11-17-11

Mrs. Malone's Thursday Times

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Dowell Elementary School
November 17, 2011 

Friday - PE

Monday – ART

Tuesday –PE

Wednesday – COMPUTER

Thursday –PE

Homework

• Check the agenda daily.
• Study spelling list 12 words for tomorrow's assessment.
• Review vocabulary words in today's blog.
• Read AR daily.
• Practice giving back change from $1o.
• Practice checking subtraction with addition.
• Identifying plane figures

Spelling Assessment

There will be an assessment this Friday on list 12 words located in the back of the 2nd Grade Handbooks which were sent home last Thursday.   Please begin studying list 13 after tomorrow.

Reading Vocabulary – Mrs., sofa, whispers, adios, amiga

 Language Arts Skills & Vocabulary –  writing paragraphs with a main idea, supporting details, correct capitalization/punctuation- friendly letter, heading, greeting, body, closing, signature, comma (using commas correctly in a letter & a series), using possessive nouns correctly (singular & plural: ex. 1 boy's coat -all the boys' coats)

Math Skills and Vocabulary – 

• place value to 999
• 2 digit subtraction with & without regrouping (borrowing)
• subtraction using estimating
• checking subtraction with addition
• counting money using bills & coins
• giving back change from $10
• Venn diagrams
• plane figures (geometric shapes)
• vertex, vertices
• edges, sides,
• angles-acute angle, right angle (square corner), obtuse angle

Science  Vocabulary – energy,  forms of energy, heat, light, motion, electricity, sound

Social Studies Vocabulary – James Oglethorpe, Cherokee, Creek

AR 

• Students should read at least 10 or more AR books with an AR score of 80% or higher.  Reading chapter books earns extra stickers (25 pages equals 1 sticker, 50 pages equals 2 stickers, etc.).  
• We are beginning a new 9 week grading period.  Students are working towards our new AR goal which will be at least 18 books or more by the end of the grading period.  If students reach their goal before the end of the 9 weeks, they should continue reading at least 2 AR books per week.

Dinner Theater

Dec. 8th 5:30-7:45 pm

Dinner ($3.00) 5:30-6:30 pm

Performance at 6:45pm

ETC.

• We are running very low on dry erase markers.  Please check with your child to see if he/she needs more markers.  We use them every day.  
• We will try to reschedule the New Echota field trip which was canceled due to rain.  I will send out more information as I receive it.
• On the Monday, November 28th, I will be sending home an important letter regarding holiday crafts.  Please send back the attached envelope by Friday, Dec. 2nd.


 Wish List -

• electric pencil sharpener  dry erase markers

Dates to Remember

Nov. 21-25 - Thanksgiving Holidays

Nov. 28 - In House Field Trip (Students only) - We do not leave the building.

Dec. 1 - Barnes & Noble Night 5:30-7:30 pm

Dec. 6 - Performing Arts Field Trip (I'm missing 9 permission slips.  They were sent home at the beginning of the year) 

Dec. 8 - I MOMS

Dec. 8 -  Dinner Theater (See above for more information)

Dec. 21 - 2nd Grade Holiday Party

Dec. 23-Jan. 9 - Students Holidays

Web Sites-Interactive Computer Games for Home

Addition:

Math Baseball: http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html

Aplus Math-Games-Matho-Addition: http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/index.html

Uncover the correct Answer: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/add/addcard.htm

Doubles Adding Game: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/matching/matching/

matching.html

Double Digit Math Drill: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/double.htm

Addition and Subtraction Drill: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/drills/drill.htm

Add it up!: http://www.kidsnumbers.com/add_it_up.php

Subtraction:

Subtraction Fishing: http://www.softschools.com/math/games/fishing_sub.jsp

Subtraction Machine and Sum Sense: http://www.gamequarium.com/

subtraction.html

Subtraction Hidden Picture: http://www.aplusmath.com/games/picture/

SubPicture.html

Multiplication:

Aplus Math-Games-Matho-Multiplication: http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/

index.html

Multiplication Grand Prix: http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

Multiplication Baseball: http://www.prongo.com/math/multiplication.html

Fractions:

Turkey Terminator: http://www.kidsnumbers.com/turkey-terminator-mathgame.Php

Pizza Party: http://www.primarygames.com/fractions/start.htm

Time:

Clockwork: http://www.kidsnumbers.com/telling-time.php

What Time Is It?: http://www.primarygames.com/time/start.htm

Misc: www.funbrain.com www.netsmartzkids.org