December 9, 2016







Student of the Week
Xavier





Happy Holidays
The children will be sharing their family customs with their classmates.  Please remember to have your child bring in their information to class next week.

Holiday Party
Classroom parties will be on Friday and will begin at 1:30.  

Holidays Around the World
The children will be traveling to the other second grade classrooms to learn about holidays around the world.  They will be learning about holiday customs in Mexico, Italy, Sweden, France and Israel.

Math
Children will represent subtraction situations with number sentences using a symbol for an unknown number.  We will be analyzing word problems to determine what operations to use to solve multi step problems.  There will be a test on 2-digit subtraction.

Science
We will begin our next chapter on animals.  We will be learning about the characteristics of mammals and birds such as:  body coverings, where they live, how it has young and what it feeds its young.

Classroom Winners
Estimation Jar - Charley
Class Paw - Xavier

Homework
Reading - read for 20 minutes and complete Reading Log
Math - practice facts