Mid-September 2016 News Ms. Pickens’ 2nd Grade Star of the Week Calendar September 16th September Book Order Due September 23rd Olweus Kick-off Day!! Happy Birthday 18th – AJ 21st – Kasey 23rd – Kellen Everyday Home Folder and Agendas Please remind your child to check their Home Folders nightly and share the contents with you. Home Folders may be carrying important notices or homework for students to complete and return to school. Don’t forget to check your child’s agenda sentence and document their 15-20 minutes of nightly reading in the yellow column on the right. If students didn’t have time to write their daily sentence at school, they should complete it as homework. September’s Learning Targets Phonics – Short Vowels, long vowels, consonant blends, and adding –ed and –ing endings Grammar- Complete Sentences, Capitalization, Punctuation, ABC Order, and Nouns Writing – Sentences, Mechanics, penmanship, line use, and spacing Math – Number Concepts S.S. – Communities and Maps Science – Germs and The Scientific Method Homework Students will receive their homework from their reading and math teachers on Fridays. All homework will be due the following Thursday, unless noted otherwise by their specific teachers. The reading homework will come home in a packet or single page. Each student will be asked to complete the reading homework with the objective to read a homework page a night. For example, on Monday students will read homework #1, Tuesday #2, and so on. We ask that the students read this homework aloud. There are also comprehension questions at the end of the readings that you may discuss with your child. Please remember to sign both the reading and math homework and remind your student to turn it into their reading or math teacher. * There may be times when students have additional homework, for example, work they did not finish in class or special projects. Thank you all so much for your support at home and for helping your child succeed.  Star of the Week This week we started the Star of the Week!! If your child is chosen as the Star of the Week there will be a poster in his/her Home Folder that he/she will have to complete and return to school on Monday. Your child may also bring 10 pictures that I will hang next to their poster! During the week, classmates will be able to admire the star and the star will be able to share his/her poster, pictures, and a show and share on Wednesday of their week! Walk to Reading and Math Students will begin their Walk to Reading and Math classes sometime this week or next. Please ask them to share with you who they see for these subject areas! You should see letters coming home soon from these specific teachers. If you have any questions please feel free to contact their math teachers, reading teachers, and/or myself. Friday, September 23rd - Olweus Kick-off Day WEAR YOUR GRAY HELLGATE HAWK SHIRT!!!!! A n order form flyer will be coming home if your child needs a replacement shirt. All students new to the district will receive a shirt before Friday the 23rd. Thanks! Comments, questions and concerns – Contact me! By Phone – School Building #2 721-2160 ext. 2080 By E-mail – apickens@hellgate.k12.mt.us In person – Feel free to stop by!