Reading week kicked off to a great start today with the student's dressing as their favorite book character. I have never met so many interesting characters, as I did this morning. Tomorrow they will get to meet Frank Remkiewicz, illustrator of the "Froggy" books, on Wednesday, participate in Outside - Drop Everything and Read (please pack a towel for your child to sit on), on Thursday, be visited by community authors, Liesel Sole, Gina Longino, and Danielle Cameron, and on Friday join Miss Conroy's class for reading buddies and shop at the Oldie Goldie Book Fare.
The students will continue sharing their biographies in class by participating in the Hot Seat activity. So far we have been visited by many amazing people who have made a difference in the lives of so many. The students have had fun presenting, as much as we have enjoyed learning.
Current Events: Tuesday - Lauren W., Jonathan; Wednesday - McIntosh, Brenna; Thursday - Samuel, Julia; Friday - Kendall, Abby
Parent Reader - Mr. Counsman
Here's our curriculum at a glance. Please practice subtraction facts with your child for speed and accuracy. Also, when your child reads aloud, have him/her read with expression to bring the story characters to life.
Language Arts
Phonics - r-controlled vowel or/ore/our/or
Spelling - ignore, important, factory, explore, fourteen, course, thunderstorm, report, newborn, sore, perform, score, forecast, forgot, morning
Reading - Serious Farm by Tim Egan
Fluency - Good readers use expression to bring the characters to life
Comprehension - Plot is what happens in a story. At the beginning, the characters have a problem. During the middle of the story, they try to find a solution. At the end of the story, the characters usually solve the problem.
Robust Vocabulary (please practice each day) - acquired, assumed, serious, extremely, admit, barely, hilarious, witty, absurd, attempt
Grammar - Subject-Verb Agreement
Writing - Publishing and prompt writing
Mathematics - Unit 7 (Patterns and Rules)
* Patterns in Counting
* Extending complements of 10
* Mental Arithmetic: A Basketball Game
* Patterns in Doubles and Halves
Social Studies - Asia (the largest continent on earth)
India
Science
What are magnets?
I want to thank that special parent who recently sent me flowers. It is a pleasure coming to work each day to be with your children, but I appreciate this gift of thanks for the work I do.
Enjoy your week.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Biography Hot Seat
This week the students will become a famous person that they have researched in our biography study. We call this the Hot Seat. I ask that your child bring in a prop or accessory that they can carry or wear while in the Hot Seat.
ON-LINE RE-ENROLLMENT IS DELAYED!
On-line re-enrollment will now begin on February 25, 2011. We were originally planning to begin re-enrollment on February 22nd; however, as this is a new system, we would like to take a few extra days to ensure that the system is working properly for our families. Our goal is to make this process as simple and as easy to use as possible. The deadline for submitting your on-line re-enrollment forms will now be March 11th. You will be receiving an updated email with your On-line Re-enrollment user id and password. Please store the user id and password in a safe location as you will have the opportunity to use them again in the future. We will continue to update you about the on-line re-enrollment process through email, so please add
[mailto:Registrar@Shorecrest.org ] Registrar@Shorecrest.org to your address book. We are excited to offer you this new on-line re-enrollment process! If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Judy Roberge at (727) 456-7513 or email
[mailto:Registrar@Shorecrest.org ]Registrar@Shorecrest.org. This is a firm deadline for our current students as we have new applications waiting for admittance. Thank you.
Jean M. Spencer-Carnes, M.Ed., Ed.S., Ed.D.
Director of Admissions
Shorecrest Preparatory School
(727) 456-7504
On-line re-enrollment will now begin on February 25, 2011. We were originally planning to begin re-enrollment on February 22nd; however, as this is a new system, we would like to take a few extra days to ensure that the system is working properly for our families. Our goal is to make this process as simple and as easy to use as possible. The deadline for submitting your on-line re-enrollment forms will now be March 11th. You will be receiving an updated email with your On-line Re-enrollment user id and password. Please store the user id and password in a safe location as you will have the opportunity to use them again in the future. We will continue to update you about the on-line re-enrollment process through email, so please add
[mailto:Registrar@Shorecrest.org ] Registrar@Shorecrest.org to your address book. We are excited to offer you this new on-line re-enrollment process! If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Judy Roberge at (727) 456-7513 or email
[mailto:Registrar@Shorecrest.org ]Registrar@Shorecrest.org. This is a firm deadline for our current students as we have new applications waiting for admittance. Thank you.
Jean M. Spencer-Carnes, M.Ed., Ed.S., Ed.D.
Director of Admissions
Shorecrest Preparatory School
(727) 456-7504
Week of February 22nd, 2011
I hope you had a terrific four day weekend and hope the students are feeling rested and motivated to be back at school for another busy week ahead. Just a reminder that the Oldie Goldie will be held on March 4 and we are collecting gently used books to sell at this event. Spirit Day is on Friday and the students may wear green and gold colored clothing. Reading week will take place Feb. 28-March 4. Below are some highlights.
Monday - Dress as your favorite book character/share books in class.
Tuesday - Visiting illustrator - Frank Remkiewicz presents.
Wednesday - Outside - Drop Everything and Read. Please have your child bring a towel to sit on.
Thursday - Community Authors - Liesel Sole, Gina Longino, and Danielle Cameron will present.
This week the students will also watch the third grade program rehearsal and middle division skits relating to forgiveness.
Here is also what is happening in the classroom.
Current Events: Tuesday: Haily, Channing; Wednesday: Shaherzad; Thursday: Rylan, Zaynab, Lucas; Friday: Lauren E. and Gage
Mystery Reader: Matt Emerson
Language Arts
* Phonics: ou/ow; Abbreviations
* Spelling: outside, ounce, flour, now, allowance, gown, surround, crowd, cloudless, powerful, cowboy, without, hound, outline, scout
* Reading: A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams; Saving Money by Mary Firestone
* Fluency: Good readers use their voice to show the story's mood and the characters' feelings
* Comprehension: Plot/ Compare/Contrast
* Robust Vocabulary: allowance, rosy, bargain, spoiled, comfortable, boost, exchanged, delivered, thrifty, industrious
* Grammar: Present-Tense Action Verbs
* Writing: Biography; Personal Narrative (Publishing)
* Cursive handwriting: Lower Case Letters (x, g, y, q, practice and review)
Mathematics
* Division Number Stories
* Review of Unit 6 (Whole Number Operations and Number Stories)
* Assessment
Social Studies
* Asia
* Origami
Science
* Erosion
Please encourage your child to practice his/her spelling words each day and read over the student friendly explanations relating to our weekly vocabulary list.
Monday - Dress as your favorite book character/share books in class.
Tuesday - Visiting illustrator - Frank Remkiewicz presents.
Wednesday - Outside - Drop Everything and Read. Please have your child bring a towel to sit on.
Thursday - Community Authors - Liesel Sole, Gina Longino, and Danielle Cameron will present.
This week the students will also watch the third grade program rehearsal and middle division skits relating to forgiveness.
Here is also what is happening in the classroom.
Current Events: Tuesday: Haily, Channing; Wednesday: Shaherzad; Thursday: Rylan, Zaynab, Lucas; Friday: Lauren E. and Gage
Mystery Reader: Matt Emerson
Language Arts
* Phonics: ou/ow; Abbreviations
* Spelling: outside, ounce, flour, now, allowance, gown, surround, crowd, cloudless, powerful, cowboy, without, hound, outline, scout
* Reading: A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams; Saving Money by Mary Firestone
* Fluency: Good readers use their voice to show the story's mood and the characters' feelings
* Comprehension: Plot/ Compare/Contrast
* Robust Vocabulary: allowance, rosy, bargain, spoiled, comfortable, boost, exchanged, delivered, thrifty, industrious
* Grammar: Present-Tense Action Verbs
* Writing: Biography; Personal Narrative (Publishing)
* Cursive handwriting: Lower Case Letters (x, g, y, q, practice and review)
Mathematics
* Division Number Stories
* Review of Unit 6 (Whole Number Operations and Number Stories)
* Assessment
Social Studies
* Asia
* Origami
Science
* Erosion
Please encourage your child to practice his/her spelling words each day and read over the student friendly explanations relating to our weekly vocabulary list.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Week of February 14, 2010
I wish you a Happy Valentine's Day and thank you all for your warm wishes and lovely gifts. I feel very loved. We started off our week leading the Lower Division Town Meeting with hellos in different languages. What a good job the students did!
This week is a four day working week, with Friday being a Teacher Workday. On Tuesday is the Relay for Life Luncheon and students can wear their purple tops (to represent cancer awareness). Remember there is no SAGE lunch on this day, so if you did not order a hot dog, please pack your child's lunch. Tuesday is library, so please remind your child to return all checked out books. On Wednesday is the Science Teacher-In, led by parent volunteers.
Current Events begins this week. Your child should be able to tell us what source the news article was found (e.g. St Petersburg Times), the date it was written, along with the main idea and some supporting details they found. I encourage your child to read the article several times, so they are able to express themselves clearly when it is their turn to share.
We are doing a review in language arts this week and working on our biographies. So far we have read about George Washington Carver, M.C. Walker, Thomas Edison, and Cyrus McCormick to name just a few of those amazing individuals who have made a difference in the world. The students are reading biographies and learning to summarize important facts about these individuals in a graphic organizer. They are also discovering that a biography is a narrative about a real person, event or thing and told in a series of events in sequential order.
Your child is working on learning to spell their own personal list of words this week. Please help them learn these words at home, which will be tested on Thursday. We will review adjectives in grammar and continue learning the lower case cursive letters.
In math, the focus this week will be on reviewing solution strategies for subtraction of 2-digit numbers, developing readiness for multiplication, learning to use multiplication as a way to find the total number of things in several equal groups, and learning to solve multiplication problems using multiplication diagrams and array models.
We will continue with our exploration of Asia and erosion in science.
I wish you a happy and successful week.
This week is a four day working week, with Friday being a Teacher Workday. On Tuesday is the Relay for Life Luncheon and students can wear their purple tops (to represent cancer awareness). Remember there is no SAGE lunch on this day, so if you did not order a hot dog, please pack your child's lunch. Tuesday is library, so please remind your child to return all checked out books. On Wednesday is the Science Teacher-In, led by parent volunteers.
Current Events begins this week. Your child should be able to tell us what source the news article was found (e.g. St Petersburg Times), the date it was written, along with the main idea and some supporting details they found. I encourage your child to read the article several times, so they are able to express themselves clearly when it is their turn to share.
We are doing a review in language arts this week and working on our biographies. So far we have read about George Washington Carver, M.C. Walker, Thomas Edison, and Cyrus McCormick to name just a few of those amazing individuals who have made a difference in the world. The students are reading biographies and learning to summarize important facts about these individuals in a graphic organizer. They are also discovering that a biography is a narrative about a real person, event or thing and told in a series of events in sequential order.
Your child is working on learning to spell their own personal list of words this week. Please help them learn these words at home, which will be tested on Thursday. We will review adjectives in grammar and continue learning the lower case cursive letters.
In math, the focus this week will be on reviewing solution strategies for subtraction of 2-digit numbers, developing readiness for multiplication, learning to use multiplication as a way to find the total number of things in several equal groups, and learning to solve multiplication problems using multiplication diagrams and array models.
We will continue with our exploration of Asia and erosion in science.
I wish you a happy and successful week.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Week of Feb. 7th
Welcome to another week in second grade.
We have just finished our study of Australia with the students sharing their paragraph's and artwork depicting some of Australia's amazing landmarks and what a terrific job they did. Next, we journey to Asia - the largest continent. If you or someone you know would like to come in to be a guest presenter relating to Asia or one of the countries in Asia, please email me. We'd love to have you in.
Next Monday, the class are excited to be leading town meeting at 8:10am. Please come watch us if you have some time. On this day, we will also celebrate Valentine's Day with a snack in the morning and Valentine exchange at the end of the day.
A reminder that your child should be bringing a healthy snack to school each day. Maybe you could have your child pack their own snack as part of their homework/morning routine.
This Thursday in Parent/Teacher Conference Day and no school for the students. I am looking forward to chatting with you about your child's progress and handing out their second semester report card.
The character trait for February is forgiveness.
Reminders:
Parent Reader (Friday, Feb.11) - D. Craig
Feb. 14 - Sharing at Town Meeting and Valentine's Day (send your child a card)
Feb. 16th - Science Matters Teach in 1-2:30pm
Feb. 18 - No School
Feb. 20 - President's Day, No school
Feb. 25 - Spirit Day Wear green and gold!
Language Arts
Phonics: ir/ear, eer
Spelling: see homework folder
Reading: the Life of George Washington Carver by Joli K. Stevens
Fluency: Good readers make sure they read words accurately and that they correct themselves if they make a mistake.
Comprehension: Locate Information using reference resources; Ask questions
Robust Vocabulary: brew, snug, supplies, crop, provide, earn, committee, experiments, innovation, edible
Grammar: Words that compare
Writing: Narrative
Trait: Word Choice
Mathematics: Unit 6
* Collect, sort, tally and graph data
* Select and complete an appropriate diagram to help solve an addition or subtraction problem
* Subtraction Strategies (2 digit subtraction)
* Exploring arrays, coins and division
Social Studes
Students will begin to gather information about Asia using various printed materials.
Science
Classifying rocks into three groups: igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
Erosion
We have just finished our study of Australia with the students sharing their paragraph's and artwork depicting some of Australia's amazing landmarks and what a terrific job they did. Next, we journey to Asia - the largest continent. If you or someone you know would like to come in to be a guest presenter relating to Asia or one of the countries in Asia, please email me. We'd love to have you in.
Next Monday, the class are excited to be leading town meeting at 8:10am. Please come watch us if you have some time. On this day, we will also celebrate Valentine's Day with a snack in the morning and Valentine exchange at the end of the day.
A reminder that your child should be bringing a healthy snack to school each day. Maybe you could have your child pack their own snack as part of their homework/morning routine.
This Thursday in Parent/Teacher Conference Day and no school for the students. I am looking forward to chatting with you about your child's progress and handing out their second semester report card.
The character trait for February is forgiveness.
Reminders:
Parent Reader (Friday, Feb.11) - D. Craig
Feb. 14 - Sharing at Town Meeting and Valentine's Day (send your child a card)
Feb. 16th - Science Matters Teach in 1-2:30pm
Feb. 18 - No School
Feb. 20 - President's Day, No school
Feb. 25 - Spirit Day Wear green and gold!
Language Arts
Phonics: ir/ear, eer
Spelling: see homework folder
Reading: the Life of George Washington Carver by Joli K. Stevens
Fluency: Good readers make sure they read words accurately and that they correct themselves if they make a mistake.
Comprehension: Locate Information using reference resources; Ask questions
Robust Vocabulary: brew, snug, supplies, crop, provide, earn, committee, experiments, innovation, edible
Grammar: Words that compare
Writing: Narrative
Trait: Word Choice
Mathematics: Unit 6
* Collect, sort, tally and graph data
* Select and complete an appropriate diagram to help solve an addition or subtraction problem
* Subtraction Strategies (2 digit subtraction)
* Exploring arrays, coins and division
Social Studes
Students will begin to gather information about Asia using various printed materials.
Science
Classifying rocks into three groups: igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
Erosion
Valentine's Day
SHHHHHHHH!!! Valentine's Day is coming up and to celebrate, we are asking that you send a Valentine's card to your child here at school. Please address this to your child, c/o Ms. O'Mullane. I ask that you keep this a secret. After a snack on the 14th, we will open these up.
Valentine's Day
SHHHHHHHH!!! Valentine's Day is coming up and to celebrate, we are asking that you send a Valentine's card to your child here at school. Please address this to your child, c/o Ms. O'Mullane. I ask that you keep this a secret. After a snack on the 14th, we will open these up.
Important Re-Enrollment Information
We are excited to announce that we are moving to an online re-enrollment process! This will allow you to complete your enrollment contract online, as well as make payments online. We believe that this will save you time and effort.
You will no longer need to complete lengthy paperwork, as student information will be pre-populated on each student's individual enrollment form. Once the enrollment contract is submitted online, you will be able to print a copy of the contract for your records.
In addition, we are pleased to offer you an easy, secure online payment system to make electronic payments of tuition deposits, tuition refund plan payments, tuition, and donation payments. This convenient alternative for families will allow you to make electronic payments by e-check or credit card (Master Card, American Express or Discover only).
A convenience fee of 2.75% will be charged if you use a credit card; however, there is no fee for using e-check, which is a direct debit to your bank account. You will be receiving further information the week of February 16.
You will no longer need to complete lengthy paperwork, as student information will be pre-populated on each student's individual enrollment form. Once the enrollment contract is submitted online, you will be able to print a copy of the contract for your records.
In addition, we are pleased to offer you an easy, secure online payment system to make electronic payments of tuition deposits, tuition refund plan payments, tuition, and donation payments. This convenient alternative for families will allow you to make electronic payments by e-check or credit card (Master Card, American Express or Discover only).
A convenience fee of 2.75% will be charged if you use a credit card; however, there is no fee for using e-check, which is a direct debit to your bank account. You will be receiving further information the week of February 16.
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