2nd Grade News
with Mrs. Trujillo
Week of April 23-27
A note from Mrs. Trujillo:
THANK YOU all so much for the birthday gift, and for having the kiddos make me birthday cards. It was so touching to receive such a thoughtful gesture coming back from the teacher walkout. It really warmed my heart, so THANK YOU!
Tuesday is our Art's Festival. Dinner will begin at 5:30pm. It will be a variety of different foods from restaurants around the Norman community. Dinner is $5 per person. Please stop by the outside of our classroom to see our clay art we did this year, and our I AM poems. Then head down to the gym for the auction of the canvases every class created. Every canvas is from somewhere in Norman. Ours is of the South Oval on OUs campus. Our canvas isn't quite finished, so I don't have a picture to share. We also did a class project that will be available in the silent auction.
Our field trip to the Jasmin Moran Children's Museum is this Thursday. I have very few chaperones at this current time. Please, if you can, consider coming with us on the field trip and chaperoning. I am also still waiting on a few more permission slips and money. If you haven't turned in your child's permission form, please do so by TUESDAY!
The principal's reading challenge was extended. The new end date is this Friday. The school's goal is to read 3,000 books by then. If your child is still working on their reading list, please have them turn it in by Friday, even if they didn't complete it. Every book counts that is turned in on the lists.
This Friday is the school-wide pajama day. This is to celebrate the end of testing for our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders!
New School Hours
7:30- First bell rings (I will pick up gives from the gym at this time.)
7:40- School begins3:10- School ends
**New last day of school is May 31st!!**
Jasmin Moran Field Trip
Thursday, Apr 26, 2018, 09:00 PM
Jasmine Moran Children's Museum, Oklahoma 9, Seminole, OK, USA
This week in class...
We will finish working on Unit 7 in math this week. We will have our Unit 7 assessment this week. The concepts we will cover this week are:
- Attributes of 3-D shapes
- Attributes of 2-D shapes
At home, please practice counting change, and getting change back with your child. This is an everyday skill that we are working on in class, and working on it at home, and in the "real world" could be very beneficial. Also, working on telling time with an analog clock, and asking questions like "What time will it be in two hours?" helps reinforce skills taught in class. As always, practice with addition and subtraction fact fluency. A good way to do this is through Xtra Math.
Literacy:
This weeks literacy concepts are:
- Sound of the week: a, aw, au, augh, al, ough
- Story Genre: Expository Text
- Comprehension Skill: Plot: problem and solution
- Comprehension Strategy: make predictions
- Grammar: contractions with pronouns
- Mechanics: contractions/possessive pronouns
- Writing: opinion writing/poetry
Please continue to do Smarty Ants at home with your child. The skills your child learns in this program go right with what we learn in class. It really is a great tool, and on top of it, it is fun and engaging.
Social Studies/Science:
We will begin working on a new unit in both social studies and science, which go hand in hand. We will be working on map skills. (how to read a map, compass rose, directions, map key, etc.) We will also begin learning about Earth events and changes to the Earth. We will learn about events and changes that happen quickly (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.) and events and changes that happen slowly (erosion). We will also learn about different landforms on Earth.
Spelling Words For The Week:
2. small
3. paw
4. jaw
5. pause
6. sauce
7. taught
8. chalk
9. walk
10. sought
11. new
12. fruit
13. city
14. own
15. read
High Frequency Words For The Week:
2. father
3. mother
4. o'clock
5. own
6. questions
7. read
8. searching
9. sure
10. though
Specials This Week:
Tuesday: Music
Wednesday: PE
Thursday: Music
Friday: PE
Dates to Remember:
April 24- Arts Festival
April 26- Field Trip to Jasmin Moran
April 27- School Wide Pajama Day
May 3- Author Visit, David Titus
May 3- Spring Pictures
May 4- Hat Day
May 4- Super Kids Day
Classroom Wish List
Thank you to everyone who donates to our classroom. We wouldn't be able to do the things we do without your help! You are SO appreciated.
Pictures from last week...
Mrs. Trujillo's Contact Information
Email: atrujillo@norman.k12.ok.us
Location: 1601 McGee Drive, Norman, OK, United States
Phone: 405-366-5927