Hensley's Happenings
News from Miss Hensley's Class
February 15, 2019
News and Information
Thank you!
Thank you to everyone who donated and helped at the Valentine party! It was fabulous!
Check out the link for party pics
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C3wYqT-qraNddTr4uAmAMQg_7qssp-42?usp=sharing
Winter Blues Dress Up Days
Feb. 22 Farmer day
Mar. 8 Favorite storybook character day
Mar. 22 Island/ sunglasses day
Literacy Night! March 1 6:15-7:30 pm
Literacy Night is coming! Mark your calendars for a night of fun reading based activities, snacks, and prizes!
Swimming is Coming- March 18th- April 3rd
Each child will need a swimsuit and towel daily. One piece suits for girls please! More info to come as the date nears.
If you’d like to sit with your child at lunch we’d love to have you. Lunch begins at 11:47 a.m. If you wish to eat the school lunch, please call the office to order a tray.
Reading
We finished our unit in reading. We are reviewing and increasing the difficulty of making inferences and using those to predict. It is important that 2nd graders understand how to find evidence in the text AND put that together with their own experiences to make an inference about a passage. This will be necessary for success next year! We also finished up the unit by focusing on fluency and using intonation/ infection and volume to show expression in our writing.
Math
finding area and perimeter
measuring and estimating using centimeters
Goals for Subtraction Facts
Level M by March 8
Level Z by May 22
Once a student reaches Level Z and can do at least 95 out of 100 subtraction problems in 5 minutes they move to multiplication facts.
English and Writing
We got started on our wax museum research! They are doing a great job being patient and really looking for the information.
English- irregular verbs / subject verb agreement
Spelling Words
tale
pale
fare
sale
plane
male
pane
raise
mane
stare
made
eight
weight
waste
pear
Homework
Your child's nightly homework: Read 20 minutes every night!
Homework Helps and Hints
Your child is at the age where they can be responsible for more age appropriate tasks- emptying and filling backpacks (that should already be happening!), folding laundry, dusting and vacuuming, picking up and putting away items that belong in other rooms, setting the table, picking up things in the yard and emptying the dishwasher are all things that 8-9 years olds can do. Just make sure you show them how you want it done first, or it might not get done the way you’d like! A difficult concept for some children to learn is that we have to do things even though we don’t want to and we have to do them without rewards. In order for kids to be responsible, we must teach them what that looks like and we must practice at home as well as at school. By adding in these small jobs, kids learn life skills and that some jobs are not a choice, but a “have to.” I found a list of suggested skills by age that I have attached. Of course, the skills are suggestions, not a hard fast list of things you must be able to do. The link is attached below.
https://parentarizona.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The-PLAN-Indepedent-Training.pdf
Important Events
February
18 President's Day- we will have school
March
8 End of 3rd Quarter
15 Report Cards posted to Skyward
18-22 Swim
25-29 Spring Break
April
1-3 swim
12 Wax Museum
19 Good Friday- We WILL have school
May
3 Children's Museum Field Trip
24 New Last day for students
Contact Me
Email: staciehe@ohusc.k12.in.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/ohusc.k12.in.us/staciehensley/home
Location: 600 E Walnut St, Converse, IN, United States
Phone: 765-395-3341
Twitter: @staciehensley26