Kelly Bailey - Grade 2

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April 7, 2017

Spring is in the air!
We are well on our way into the last trimester of this school year!  WOW!

Thank you to all who joined us for our trip to the WOW Museum on March 27th!  We had a great day with all the students and families!!!
 
Spring Concert is Tuesday, April 4th in the gym. Please have your child there at 6:15pm for the 6:30pm Second/Third Grade Concert.

FIELD TRIPS
April 28th we will be going to Hilmar Cheese for a tour and ice cream making then to Crane Park Family Picnic in Turlock. The tour is
9:30-11 am and we will be at the park until about 1pm before heading back to school.

NOTE~

We have an Easter celebration and egg hunt on April 13th, which is also a minimum day! Lunch and festivities will begin at 11:30 am. Please look for the pink note that came home at the end of last week for times we need to make this event fun for all the second graders.
We are asking that EACH student brings one dozen plastic filled eggs. The candy inside must be wrapped. Example....no loose jelly beans or
 M & M's. PLEASE send in by April 12th.
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Areas of focus right now: 
  • Formations of equal groups; arrays and equal groups(cont. Module 6 in math)
  • More Word Problems...Read Draw Write
  • Reading finishing Unit 5 : Let's Make a Difference
  • Biographies
  • Grammar: Homophones, Multiple Meaning words, Possessive Pronouns and Contractions
  • Spelling: a, aw, au, augh, al, ough, /e/, ea, /u/ ou; /i/ y and open and closed syllables
  • Writing Focus:  Sequence of events, Informative Text, and Narrative
Please be working on (at home):
  • Math Facts to 20 both addition and subtraction  (They need to memorize these (automatically... No finger counting.) 
  • AR (reading together every night, and bringing books back to school every day)
  • Homework Completion
  • Nice Handwriting and Correct Letter Formation
  • PLEASE continue to remind of your child each day of in class appropriate behaviors and that learning is the most important part of our school day!

April Character Trait: Respectful 

COMING UP:
NO school April 14th - April 21st for Spring Break. We return to school
on Monday, April 24th.

May 18th we will have a Cruzin' Critters wildlife presentation for our 2nd graders.  
May 24th is Field Day....we will be ordering shirts and using our fundraiser money to buy each student's shirt this year!
If you would like one...let me know and I will get the cost from Mrs.York.

May 25th is our last day celebration all of second grade lunch....details to come.

May 26th is the last day of school and Hawaiian Day!  This is a minimum day!


Please email me with any questions or concerns....kbailey@hickmanschools.org

Thank you for sharing the gift of your child each day... I am blessed!!!
Mrs. Kelly Bailey