Fall Party

We will have a fall party on Friday. Students are allowed to wear Halloween costumes if they would like. We will be outside for the party so please make sure to either wear tennis shoes or bring a pair to change into. All the food and treats will be provided! However, if you can please send your student with one or two rolls of toilet paper for one of our games, that would be great! 

October 27th Weekly Update

We have a CRAZY week ahead! In order to prevent insanity I have outlined our week minute by minute. There will not be any spelling or math homework this week. However, students will still have a leveled reader book to read at home each night. Please feel free to email or call me with any questions! 

Monday, October 27th 

- All 2nd graders will sing Fifty Nifty United States during morning meeting (8:15am). 

- All 2nd graders will sing Fifty Nifty United States for Leadership Night. Families, we want as many students there as possible. Please have your child there by 6:00pm. I encourage everyone to come and watch our performance! 

Tuesday, October 28th - Leadership Day

- This is a day where educators from around the state come and observe how Natcher implements the 7 Habits and the Leader in Me program

- We will have many visitors in and out of the classroom

- Students will be on a different schedule as we make accommodations and plans to meet with these visitors 

- Five chosen students will perform Fifty Nifty United States for our visitors. If you have a child performing this day, please make sure they are dressed to impress (Sunday church clothes)

Wednesday, October 29th

- Regular day 

Thursday, October 30th - Jackson's Orchard Field Trip

- Buses will leave at 9:00am 

- Parent volunteers can meet us there or follow the buses from Natcher

- Students will bring back a pumpkin to take home

- We will be back at school by 12:30pm

Friday, October 31st - Fall Party

- Students can wear costumes 

- Our fall party will start at 2:15pm 

Leadership Notebooks

Hello families!

Next week we will be working on our leadership notebooks and I am really in need of tab dividers. They will be used to seperate sections inside each student binder. If you can, please send students with colored dividers on Monday or Tuesday. 

Thanks for all you do!

September 22nd Weekly Update

I hope everyone had a great time at our Fall Festival on Friday! I had a great time visiting with my students and their families. The goat kissing however, not so much fun! : )

We will be discussing contractions in ELA this week. So, all our spelling words will be contractions. I encourage parents to go over the meaning of each spelling word with your student at home. 

Spelling List #1

1. can't

2. it's

3. he's

4. I'm

5. didn't

6. who's

7. she's

8. aren't

9. isn't

10. haven't

11. hadn't

12. I'll

Bonus

13. great

14. worst

Spelling List #2

1. would've

2. should've

3. might've

4. wouldn't

5. who've

6. shouldn't

7. who'd

8. this'll

9. couldn't

10. what've

11. weren't

12. there'll

Bonus

13. mightn't

14. there've 

Field Trip

Tomorrow I will be sending home a field trip permission form. On October 30th the 2nd grade classes will be taking a short trip to Jackson's Orchard for some fall festivities. Please complete and return the permission form ASAP. 

Math and Lexia

Good morning! I have finally been given the Sumdog login information for all of my students. I will be sending home a small orange card with their username and password on it today. I encourage everyone to use Sumdog at home if possible. The link is www.sumdog.com. 

As you know we started a new math unit this week. This unit will consist of many components, including number sense, addition and subtraction, fact families, recognizing numbers on a double ten frame, and solving word problems. I expect my entire class to reach their full potential during math these next few weeks. Yesterday, I began introducing students to these math skills through a few different games. They loved them! 

This is Ayden and Hannah playing Race to 40. 

This game encourages students to become fluent in addition facts and number representation.

Smiles during math?! That is what I like to see : )

Here are a few more of my mathematicians! They are playing Race to 100!

Now, I wanted to give a HUGE shout out to all the families allowing their students to work on Lexia at home. You are making a huge difference. I have been sending home certificates to each child that levels up throughout the week. We are averaging about one student a day to advance. That is GREAT! I sent home login cards for Lexia at the beginning of the year. I can send home more, just let me know if you need one. You can find a link to the website version under "My Students" tap or click here. 

If you are asked to provide a teacher email, it is my email, morgan.elliott@warren.kyschools.us

The app is called "Lexia Core 5" and looks like this...

Here are some of our hard working Lexia kiddos. Three students leveled up in class yesterday! Way to go! 

September 16th Weekly Updates

Spelling List #1

1. hard

2. born

3. horse

4. before

5. more

6. smart

7. farm

8. porch

9. corn

10. chore

11, score

12. part

13. pull

14. break

Spelling List #2

1. border

2. forgot

3. stories

4. parched

5. armies

6. correct

7. thorn

8. market

9. cartoon

10. barber

11. adore

12. drugstore

13. cardinal

14. tornado

15. hazard

I appreciate the hard working students that have been improving on their spelling tests each week! Our Super Improvers Wall is improving every day!

FYI

• If you haven't already, please take the time to download the Schoolway App.  The school with the most downloads will be eligible to win $3,000 worth of prizes.
• Please come out this Friday, September, 19th for our Fall Festival! 
• Our Fall fundraiser has also started. All order forms are due September 26th.

September 2nd Weekly Updates

Happy Tuesday! Although it feels like a Monday! I hope everyone had a great three day weekend. It is always hard to get back into the swing of things but my class did wonderful today.

Spelling - We are working on inflected endings this week in Grammar. So, all of our spelling words have inflected endings ("ed" or "ing"). 

At home: You can ask your child to change the ending of a word by adding "ing" or "ed."

Spelling List #1

1. dropped

2. dropping

3. excited

4. lifted

5. lifting

6. exciting

7. hugged

8. hugging

9. smiled

10. smiling

11. talked

12. talking

13. early

14. warm

Spelling List #2

1. laughed

2. laughing

3. giggled 

4. giggling

5. juggled

6. juggling

7. interested

8. interesting

9. quivered

10. quivering

11. snuggled

12. snuggling

13. ascended

14. descending

15. orbiting

During morning meeting today Mr. Thornhill presented our two leaders of the month for August. Here they are! Great job Hannah and Trent!

 Trent has already shown great leadership qualities this year by putting first things first. Trent completed three star homework almost every night and worked extremely hard on in-class activities. I am very proud of Trent for accepting all the challenges that have come his way.

Hannah has been a leader this month by putting forth her best effort in everything she does. She listens well to instruction and always puts first things first. I saw Hannah act like a leader multiple times this month by helping her friends in and out of the classroom.

We started our book clubs today! I have placed students into reading groups for the month. While with their book club members, students will read a part of their chosen book and complete their daily job activities. Students will read one chapter a day until the book is complete. Once they have finished the book, they will work on their first book project! Each day students have a different job while in book clubs. These jobs are, quiz maker, scene setter, character analyzer, problem solver, and story teller. Each day students will share their work with their group and converse over the reading assignment. Each group picked out their book today and did a great job sharing the readings for the day. I think book clubs are a great way to get students motivated to read and practice our 7 Habits! 

Speaking of 7 Habits...our Lighthouse Team Leader, Hunter, came to visit us today. He taught the class the important components of Habit 1 - Be Proactive. We recited and practiced the motions for all 7 Habits. This was a big help to me since I am a rookie! We can't wait for him to come back!