Good evening Owl Families! 

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week! Here is an update on what is happening with the Outstanding Owls the next couple of weeks! This week we are focusing on Matter in science! We are doing many hands-on activities and investigations to learn all about Matter. We are also learning about story elements such as the beginning, middle, and end of a story! We will be finishing up our personal narratives this week so our Owl Authors can publish their first writing piece! In math we are reviewing the differing values of the U.S. coins and slowly  moving into money word problems up to one dollar. 

Next week is a busy week for us!We have a two hour teacher collaboration day next Thursday the 22nd! We have one parent volunteer but will be needing one more. This will be an Adventures in Art day!  On Friday we have our In House Fire Safety Field Trip as well as our STEAM project! I just posted an important notice from the PTA about our upcoming STEAM Day. All donations are welcomed! If you have not already sent in the permission forms for the Fire Safety Field Trips, please send them in as soon as possible! I will also be sending home permission slips for our upcoming High Touch High Tech field trips tomorrow, so keep an eye out for those. As always our spelling test for this week will be tomorrow.

Please continue to review sight words, math facts, and word problems at home! You can also start studying the values of the U.S. coins! 

Thank you to all of the families and parents of the Outstanding Owls for all of your support! A special thanks to all of my parent volunteers who  helped with our Creek and Cherokee field trip,volunteered during Math Lab, as well as those who have been coming in on Fridays to lend a helping hand! I could not ask for a more supportive class!

-Ms. White

East Side STEAM- Coming September 23rd!!

Dear Parents,

The East Side PTA is excited to announce that it is sponsoring five school-wide STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) days!  The PTA will also be providing resources and supplies to each grade level to explore integrated lessons throughout the school year.

Our first East Side STEAM Day will be held on September 23^rd.  The inspiration for this day is came from a little boy named Caine.  Visit this website, http://cainesarcade.com/, to learn more and watch his inspirational video.  On this day all students will be creating and playing arcade games made out of cardboard boxes just like Caine did.  Throughout the year students will be challenged to collaborate and create as they work on grade level STEAM activities.

We need your help to make our first school-wide event a success on September 23^rd!   First and foremost, we will need boxes!  Our goal is to collect enough boxes so every student will have access to at least 2-3 boxes for their arcade game.

·       Boxes can be stacked or broken down and dropped off  at East Side beginning Wednesday, September 21st after school between 2:20-3:00 PM.  Boxes can also be dropped off  Thursday, September 22nd before school between 7:20 AM and 7:50 AM and after school between 2:20 PM and 3:10 PM.  Finally, boxes can be dropped off the morning of September 23rd before school.  In order for this activity to be a success, we need your help!

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       We need volunteers!  Your child’s teacher will let you know how you can help in their classroom.

·       We also need help collecting boxes on the drop off day, distributing boxes the day of September 23^rd, and we will need volunteers at the end of the day to make sure all leftover boxes get recycled.  If you can help please contact Mollie at dmcush@bellsouth.net

Thank you for helping make our first East Side STEAM day a fun filled success!!!

East Side STEAM- Coming September 23rd!!

Dear Parents,

Happy Thursday! I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend!

The East Side PTA is excited to announce that it is sponsoring five school-wide STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) days!  The PTA will also be providing resources and supplies to each grade level to explore integrated lessons throughout the school year.
Our first East Side STEAM Day will be held on September 23rd.  The inspiration for this day is came from a little boy named Caine.  Visit this website, http://cainesarcade.com/, to learn more and watch his inspirational video.  On this day all students will be creating and playing arcade games made out of cardboard boxes just like Caine did.  Throughout the year students will be challenged to collaborate and create as they work on grade level STEAM activities.

We need your help to make our first school-wide event a success on September 23rd!   First and foremost, we will need boxes!  Our goal is to collect enough boxes so every student will have access to at least 2-3 boxes for their arcade game.

• Boxes can be stacked or broken down and dropped off  at East Side beginning Wednesday, September 21st after school between 2:20-3:00 PM.  Boxes can also be dropped off  Thursday, September 22nd before school between 7:20 AM and 7:50 AM and after school between 2:20 PM and 3:10 PM.  Finally, boxes can be dropped off the morning of September 23rd before school.  In order for this activity to be a success, we need your help!
• We need volunteers!  Your child’s teacher will let you know how you can help in their classroom.
• We also need help collecting boxes on the drop off day, distributing boxes the day of September 23rd, and we will need volunteers at the end of the day to make sure all leftover boxes get recycled.  If you can help please contact Mollie at dmcush@bellsouth.net

Thank you for helping make our first East Side STEAM day a fun filled success!!!

This week we will be finishing up our unit on Native Americans and the rivers of Georgia! Our rule of the week is the soft G and soft C rule. Our assessment on the rivers of Georgia is this week so please study the blank map I sent home. We are also working on different types of nouns and prefixes. Please continue to review sight words and word problems at home with your child.

Parents, if you would like to volunteer, visit our class Shutterfly page! There are plenty of opportunities for volunteers!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!

Peyton White

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