Red Ribbon Week Fun!

This was a very busy week, but VERY fun!

This week was Red Ribbon Week. We dressed up for every day!
We also decorated our door with a message about being drug free.

We are "toadally" drug fee!! We made some cute toads for our theme.



Of course we had to take a silly picture too!



We also had our author celebration. This is the day our authors share a little of their published stories. They were VERY excited about this! We have some awesome writers!





We also had our first nine weeks Den party for the LIONS!

I can't wait to see everyone at the fall festival this evening!


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Red Ribbon Week

This week we were busy COGAT testing in class.  I'm sure the kids are tired of testing!  They did a great job listening and worked very hard.

Next week is Red Ribbon Week at Velasquez.  You will see some information about this in your child's folder. I wanted to post it for you here as well.

Monday: Red Ribbon Kickoff Day

WEAR RED

Tuesday: "Follow Your Dreams, Don't Do Drugs"

WEAR PAJAMAS AND SLIPPERS

Wednesday: "Put a Cap on and Sock it to Drugs"

WEAR A CAP AND SILLY SOCKS

Thursday: "Black Out Drugs"

WEAR BLACK

Friday: "Team Up Against Drugs"

WEAR FAVORITE TEAM JERSEY OR SHIRT

Visualizing

This week we were working on visualizing when when we read....getting a mental image or picture in our head.  We did some fun activities to learn about this strategy!

We used our "visualizing tubes" to zoom in and look closely at all the details....just like we should be doing when we read!

 

We also did a fun activity with mystery object bags.  The class could only feel what was in the bag. Then, they had to draw their mental image and write the details that helped them figure out what the object was.

 

Our next acitivity was to listen to a story with a lot of details...without looking at any of the pictures from the book!  Then, we drew our mental images and compared them to the pictures in the book!  They did great!

 

Our final visualizing activity today was with poetry.  We read some poems by Jack Prelutsky  and underlined all the text evidence that helped us with our mental image.  We then drew our mental images.

 

Ask your child about the activities we did this week!

It was a great week!

Working Hard!

This week we have been working hard!  We are learning how to infer when we read. 

We have a fun inferring song that we practice every day!

We also practiced inferring by pretending we were detectives.  We had to figure out who was missing their slipper!

The class had to answer these two essential questions this week:

 

1.  Why do reader's infer?

 

2. How do reader's infer?

 

Ask them these questions at home!

 

If they get stuck, look at this!

We are also having a lot of fun using the Would You Rather game to journal in the morning.  So fun!

Another fun tool that we use every week is the ActivExpressions!  The ActivExpressions allow the students to text in answers or vote on answers.  The answers show up on our Promethean board.  We love these!

I am looking forward to another great week next week!  Have a great weekend!

Parent Conferences

Parent Conferences will be the week of November 4th.  I will be available for conferences on Monday, November 4th and Tuesday, November 5th. Please click the link below to sign up for a conference time.

 

Conference Sign-Up

 

 

I look forward to meeting with you!

Thanks!

Another Great Week!

We had a very busy week with a lot of learning! 

 

Check it out!

 

 

Read to Someone Station

 

 

 

 

 Singing our song about Schema!

 

 

 Sharing during writing workshop.

 

 

*We also went to library this week.  Our library day is Wednesday, so don't forget to bring library books back every Wednesday to return and check out a new one!

 

*We will also be doing AR in second grade.  Please encourage your child to read their library books and then they can come to school and take a comprehension test on their story.  We are keeping track of how many AR points they earn as well as how many 100% they receive on a test.

 

 *This week in reading, we learned about schema and making connections.  Ask your child about this!

 

Good Fit Books

Last week we learned how to choose good fit books. Here's the rules we are using to help us choose good fit books!

We are also using the 5 finger test to help us choose books.  This test lets us know if the book is too hard, too easy, or just right for us! (a good fit)

Here's the 5 finger test:

Use these strategies at home to help choose good fit books to read!  Don't forget to read EVERY NIGHT!!