10th week of school

This week we are learning about characters and their traits.  I have so enjoyed the pumpkin characters that have been brought in.  Your kids are so creative!  Every one of them was adorable.  I thought you may like to see pictures of some of the students who presented today and their cute, cute pumpkins.

D.W.

Purplicious girl

Skippyjon Jones

Skippyjon Jones

Little Bitty Mousie

Bad Case of Stripes

Mermaid

Gigi the Pink Ballerina

Clifford

Mr. Whiskers

Suzie

Strawberry Shortcake

Moo

Skippyjon Jones

More to come!

Important Updates

 Hello Families!

I am hoping to get more traffic on the blog.  I will be putting important information here whenever it comes up.

RED RIBBON WEEK:

     Tuesday:  Wear red clothes and crazy socks! "I Know I am "RED-Y" to Say No to Drugs" and "I Will Sock it to Drugs."
     Wednesday: Wear a green shirt and green accessories for "I Can Keep My Mind and the Earth Clean."
     Thursday:  Wear a cap for "I Can Put a Cap on Drugs."
     Friday:  Wear jeans and a Galloway shirt.  "I am a Jean'ius:  Because I am Drug Free."

T-shirts were ordered and should be in within the week.  Wear the new shirts on Friday if we have them in time!

POPÇORN for sale on WEDNESDAY for a quarter.  Only one bag per student.

7th week of school

Yesterday  marked the first day of the new six weeks.  Report cards will be sent home on Thursday.  You may check your child's grades anytime by going to the Galloway website and clicking on ParentConnect.  

This is a good time to start with a clean slate.  We've made a lot of progress these past six weeks, both behavioral and academic.  

School pictures were sent home last week.  Some of you have paid for the package and others have not. If you do not with to purchase the pictures sent home, please return them to school.

I am sending home holiday Scholastic book orders today.  The orders and money are due on October 27.  Let me know if any of the books are a gift to your child and I will get the books to you without their knowing.  You are never obligated to buy books from the book clubs but some of these books are as cheap as $1. It's an inexpensive way to add books to your child's library.

What we are learning this week:

Math: Patterns and Place Value
Reading:
Social Studies: Government
Science: The Night Sky
English: Verbs
Spelling:  Is it c or is it k?  Words that begin with c are followed by an a, o or u.  Words that begin with k are followed by an e or an i. 
Spelling List:                                         

Much needed update!

Skippyjon  Jones fun!

Hey!  Mrs. Wuest's class has a Skippyjon too!

Calendar Math leader!

Skippyjon had lots of adventures at her house!                                                                                                                            

Everyone's loving Skippyjon Jones!

Here at school we have fallen into a successful routine that I am thrilled with.  Our class is becoming more independent with their learning such as going to the computer for acceleration when it's time, timing themselves, logging in and out on their own, etc.  I have a great group of helpers who have taken certain tasks upon themselves that leaves more time for me to teach.  Those types of things makes our days run smoothly and we get more learning done.  Thank you for having such wonderful children!

Guided Reading is in full swing.  Each student will meet with me certain days of the week.  Your child "knows" when their reading days (small group) is but I understand if they don't remember right away.  Your child should return their books in the bag every reading group day.

IMPORTANT:  Many of my students are telling me that they read their book at home by themselves.  Those books are not on an easy/independent level but an instructional level.  Please have your child read to you so you can help with unknown words.  We are learning strategies for figuring out unknown words at school. Your child should be able to at least start the word or come pretty close most of the time.  Do not encourage your child to sound out the word but instead find parts of the word that he does know and go from there.  If that doesn't work just tell your child the word.  Thanks!

Parent Conferences are the first full week in November. I will send home a note next week asking for sign-ups.  Times will be on a first come-first serve basis.  We will discuss reading levels and progress, Math CBA's (testing) and behavior plus anything you have questions about.

BOOK REPORTS ARE DUE ON HALLOWEEN!  Information went home today about the book report.  If you have any questions or if you need for me to buy your child a pumpkin, let me know.

Next Week's Learning:

Comprehension Strategies:  Types of Fiction and Story Elements
English:  word endings and their meanings, synonyms, the who or what in a sentence, syllables, verbs (past, present and future)
Math:  Money; Graphs
Science: Air and Weather
Social Studies: Presidential Election
Spelling: Adding endings to words with no change

Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah

Mrs. Cooper's Education:
I graduated from North Mesquite High School then spent my first year of college at SMU and the next semester at Eastfield.  In August 1983 I began attending Brigham Young University in  Provo, Utah.  I graduated in April 1986 with a degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education. I am certified to teach pre-k through the 8th grade.  I earned my masters degree from Texas A and M Commerce in 2006.  This marks my 18th year of teaching (after being a stay at home mom for several years.)  The funny thing is that SMU's football team was ranked #1 in the nation the only year I was there and then BYU was ranked #1 in the nation while I was there!  HA!
   

More Skippyjon pictures

I am putting these up just in case I didn't earlier.  I'm loving these Skippyjon stories!

Skippyjon Jones and Friend

Skippyjon is still making the rounds!

Week 6

Here are what our t-shirts look like.  As you can see, our class will have purple shirts.  Each class has a different color shirt.  The guitar is made with words that have to do with the second grade and Galloway.  I am excited and I know that the second graders are going to love them.  I will send home the order form (for you to indicate size) tomorrow.  The forms need to be returned as soon as possible so we can get the shirts ordered.  We will have designated days to wear the shirts and hopefully each child will order one.  We will also wear them on play day, field trips and other special days.

This week we will be learning about:

Math:  paired numbers, patterns in numbers
Science:  Weather
Social Studies:  Communities
Reading:  Monitor Comprehension
English:  antonyms, nouns and syllables
Spelling Words:  was, off, because, friend, were, when, old, gave, best, most, father, children    These words are from our word wall.

College Facts:

There are 60 women colleges in the United States in 24 states.  The state with the most women’s colleges is Massachusetts with 8.  Pennsylvania comes in second with 7.

Parent-Teacher conferences:  November  5 - 7.  You will be hearing about this more in a week or two.

Deedee Cooper