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2 Grade News
Mrs. Ealy’s Class
October 12, 2012
Letter from Mrs. Ealy
Dear Parents,
Next Week’s Specials
Congratulations to Oxbow exceeding our Fun Run goal of $10,000!
The final total of money raised for our school was $10,157.82! We are so proud Monday – P.E. (Wear Sneakers)
of each and every student! Every little bit of money that was donated is Tuesday – Art and Computers
appreciated  The money from the Fun Run will help buy more smart boards Wednesday – Music and P.E. (Wear Sneakers)
for our classrooms! Because we reached our goal, each classroom will get an Thursday – Library and Music
ice cream treat to celebrate. We are unsure of the exact date yet, but students Friday – Wellness
will get to enjoy some ice cream in their classrooms! Thank you again!
Bully proofing activities are done throughout the entire school year at
Oxbow; however, all this month every Huron Valley School is participating in
What We’re Learning About!
National Bullying Prevention Month. We are helping students learn to recognize Math – This week we learned about fact families. We cut out fact
bullying behaviors, understand what motivates bullies, devise new strategies for triangles at school and at home to practice with, as well as making fact
standing up to bullies and realize the need to seek adult help to ensure our family houses. Look for the fact family houses in our centrum when
schools are the healthy, safe places for learning that each student deserves. you come for conferences! Students were also introduced to a pan
This week we observed National Bullying Prevention Day on Wednesday. balance and spring scale. We were able to pick different objects
We said “Boo” to the bullies and wore orange! We also started a bullying around the classroom to compare and find their weight in ounces. We
lesson using the book Spookley the Square Pumpkin. Throughout the next also explored name collection boxes. Students took a number and
few weeks we will be working on other activities that go along with the
wrote as many names as they could think of for it. We used addition
book.
and subtraction problems, tally marks, coins, words, and shapes to
Our Halloween party will be in the afternoon on October 31st. Please
look for detailed information about it in next week’s newsletter. If you describe the numbers.
volunteered to bring something in, I will be sending home a reminder note next
week as well. Reading – During reading this week we spend a lot of time focusing on
As a reminder, students will need a document portfolio by November retelling and sharing ideas with partners. Student have been doing a
2nd to carry books back and forth from school. We will be starting to use these wonderful job talking about books with their partners, as well as
the following week for our classroom book n’ bag program. If you are unable to making predictions about what is going to happen next. We also
get one, please let me know. introduced our first type of connection which is text to self. This is
Next week is the first session of conferences. I am looking forward to where students are able to connect something in the book to their own
meeting everyone and discussing your child’s progress. It is very important to lives.
attend conferences as well as be on time. Each conference is 15 minutes long
and most of them are back to back. If you are late for our conference Writing – In writing we've continued working on building our stamina
appointment, we will have to reschedule so that it does not affect the and independence. In addition to that, we're learning how to add more
conferences scheduled after you. details to our stories to give our readers a better picture in their minds.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Remember To do this, we learned about adding details such as our thoughts, the
you can reach me by our folder, by email, or by phone.
setting, action, dialogue, and even adding further description about a
person, place, or thing. We also learned that dialogue, setting, action,
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ealy and thoughts can be used as a strong lead (or beginning) to hook our
readers into our stories. We also worked with partners to see if our
• Please remember to return library books every Thursday! stories were readable. This will become a big focus for our work this
year: our work HAS to be readable, without assistance from others and
• Please practice tying shoes at home!
we'll spend time resolving the issues that are preventing our work from
being read. Some issues that have impacted readability so far are: lack
Upcoming Events and Dates to Remember of spaces, misspelled words, skipped words, messy handwriting, and
not putting all of the sounds all the way through the word.
Oct. 15 Market Day Pick-Up Health – This week we finished our unit on nutrition. We discussed the
Oct. 17 Parent Teacher Conferences five food groups, what types of foods go in each group, combination
Oct. 23-26 Book Fair foods, and limited foods. We also talked about how important it is to
incorporate at least 60 minutes of physical activity into our day. Today
Oct. 25 Parent Teacher Conferences we had a “try-it” day for healthy foods. Thank you to everyone who
Oct. 31 Halloween Party donated a healthy food for the kids to try and came in to help!