Mrs. Ealy's 2nd grade class had a Halloween party and many students were out sick with the flu. She reminds parents to have children wash hands and cover sneezes to prevent spreading germs. The class started a book and bag reading program but some students still need to return document portfolios. In school, the class is learning about telling time in math, changing voice tones in reading, writing stories, and learning about communities in social studies. Upcoming events include no school on November 6th and a parent-teacher meeting on November 12th.

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2 Grade News
Mrs. Ealy’s Class
November 2, 2012
Letter from Mrs. Ealy Next Week’s Specials
Dear Parents,
Thank you to each and every one of you who came in to Monday – P.E. (Wear Sneakers)
help with our Halloween party or donated something to go along with Tuesday – No School!
it. The kids had a wonderful time and enjoyed every minute of it! I Wednesday – Music and P.E. (Wear Sneakers)
hope that you all had a wonderful time trick or treating and you Thursday – Library and Music
weren’t too cold or wet! Friday – Wellness
We have had a lot of students out this week due to the flu.
We are working very hard in class to remember to wash our hands, What We’re Learning About!
sneeze in our elbows, and other things to keep our germs from
Math – This week in math we started off by reviewing telling time. We
spreading. Please remind your child to do these things at home! worked on telling time to the nearest hour, half hour, and quarter hour.
We have started out book n bag program today! However, We also made clocks in class to take home to practice with! Please look for
there are still many students who have not sent in a document these in your child’s binder today! Students also had their first exploration
portfolio yet. If your child did not bring home a book, it is because day this week. The students were placed into groups of six and had the
they don’t have a portfolio to put the books in. This helps keep my chance to rotate through 4 different stations. They were able to work in
personal books in good condition when traveling back and forth their math journals, explore with geoboards to make different shapes, use
base 10 blocks to help with trading, and make clock booklets. They did a
between home and school. A detailed note about the program is in great job working together! We also spent a lot of time working on
your child’s portfolio  If you have not sent in a portfolio yet, please collecting data and graphing our results. We made picture and bar graphs.
send one in by next Friday so your child can start the program. If you
are unable to get one please let me know and I can make other Reading – Reading groups have been running very smoothly. The kids are
arrangements. establishing a great routine during reader’s workshop. Students are taking
off with their reading and giving their best effort! We continued to work on
Thank you to everyone who read with their child and filled
our fluency this week. We discussed how we change our voices in a book to
out the October reading log. If your child turned it in and read each match the punctuation. We talked about what our voice should sound like
day, they received a certificate and pizza coupon today! Look for it in when we see a period, question mark, or exclamation mark at the end of a
their OWL binder  We also added our new November reading logs sentence. We also learned how to change our voice when we see
today to our binders today. quotation marks and someone in the book is talking. The students are
We have been working very hard in class lately on doing a wonderful job with this!
producing quality work. Hopefully you have seen a change in
Writing – In writing, we added our final copy from the last writing unit to
assignments that are coming home! our data binders. We graphed our progress and talked about ways in which
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. we can improve our scores in each of the four graded areas (content/ideas,
Remember you can reach me by our folder, by email, or by phone. organization, style/voice, and conventions). We also continued reading
books written by Jonathan London and noticing some of the different
Sincerely, elements that he includes within his stories. So far we've noticed his use of:
Mrs. Ealy ellipses, a variety of punctuation marks, bold words, italicized words,
colored text, rhyming text, capitalized words, onomatopoeia (sound words),
dialogue, and much, much more. We started writing new stories this week
• Please remember to return library books every Thursday! as well. Next week we'll dive into the reasons behind Mr. London use of
• Please remember to send your child to school with a coat! these elements.
• REMINDER: No school on Tuesday, November 6th!
Upcoming Events and Dates to Remember Social Studies – This week we finished out social studies unit on what is a
community. We spent time comparing different types of communities such
as cities, suburbs, and countries. We also brainstormed as a class what
make White Lake special to us. Thank you to everyone who helped with
Nov. 6 No School the social studies homework. The kids did a wonderful job sharing who
Nov. 12 OPC Meeting @ 6:30 they interviewed and what they said about our community. The kids really
enjoyed listening to what each other discovered! We will start our first unit
Market Day Pick-Up in science next week which is on physical properties.
Nov. 13 Picture Retake Day