Week 26

Welcome to week twenty-six! This week’s theme is: Our Heros


Keep sending in Box Tops to help second grade win our school contest!  The grade with the most box tops per-capita on March 8th get a "Uniform Free Day."

Quail Run will be holding an afternoon social to give students the opportunity to say good bye to Mrs. Tammy Yorgason and Mrs. Colleen Slade on Friday, February 22, 2013 from

2:30-3:00 pm in the lunchroom.  This is a unique opportunity and we hope that many parents can join with us as we bid them farewell.  

Please remember to send your student's "Take Home Reading" books back to school so our volunteers can send home a new book for your child.  

Here is a look at what we are learning this week:

Art: Students will continue working on their student directed art projects using mediums such as collage, pastels, paper construction, and water color. Both classes have earned a special clay day for cleaning up quickly. 

ASL:  No ASL this week, we will focus on Spanish.

Dance:  Students will continue studying the different types of movement. 

Health: Learning about our teeth.  

Math: Students will continue learning two digit subtraction, those students who have mastered two-digit subtraction will move on to three digit subtraction. 

Music:In music we will be practicing songs for a special spring performance. 

PE: Various games in the gym

Reading: In reading we will be having guided reading with our leveled books, phonics lessons focusing on short a, and i or variable vowels ar and or. 

Science: Students will continue their study of electricity and batteries. 

Social Studies: Students will study climate

Spanish: Students will begin studying the Spanish vocabulary for animals.

Writing:

• Writing: Hand writing with Mrs. P: This week will be learning the penmanship of cursive"h,t"

• Composition with Mrs. P: This week we will work on special narratives to be bound into a special class book.

• Spelling: Students are grouped by levels and engage in Words Their Way sorting activities.  Students sort words into categories by sounds patterns according to their present level of functioning.