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The Baldin Blotter
Monday, September 20, 2009
A Peek at the Week Spelling Calendar of Events
This week we will read the second This week’s spelling list consists of 16 Tuesday, 9/22 Grahams w/ Grandparents
story in Theme 1 - Silly Stories. Our words that have the long a or i sound Friday, 10/9 2nd Grade Event 2:45 pm
story, Mrs. Brown Went to Town, is due to a silent e (except give and have). Monday, 10/12 No School - Columbus Day
Weds, 10/14 Safety Fair Field Trip
about life on a farm. Mrs. Brown goes Your child should be able to
Thurs, 10/29 Parent/Teacher Conf. PM
to the hospital and a cow, two pigs, pronounce, spell, and use each spelling Friday 10/30 Parent/Teacher Conf. DAY
three ducks, and a yak move into her word in a complete sentence. The final
house. Ask your child what happened test will be on Friday.
when Mrs. Brown was away from
home. We will review action parts, bite late size made side
words that have more than one ate fine same hide line
meaning, and write our own story this bike gate give* have*
week.
challenge words: shake write
In math, we will complete Topic 2 -
Addition Strategies with a topic test. 2nd Grade Event
We will begin Topic 3 - Subtraction
Your child should have brought home Grahams with Grandparents is
Strategies. Students will use various
a flyer in their Panda Folders today Tomorrow....
strategies to be able to subtract
about this event. This event for 2nd This event is scheduled for tomorrow
successfully. We will begin Topic 3
graders is scheduled for Friday, from 7:45 to 8:45 am. Students may
with a story titled, Flying Subtraction.
October 9th from 2:45 to 3:45 pm. invite a grandparent, senior friend, or
Students get to teach you some of the any adult involved in their life. Everyone
In science, we will continue with Unit
games we play in class, as well as you will receive an activity book and each
B - Homes for Plants and Animals. We
will walk away with helpful tips and child can choose a book to take home to
have discussed life in a rain forest and
ideas to help your child at home. Hope add to their home library. This is a free
now will learn more about a desert. A
you can attend! event sponsored by Title I: Parents as
desert is a dry habitat where it gets less
rain in a year than most plants and Partners. Hope to see you there!
animals need to live.
Contact Information:
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Phone: 25-3256
Email: jbaldin@springfield.k12.il.us
Library News Nutrition Lesson
Each Wednesday we visit the library to
return and check out books. Students may
take their library books home, but they need
to bring them back to school for our library
day.
Important
This is in regards to your child’s math
worksheets that they bring home daily.
Beginning today we will not complete
the “Problem Solving” side of the math
worksheet in class. We do over an hour
of math each day and this is something
that we would like to leave for your child
Students were responding to Mrs. Rebbe’s
to do at home. Please ask your child to questions about the food pyramid. Ask your
explain it to you and it would be great child to tell you about what they have learned.
for you to do it together. We are just
simply running out of time and there is
so much more to do that this was about
a 10-minute part of our math lesson that
we could leave for home. We appreciate
Math Matters!
your help! Students need to practice math facts
each and every day. Each day we will
review strategies that help us add
correctly and quickly. Below are a few
Homonym Riddles
Risk Watch strategies to help your child better
understand addition.
A) If they are not here, where are
Permission slips for the Risk Watch they?
Counting on 1,2,3
Safety Fair field trip came home today B) What do you call a bucket that has
to figure out 16 + 2 or 2+ 16, children seen a ghost?
in Panda Folders. Please sign, date, and start with 16 (larger number) and count
provide us with phone numbers in case on 2 numbers
of an emergency. Also, if you have a Answers: A) They’re there B) A pale pail
new address or any information to Using Doubles
change on your student’s emergency Here are some other homonyms pairs to
to figure out 9 + 8, a child could think
card, please add that information to the I know 8 + 8 is 16 so 9 + 8 is 17 think about:
permission slip. This helps us keep your
child’s information up-to-date. If you ad/add
allowed/aloud
are interested in attending the field trip,
ant/aunt
please note that on the permission slip. ate/eight
It is an all day field trip, but please don’t ball/bawl
feel that you have to stay all day. Please band/banned
send the permission slip back in your
child’s folder. Thank you!
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