October Newsletter from Mrs. Hedberg

Happy fall everyone, I can’t believe that it is already October. Let me first remind you that later this month is our one and only, parent teacher conference for the year. You will be receiving a conference time for one of two dates  October 24^th or  October 25^th .

October will bring our first classroom party. The afternoon will be full of fun learning. Our Math lesson will be all about estimation, place value, and counting by 10’s. If you have any giant pumpkins or sunflower heads that you can donate for that day please contact Mrs. Hedberg. Following our Pumpkin Math activity we will have time for games and trick or treats.  I am still looking for someone that would like to organize our first fall party. Call me if your interested and I can give you a list of parents that can send in items needed for the party and help if needed. Second grade will also be going to see the play Peter Pan for our first field trip of the year, stay tune for more information.  The field trip will be planned on October 24th.
 

Math: We are very fortunate to have the ability and staffing to extend learning for our accelerated math learners these times have been built into the weekly schedule and have already begun. I will send notice if your child is participating in any extended math learning with Mrs. Young our GT teacher. The second grade team has been working hard on a new curriculum map for the Common Core math standards I hope to soon provide you with information on what standards are being covered in math by quarter, along with at home suggested activities (like the math passport) that you can do at home with your child in place of traditional homework sheets.

Reading: We have three more weeks of our “Sharing Stories” theme. We have been building lots of comprehension strategies and skills such as making connections, making predictions, clarifying and monitoring text. Our next theme will be “Kindness” a perfect connection to the character virtues we study each month. Life’s most urgent question is what are you doing for others? “Love and Kindness are never wasted”. This month we will begin our at home reading incentive program called "Book It".  I encourage you to set a reading goal for your child and participate as a parent, you have the power to boost your children's learning potential simply by making books an integral part of their daily lives. I will provide a Book-It calendar each month through April of this year. Log the minutes read at home and return the calendar at the end of each month to receive  a free Pizza from Pizza Hut.  Happy Reading!

Character: This month is our Virtue of Thankfulness and Respect. Mrs. Davis our school counselor presents a lesson once a month on the Virtues. We will be reading many stories during our reading unit that lend themselves to teaching the virtues. We read from Aesop’s Fables and discussed many morals of the stories. ~

 

Sincerely,

Mrs. Hedberg