Mrs. Barlow’s Class Please view our daily blog for information on student learning and upcoming events. 

My classroom phone is now working.  Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Please don’t forget to sell your chocolate!  It will help our school out so much!  We appreciate your help with this fundraiser!
The orders and money will be due on Monday, March 2, 2015!  

I   learned  Author’s Purpose. There  is purpose when you write. You should  Inform, persuade  or  entertain.
~Addison M.~

Don’ forget about “Bucks for Brinnlee”
Tomorrow where a Christmas shirt, pin, headband, etc. to “Send Christmas Cheer to Brinlee!”

We will be celebrating the spirit of giving with a “Penny Christmas”!  The note was sent home last week.  I will send a reminder notice on Friday.  The “Penny Christmas” items will be due on December 15th.
I have sent the “Room Mother” sheets to Mrs. Greenwood.  She will be contacting any parent that signed up to help.  We would love to have any and all of you join us to set up and help at the Christmas party.  Thank you in advance for helping with the party and sending items.  The children and I appreciate all of you!

This week we will be reviewing skills learned all year!

We will be taking an assessment in math over all concepts we have learned on Friday.  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday we will  review games and small group games to continue growing our skills in all areas of math.  These areas include:
expanded form
place value
regrouping
problem solving with two step problems
coins and mixed value
shapes and solid figures
adding strings of numbers
greater than/less than
ordering numbers in greater to least value
time to the hour, half hour, minute
fractions

We will have homework sheets coming home each night to review skills as well!

We will also be performing with Pre-K students in the Champs Assembly on May 16, 2014.  We will begin practicing with them this week.

We will be testing our accuracy, fluency, and comprehension skills in reading this week with individual reading passages with the teacher and independently.

This will be an important week for the kids to show how much they have learned this year!

Please read the following note about a home project idea.  It is not required, but would be a great project if you choose to do it!  Thanks for your support!

Dear Parents,

The students are learning many things about recycling and the benefits of recycling.  Our mid way project will be to create something from the recycled materials that we can play with, use for storage, use for learning, etc.  They will be creating these items in the classroom with their groups or individually.  We would like to add a home project to this experience.  If you would like to help with this then please visit the sites below.  As a family you can help your child create an item made from recyclable materials.  They will share this in class and discuss what materials they used and how the item is helpful to your family.  We would like to have these products brought to class on or before April 15, 2014.

The following sites will give you some great ideas.

http://www.thecraftycrow.net/recycled/–

http://spoonful.com/create/recyclable-crafts-gallery#carousel-id=photo-carousel&carousel-item=15

Sincerely,

2nd Grade Teachers

We will have school pictures this Thursday, October 17th.  The order form should be going home tomorrow or you could complete the form online.