Mrs. Lang's Class

April

     We are gearing up for the CRCT next week.  Please remember to give your child a healthy breakfast and snack.  The class is excited and ready!

     Remember D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) night at Mountain View on April 15th.

     Our class play, "Homophone Hubbub" is turning out to be a smash hit in our classroom.   The students are doing an excellent job of practicing and rehearsing.  I can't wait to see it all put together.

    In Math, we are introducing multiplication and continuing to work on three digit addition and subtraction.  Thanks for all the help you are giving at home.

    Remember to keep practicing your math facts to 18.  That is so important.  Also, I am trying to make sure that all the students are reading chapter books now.  Thanks for your help at home too!

    Have a great April.  Spring is here!

March

   Friday morning, March 7th, will be an exciting time for parents and students.  Our "2nd Grade Friends Musical" will be performed at 8:30.  Please come and watch your child perform.  We will have donuts and coffee (for parents) in our classroom after the performance.

Things of  interest this month are:

*Report Cards will be coming home on March 20th.

*Movie on the Mount is Saturday, March 8th from 5:30-9:00pm.   Backyard Burger will be cooking up delicious hotdogs and hamburgers to raise money for Relay for Life.  Please come to support this cause and to just have some fun family time.

*On March 27th, the International Festival and School Council Silent Auction will be held at 6:00pm.  Mrs. Wykes and I will be auctioning a day at Kennesaw National Battlefield.  We will go hiking, have a picnic, etc.  with four of the highest bidding students.   PLEASE COME AND BID FOR LOTS OF GREAT STUFF!!!

*Mrs. Cherrington will begin teaching the Junior Achievement lessons on Thursday, March 6th.  The lessons will continue for the next five weeks.  This is a huge job and commitment so thank you to Sydney's mom!!

February

     Wow!  February is here and it seems to be flying by.  We have enjoyed rotating to different classes to learn about Japan.  It has been fun to discover new and exciting things about Japan.  We also just finished our "Fire Safety" week.  The students were ask to talk about what they would do at home if there were a fire.  Please discuss the "exit" route and what they should do in case of a fire.

     We will have our Valentine exchange on Thursday, the 14th.  The students have created adorable Valentine bags to hold all their "goodies" from the day.  It should be fun.  We will open our Valentines and enjoy refreshments from 1:00-2:00 if you would like to come by.

     Thanks for all do to support and help our class.  We are having a great year so far!!

January

January is breezing by and we are so busy!  Here is what is happening:

*  We are studying energy in science and are discovering many new things about energy.  Ask your student to tell you about it!

*  We are also reading books by Eric Carle and taking all the AR tests for those books.

* Please remember to send in your recipes because we are putting together a class recipe book.  This will be connected to our fraction unit in math.

* Monday, January 21st is a holiday!

* Tuesday, January 22 is the beginning of conferences.  Every day is an Early Release Day!  Students are dismissed at 12:30.

Have a great month!

Mrs. Lang

December News

      The last day of school before Winter Break is Friday, December 21st.

      Students will return to school on January 8th.

      We are really working hard these last few weeks in Math.  We are reviewing how to tell time and learning all about geometry.  Ask your child what an acute angle is and see what they say.  See if they can identify angles in your home.

     Our Holiday celebration is Thursday, December 20th from 1:00-2:00.  We will be decorating our gingerbread houses.  We will be discussing how we use cyclinders, pyrimids, cubes, retangular prisms, etc. to create our houses.

     Hope your vacation from school is great.  REMEMBER TO READ EVERY DAY!!!!!

     Congratulations to our CHARACTER EDUCATION STUDENTS OF THE MONTH.............

     SEPTEMBER - Respect - Sydney Cherrington

     OCTOBER - Responsibility - Myles Belyeu

     NOVEMBER - Integrity - Kyle Waldner

     DECEMBER  - Generosity - Robby Tohar

            

November News

      Hi!  The October book reports were fabulous!  Thank you so much for working with your child and helping them create such creative reports.  You should have received the November Book Report information.  Just make sure that they pick a book that they really like and want to talk about.  Let them practice in front of a mirror and in front of your family.  This will help them when presenting to the class.  I am looking forward to hearing their presentations.

      We are discovering many things about the Native Americans and Jamestown this month.  The children are going to practice writing an informative paragraph about the Native Americans.  We are also going to pretend that we live in a village and write about a day in our lives.

      We are also working hard on 2-digit subtraction with regrouping.  We are really focusing on understanding why regrouping is necessary and what it means.  Continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts with your child.  We want to make sure that they master the facts!!  This will help lay the foundation for math in the higher grades. 

      Also, please make sure you are checking the agendas each night.  Any words they missed on the spelling test will be listed in the "Spelling" section.  Please go over these words to make sure that your child can spell them correctly.  They will be on future tests too!

       Have a great month!  We are working hard and learning a lot!!!

Mrs. Lang

October News

     Fall has arrived and we are in full swing!   We had a great field trip to Turner Field.  It was exciting to see our class have so much fun.  The parents that went on the trip deserve a huge THANK YOU!   Jackson's dad met us there and took so many pictures and I can't wait to share them with you and our class.  He captured all the fun!

      We are participating in the Pizza Hut Book It! program.  Everyone will get a certificate for a free pizza if they are keeping up with their reading every night. Instead of keeping up with it on another form, please continue to record the minutes read in their agenda.  This will be my record. 

     In math we are studying two-digit addition with regrouping.  Thanks for all your help at home.  Please keep working on your child knowing addition facts.  This helps with the two-digit addition.

    We have two field trips this month.  The Performing Arts permission slip you signed covers one and the other information will be coming soon.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE MONTH..............

October 12th - Sally Foster Pick-up

October 22nd - Report Cards

October 17th - Early Release

October 18th - Picture Day

October 22nd - 26th - Book Fair

October 26th - Field Trip to the FUNK Museum

October 31st-  Field Trip to Cobb Civic Center to see Firebird (Performing Arts field trip)

Don't forget to come out to Brewster's Night on the 9th.  I will be there eating (I mean selling) ice cream!

Thanks for all your help and support.  Our class is awesome!

September

     Welcome to our first blog!  I cannot believe we are going into our 5th week.  The children are really growing and learning so much (even though they probably say "I don't know or remember" when you ask them about their day!  There are several things to think about this month:

1.  Book reports are due on September 27th.

2.  Field Trip to Turner Field on September 29th.

3.  Early Release Day on September 19th.

4.  Please sign agenda each night and record the minutes your child reads.

5.  Check red take-home folders each day for papers that need to "Stay At Home" and/or "Return to School."

I really appreciate your help and support.  Thanks for checking the blog!  Check back for updates.

September

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