October 5, 2009

Dates to Remember
Oct. 5 Cici’s Pizza Night @ 5:30
Oct. 5-9 Leaphart Book Fair
Oct. 7 Walk to School Day @ 7 AM
Oct. 8 Science Inquiry Night
Oct. 12 No School for Students-
Parent
Conferences from 12-3 PM
Oct. 20 Cold Stone Creamery Night
Mrs. Wertz’s Class
Oct. 22 Early Release-Pick up @
SECOND 11:40
Oct. 30 Report Cards go home

GRADE
Oct. 30 Fall Festival 5:30-8:00
Oct. 31 Halloween

NEWS What We’re

Conference Time!
Our first conferences of Second Grade Learning About…
are on Monday, October 12th from 12-
3 PM. We have a short time period to Word Study-word families and word
hold conferences due to the other part patterns based on our individual
of our day being reserved for strengths.
professional development in
Engineering. Please send me an e-mail
Math-finished our first test on Unit 1
or a note in your child’s planner for your
and are into the next unit focusing on
top 3 choices in times for your
conference. If none of the times work addition-easy addition facts (+0. +1),
for you, please write me a note so I can number stories and double facts
try to make different arrangements with
you. The times you have to choose from Writing Workshop-what writers do,
are: things we make with writing, spelling
unknown words, using our spelling
12:00-12:20 12:20-12:40 12:40-1:00 dictionary
1:00-1:20 1:20-1:40 1:40-2:00
2:00-2:20 2:20-2:40 2:40-3:00 Reading Workshop-reading is fun,
3:00-3:20 3:20-3:40 3:40-4:00 strategies to use to make sense of text
4:00-4:20 4:20-4:40 4:40-5:00
5:00-5:20 5:20-5:40 5:40-6:00
and tricky words

Social Sciences-engineers and how

they make life easier, air, parachutes,
ways to re-design parachutes, writing
SCIENCE INQUIRY NIGHT in our science notebooks to record
Thursday, October 8th from 5:30-7:30 is
observations, character education
Leaphart’s Science Inquiry Night. Come
have dinner in the cafeteria and then
entertain the whole family with many
wonderful Science Investigations and
activities.