Miss Ablondi

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Dear Parents,

It was a pleasure speaking with all of you at our conferences this week.  
Your comments and questions were most valuable to me.  As I've stated before 
please feel free to check in with me at any time.  I look forward to meeting 
with everyone else next week.  Thank you to all of you for donating towards 
our "Holiday Bread Baking Project".  The children enjoyed this tremendously 
and felt great about giving back to the community.  This project would not 
have been possible without your donations and of course the help of all our 
room parents, volunteers and all of the wonderful "baking helpers".  I hope 
everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I hope all of you are enjoying this special time of year.  The holiday and   
Advent Season is upon us!!!  
  
Religion:  The children were given a Good Deed tree.  During the Advent 
season they will write a good deed they will carry out each day.  The 
children will be demonstrating how they are outstanding caregivers through 
good deeds done throughout the Christmas season.  We continue to discuss what 
are good and bad behaviors and choices as we use the Ten Commandments as our 
guide.  Our Reconciliation celebration is just around the corner.  Please 
make sure you continue to take some time to discuss Reconciliation and use 
the sheets you received from the Reconcilation meeting for practicing.

Reading and Language Arts: (Reading Groups/Literacy Centers):  In reading we 
finished Unit 2.  
The two stories we read for this week were "Spiders up Close and Anansi and 
the Talking Melon" We did a whole class K-W-L chart about spiders.  The 
children had great prior knowledge about spiders and enjoyed learning more 
about them.  On Monday we read the phonics story "Spiders Up Close whole 
class and had guided comprehension.  For Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we had 
our guided reading groups and Literacy Centers.  We read "Anansi and the 
Talking Melon".  Our centers were Reader's Theater "Town Mouse and the City 
Mouse", How Many Words (which reinforced the phonics patterns ce, ge, and 
se), and Word Train Blends.  Next will will be a review week..  We will 
reread all the stories and review skills from unit 2 and take the unit 2 
testing. 
    
Grammar:   We reviewed adjectives and introduce possessives both singular and 
plural.  I introduce super sentences .  These sentences will help the 
children to add more detail to their sentences.  The sentences contain Who?, 
Did What? Where? and When?  We took a simple sentence:  The cat purred.  The 
children turned this sentence into a Super Sentence The furry white cat 
purred in the house late at night.  Soon they will be writing these types of 
sentences for spelling homework.  We are always working on reediting our 
written work.  
 
Math:  The math is moving along!  This week we worked a lot on money and 
telling time.  We reveiwed and practiced all the ways to make 25 cents, made 
individual money bags for each child. On Friday we had Math Centers with Mrs. 
Ryder and Ms. Barry's class.  The games were all money and telling time 
related. Mrs Ryder took a group for reviewing, I monitor the children  
helping and assessing) working in the centers while Ms. Barry did guided 
math.  Ms. Barry and I will rotate these two roles. 
 
Writing:  The children are writing a great deal.  We started a writing 
assignment called "If I Could Grant One Wish For Christmas It Would Be..."  
As a class we brainstormed together ways to help the world, our community, 
family, friends or other people.  This writing goes along with our monthly 
virtue "generosity" and being great caregivers.  In regards to the childrens' 
writing journal it's used for not only Writing Across the Curriculum and the 
writing process that's corrected by the children and myself it's also for 
free writing and reflection.  Also we are writing a descriptive paragraph on 
spiders.  We are in the editing and conferencing process and will be 
finishing them next week.
During Writer's Workshop on Wednesdays the children have the ooportunity to 
not only work on the assigned writing for the week, but can make other 
choices within the classroom from other various types of writing/s.

I continue to monitor their behavior charts each day.  They know that it's 
not a punishment but a way to reflect about their behavior/actions and how to 
improve upon them.  We are always discussing the importance of being good 
listeners, showing kindness to one another, working cooperatively and team 
effort!  I appreciate All your support!

The children have been working diligently.  As you can see from our daily 
work which comes home, our lessons are many and varied and the curriculum is 
tight.  The children are working hard and putting their best foot forward as 
second graders.  Each and everyone is making great progress.

Just a few reminders: 
1.On Tuesday, December 8th there will be a Mass at 10:15am.      
2.The second graders are collecting items for personal care packages. If you 
can send in toothbrushes,toothpastes and floss it would be great! 
3.Early dismissal at 11:00am on Thursday, December 10th for Parent/Teacher 
conferences. 
4.Next Tuesday I will be sending home a holiday book order.  If you wish to 
order any books please send in A.S.A.P. *no later than Friday.  Also, if you 
want them to be a present you can send me a note and I'll make sure they go 
home without your child knowing!

Once again, many thanks for ALL your continued support.  If you need to 
meet with me for any reason or have any questions or concerns please don't 
hesitate to get in touch with me either by e-mail, phone or a note.
 
 
Fondly,
Miss Ablondi

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