Awesome October

Hi Families,

Appreciations

I wanted to formally thank Torrey for signing on to volunteer in our classroom Wednesday afternoons.

Thank you to Stephanie for making cupcakes with the class, we are looking forward to more cooking projects.

Thank you to Helen for signing on as our “room” mom. If you have any concerns or questions and do not feel comfortable talking to me, you may always talk to Helen.

*Tomorrow is pajama day. Your student can wear their pajamas!

*We are beginning Halloween crafts and cooking projects. Would you like to come teach about Halloween? Please call me if you are interested.

Lastly, below are a couple concepts your child should be beginning to understand. You can help them at home by keeping an open dialogue about school activities. It helps to create games about these concepts. You’ll be surprised how much a “game” can help them learn.

2nd Grade-
• Place value (example: “36” has 3 tens and 6 ones)
• Less than, greater than, equal to (<, >, =)
• Equivalency (5+4+9 = 9+2+7)
• Sound patterns (example: speak and feet)
• Syllables in words (example: hotel = ho-tel, clap)
• Reading comprehension- Does your student understand what they are reading or hearing?
• Compound words (back + pack = backpack)
• Synonyms (child/kid, big/huge etc)
• Sentence structure (nouns, verbs, adjectives)

3rd Grade- all of the above and…
• Expanded notation (457= 400+50+7)
• Math word problems
• Shapes (hexagon, pentagon, pyramid etc)
• Types of triangles (right, equilateral, scalene, isosceles)
• Parallel lines
• Verb tenses
• Contractions (don’t, aren’t, won’t etc)

Best,

Rebecca