Course: Quinter, Sheila

Mrs. Quinter's Quicknotes

Wellington Elementary
Second Grade

Welcome!

Week of February 8th

The children took home their Jump Rope For Heart forms. Instructions are on the envelope. Thank you!

Our Second Grade Valentine's Party is on Feb. 11th from 1:30-2:30. Please have your child make a valentine's box or container by Wed., Feb. 10th. The children will pass them out before the party and then open them during the party. Please have your child sign their name on the back of each valentine so the child will who sent it.

Check Office SchoolWeb site:

http://schoolweb.lisd.net/schoolweb3/course/view.php?id=2386

Check out P.T.A.'s Website:

http://www.lisd.net/schools/well/PTA/pta_newsletter.htm

Have a great week!

Mrs. Quinter

quinters@lisd.net

January Calendar

Feb. 11th - Valentine's Day Parties for KN, 2, 4
Feb. 12th - Valentine's Day Parties for 1,3,5
Feb. 15th - No School - President's Day
Feb. 16th - Culver's Night
Feb. 18th - Book Fair begins
Feb. 19th - Literacy Night
Feb. 20th - P.T.A. Meeting/1st grade perform/Jump Rope Performance
Feb. 24th - Last day for Book Fair
Feb. 25th - Boy Scouts 6:30-8:30
Feb. 26th - End of 4th Six Weeks

Spelling Words

WEEK OF January 17

Spelling Unit 17: world, going, want, school, important, until, form, food, keep

Phonics: (words that end s or es) boxes, beaches, wishes, names, coins

Spelling Test on Friday. Homework packet due on Friday!

Spelling City file

Language Arts

Reader 's Workshop: The story this week will be Abuela. It is a story about a little girl going places with her grandmother. The children will be learning vocabulary:

harbor - place where ships dock

flock - group of birds

glide - fly smoothly without effort

swooping - flying downward fast

soared - flew high

The children will be practicing making visual images about the story. Connections between their experiences with their grandmother will be discussed. Comprehension and vocabulary quizes will be on Thursday. Phonics: adding s or es to words. Reader's Workshop: finding the meaning of poetry by using the clues in the writing as well as their prior knowledge.

Forum: Your child needs to click on the icon with the two faces and respond to the question asked. I'm hoping the children will learn how to respond to a question on my Schoolweb page.

Reader's Response: See Homework sheet.

Writer's Workshop: Creating a Valentine's Day poem. Write Traits lessons on sentence fluency.

LIBRARY ON TUESDAY: bring your books (9:00-9:30)

Try this website:

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/archives/readingmachine.shtml

Favorite Magic Treehouse Book Forum

Math

Topic 11 - Building to 999

The children will be working on making numbers in the hundreds by writing them in expanded notation.

( Ex. 100 +20 + 3 = 123)

They will also be adding and subtracting by hundred and tens using hundreds charts to find the pattern.

The children will be continuing with the FASTMATH program which helps them master the addition and subtraction facts. It is timed responses for immediate recall. Work on the flashcards at home will help them greatly.

website to practice math facts and skills:

www.pearsonsuccessnet.com

See the letter with your child's username and password to allow more practice in math. There are many games and math fact drill for them to do on the computer once they go to the Pearson Success website.

Keep studying the facts: doubles, doubles +1 or near doubles, +0,+1,+2, make 10 add the extra. Now they can write the related subtraction fact to go with the addition facts because for every addition fact there is a related subtraction fact. Timed related and addition facts will be sent home. They must complete all 25 problems in 1 1/2 minutes accurately. Practice the ones missed and review with them.

Science/Social Studies

Science: We're continuing with the unit on Force and Motion. There will be lessons on how light energy is affected by what it strikes. When light strikes an object, it can be classified as transparent, opaque, or translucent. The children will be learning about these terms indirectly through activities. Also, they will learn that heat energy flows from warmer to colder in an experiment and when heat energy is absorbed, it can cause the material to get warmer or melt.

Social Studies: The children will continue working on landmarks of the U.S. and this week world landmarks. Also, they will be learning what are artifacts and be introduced to famous inventors.