A few reminders for this week - October 24th - 28th

*Monday is the last day for our library fundraiser!

*This week is "Red Ribbon Week" and we will have a special emphasis each day to remind students to say NO to drugs! There is also suggested "dress up" theme each day.....

Monday-Wear camoflauge
Tuesday-Crazy Hair Day
Wednesday-70's theme
Thursday-Class Shirts-Picture Day
Friday-Scarecrows - We're going to "Scare Away Drugs"

*Our scarecrow parade will be at 8:15 a.m. on Friday, October 28, right after announcements. Parents are welcome to come and watch our scarecrows parade through Kaufman!

*We will have our Fall Fun Day in Second Grade that day as well. The teachers have planned fun stations for the students throughout the day and our room mothers have planned special treats!
Monday, October 31, will be the 50th day of school. Your child may dress up 50's style that day if they would like to.

*Last Friday was the end of our first nine weeks. Report cards will go home on Tuesday, November 1st.

*In Language Arts this week, we will be learning interesting facts and information about pumpkins and also reading some fun fiction stories about pumpkins as well. For example, The Biggest Pumpkin Ever". We will also read about some very frightful animals from October issues of National Geographic such as spiders. The students will be writing their own pumpkin patch stories throughout the week and using what they have learned during our Writer's Workshop mini-lessons to help them. We will be studying words this week that have the long o and long a sound. Be sure to check out spelling city for your child to take a practice spelling test and play games throughout the week at home.

We will begin the 2nd 9 weeks in math exploring numbers to 999. This week we will focus on the value of these bigger numbers. We will make the connection to last 9 weeks when we showed numbers in different ways..... now we are going into the one hundreds place!

In science we will learn about systems and structures. A system is a group of parts that work together to perform a function or job. An example of a structure would be stairs or a bridge - these things are used for a purpose, but alone do not do what a system does.

In social studies we are learning about our local culture heritage. We will look at different parts of our culture that makes Texas unique and different from other states. We will look at sports teams, music, dances, and landmarks.