Mrs. Trotter's Second Grade Class

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Welcome to Second Grade - Room 103 Seth Whitman Elementary School

Welcome to our website, a place where you can visit all of the important 
information about what is going on in our classroom and at school.  I hope 
you are able to find everything that you need to keep you informed of the 
procedures, events, and learning activities for the 2009-2010 school year.

Wow!!  This is a very generous class.  Many students participated in the food 
drive.  You wouldn't believe all of the food items that Seth Whitman has 
collected for the Boone County Food Pantry.

Miss Gorham will be leaving us very soon.  Her student teaching experience 
will be over on Tuesday, November 24th.  We will all miss her very much.

There is no school on Wednesday, November 25 through Friday, November 27th.  
We are off for the Thanksgiving break.  I hope you all enjoy the extra time 
with your family during the break.

Mark your calendar!  All of the second grade and third grade students will be 
participating in a Christmas music concert on Wednesday, December 16th, 
2009.  This concert will be held in the PAC (the Performing Arts Center) at 
Belvidere High School.  It is at 7 PM.  Mrs. Parret does a stupendous job 
with this performance every year.  Invite the grandparents.  They are sure to 
enjoy it.  More information about this will be sent home as we get closer.

Our class has been very busy lately.  Here are a few of the things we have 
been working on:

reading:  They read a story called Jamaica Louise James.  Several of the 
students were able to make a text to self connection because they enjoy 
drawing just as much as Jamica does.  We talked about the author's purpose.  
This is the reason why the author wrote the story.  All students will be 
working on the second theme test next week.

Spelling:  All of the words this week either began or ended with a digraph, 
which are special word blends such as -ch, -sh, or -th.  There will be no 
test during the week of Thanksgiving.

Grammar:  The students started learning about abbreviations and how to write 
them correctly.  They worked with abbreviations for the different days of the 
week and the months of the year.

Writing: We learned how a personal narrative story is a story where the 
author tells about something that has happened in real life.  They had to 
tell Miss Gorham about something that had happened to them and how they felt 
about it.

Math:  We continued to work on money.  The students will finish up the money 
chapter the week after Thanksgiving.  Please continue to practice counting 
with real coins.

Social Studies:  We talked about the history of Thanksgiving and what it 
would be like to live as a Pilgrim child.

Computer lab:  They learned how to choose a font and how to center the words 
using Microsoft Word.  They all remembered how to log into the computer lab 
here at Seth Whitman!  It is so much fun to see their excitement while we are 
working in the lab.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I am very thankful that I have the 
opportunity to teach your child.

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