Hensley's Happenings
News from Miss Hensley's Class
February 8, 2019
News and Information
Midterms
If you haven't already done so, please log on to Skyward and check your child's midterm grades. I sent the attached letter home on Friday, but here is a link to it in case your copy did not make it home.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RR5tBdasAIsNgd9ZKU1yrM3yVZ-IqA4UKGlkl3ksYo8/edit?usp=sharing
Valentine Cards
Please have your child bring their Valentine cards to school no later than Tuesday, Feb. 12 so they kids can distribute them to the correct bag and they will be ready to be opened on Thursday morning. A class list was sent home with your child on Tuesday. If you need another list, please let me know.
Also- we will be making our Valentine bags in class. I know other classes might be doing something different, but we are doing ours in class.
Valentine Party- Thursday , Feb. 14 1:00 -2:00
I had a ton of volunteers for our party! Thank you so much! Feel free to send in your items any time next week. We are excited for Thursday!
Winter Blues Dress Up Days
Feb. 22 Farmer day
Mar. 8 Favorite storybook character day
Mar. 22 Island/ sunglasses day
Help Wanted for Wax Museum Research!
In a few weeks we are going to begin our wax museum research. Based on how things went with our animal research, I feel like I'm going to need some extra hands and eyes during the process. We will be doing the research during writing from 10:50-11:45 daily. I don't have a nailed down start date yet, as we are still working on our animal reports. But, I'm shooting for the week of Feb. 11 to get started. If you are interested in spending some time with us helping kids find answers to specific biographical questions in supplied websites using their ipad, let me know and then when I have dates for sure I can get back with you. Please don't feel like you need to come everyday of this 8-10 day research process, even if you can help just once I would greatly appreciate it!
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 continued 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!
Math
determining the correct unit of measurement- inches, feet, yards
Comparing lengths of objects
measuring in 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
Animal reports are finally done! Wax museum research begins Monday!
English- irregular verbs / subject verb agreement
Spelling Words
say
pay
plain
tray
sail
fair
maid
pail
rays
stay
pray
main
stain
tail
paint
delay
pain
may
away
Homework
Your child's nightly homework: Read 20 minutes every night!
Homework Helps and Hints
https://www.thepathway2success.com/games-to-improve-executive-functioning-skills/
Important Events
February
14 Valentine Party- will be an afternoon party 1:00-2:00
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
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