Reminders

Please remember to return the following things to school by Friday:
ART card forms
Report card envelopes
Mustang March donations and forms

Thank you.

Friday's vocabulary test will be most of the words we have learned this unit in nutrition. I will read the sentence and they will do the smiley face or frown to show if it makes sense or not with how the word is really used. Please be practicing these words all week with your child.

Happy Halloween! Wishing you a safe and healthy trick or treat night. Stay warm!
Mrs. Montes

Happy Friday

The Storybook Parade was a lot of fun. We enjoyed A Bad Case of the Stripes. Thank you so much to all of you who donated paint and for the fantastic helpers who painted all the faces! They looked so adorable! Thank you for all of your help. We couldn't have done it without you! Thank you for your healthy food snacks from each of the food groups also. You truly are amazing families!

Next week we will have a review of all of our nutrition vocabulary words. A list will come home on Monday. We had 3 weeks of vocabulary words. All of those words will be practiced throughout the week. I will also add our non fiction feature words (label, photograph, illustration, caption, and diagram) for the test Friday.

Reminder half day Tuesday. There is no breakfast or lunch served but the children may still bring in a healthy snack for breakfast. Dismissal is at 11:10.

Remember to check out www.spellingcity.com for some fun spelling and vocabulary activities. We will be using this next week to review also. There is a link on the blog also.

Next week our nutrition unit takes us around the world as we learn that people everywhere need food for energy. We will learn about Italy, Japan, India, and Mexico.

Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you again for making this week so fantastic!
Mrs. Montes

Wednesday

I apologize for not updating the blog this week. My computer is still being fixed until hopefully tomorrow.
If ever you are not sure about something you can email me your questions. If you are not sure about homework, please check your child's assignment notebook. They should be filling it out every morning with the homework and important information for the day.
For Friday, Ms. Perkins has given us the OK to paint faces for the Storybook Parade. If your child is wearing stripes to school, it is ok and there is no need to bring a change of clothes. (Unless the striped clothing are a distraction) If they need to change into something, please send it in a bag and we will allow them to change before 1:00. I am looking for parents who can donate some face paints for both classes and are available to come in and paint students' faces before 1:00. If you can come in between 12:00-1:00 Friday to help with this that would be fantastic. Please let me know if you can help!! Thank you! We look forward to this fun and exciting day!
We read our story today and I hope they come home and tell you all about Camilla and the lima beans and poor Myra!!!
Thank you again for all you do for our class.

Have a great day!
Mrs. Montes

Nutrition Website

I just wanted to share some great resources with you about nutrition and "My Plate." This is the old "Pyramid."
www.myplate.gov
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/healthy-eating-tips/ten-tips.html

A "Smooth" Friday

Thank you to all of the wonderful parents who donated the smoothie ingredients: mix, cups, and milk. We really enjoyed the smoothies. I think for a celebration of wonderful behavior we need to do this again! Thank you again for sending in all the ingredients so that we could enjoy smoothies as we learn about the fruit group.
Next week is our Mustang March. Please have gym shoes here at all times next week. A pledge sheet went home with an envelope this week. There are some great opportunities for awesome prizes so we hope all of you will enjoy participating in this event to support Olson School. If you are able to come in and volunteer Mrs. Etnyre would appreciate your time. Thank you!
Specials schedules will change next week. Here is the new schedule for the Clydesdales and Appaloosas.

Specials Schedule Quarter 2-Begins Monday 10/22/12

	Clydesdales	Appaloosas
Tuesday	Music/PE	Art
Wednesday	Library/TDPE	Music/PE
Thursday	Music/PE	Library/TDPE
Friday	Art	Music/PE

Please have your child do Xtra Math or flashcards at least 3 times a week. More is absolutely acceptable. You can really tell by the ones who practice more that their scores are growing with them. Some of us are doing a great job of improving and others have not shown much growth this year. Please encourage extra math time at home!

Just a reminder for the Storybook Parade taking place on Friday, October 26, at 1:00. Feel free to meet us out on the back lawn and watch as we parade our "Stripes" around the field. Please remember to send your child's stripes costume/clothes to school with them and we will change after lunch. Remember to dress in as much stripes from head to toe as you can! We are looking forward to this great event!

Have a "smooth" weekend!
Mrs. Montes

Character Week & Nutrition

Next week we will finish up learning about all of the food groups. We will learn about how people everywhere need food for energy. We will learn about what people from other cultures eat and even have some samples from other countries. Right now we have a guest speaker. Mrs. AS24 will be coming in to share some food and teach us about the culture of India. Other cultures we will learn about are Mexico, Japan, and Italy. If you have anything you would like to send in or teach us about these countries (food or culture) please let me know. Please remember anything you bring or send in for this will need to be store bought and not baked or made at home. Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to the many opportunities and experts we have within our classroom families. Thank you!
Next week is also "Character Counts/Character Education Week." To show our school spirit and good character, we will have a spirit week. The days are as follows:

Monday 10/22- “Join Our Drug Free Team” – jersey\sports wear

Tuesday 10/23- “Courage to Stand Up” – hat day

Wednesday 10/24- “Sock it to Drugs” – silly sock day

Thursday 10/25- “Be a Person of Character” – wear the pillar colors

5th grade-Orange

4th-yellow

3rd-purple

2nd grade wear-blue

1st-green

Friday 10/26- “Storybook Parade” – wear your character costume--> See below.

Just to give you a heads up for the character costume for the Storybook Parade.... Ms. Salas and I will be reading the book, The Bad Case of the Stripes. Students are encouraged to be creative and dress in as much stripes as you can from head to toe that day!
We will also be looking through magazines and newspapers for captions and labels of food, nutrition, or health images. If you have any FOOD MAGAZINES OR HEALTH/FITNESS MAGAZINES please send them to school as soon as possible. Thank you!!!!
Have a thrilling Thursday!
Mrs. Montes

First Quarter Red Ticket Winners

Congratulations to SM25, DM16, KM18, MS23, VS18, CS14 for being our first quarter red ticket winners. They have earned at least one red ticket this quarter and got their ticket drawn. These children will have a celebration with the special area teachers to honor their amazing behavior this quarter. Way to go!!!!

Please let me know if you can send in any frozen smoothie pouches for Friday as we learn about the fruit group. Thank you.

Math Test is tomorrow!

Nutrition Vocabulary

Hello, and Happy Monday!

For some reason I can't get the side link back with the vocabulary and spelling words for the week. So you will find them below. There are no spelling words this week because I want to focus on the vocabulary words. Please practice these words this week.

Vocabulary Words October 15-19                   (No Spelling Test this week!)

The parts that are bold are what you will need to know.

1. Classification/classify – To organize or sort, put in categories

2. Needs- Something that is necessary for us to live.

3. Function- An action or use for which something is designed

4. Sugar- a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative

5. Two main groups of nutrients in food. (Know this chart)

Fats & Carbohydrates	Vitamins & Minerals
Give us energy called calories.	Keeps your body healthy
We need fats to keep our body temperature normal.	Helps your body function at its best
We need fats to keep our skin and hair healthy.	Fuel for your body
We need fats to protect our organs to not get sick.	Help our organs function properly
Eat the right types of fats and right amounts.	Healthy growth and development in children
Too much fat is bad for your heart.

Sorry about the blog confusion with the posting of your predictions. I have no control over when the emails go out, but the blog should be updated as soon as I post new information. The children were suppose to come home and tell you to go on together and predict what cheese we would like the most. Thank you for making your predictions. We really enjoyed the cheese tasting.
I would like to do Fruit Smoothies for Friday. We will need 6 bags of Yoplait Smoothie mix found in the freezer/fruit drink section at the store. If you can send in one (any flavor) please let me know. You can email me or comment on the blog. You can send it in anytime this week until Friday morning. We will also need a half gallon of skim milk and plastic/paper cups. If your child has any dairy allergies (milk will be added to the smoothie) or fruit allergies please let me know of any alternatives so they can participate. Thank you.
We will have a math test on Wednesday. This will cover addition, subtraction, greater than/less than, and written problem solving.
Have a wonderful Monday.

Nutriton and Cheese!!!

Wow, thank you all so much for the generous cheese donations! We will have plenty of cheese for our tasting today! Thank you! Which one will be our favorite? If you can, tonight please add your comment to vote for which cheese you think will be the favorite? Here are the cheeses we tasted.....colby, mozzarella, string cheese, cheddar, and American. Please PREDICT what cheese you think the class favorite was. I will give a horseshoe to anyone who comments on the blog what they think the class favorite is. Thank you!
For future commenting on the blog, there is a filter that all comments must be approved by me before they are posted. When you make a comment, I get an email, I accept it, and then the comment will be posted. Sorry for the confusion. When I see them, I accept them and then they are there to view. :) I did have several this morning! :-) We will look at the blog together tomorrow as a class to see how our predictions matched the actual favorite.
Our nutrition unit is going well! Thanks again for the cheese.
Mrs. Montes

Nutrition Update

Our spelling and vocabulary words will come from the nutrition unit of study. We will learn about the five food groups, healthy eating habits, and what our body needs to grow healthy and strong. We hope to encourage healthy eating habits as always during our morning snack/breakfast. We will create food journals, do taste testings, and enjoy all the benefits of healthy eating together.
Here is what we need from you. Our first food group is the Dairy Group (cheeses, milk, yogurt). We would like to do a cheese tasting on Thursday 10/11. We are asking for a few parents from each class to send in donations of cheeses for our taste testing. Donations include: American cheese, Cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, String cheese. If we could have parents from each class participate that would be great. We have 56 students. Please comment on this blog if you are willing to send in cheese for sampling on Thursday. We will graph our favorites.
For homework tonight, we sent home a food journal. Breakfast and lunch should already be completed. We did those here at home. Please add to the journal anything your child eats past lunch today and return it tomorrow. We will share our journals tomorrow. Also, only the front page of the spelling and vocabulary need to be returned. The vocab is for you to practice this week at home.
Have a great Tuesday!!!
Mrs. Montes

Wonderful Week!

What a wonderful week this has been. I am so impressed with the study habits these children have. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into studying for the Frog Life Cycle Test. The children were very well prepared with their hand signals/actions, stages, and vocabulary. I hope they taught you the actions at home while they studied. These tests will be returned next week. Thanks again for all your hard work.
I am really enjoying the time with all of you at conferences. What a wonderful group of children we have this year, and we thank you for molding them into the delightful children they are! I appreciate all the insight you shared with me about your child. I am glad we can work together to help your child succeed in second grade.
Next week we will start a nutrition unit. Our spelling and vocabulary words will come from this unit of study. We will learn about the five food groups, healthy eating habits, and what our body needs to grow healthy and strong. We hope to encourage healthy eating habits as always during our morning snack/breakfast. We will create food journals, do taste testings, and enjoy all the benefits of healthy eating together. Here is what we need from you. Our first food group is the Dairy Group (cheeses, milk, yogurt). We would like to do a cheese tasting on Thursday 10/11. We are asking for a few parents from each class to send in donations of cheeses for our taste testing. Donations include: American cheese, Cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, String cheese. If we could have parents from each class participate that would be great. We have 56 students. Please comment on this blog if you are willing to send in cheese for sampling on Thursday next week. We will graph our favorites. We are also asking for boxes from foods to make journals out of. For example, cereal boxes, granola bar boxes, etc. We will cut them in half and use them as a front and back of our in class response journals. Please start sending them in next week Tuesday. We are looking for parent helpers that can come in and assemble (cut the boxes to size and staple the papers inside to make a book) these journals Tuesday anytime. Thank you!
Have a wonderful weekend. We hope you get to spend quality time with your children during these days off.
Mrs. Montes