Fall Festival Fun!!!

It's officially fall and the weather and trees are beautiful! In class students are learning about patterns in math as well as adding one more, or two more to a number. Next week we will be starting doubles adding, such as 5+5 or 4+4. These simple adding strategies really help students with adding fluency and math facts in second grade.

We have been getting outside each day it isn't raining to collect leaves, plant flowers and observe the signs of fall. In writing we used four of our five senses to observe fall and then filled out a tree map to help us write complete sentences. I was SOO impressed by the awesome writing we had going on today! Remember to encourage your child to use capital letters at the start of each sentence and some kind of punctuation at the end!

Hopefully everyone has signed up for a parent/teacher conference. They will begin on the 18th. Everyone has to come for a conference before you can get your child's report card for the first quarter. When you come to the conference you will see the report card and we will sign it, then on the first week of November a copy of the report card will be sent home for you to keep.

Our Mills River Fall Festival will be October 27th at 4:30pm. It promises to be a lot of fun with a pie throwing booth, corn hole, lots of fall foods, bounce houses and pumpkins!! Tickets are a dollar and every booth will cost one ticket. If you pre-purchase, just like the fair, you get a discount! It is FREE to come to the fair, and some activities will be free. It will be a huge Mills River family event, don't miss out!

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