September 2nd Newsletter

September 2, 2014 Dear Parents, I hope your child is enjoying school as much as I am. We had another great week last week! Field Trip: The second grades will be going on an all day field trip on Thursday, September 25th, to Cedar Breaks, the Parowan Park for lunch and the Parowan Gap to explore the petroglyphs. This will be in conjunction with our rock unit in science. Please have your child dress appropriately. We will be hiking so have your child wear good hiking shoes. Also, he/she will need to bring a jacket. It is usually a lot cooler at Cedar Breaks than Cedar City. Since we will be gone all day, we will be eating lunch at the Parowan park. Please indicate on the permission slip of your child is eating home or school lunch that day. I will be ordering lunches on Friday. If I haven’t received your permission slip by then, I will order a school sack lunch for your child. Permission slips need to be returned in order for your child to be able to join with us so please return the field trip consent form ASAP. Thank you so much. Math: We have been working with and will continue to work with doubles and graphs. We will have our test on chapter 10 this week. Science: We will finish our unit on gravity this week. The students had a lot of fun as they did experiments to learn about gravity. We will begin our moon unit on Thursday. Miss Lee, our student teacher, will be teaching this unit. It should be a lot of fun. Spelling: Spelling words were sent home today. Watch for them to come home each Monday. Most of the students have the first grade spelling words that they missed on our pretest and some of the second grade words that they missed. We do activities at our spelling center during the week to help the students learn their spelling words. However, any extra practice you can give your student at home would be great. Each list this week is different so each child has their individualized list. Please help them with their list. Book Order: Please remember that the book order is due this Friday September 5th. Please make your check payable to Scholastic Book Club. Name Paper: Please remember to have your child return their paper on how they got their name by Thursday Sept. 4th. PTA Fall Bash: Please support the Fall Bash, on Monday September 8th sponsored by the PTA. This will be their big event this year. There will not be a Halloween carnival. It is going to be LOTS of fun for the entire family. Watch for information to come home about it. School Pictures: School pictures will be taken on Monday September 8th. Packets were sent home with more information. Language: We will be working with the friendly letter format, continue to review short and long vowel sounds and learn about complete sentences. Sharing: There will sharing this week on Friday at 1:15. Reading Parents: Reading parents will start the week of the 15th. I’ll give you a call if you signed up to help. Thanks! Thanks for all of your support. It is a joy to teach your children. Please call me if you have any questions or concerns at 586-2850 @ school or 586-2189 @ home. Sincerely, Brenda Haight