Well, August is growing closer, and it is time to start thinking about school once again!! I have greatly enjoyed my summer and am excited about spending the last month of vacation with Alea! 2nd grade at WOPS is on my mind, though, and I am anticipating a wonderful new school year!

For those of you intersted, Office Depot is having a great sale this week: crayons and notebook paper are $.25 a piece and folders are 10 for $1.00. You can also go to Walmart, and they will price match!

Parents,

There will be a community wide budget information meeting Sunday, April 10th, from 3:00-4:00 in the elementary cafeteria. Please plan to attend if you can.

Also, book orders are due this Friday, picture orders are due by next week, and please remind friends and family members who have our Flat Friends to send them back to us next week.

Thanks for all that you do!

Parents – can you believe another year has come and gone? Our class apologizes for not keeping up with our blog last year before Christmas. We got very busy, but that is no excuse for not letting you know about our days!
We will work harder this year to keep you up-to-date!

This week we have started learning about subtraction with regrouping. We have started repeating our sayings: “Is there more on the top or more on the floor? If there’s more on top, there’s no need to stop. If there’s more on the floor, go next door and borrow ten more. If the number’s the same, then zero’s the game!”

Also this week we have reviewed writing friendly letters. The parts of a letter are date, greeting, body, closing, and signature.

Report cards are in the take-home folders. Sign and return tomorrow! Also, make sure you complete the math homework and read for the reading log.

Parents – please look in your child’s take home folder for their report card as well as important information about upcoming events. Please sign the report card and return to school tomorrow.

This coming Monday, the 11th, is a student holiday. Please make sure to have arrangements for your child for that day. A week from today, the 14th, are school pictures. This picture will be for the yearbook.

Tuesday, October 26th, will be Parent Conference Day. School will dismiss at 11:00. I will send home a paper next week for you to sign up for your conference for that day.

Today is Mrs. Donnell’s last day with us. We really enjoyed her being in our classroom. We hope she enjoys 5th grade – but also comes to visit us again! Thanks for all you have done, Mrs. Donnell! 🙂

Today we took a spelling test. Look for those to come home tomorrow as well as our new words. We saw a small experiment with vinegar and baking soda. We talked about how words mixed with thinking helps bring thoughts to the surface!

We started guided reading groups today. We read with Mrs. VanBrocklin while we are at literacy centers. In writing we read the book The Three Wishes. This week we are going to write our own stories about what three wishes we want granted.

Tomorrow is P.E. – wear the right shoes!

This morning we had a fun surprise! The football players, volleyball players, band, cheerleaders, twirlers, and flags came to our gym and put on a pep rally for Kindergarten through 5th grade. It was so much fun! Don’t forget to eat at Chic-fil-A tonight and go to the Maroon Out party there, too!

Book orders came in today. Be looking for those in your child’s backpacks. We ordered enough books that EVERYONE got a free Black Lagoon book! Those kids who ordered the newest Diary of a Wimpy Kid book – that was a preorder. Your child received some stickers showing that they ordered it. It will come in November 9th.

Today we continued working on nouns and verbs and also writing stories in Writing. We worked on place value in math. We are working hard and learning a lot!

We have had a great week with Mrs. Donnell teaching us our lessons! Our class has enjoyed her, and we are glad we have her for another two weeks.

Yesterday we took our first spelling test together so that we would know how to take them for the rest of the year. New words were sent home. Look for those and practice when you can.

We are working on Place Value in math – hundreds, tens, and ones. We continue to work on our addition and subtraction as well.

Our book orders are due tomorrow – checks only please!

Parents –

In your child’s folder you will see many different things coming home. Today there is a note telling you about our upcoming Parent Orientation that will take place next Monday afternoon. Please read that to know the full details.

Also, there is a Scholastic book order in the folder. Those orders are due by this Friday, September 24th. Please, if you order, only send checks. I appreciate it!

Please make sure that you have your child read each night and sign their reading log. I check those every day to see if they have completed their homework. Also, math homework is coming home every night but Friday night and that needs to be completed as well.

Thank you so much for your help with all of this! I truly appreciate you and what you do for your child and our class!

Kym VanBrocklin

Today we started our math centers and our reading centers. Tomorrow we will try our reading centers all the way through. We know what to do – read to self, read to someone, word work, and listening to reading. It should be a lot of fun!

Mrs. Cranford sent us a great video on doubles! We love it! Thank you so much!

Music was fun today with Mrs. Kimbley. Thanks for teaching us a new game.

Remember, no pep rally tomorrow! And don’t forget your math homework!