Happy Monday!

Looks like Spring is finally here this week!
We are collecting Box Tops like crazy for the grade level contest. Please send in Box Tops by May 15. Thank you.
Literacy: As a connection to Geography in the Spanish class, we are learning how the setting is critical to understanding the story and changing the setting would change the story.  We are doing natural disaster research in literacy.We learned about earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and tsunamis in class. The children can choose one of these or any other to research and create a presentation to present to the class. An optional project can be done at home to be shared when they present. Presentations will be in the next couple of weeks.
Math: We will finish up Money this week and begin geometry and fractions on Thursday. Money Test is Wednesday! Thanks for turning in those purple math sheets. This week look for a pink paper!
Please talk to your child and see if they have school supplies (pencils, glue, crayons, scissors). I know there are only 21 days left of school, but we have several students who do not have pencils, erasers, sharpeners, etc. for their daily needs. Thank you.
Enjoy the beautiful weather.
Mrs. Montes

Happy Tuesday!

Hopefully everyone had a wonderful spring break! I hope we can finally welcome spring in the Midwest!

In math we are on our Telling Time unit. This will continue through next week, and then we move on to Money. We will finish up the year with Geometry/Fractions.

We are learning about whales through our fiction study in literacy. We will be writing a persuasive letter to our character Emily who thinks there is a whale living in her pond in her backyard. In our non fiction study we are learning about natural disasters. Each child will be researching a natural disaster and writing a report about it.

Keep working hard! Thanks for all you do!
Mrs. Montes

Regrouping Poem and videos

Here are some videos to help you at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAL8XxyGVow


https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/addition-subtraction/addition_carrying/v/carrying-when-adding-three-digit-numbers

Poems we learned to help us with double digit addition with regrouping.

Happy Long Weekend!

Conferences-
It's been a pleasure to get to meet with you and celebrate the wonderful things your child is doing in second grade. Thank you for your time and commitment to their learning.
Valentine's Day Party-
A special thanks to Mrs. Zarnstorff and Mrs. Schwaab for planning the party! Thank you to Mrs. Greenlee, Mrs. Hernandez, Mrs. Heidtke, and Mrs. Roush for being here to help out! Thank you for sending in food donations for our snack. Thank you all for making this a special day for the children.
Literacy-
We have already begun our mini-unit on weather and seasons that will lead into our geography unit. New words will come home next week and are posted here on the blog also. In our geography unit, we will learn about natural disasters. The students will research one natural disaster and create a presentation to share with the class. This will be done in keynote on the ipads and/or powerpoint on the computers. Just so you know, this is a very interesting unit of study for the children. They often have a lot of questions and worry that this will happen where they live. Be prepared for some questions about tornadoes and to discuss/review your safety plans with your children in your home.
Math-
Thank you for your time practicing math facts at home 3 nights a week. Some children need to practice addition and subtraction, and others just subtraction. Those of you on multiplication can practice that too! Our test for place value and 2-3-4 digit addition will be next Friday, February 20. Next, we will begin 2-3-4 digit subtraction with borrowing/regrouping. Knowing these basic facts will help them in learning these new skills. Thank you for your time at home!

Have a great long weekend! Thank you for all you do!
Stay warm!
Mrs. Montes

Reading Challenge Updates!!!!

Week Number/Dates	Prize Awarded	Spirit Day Events on Friday-Every Friday is turn-in day
January 9 Kickoff Friday!	Culver’s bookmark and boat (passport)	Dress Day-Wear Blue- “Ocean Blue” Character Key-Commitment DEAR TBA
Week 1: January 12-16	Ocean Pencil, Culver’s scoop, Scholastic $5 Book certificate	Dress Day-“Rainbow Fish” ( sparkly, glitter, neon, etc.) Character Key-Commitment DEAR TBA
Week 2: January 19-23	Nick’s Pizza, Extreme Wheels Papa Murphy’s	Dress Day- “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” Dress in Jersey or Team Day (with a number) Character Key-Commitment DEAR TBA
Week 3: January 26-30	Magic Waters Papa Murphy’s Fun Fair Coupon	Dress Day-Super Comfy  “Whale of a Day” Character Key-Commitment DEAR TBA
Week 4: February 2-6	Kane County Cougar’s Six Flags	Dress Day-“A Fish Out of Water” Crazy dress day (backwards, mismatched, etc.) Character Key-Commitment DEAR TBA

•      Kickoff- Jan. 9:  Dress up in “ocean blue.”

•      Second Grade Required Reading Minutes- 25 a night/175 minutes a week.

•      Fill out the Book-It reading calendar and return it each week on Friday. Parents must sign each week. Log the minutes in each box. Add them up for the week. We will send it back home. If you are absent, return it on Monday. Students will still earn their Pizza Hut coupon during this time.

•      Six Flags and Magic Waters are given out in May. A certificate will go home saying you will receive the tickets later in the year. You must record the Magic Waters and Six Flags with title and signature and turn it in for weeks 3 and 4. All the minutes read go toward Magic Waters and Six Flags, even from week 1 and 2.

•      PLEASE FILL OUT THE BOOK-IT FORM AND RETURN IT EVERY FRIDAY IN JANUARY!

Prizes:

•      The classes that have 80% or better for that week will be put in a drawing. Class earns 30 minutes of activity time with Mrs. Frisbie.

•      The students will be rewarded for their Super Reading too! All of the students will be invited to attend the viewing of Finding Nemo in February, with goldfish, pajamas and a blanket/beach towel. Finding Nemo shows examples of commitment, failure leads to success, perseverance, integrity, and accepting differences. 

Happy New Year!

Welcome back!
I hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday season and will be blessed in this new year.
Here are some arrays that were shared over break.

SHAPE Woodstock

WELCOME TO SHAPE WOODSTOCK! – PARENTS INVITED TO JANUARY EVENT 

Research shows that students who participate in physical activity before they begin their academic classes have a longer attention span, have higher reading comprehension scores, and perform better on standardized tests than students who do not exercise.

Woodstock Community Unit School District 200 has been awarded a grant to enhance physical activity and healthy lifestyles for our students and their families that we are calling SHAPE Woodstock.  Through SHAPE Woodstock we are hosting a series of seminars that will inform parents about the positive impact physical activity and good nutrition have on the academic lives of children.

We would like to invite you to our first workshop on January 8, featuring Paul Zientarski, founder of the Learning Readiness Program for Naperville School District 203.  Paul will discuss how he and other educators have made a difference in the lives of students through exercise. 

All participants will have a chance to win prizes such as: pedometers, basketballs, footballs, snowshoes and much more!

We look forward to seeing you there!

SHAPE Woodstock Workshop
Thursday, January 8, 2015
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Woodstock North High School Auditorium, 3000 Raffle Road, Woodstock

For more information about SHAPE Woodstock, including upcoming events, programs, links and photos, please click here to visit the SHAPE Woodstock webpages.