I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend. This weeks spelling words from spellingcity.com will be week 4. We will be having our first field trip to the gravel pit on Friday, October 25th. We will be leaving Bryant at 9:00. If you would like to volunteer to chaperone please email me at kinasza@aaps.k12.mi.us. Here is the website http://www.ewashtenaw.org/government/departments/parks_recreation/napp/preserves/fox.html if you would like more information about the field trip.

Hello parents!!! Today is the first homework assignment! Finally! There is math homework today that your students will bring home. It is an addition math assignment. By the end of second grade all students will need to know their addition facts up to 9+9. We will be working daily on math flash cards in the classroom with many different games. Please have your students also practice their addition facts by using xtramath.com. This will greatly help your students this year with their multiplication which will be introduced after the holiday break. Students have two days to finish their math homework, but it is encouraged to have them complete it and turned in the next day.

Your second grade students are doing a wonderful job transitioning from first grade to second. In math we just finished Unit 1 assessment which was all review from last year. Starting in Unit 2 we will begin looking deeper into story problems. Please practice with your students at home in regards to telling time. Your students should know their time within five minutes. We went over analog clocks and we continue to practice them daily. In writing we some spent time telling stories to each other and made sure to include details. We read a Jig Saw Jones book and wrote a short book report on the main ideas and the important characters. In Science we chose a tree to observe for the year and looked at changes that might be made with the tree in the fall and winters seasons. In Social Studies we studied different types of communities. We are not in need of any donations for the classroom. Thank you if you donated some supplies. Your student really appreciate it. Please sign up for conferences if you have not already done so. This week's spelling test will be on spellingcity.com and it will be Week 3 spelling words. Please make sure to subscribe to the blog, that is located on the right, and you will then receive an email with alerts when the blog is updated with new posts.

I hope to see everyone at curriculum night on Tuesday, Sept. 17th starting at 6:30. At curriculum night I will give an overview of all the websites that are linked to the right on this blog. At curriculum night I will give all the passwords for each website so that each student will have access. I will not have a newsletter this week on Kinasz corner because I will go through the curriculum in detail. If anyone would like to volunteer in my room please email me. As of right now we are not in need of snacks, tissues, and dry erase markers. We will always be in need for pencils. Thank you to everyone who donated supplies already.

Hello second grade parents. This is my first attempt at a blog. I am excited to start this blog so that I can communicate with you more about the new topics that we are covering in the classroom.