Team Moss Blog: Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

We have had a wonderful week with Team Moss!

KOMU Pledge of Allegiance

On Monday, September 23, KOMU will be coming out to record Team Moss saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
It would be great to have a lot of red, white and blue in the video. If your student would like to wear red, white and blue on Monday, they may do so.
Once KOMU lets us know when the video will be aired, we will let you know.

Friday Folders

Chicken BBQ is less than a month away! In your student's Friday folder are the ticket packets. You can presale tickets and game tickets if you would like.
The Chicken BBQ is our big fundraiser at RBE. We are very fortunate to have such a wonderful PTA. This is a great way to support our school.

This is the first week we have assessed on personal growth for the Friday folders. Please do not be alarmed to see a 2 under personal growth. This focuses a lot on goal setting as well as reflecting on goals. This is a hard concept for students to grasp at any age, but especially in 2nd grade. We will be providing a lot of guidance in goal setting this year. 2nd grade is definitely a learning year for goal setting.

Homework Bingo

We are looking forward to our first Homework Bingo lunch on Monday! Please encourage your student to do the activities. They are completely optional and we enjoy eating lunch with the kids on Friday to celebrate their hard work.

Important Upcoming Events

Next Week's Learning

We will be wrapping up our study of fantasy next week. Then, we will start a short genre study of expository writing. These will be nonfiction pieces focused on jobs and how families work in the home as well as working outside the home at jobs.
Please continue to encourage your child to read nightly and/or read with your student nightly. They enjoy the time with you and the benefits for them as a reader as amazing.

We will start publishing our first piece of writing next week. It is their realistic fiction story. There has been teacher guidance in the writing process of this piece and they have done editing and revising, but it is a representation of what they are capable of at this point in time. We will be using this writing piece to set goals for our next piece. These goals will include mechanics as well as ways to make the writing itself better.
Be sure to ask your student about their realistic fiction story, as well as any stories they are writing in their free write notebook.

If you haven't sent back your student's unit 1 math test, please do so next week. This allows us to know you have seen and reviewed the test with your student.
Unit 2 covers addition strategies. Next week, students will work on near doubles facts (4 + 5, 3 + 2, etc) as well as the commutative property (turn-around rule, 2 + 3 = 3 + 2).
They will also get a chance to prove that the commutative property (turn-around rule) doesn't work for subtraction. Wait until next weekend to ask them about that. :)
A great time to practice basic math facts is in the car. They have strategies to solve the facts, but knowing them quick and fast makes their math easier and will continue to make it easier the further they go in math.

Next week, we will be learning about seed dispersal and how animals can help plants reproduce.
We are very lucky at RBE to have a great outdoor classroom for us to go out and see signs of so many science concepts. We will be going out next week to observe trees and will make these observations throughout the year to see how trees change throughout the year.

Next week, we will learn about glued sound exceptions (-old, -ild, -ind, -olt, -ost). They are exceptions because they make a long vowel sound as opposed to a short vowel sound.
We will also start to learn about long a spelling patterns of -ai and -ay.
Our trick words for next week are done, goes, pretty, where and does.
Please continue to practice trick words at home. They simply have to be memorized.

Have a fabulous weekend!

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