Spelling Words - Unit 19 - oo, ui, ue, oe and ew
Basic List: root, boot suit fruit clue glue flew new shoe canoe 
Challenge: booth balloon cartoon proofread cruel bruise chew true moose rooster

Mrs. Spanjers' Spelling Words Unit 19 - ee
deep reel seed beep tee need feet keep seep meet feel

Practice spelling words on: spellingcity.com

Reading: Unit 7 - Week 2: Skill: Making Inferences & Making Predictions:

      The literary fiction big book we’ll be diving into this week is a classic: The Ugly Duckling.  The story is about a baby bird that lives on a river.  We learn about him as he grows. We will build vocabulary and learn about concepts related to growing up and being different.  They will use word and picture clues to make before- and during-reading predictions.  This is a great strategy to practice whenever your child reads or listens to a story at home!

The Daily Five in Reading:

*Read to Self:  Read! Read! Read!

*Read to Someone: Reading to someone

*Listen to Reading: Working on RazKids, Tumblebooks

*Work on Writing: Spelling City, write spelling words in sentences, write a story using our spelling
                             words and sight words.  We will start working on Conventions!  Does your 
                             sentence a have a capital letter to start, noun, verb, and punctuation?

*Word Work - working on fluency with reading passages and work on Sight Words

In Math:

We are working on adding money!  

Social Studies and Science: 
We will learn about "How Can I Be a Good Shopper?" and will start our next unit in science, "Pebbles, Sand and Silt".
On Friday, our naturalist is coming from Three Rivers Park. 

This Weeks Specialist Schedule:

Monday:       Day 5
Tuesday:      Day 6
Wednesday: Day 1
Thursday:     Day 2
Friday:          Day 3

On Day 1 we go to: Gym and Media

On Day 2 we go to: Music

On Day 3 we go to: Media and Gym

On Day 4 we go to: Art (Please have your child bring back their library book so they can check out a new one on Day 5)

On Day 5 we go to: Gym and Media (Check out day)

On Day 6 we go to: Art and Music

Help your child remember to bring back their Friday Folders on Monday and bring a healthy snack every day!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR:

3/1 Winter Carnival 5:00 - 9:00
3/22 No School - End of Quarter
3/25-29 No School - Spring Break
5/10 No School - Profession Learning Day
5/27 No School - Memorial Day

Operetta information:

2/25/19: All Cast. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills

2/26/19: Blue Group. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills

2/28/19: Boxers, Chihuahuas, Poodles, Scotties. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills

This week:

      In second grade we celebrate Valentine’s Day during the whole school day, with Valentine themed things for reading and math.  I have bingo games and other activities planned.  We have the Valentine exchange during the day too, with the chance to read valentines and see who the cards are from.  We make the day special for all subjects.  

We will celebrate on Thursday, February 14^th.  

Students are invited to pass out valentines to their classmates.  

We have 22 students in the class.   

Please just have you child write his/her name on the Valentines. 

You may bring in your Valentines ready to pass out and a decorated box or bag beginning Monday, February 11^th!  

Students may bring Valentine treats with their Valentines. Please no treats with peanuts!  We do have some students that cannot eat certain treats.  

Skittles and Starbursts are safe!  

Also, one student has braces and cannot eat sticky things. I know he loves chocolate!!!!

I can't wait to see all the creative boxes and bags!

Ms. Rasicot

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Sign up for Conferences!

2/19 No School - Conferences 12:00 - 8:00 pm - can sign up in Skyward

2/21 Conferences 4:00 - 8:00 pm - can sign up in Skyward

Directions on how to sign up:

1. From the Shirley Hills website, click on FAMILY ACCESS on the left side of the screen.
2. At the next screen, enter your Skyward Login information.  (If you don’t have this information, please call Mrs. Clipper at 952-491-8409).
3. If this is the first time you have tried to log into Family Access, the next screen that appears may ask you to change your password to something you can easily remember.    Simply create a new password and click Save.
4. When you get to your Family Access account, click on Teacher Conferences on the left side of the screen.
5. If you have more than one child in the district, there will be a box for each student.
6. To the far right of the student’s name, click on All Conferences
7. On the next screen, find the HOMEROOM class.  This may be the only class listed or it may be the last one in a list of five.
8. On the line with the Homeroom class, click Select a Time.
9. The next screen shows all conference times.  Any available conference time slot will have the word SELECT to the far right.
10. Click on Select for a time that works for your family.
11. A small screen will pop up showing the teachers name, room number and the time you have selected.  Click Save, and you’re done.

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Morning Meeting Schedule: Each student will have a time where they can share.  We will start with a greeting and then students will have two minutes to tell a story, show or talk about something they would like to bring to share with the class.  They will ask for three questions or comments.  If they are bringing in an item to share, it must fit in their backpack.
Here is our schedule:

Mondays: Davis, Nolan, Audrey, Connor
Tuesdays: Lizzie, Brayden, Josiah and Elias
Wednesdays: Emmy D., Owen, Julia and North 
Thursdays: Genevieve, Alonso, Emily O., Caden and Rory 
Fridays: Jackson, Kaia, Rein, Amelia and Barbara

Our lesson from SecondStep (Social and Emotional Learning): We will continue to talking about Emotional Management. The students are learning strategies to help calm themselves down in different situations and ways to talk to their peers in situations.

S.O.A.R.ing: The students will be making Imovies and presenting them to the class.  We want to revisit what it looks like when we are SOARing at school.

Spelling Words - Unit 18 - oo and ou
Basic List: shook hook crook soot should stood brook foot could would
Challenge: bookcase crooked shouldn't couldn't wooden wouldn't nook cookout hood football

Practice spelling words on: spellingcity.com

Reading: Unit 7 - Skill: Making Inferences & Making Predictions:
     We will be starting a new unit involving making predictions. We will also be revisiting inferencing strategies as well.  Students will make educated guesses, or predictions, about what will happen next in a story by using clues (fiction) or evidence (nonfiction) along with what they already know.  Making predictions helps students make sense of a text and build interest as they read.  Making predictions encourages our early readers to keep reading to find out if what they think or predict will happen.We will also be finishing our animal research project.  The students are working on their research skills: detailed notes, listing facts and then using those facts in their own words in complete sentences.

The Daily Five in Reading:

*Read to Self:  Read! Read! Read!

*Read to Someone: Reading to someone

*Listen to Reading: Working on RazKids, Tumblebooks

*Work on Writing: Spelling City, write spelling words in sentences, writing a summary for a story 
  using the "5 Word Summary Strategy"

*Word Work - working on fluency with reading passages and work on Sight Words

In Math:

We will be finishing our unit on Graphing.

Social Studies: 
We will learn about "How Can I Be a Good Shopper?"

This Weeks Specialist Schedule:

Monday:       Day 3
Tuesday:      Day 4
Wednesday: Day 5
Thursday:     Day 6
Friday:          Day 1

On Day 1 we go to: Gym and Media

On Day 2 we go to: Music

On Day 3 we go to: Media and Gym

On Day 4 we go to: Art (Please have your child bring back their library book so they can check out a new one on Day 5)

On Day 5 we go to: Gym and Media (Check out day)

On Day 6 we go to: Art and Music

Help your child remember to bring back their Friday Folders on Monday and bring a healthy snack every day!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR:

2/14 - Valentines Day
2/18 President's Day - No school
2/19 No School - Conferences 12:00 - 8:00 pm - can sign up in Skyward
2/21 Conferences 4:00 - 8:00 pm - can sign up in Skyward
3/1 Winter Carnival 5:00 - 9:00
3/22 No School - End of Quarter
3/25-29 No School - Spring Break
5/10 No School - Profession Learning Day
5/27 No School - Memorial Day

Operetta information:

2/11/19: Boxers, Chihuahuas, Poodles, Scotties. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills

2/12/19: Blue Group. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills **Please note this change from ALL CAST to Blue Group!**

2/14/19: Dalmatian Chorus. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills

2/18/19: No School.

2/19/19: No School.

2/21/19: All Cast. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills

2/25/19: All Cast. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills

2/26/19: Blue Group. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills

2/28/19: Boxers, Chihuahuas, Poodles, Scotties. 3:30-4:30PM @ Shirley Hills