The Fontaine Flier
September 6, 2013
A Week in Review...
Highlights of the week....metacognition-thinking about are thinking, wrapped up Henry and Mudge with a super cute character, setting, and retell project. We learned to add doubles and near doubles, and sang our song, "Near doubles are so much fun, just double the small number and just add one!" We learned about evidence and why it is important to use it when we read. We also finished up our Animal Paper Slide Video projects! A special thanks for Brooke Trachsel for coming in and helping the kids video tape! Scoring rubrics will come home early next week after we have a little viewing party and do some self reflection. I will try and set up a wiki or Edmodo so parents can view our projects from home. I'll let you know as soon as this is up and running. To end our week on a great note, the PRT and Olathe NW marching band drummed up some team spirit on the front lawn with a fabulous performance!
Students have begun to blog about our day. They love it when people leave comments. Please let me know if you have trouble accessing it. www.afontaineml@blogspot.com
Coming up next week:
ELA Common Core (English Language Arts)
Anchor text-Days with Frog and Toad
Reading Skills-Prereading strategies, metacognition (continued), schema and how it helps us comprehend what we are reading, making connections, and compare and contrast
Author study-Robert Munsch
Spelling-this is a tricky one inflections: -ed (changing a y to an i and adding ed)
Writing Skills-writing an informational/explanatory piece
Math-Topic 2-Addition Strategies (Making ten, use doubles to solve near double problems, adding numbers in any order and adding three numbers)
Topic 2 test will be on Thursday. Students will also be responsible for knowing our math vocabulary words. (listed below)
Social Studies-Community/Citizenship
Guest Readers and Technology Helpers Needed!
We would love to invite guest readers to come in and read to us! You can either bring your own favorite book, I can provide one or you can listen to students read.
There are many fabulous technology projects I'd like to do with these kiddos throughout the year. We have an extra computer time every D day at 12:30 and soon we should be getting a few laptops to use in the classroom. If you'd be interested in being a guest reader or coming in and assisting with projects, please let me know.
Vocabulary Words of the Week
Math
doubles
near doubles
addend
number sentence
Reading
alone
cheer
meadow
fine
reason
spoiled
Social Studies
law
citizen
consequence
community
right
responsibility
Spelling Words List 4
cried
hurried
replied
fried
tried
worried
carried
copied
married
studied
remarked
finished
alone
river
think
some
many
am
Post tests are taken every Thursday. Pretests are given on Fridays. Your child's spelling list will come home every Friday stapled to their spelling pretest. If they miss more than three words, they will be given the regular second grade list. If they miss one, two or three on the pretest, they will be given 5 challenge words, along with the regular list. If they receive 100% on the pretest, they will be given an entirely different challenge list. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Remember to READ, READ, READ and record it on your reading calendar!
Congratulation to our Students of the Week-Macey Semrau and Elena Northcutt!
Remember our Meadow Lane Jog-a-thon is coming up on September 17th 5:00-7:30!
Tuesday, Sept. 10: Pre-Pay Meal forms due
Friday, Sept. 13: Packet and Pledge sheet donations (not by lap) due
Friday, Sept. 28: Donations by lap due
Dates to Remember...
Specials schedule for the week of September 9th
Monday-P.E./Music
Tuesday-Library/Spanish
Wednesday-Art
Thursday-Computer/Spanish
Friday-P.E./Music
PTO meeting 7:00 pm-Tuesday, September 10th. Come and get involved!
Spirit Squad-3:40-4:15-Thursday, September 12th in the gym. Go Mustangs!
Hat Day! Friday, September 13th.