Last Week in Review

Happy Sunday!

We have had a great week! We are finishing up our unit on Georgia regions and will begin learning about Georgia rivers and how the different Native American tribes were able to use the resources and rivers in Georgia. We are going to kick off our Native American Unit with our In House Creek and Cherokee Field Trip! If you would like to volunteer during this field trip, please sign up on Shutterfly!  I will be sending home a study guide on Monday to help prepare students for their Georgia Regions Assessment on Tuesday!

We will also continue practicing our math facts while beginning to learn about word problems and problem solving. We will begin to learn about character traits in Reading and Collective nouns in Phonics/ Word Study!  Our rule for next week is the Silent E Rule. A rule sheet will be sent home on Monday along with practice sheets to help your child understand the weekly rule along with collective nouns.

Our reward day will be on Tuesday! The Owls have earned this reward by collecting compliments throughout the last few weeks! We will be watching a movie and having snacks. I have sent home a note in your child’s HOOT binder Friday with the details!

Don’t forget to look for your students’ weekly progress report update in their HOOT binder on Monday! Please return it with your signature.

Please continue to practice your child’s sight words and math facts with them throughout the week!

Also, the last day to make a Scholastic Book Order for the month of August is Monday, August 29th!  Did you know that by making on-line book orders you help our class earn free books to build our classroom library?  Please help us earn books!

I'm looking forward to another great week!

Ms. White

Hello Parents!

It is so hard to believe how fast these first couple of weeks are flying by! I am thoroughly enjoying getting to know all of my wonderful new students! This week we have been going over place value in Math and reviewing blends and digraphs in Phonics. Your children will also be working on writing their own personal narratives within the next couple of days. To help them in choosing a small moment to write about, you can discuss memorable activities done with family and friends to help them brainstorm a bit! I will also start sending homework packets home next Monday so please keep an eye out for those when looking through your child’s H.O.O.T binder.  It was so nice seeing all of you again at Open House Tuesday night. I feel like we have gotten off to a great start! I am really enjoying teaching all of our new Owls!

Have a wonderful rest of the week,
Ms. White

Welcome 2016-2017 Outstanding Owls - Happy First Week of School!

We had an AWESOME first day of school!  This is an amazing class, and I know we are going to have a fantastic year together!  Thank you so much for the wish list items that have already been sent in for our class.

The Cobb County School District Folder came home with your child today.  Please return the following required documents:

• Yellow Student Information Card
• Blue Emergency Dismissal Plan
• White Receipt of Parent Information Guide
• White Online Technology Consent Form
• The White Clinic Card

A few things to remember:

• Our lunch time is at 12:11, so please send in a healthy snack for your child to have mid-morning.  
• You may send a water bottle with your child.
• Your child will receive the calendar for the month of August tomorrow.  The monthly calendar is also located on our webpage under the “calendar/specials” tab.  
• Life in a Bag- Some children shared their Life in a Bag today.  We will share some each day until everyone has had a chance.  We should be finished by Friday.
• Please send in a note for any transportation changes.  All changes that are not received in the morning by the teacher must go through the front office.  
• We don’t have any homework this week, but it will start next week.  Homework will consist of a packet that is sent home every Monday.  Packets are due every Friday.  Although, we will not have homework this week, I would like students to bring in a favorite book from home.  This book will stay at school for several days.  
• Don’t forget about Open House on next Tuesday!  

If you have any questions, please let me know. My email is: Peyton.white.cobbk12@gmail.com

~ Ms. White

Thursday News

Dear Parents,

Here's a look at what's been going on in class the past few weeks:

Our class pictures from our Field Trip to Fernbank:

Math:  We've been learning all about arrays and repeated addition!  Students are able to partition or divide a rectangle to show an array and write a repeated addition sentence for a given array!

Reading:  We've been working on reading informational, or nonfiction, text.  We've been working hard this week on finding the main idea and supporting details.  Last week, we read two books about bats (one fiction vs. one nonfiction) and we compared/contrasted the two books.

Word Study:  We've been working on the EE and EA vowel teams this week!  We learned that many of these words are homophones and that to correctly spell the word we need a picture or sentence to give us the meaning for the word in context.

We're so busy learning and growing over the last few weeks of second grade!

Love,

Mrs. Kidd

Wednesday News

Dear Parents,

Just a reminder that our class will be taking a Field Trip to the Cobb County Safety Village tomorrow, March 31st!  Please send your child to school in his/her lime green class t-shirt and PE shoes!  If you have lost your class shirt, please do your best to wear lime green/green shirt, just to help us "spot" our owls!  Also, if you are planning on sending your child to school with his/her lunch, please send in labeled, disposable bags, so that we can accommodate all of our lunches in a cooler!

We will be leaving school around 9:15 and arriving back at East Side at 1:45.  Students are in for a GREAT experience, learning all kinds of safety tips and accident prevention strategies.  I hope they learn a lot and have fun!

I will actually be absent from school tomorrow and Friday, as baby Joshua will be having some eye surgery!  Our class will be left in very capable, substitute hands!  That being said, I hope that all of your families will have a wonderful, safe, and relaxing Spring Break!  I look forward to seeing all of the Outstanding Owls back in April for our last few weeks together before summer!

Love,

Mrs. Kidd

Wednesday Wrap-Up

Dear Parents,

I'm so happy to have all of our little owls back in the room from February Break to learn, grow, and play!  Here are a few announcements for the week:

• Friday Math Lab Game Day:  Our class was the MOST WELL BEHAVED mathematicians in the Math Lab for the 2nd quarter!  Mrs. Slayton is rewarding our class with game time in the Math Lab this Friday from 8:00-8:45!  She is allowing students to bring games of their choice from home to play.  Only rule is no electronics!

• The International Festival is this Saturday, February 27th!  Please get your tickets and plan on joining the fun from 2:00-5:00 at school!

• Jump Rope for Heart begins during PE next week!  Please make sure your child wears his/her PE shoes and is ready to jump, jump, jump!  

• Moon Observation Calendars came home today with students!  Students are being asked to track the changes in the moon over the next month!  This should take just a few minutes each night!  This assignment correlates to our science standards requiring students to study the pattern of the Earth's phases throughout a full cycle!  Please help your child fill in his/her calendar each night!

• In math, we're working very hard on adding and subtracting 3-digit numbers.  Aside from just solving these problems, students are also requited to explain their strategy to solve in specific, detailed writing!  Students should be able to:  1.) Name their chosen strategy 2.) Use relevant, specific math vocabulary (add, subtract, hundreds, tens, ones, decompose, partial sums, sum, difference, etc.) and 3.) Use transition words to connect their writing (First, next, then, finally, etc.)  Please see the pictures below to "see" the strategies were're working on and an example of a written explanation of an addition problem solved in class!

Thanks for your continued support at home!

Mrs. Kidd

Monday News!

Dear Parents,

Hope those interested enjoyed the Super Bowl last night!  We had some sleepy owlets fly in this morning...they said staying up a little later than usual to watch parts of the game had them worn out!

Please see the announcements below:

Discovery Quest Presentations are THIS WEEK:
Don't forget that your child was assigned a day this week to prepare and present his/her Discovery Quest Presentations!  These presentations are for a grade, so preparation is important!  There will be no spelling this week, to allow for extra practice opportunities!  If you are missing directions, the Discovery Quest Planning Sheet (due on the day of your child's presentation), or any other information about these project, please check under the Homework Resources Tab!

Scholastic Book Orders:
Our class can earn bonus points towards new books for any orders placed on or before February 29th!  If your child is in need of some new reading material, we would love for you to order some books from our Scholastic Book Class Link:  https://clubs2.scholastic.com and use our class code:  LRJMC.

Teacher Appreciation Week Donations:
We need raffle prizes for Teacher Appreciation week.  Do you own a business or have an unused gift card from the holidays?  Please consider donating these as well as any other new items and gift cards to Teacher Appreciation week to be given to teachers in a raffle at the luncheon.  Items can be dropped off at the Front Office anytime before February 11th.  Let's show the best teachers in Cobb County just how much we appreciate them!!

Student Council is having a Valentine’s Day fundraiser Tuesday, February 9^th to Friday, February 12^th. Students will be selling candy grams and a card for $1.00 from 7:20-7:50 inside the cafeteria. Students are able to buy a candy gram for their friends, family, and/or teachers. Student Council will then deliver those cards to the students or teachers that same morning. Thank you for supporting East Side’s Student Council.

The International Festival will be held this year at East Side Elementary on Saturday, Feb. 27 from 3-5pm.  This fun family event will feature food and cultural performances from all over the world.  Ticket order forms have been sent home with students.  Please return form and payment in an envelope marked PTA in order to get the pre-order price per ticket of $7.  If you need a ticket order form, extras are located in the school mailroom or a form can be emailed to you.


There are many ways in which you can participate to help to make it a success.  Please consider signing up at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0b4da5ab22a31-international to be a country representative, performer, help with set up or  clean up.  More information on the different volunteering opportunities can be found here as well.

Thanks!

Mrs. Kidd