Grinch Day & Holiday Celebration Class News ENTER DATE HERE Important Dates Grinch Day & Holiday Celebration 12/3 Santa Pancake Breakfast 12/9 Ornament Extravaganza 12/12 Books due for Book Exchange 12/14 Grinch Day and Book Exchange 12/16 Library Visit 12/20 Winter Musical 12/22- 1/2 No School This holiday season, 2nd grade will begin a new tradition- Grinch Day! In the days leading up to Grinch Day, we will be reading the book, How Grinch Stole Christmas, and completing many fun and educational activities to go along with this classic holiday story. On Wednesday, December 14th, we will conclude our Grinch activities by watching the movie, trying some green food, and more! I will send out a sign-up genius next week! Book Exchange On December 14, we will have a 2nd grade Holiday Book Exchange. Each child that wishes to participate will need to bring a newly, gift-wrapped book on or before December 12th. Books should be priced in the $1-$5 range. Please buy a gender neutral book so that a boy or girl would enjoy it. Please put a gift tag on the wrapped book labeling who the book is from. We are looking forward to this event!

Class News What are we learning? December Homework December 5- 9 This week in reading, the children focused on the characters in their books. They reviewed how to make predictions about their characters before reading and that sometimes they need to revise their predictions. They also used sticky notes to keep track of the characters wants, needs and challenges throughout a book. Next week we will continue to focus on characters and how that helps us better understand our stories. In writing, the children worked on a holiday writing piece about being stuck in a snow globe. They wrote a draft and are now revising by adding detail to their work. Next week the children will continue to revise, edit for spelling and punctuation and will then publish their work. In word study, we focused on prefixes this week. The children learned the meaning of different prefixes and what it does to a word when it is added to it. Next week we will begin learning about different suffixes which will take us the next couple of weeks. In social studies, the children are learning about different Native American groups and what makes them unique. December Homework December 5- 9 -Read every night for 20 minutes (record on reading log) -2 reading responses (use quarter 2 grid) -3 spelling activities (use spelling grid) December 12-16 -Vocabulary packet December 19- 21 NO HOMEWORK