Mrs. Ealy's 2nd grade class newsletter provides information about upcoming events and learning topics. The class will have a holiday party on December 20th and parents signed up to send items. Mrs. Ealy will go on maternity leave in December and Mrs. Petersmark will substitute. Students have been learning double digit addition in math and visualizing in reading. They created stories in writing class and will illustrate them to complete the assignments. The newsletter also outlines the specials, social studies, and health lessons for the week.

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2 Grade News
Mrs. Ealy’s Class
December 7, 2012
Letter from Mrs. Ealy Next Week’s Specials
Dear Parents,
Our holiday party will be held Thursday, December 20th in Monday – P.E. (Wear Sneakers)
the afternoon. Many of you signed up to volunteer to send Tuesday – Art and Computers
something in and I will be sending home a reminder note next Wednesday – Music and P.E. (Wear Sneakers)
week. Look for more information about what we will be doing and Thursday – Library and Music
the time in next week’s newsletter! Friday – Wellness
The students had a great time this week separating their
mixtures that they brought from home. Each student was able to What We’re Learning About!
show the class their mixture and ask for predictions on what Math – This week in math we continued to work on double digit addition.
method would work best to separate their mixture. Thank you to Students have learned a variety of different ways to do these problems.
everyone who brought in a mixture to share with the class! They are able to use any strategy they are most comfortable with. I want
them to feel comfortable doing double digit problems, rather than get
My maternity leave is getting close! Everything as of
frustrated using a way they don’t care for. We played a review game to
right now is still right on track. My hope is to still make it to the prepare for our test we took on Wednesday. Unit 4 tests will be sent home
holiday break, with my last day being December 21st. Mrs. early next week! We also started unit 5 which is on 3-D and 2-D shapes. I
Petersmark is very excited to work with all of your children. She am looking forward to this unit because the students always seem to enjoy
has loved being in our classroom when I have been out for learning about and making 3-D shapes!
doctor’s appointments. If everything goes as planned, I will be Reading – Students have been work very hard on visualizing this week.
coming back in April. I know your children will be in the best of With the excitement of the holidays and the break coming up so soon, our
hands while I am gone  reading has started to suffer. We spend time working our stamina back up
I think the cold weather is finally here to stay! Please be and becoming “real readers” again. By today, the kids were doing a
fantastic job and back on track! I have been reading with students
sure to send your child to school with the proper clothing, coats,
individually this week to determine their new reading levels. This will be
gloves, hats, scarves, etc. If you don’t have these items or are finished in the next week so we can record them in our data binders. The
unable to get them, please let me know. hope is that everyone has at least grown one reading level since
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. September!
Remember you can reach me by our folder, by email, or by
Writing – I have to thank the moms who came in and helped us out during
phone. our publishing this week!! Thank you to Mrs. Murdock and Mrs. Lindquist!
They worked so hard typing each child's story. I'm sure their fingers were
Sincerely, sore from all of that typing! I can't express enough what a help they were!
Mrs. Ealy After the stories were typed, the kids glued the text into their booklets.
They brought the booklets home to complete the illustrations. The
illustrations will be a 'group effort' as you will read in the directions that
• Please remember to return library books every Thursday! came home along with their books. I can't wait to see who they choose to
• Please remember to send your child to school with a illustrate them with and I'm even more excited to see the final products on
coat! December 17th when they are due.
• Please help your child return their Book N’ Bag every Social Studies – This week in social studies we started our unit called
Friday! “Where is my Community?” We explored different types of maps. We
Upcoming Events and Dates to Remember discussed the types of things you can find on a map. Students did a
wonderful job using the key to determine what the different symbols
represented. We will continue to work on this by making a classroom map
and eventually a map of the White Lake community!
Dec. 12 Mobile Dentist
Dec. 17 Market Day Pick-Up Health - Today we started our short health unit on caffeine, tobacco, and
alcohol safety. We had a discussion today about how caffeine can harm our
Dec. 20 Holiday Party bodies. We talked about how it is okay to have it once in a while, but it
shouldn’t be a part of every snack and meal.