Happy Thursday!

I hope you have all had a great week so far!  Here's what's going on around our classroom...

Box Tops
Did you know that Creekside collects Box Tops?!  We turn them in and get money to use for our school.  The two classes that collect the most valid (showing a product code and expiration date) and unexpired Box Tops each month win a little ice cream treat, provided by the PTO,   We also collect Coke codes on caps or cases, Tyson A+ labels, and School Spirit labels, which are found on Sunbeam and Aunt Millie’s bread products, as well as pop can tabs, which are just consolidated and delivered to Riley Children’s Hospital.  So send those in when you can!

Reading Counts
Keep reading at home!  When your child finishes a book, they can take a quiz on it on their chrome book to earn Reading Counts points!  Each 25 point level reached earns them special prizes.  Most books in our classroom library are reading counts.  If you have any questions about a book at home--let me know.  I can look it up and see if it has a quiz for it on the computer.

1,000,000 words read!
Speaking of reading, the class has set a goal to read 1.000,000 words in second grade together!  The reading counts program will keep track of all the words read for us.   If we reach our goal, we will have a special celebration!

Superkids
This week in superkids we have been working on the following:

• contractions
• homonyms
• synonyms
• wh words
• th words

Math

This week in math we have been working on the following:

• elapsed time
• telling time to the minute
• rounding to the nearest 10 and 100

High Ability

This week in our high ability unit we have been working on the following:

• things that change
• things that do not change
• categorizing
• making generalizations

Writing

Today we finished our "2nd Grade Rockstars" writing project!  Look soon on facebook for pictures of our projects hanging in the hallway!

Spelling Test

Don't forget to help your child practice the 12 memory words and the -wh and -th pattern words!  Our spelling test will be tomorrow afternoon!

Math Online

On nights that your child has a math homelink, they can either do it on paper in the workbook, or on the computer.  If you know how to login already from last year, you can go ahead and do either for tonight.  I will also send home the passcards/weblink on Monday, so can start doing either next week.  You do not need to have your child do the online version and the paper version in the same night.

Have a great night!!