The Engle Edition
April 28, 2017
Portrait of a Graduate
Portrait of a Graduate
Math Master
You're Invited
Who: Family of 2nd Graders
What: End of Year Celebration
Where: Cafeteria with a picnic to follow
When: Wednesday, May 31 at 10:00 a.m.
Why: To celebrate our year!
Please join us as we celebrate a wonderful year in 2nd grade! We will celebrate individual accomplishments in the Cafeteria beginning at 10:00.
Afterwards: The awards will be followed by a school-wide picnic featuring In-N-Out Burger! (Order forms coming soon!)
Rachel's Challenge Rally!
Career Day!!
Math Telescoping
2016 – 2017 EXAM DATES
SUMMER EXAM DATE: Wednesday, June 28th
SUMMER ONLINE REG OPENS: May 11th
SUMMER ONLINE REG CLOSES: May 25th
SUMMER EXAM FEE DUE: May 31st
Parent Information Packet - Acceleration Exams: Math Telescoping, Grades K-7 - ENGLISH VERSION
Summer Enrichment
The 2017 Summer Enrichment Brochure is now up on the website. Please check out the awesome classes being offered this year. There are over 53 teachers this year in our Summer Enrichment Program, 90 different courses with most being offered multiple times during the summer. Dyslexia courses will again be offered this year for GCISD students that are being served by our Reading Interventionists and NEW GT strand of courses designed specifically for our GT LEAD and ASPIRE Academy students, as well as other GT identified students from surrounding districts. Check out the courses at the link below.
Happy Birthday!
Upcoming Events
- April 29: Rachel's Challenge Rally and 5k
- May 3: Garden Club
- May 16: Teddy’s Burgers Spirit Night 4:00pm-9:00pm
- May 19: Field Day!
- May 24: Career Day!
- May 31: 2nd Grade End of the Year Celebration at 10:00 a.m. / School-Wide Picnic
- June 1: Menchie's 12:00pm -3:00pm/ Early Release 11:45 a.m., Last Day of School
- August 14: Meet the Teacher 2017-2018
At Home Resources:
At Home Resources:
- Read chapter books
- Practice Math Facts- Xtra Math or Flash cards. Some other APPS to practice addition facts (addimals, mathmateer)
Options:
Reading:
- iStation
- RAZKids
- Schoolbo
- Epic- Will not work at home anymore unless paid for $4.99/month. It is only free on the Teacher accounts at school. So sorry. They just made this change! :(
Spelling:
- Spelling City
- Word Mover
- Notes app - Students can write creative/funny sentences with their words in them.
Math
- Prodigy
- iStation
- Hooda Math (Higher Level Thinking Activities)
- Zap Zap Fractions
- Pizza Fractions
- One Fraction
**Please help your student reach their goals by making sure they are reading and practicing their math facts! :) **
Spelling Focus Next Week:
"The Snow Blows" words -
For example:
1. grow
3. show
4. throw
6. blow
7. own
8. slow
#9 and #10 are 'High Frequency' Words that second graders are expected to learn. #11 and #12 are review words from the previous week.
9. square
10. what
11. unhook
12. bread
You can find them on Spelling City for extra practice at https://www.spellingcity.com/christinehy/
What Will We Learn Next Week??
- Students will be able to name a fractional part greater than 1 whole.
- Students will be able to spell words with 'ow.'
- Students will be able to read and discuss books in the same series.
- Students will be able to plan, edit, and revise an expository piece.
- Students will be able to identify landforms.
- Students will be able to identify natural resources vs. manmade resources.
- Students will be able to compare Fresh Water and Salt Water.