Happy November!

Wow! I can’t believe that it is already November! What a fabulous October our class had! Last week the Montgomery Fire Department brought out the “Smokehouse” and talked to us about Fire Safety.  Thank you to Jacob’s mom, Heather Jones for providing our class with a pumpkin! We had a wonderful time investigating, measuring, weighing and carving the pumpkin.  We named him “Smiley” and if you look at the pictures above you will know why.  :)

This week we are as busy as little turkeys!!

Reading – This week our focus sound is /r/ as in rabbit, and our word wall words  are:  want, wants, eat, three, ran. Be sure you are taking the time to practice the word wall words with your child.  I took a grade last week and as the words are beginning to get a little more difficult the children need to practice reading them more.

Math – We started Chapter 10 on tens and ones….however I have decided to back up some.  We are going to continue to focus on concepts of 10.  I want to make sure that the children understand the whole-part-part relationship of numbers.  We will also continue to practice our addition and subtraction facts.

Our Poetry Journal is gobbling good this week! We have been having a great time singing some new Thanksgiving songs and learning our new poem.  I have posted a large note to myself to remind the children to bring home their poetry journals this Friday.  Please take the time and let your child share their poetry journal with you.  I know you will enjoy it!!

Language – We are still working on capitalization, periods at the end of a sentence and nouns.

Our character education word for this week is ~ Patriotism.

Scholastic Book Order Forms went home on Monday.  If you would like to order from this month’s forms you may go online and enter the code: GQY4J or you may fill out the order form and send it in to me along with a check made payable to Scholastic by this Friday, November 5th. 

Make Up Pictures will be Tuesday, November 9th.

I hope you take the time to read the Aviator News that the PTA sends home.  The menu is located on the back, but it is FULL of all kinds of information about things going on at Blount!

ADOPT-A-TROOP ~The 2nd Graders will be collecting items to send to the strong men and women who serve our country and will be spending the holidays away from their loved ones.  You can help by sending in any of the items listed below:

canned meat          candy/gum      wet wipes      nuts     peanut butter crackers crystal light drink packs      toothbrushes    playing cards     magazines    lip balm

For a detailed list of other items you may donate look in your Aviator News!  There will be two drop off days:  November 5th in the morning and afternoon carpool and November 19 in the morning carpool only.  There will also be collection boxes in front of the office for collections.  Thank you for your donations!

The PTA is sponsoring a Holiday Market in the school cafeteria on Tuesday, November 16 from 5:30 – 9:00.  Come shop from over 25 home based businesses where there will be gifts for everyone that can’t be purchased in stores! There will also be more than 25 raffle drawings!!

Thank you so much for supporting Blount! Last month our Spirit Night at Chick Fil A ($135) and Jason’s Deli ($138) were both successful!

There will be two Spirit Night fund raisers in November! Mark your calendar for November 15th Mellow Mushroom and November 30th Baumhower Wings.  Yum!!

I hope you are having a wonderful week! 

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something!

Hugs!!