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**Room 13 is a peanut/tree nut free classroom. Please remember this when sending in birthday treats. Thank you!

Helpers for the Week

Feel free to come and help if you are available!

Computers (Monday 8:20-9:08) Mrs. Hornick and Mrs. Kowal

Art (Monday 1:24-2:12): ??

Art (Thursday 8:20-9:08): ??

Thank you for helping out!

What We’re Working On This Week

Reading: We will start a new story, “The Tiny Seed.” We will talk about drawing conclusions, and closed syllable words.

Math: Last week we learned all about reading a clock. This week we will cover reading a calendar. Depending on how we do the test will be this Friday (5-25).  Keep on practicing those addition and subtraction facts!

Science: We will finish the chapter on life cycles and review. The test will be Wednesday May 30.

Grammar: We will learn about pronouns.

Handwriting: We’ll learn four new upper case letters!

Spelling: nap, napkin, cab, cabin, index, visit, object, cotton, happen, magnet, pepper, together, through, field, certain, hundred

**Room 13 is a peanut/tree nut free classroom. Please remember this when sending in birthday treats. Thank you!

Helpers for the Week

 Feel free to come and help if you are available!

Computers (Monday 8:20-9:08) Mrs. Cibor and Mrs. Wild

Art (Monday 1:24-2:12): Mrs. Cibor

Art (Thursday 8:20-9:08):

Thank you for helping out!

What We’re Working On This Week

Reading: We will start a new story, “Mice and Beans.” We will cover the differences between fantasy and reality and inflected verbs.

Math: On Friday we did a fun activity to find out how long a minute really is. The week we will go over time.

Science: We will talk about plant life cycles this week.

Grammar: We will learn about contractions.

Handwriting: We’ll learn four new upper case letters!

Spelling: pause, draw, launch, law, fault, jaw, sauce, hawk, raw, crawl, because, lawn, caught, laundry, thaw, paw

**It was so wonderful to see all of the Moms on Friday. I hope you all enjoyed your special day!

**Some behavior was better this week. But we’ll still having a hard time listening and doing our best work.

**Room 13 is a peanut/tree nut free classroom. Please remember this when sending in birthday treats. Thank you!

Helpers for the Week

**No one signed up this week. Feel free to come and help if you are available!

Computers (Monday 8:20-9:08) Mr. Rinaldo

Art (Monday 1:24-2:12): ???

Art (Thursday 8:20-9:08): ???

Thank you for helping out!

What We’re Working On This Week

Reading: We will start a new story, “A Harbor Seal Pup Grows Up.” We will cover story sequence and antonyms.

Math:We will review measurement this week. The test on measurement will be on May 9. We will start time and calendar at the end of the week.

Science: We began learning about life cycles and will continue this week. Our butterflies arrived! We’ll be able to watch them grow and change in the coming weeks!

Grammar: We will learn about irregular verbs.

Handwriting: We’ll learn two new upper case letters!

Spelling: Shook, hook, crook, good, should, brook, foot, soot, could, would, wooden, cook, school, proof, goose, tooth

**I think some of us have a case of Spring Fever! We’re having a very hard time following directions, listening, and working quietly. Please remind your child of the importance of good behavior. I would hate to see conduct grades go down 4th quarter.

**Room 13 is a peanut/tree nut free classroom. Please remember this when sending in birthday treats. Thank you!

Helpers for the Week

**No one signed up this week. Feel free to come and help if you are available!

Computers (Monday 8:20-9:08) ??

Art (Monday 1:24-2:12): ???

Art (Thursday 8:20-9:08): ???

Thank you for helping out!

What We’re Working On This Week

Reading: We will start a new story, “A Trip to the Emergency Room.” We will cover story sequence and suffixes. 

Math:We will continue to work on measurement this week. The test on measurement will be on May 9.  Those children that are still working on addition really need to be practicing every night! I will begin to add subtraction grades in 4th quarter and if your child isn’t on subtraction yet, it will really effect their grade. Here is another great website to use at home to help with this skill www.playkidsgames.com.

Science:  The Chapter 3 test will be May 1st. We’ll start a new chapter on Thursday.

Grammar: We will learn about irregular verbs.

Handwriting: We’ll learn two new upper case letters!

Spelling: No spelling this week!

Reminders:

**I hope everyone had a restful break! Happy Easter!

**Room 13 is a peanut/tree nut free classroom. Please remember this when sending in birthday treats. Thank you!

Helpers for the Week

Computers (Monday 8:20-9:08) No School

Art (Monday 1:24-2:12): No School

Art (Thursday 8:20-9:08): ??

Thank you for helping out!

What We’re Working On This Week

Reading:We will start a new story. It is a story from Liberia called, Head, Body, Legs. We’ll continue to talk about cause and effect.

Math: We will review multiplication at the beginning of the week and then start division!  Continue to work on memorizing the addition and subtraction tables at home. Those children that are still working on addition really need to be practicing every night! I will begin to add subtraction grades in 4th quarter and if your child isn’t on subtraction yet, it will really effect their grade. Here is another great website to use at home to help with this skill www.playkidsgames.com.

Science: The bats were amazing! We got to see four different types up close! We will start a new chapter this week about how plants and animals live together.

Grammar: We will learn about linking verbs.

Handwriting: We are almost done with all of the lower case letters! Our printing is getting messy again, we need to take our time and do our best work on everything!

Spelling: There is no spelling this week!

Reminders:

**Please let Mrs. McHugh and I know if you are leaving early before break.

**Room 13 is a peanut/tree nut free classroom. Please remember this when sending in birthday treats. Thank you!

Helpers for the Week

Computers (Monday 8:20-9:08) Mrs. Wild

Art (Monday 1:24-2:12): Mrs. Schiffer

Art (Thursday 8:20-9:08): ??

Thank you for helping out!

What We’re Working On This Week

Reading:We will continue to work on Stirring up Memories.

Math: 2nd grade loves multiplication! We will continue to work on it this week. Continue to work on memorizing the addition and subtraction tables at home. Those children that are still working on addition really need to be practicing every night! I will begin to add subtraction grades in 4th quarter and if your child isn’t on subtraction yet, it will really effect their grade.  Here is another great website to use at home to help with this skill www.playkidsgames.com.

 Science: We’ll continue our bat unit this week. We can’t wait for the “Bat Man” to come on Friday!

Grammar: We will review what we’ve learned over the past few weeks.

Handwriting: We have started cursive. We will learn two new letters this week.

Spelling: There is no spelling this week!

Reminders:

**Please let Mrs. McHugh and I know if you are leaving early before break.

**Room 13 is a peanut/tree nut free classroom. Please remember this when sending in birthday treats. Thank you!

Helpers for the Week

Computers (Monday 8:20-9:08) ??

Art (Monday 1:24-2:12): Mrs. Zawaideh

Art (Thursday 8:20-9:08): ??

Thank you for helping out!

What We’re Working On This Week

Reading:We began reading “Stirring up Memories” We will review main ideas and details.

Math: We did a great job on the fraction test! This week we will start multiplication! We’re all VERY excited! 

Science: We’ll continue our bat unit this week. We can’t wait for the “Bat Man” to come next week!

Grammar: We will review what we’ve learned over the past few weeks.

Handwriting: We have started cursive. We will learn two new letters this week.

Spelling: This weeks words are clown, growl, howl, brown, crown, ground, shout, cloud, house, sound, shark, chair, family, four, crowd, underground

Reminders:

**There is no school this Friday the 16th.

** Money for the bat presentation is due this Thursday. Please send in $4.00 in cash or a check made out to St. Regis. Thanks!

**Please let Mrs. McHugh and I know if you are leaving early before break.

**Room 13 is a peanut/tree nut free classroom. Please remember this when sending in birthday treats. Thank you!

Helpers for the Week

Computers (Monday 8:20-9:08) Mr. Kowal

Art (Monday 1:24-2:12): Mrs. Schiffer

Art (Thursday 8:20-9:08): ??

Thank you for helping out!

What We’re Working On This Week

Reading:We began reading “Click, Clack, Moo” this week. We love that story! This week we will continue to work with the story. We will learn about cause and effect.

Math: We will review fractions on Monday. The chapter test will be on Wednesday (3-14).

Science: We started our bat unit last week! We talked about what we already knew about bats and we also came up with great question that we want to find out. We’ll start learning all sorts of neat stuff on Tuesday.

Grammar: We will learn about the verb have.

Handwriting: We have started cursive. We will learn two new letters this week.

Spelling: No spelling this week.