The Real McCoy

CRCT Week: April 20th-24th, 2009

It's CRCT time.  The children have worked so hard this year and I know they are going to do their BEST!!  A few reminders for this week to make testing go as smoothly as possible:

C:  Come          R:  Ready             C:  Come on          T:  Time

*Make sure your child gets a good night's sleep.

*Be sure to feed them a HEALTHY breakfast.

*Make sure your child is in the classroom by 7:45 so he/she will feel rushed and will have time to relax before getting started.  If your child arrives to school late, they will not be allowed in the classroom until after all tests are completed for the day.

*Bring in 2 sharpened number 2 pencils.  NO mechanical ones are allowed.

*Send in a water bottle with your child.

*A nutritional snack will be provided each day.  NO need to send in a snack.

*Encourage your child to be a good listener and take his/her time.

Thanks for sending in a good luck card for your child.  I know they are truly going to appreciate you thinking of them.  Also, thanks to all of the parents for sending in a special CRCT snack.  I appreciate ALL that you do.

Mrs. McCoy

The REAL McCoy: Highlights for the week of April 13th-17th, 2009

Happy Spring !!  Now if the weather would only cooperate. I don't know about you all, but I am so ready for some nice, warm weather.

 

 I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Spring Break.

CRCT:

 We are going to be very busy this week getting ready for the CRCT. It is only 6 days away and I know the children are going to do their very best. Please make sure your child has a good night's sleep and a nutritious breakfast and snack everyday of testing.  More information about testing week ( April 21, 22, 23) will be coming home at the end of this week.  

SKILLS TUTOR: 

Hopefully everyone has gotten a chance to watch their child try out the new Skills Tutor program.  We went to the computer lab before spring break and the children were able to try out several different activities.  They really seemed to have a lot of fun with this new program.  Over the summer it can be used for both enrichment and review. Please encourage your child to participate in this program!!

FUN RUN:

The annual Kincaid Fun Run will be held this Saturday morning, April 18th.  I hope everyone who wants to participate has signed up and ordered a t-shirt.  

STICKER SALES:

Sticker sales for the relay for life Kickball Game will be sold in the cafeteria before school on April 15, 16, 17, & 20. The class who purchased the most stickers will get to sit in the front row at the annual 5th grade vs. staff kickball game.  This is a lot of fun and the students love to see their teachers out there playing.

FIELD TRIP:

Look for permission forms for our upcoming field trip to be coming home soon.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Mrs. McCoy

The REAL McCoy: Week of FEBRUARY 23rd-27th, 2009

This week's highlights:

Reading:  Our story this week is Shooting Stars.  Read it carefully, as it is non-fiction.  The test will be on Friday. Look for the story to come home on Thursday night for your child to read to you. 

Vocabulary:  planet, produce, oceans, larger, weighs.

2 A.R. tests are due on Friday.  Let's not wait until Friday afternoon to take them!!

We go to the library every Friday so there is no excuse to not have a book to read on Monday in class.

Grammar:  We will focus on am, is, are, was and were.  Please continue to go over grammar worksheets that are being sent home.  The CRCT is coming up soon.

Spelling:  This week we are on Unit #21. The words are: away, put, different, why, and help.  The test and story dictation will be on Friday.

Math:  We have been doing a lot with larger numbers.  We will also be reviewing skills taught earlier this nine weeks.  PLEASE make sure you are checking over your child's homework before he/she returns it to school.  There have been homework papers coming in not completed correctly. Also, just because they are not bringing home a particular skill that week, doesn't mean you can't go back over it with your child.  Adding and subtracting with regrouping and counting money are skills that constantly need to be reinforced.  We want to be ready for the upcoming CRCT.

Science:  We have begun a unit on Space/Solar System. They will have a project due with this unit.  More information will follow.

Writing:  We are working on a persuasive piece of writing.  The boys are writing about why it's better to be a boy than a girl and the girls are writing about why it's better to be a girl than a boy.  They keep me laughing!

Media Center will be on Friday.  Please have your child return all books so that they can check out 2 more new ones.

Wednesday is our pizza party from Dominos.

Have a great week,

Mrs. McCoy

THE REAL McCoy: Week of FEBRUARY 2-6, 2009

Highlights for the week of February 2nd-6th, 2009

READING:  The next story in our book is Willie's Not the Hugging Kind by Joyce Barrett.  The story test will be on Friday.  Look for the book to come home on Thursday evening so your child can read the story to you. 

 The vocabulary words from this story are:  shove, busy, shrieked, secure, shoulder, silly, and couple.

In GRAMMAR we will be reviewing adjectives and learning about present tense verbs.

2 A.R. tests are due by this Friday.

SPELLING:  Our unit this week is #18. The words are:  three, come, came, work, and another.  The test and sentence dictation will be on Friday.

WRITING: The students are currently working on a persuasive writing piece about their "favorite food."

MATH:  We are finishing up Chapter 15 on measurement and beginning Chapter 16 on Metric Measurement.

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Due to early release last week, we didn't get to as much as planned.  We will continue our study of Jackie Robinson this week.

NOTES:

Wednesday, February 4th is Early Release.  Your child will be dismissed at 12:20.

On Friday we will go to the Media Center.  Please be sure that your child has his/her books at school so they can check out new ones.

Our Valentine exchange will be on Friday, February 13th at 1:30. I gave everyone a class list last week.  You will not need to bring in a box or anything to put the valentines in.  We will be making something in class.

I really enjoyed meeting with each of you last week at conferences.  I truly appreciate all of your support.

Have a good week,

Mrs. McCoy

The REAL McCoy: Week of January 26-30th, 2009

Dear Parents,

Can hardly believe it is the last week of January.  This week is conference week and I look forward to meeting with all of you.  Don't forget it is early release also, which means that your child will be dismissed at 12:20.

READING:  We are continuing our story of Too Many Tamales.  The test will be on Friday. The vocabulary words are: dough, slowly, minute, presents, stomachs, delicious, mouthful, and argue.

Media Center will be on Thursday this week.  PLEASE make sure you have your books at school on this day so you can check out new ones.

2 A.R. tests are due this week by Friday.

SPELLING:  We are on Unit #17 this week.  The words are:  look, around, also, right and think.  The test and sentence dictation will be on Friday.

WRITING:  We are working on persuasive writing this nine weeks. Thanks to all of those parents who participated in the animal letter writing.  The students had such a good time with this and hopefully it helped them better understand how to persuade someone.

GRAMMAR:  This week we are working on adjectives that compare using er and est.

Examples would be big, bigger, biggest, strong, stronger, strongest.  We continue to review ALL skills in preparation for the CRCT test in April.

MATH:  We are on our measurement unit now and have been learning about inches, feet and yards.  We will also be measuring in centimeters and telling the temperature. We continue to do problem solving activities in our math journals daily.

SOCIAL STUDIES:  This week we will be learning more about Jackie Robinson. The students are so "into it."

NOTES:  We learned a lot from the firefighters who came in several times last week.  Be sure to ask your child some of the important things that they learned about fire safety.

We will exchange class Valentine cards on Friday, Feb. 13th at the end of the day.  Target students will return to class after enrichment to join us in the fun.  I will be sending home a class list.  We will be making something to put their valentines in, so you don't need to worry about sending anything in.

See you all this week at your scheduled conference time.

Mrs. McCoy

Happy New Year~2009

Welcome Back!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and found some time to relax. Now it's time to get back to work!  

READING:  We will be reading Shoes from Grandpa.  The story test will be on Friday.

The vocabulary words are: family, grown, weather, new, jeans, and buy. Due to the shortened week, the students will only be required to take one A.R. test this week.

ALL students should be reading for AT LEAST 20 minutes 3 times a week.  The reading calendar in the back of the purple folder needs to be signed every time your child reads.  I would really like to see all students reading nightly.  The CRCT test will be here before you know it, and we want to be prepared!!

SPELLING:  We are on Unit #15.  The words are: good, our, new write, and me.

The test and sentence dictation will be on Friday.

GRAMMAR:  We will be learning about and working a lot with adjectives this week.  Please look for adjectives (describing words) in your nightly reading. 

WRITING:  This 9 weeks we are doing persuasive writing.

MATH:  This 9 weeks all students in second grade will stay with their own teacher.  We will start off learning about fractions.  We will no longer be doing "Math Blaster" but that does not mean that you stop practicing those math facts.  This is something that should be practiced daily.  Let me know if you want some practice sheets to copy.

Reminders:

On Tuesday I will meet with the other teachers to schedule conferences.

They will be held January 26th-30th.  This week we will have early release at 12:20 daily. Report cards will be distributed during Parent-Teacher Conferences.

Thursday, January 15th is Domino's Pizza night.  Don't forget to order your pizza between 5:00 and 6:00 and I might just deliver it right to your front door.  The class with the highest pizza orders will receive a pizza party.

On Monday, January 19th there is NO SCHOOL~ MLK Holiday 

Our TARGET day is now on FRIDAYS.  

Happy New Year,

Mrs. McCoy

The REAL McCoy: Week of December 15th-19th, 2008

Highlights for the week:

Reading:  We will be reading more Jan Brett books and several holiday stories as well.

Spelling:  There will be no spelling for this week.  We will be doing Wordly Wise #3.

Math:  We will have our 3rd nine weeks posttest on Monday.  We will not begin the new unit until after the holiday break. We will be reviewing addition and subtraction with regrouping, graphing, and money this week. There will be no math blaster this week.

Science:  The unit in science this week is Energy with Mrs. Sproat.

Writing:  They will be doing their pre-writing assessment for the third nine weeks.

We will be focusing on persuasive writing.

Grammar:  We will be reviewing all skills learned the first half of the year.

NOTES:

On Wednesday we will be going to visit our kindergarten buddies and do a holiday activity with them.

On Thursday and Friday we will be on an early release schedule.  Lunch time will be from 10:17-10:47 and enrichment will be from 11:40-12:10.

On Thursday we will have our class holiday party from 1:00-2:00.

On Friday we will have a school sing-a-long in the gym led by Mr. Bush.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Mrs. McCoy

The REAL McCoy: Week of December 8th-12th, 2008

Highlights for the Week:

Reading:  We will be having an author study of Jan Brett the next two weeks.  If you have any of her books you would like to share with the class, we will add them to our display.

Spelling:  We will not be having a weekly spelling test this week or next.  We will start up again in 2009.  Instead we will be doing a vocabulary program called 

"Wordly Wise."   They will get a list of vocabulary words on Monday and then we will be doing various activities with these words throughout the week.  There will be NO test on these words.

Grammar:  We are taking several end of unit tests before the holidays and reviewing a lot of important skills.  PLEASE continue to review all worksheets sent home with your child.

Math:  We will be reviewing all skills taught this second nine weeks grading period. The test will be on THURSDAY.  The skills are:  subtraction with regrouping, counting money, telling time, and geometry.

Writing:  We are doing an informational piece of writing on Mary Musgrove. 

Social Studies:  We will begin our study of Tomochichi.  

NOTES:

This is an exciting time of year but we are going to keep a regular schedule and continue learning and working daily.  Please help your child by making sure he or she gets plenty of rest and arrives at school on time each day.

Our holiday party will be on Thursday, December 18 at 1:00.  Our room parents sent a letter home a couple of weeks ago requesting donations.  If you have questions about the party, please contact Bianca Hansell or Irene Cataldo.

Have a great week,

Mrs. McCoy

The REAL McCoy: Week of December 1st-5th, 2008

Highlights for the week:

Reading:  Our story this week will be Rabbit and Tiger.  This will be our last story in this reading book.  We will spend the last two weeks before Christmas break doing an author study of Jan Brett.   We will be reading and doing several fun activities that go along with each book.  The story test for Rabbit and Tiger will be on Friday.  The vocabulary words for this week are:  jungle, bargain, kind, mind, few, group, lies, scares, and fiercest.

I know the holidays are busy times but it is very important to take 20 minutes each night and listen to your child read.

Grammar:  In grammar we will review plural nouns with s and es.  We will be studying irregular plurals (ex. mouse/mice, child/children).   Please review plurals while reading nightly with your child.

Spelling:  We are on Unit #14.  The words are: get, through, back, go and much.

The test and sentence dictation will be on Friday.

Writing:  We will be finishing up our informational writing on animals.

Math:  We will be telling time this week.  Also we continue to do subtraction with regrouping, geometry, and counting money.

Social Studies:  We continue our study of Georgia with an emphasis on Mary Musgrove and Tomochichi.

Notes:

Thursday:   PTA meeting at 7:00.

Friday:       2  A.R. tests are due

                 Media Center: PLEASE have books at school so you can check out 2                          more.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends.

Mrs. McCoy

The REAL McCoy: Week of November 17th-21st, 2008

Highlights for the week:

READING:  There will be no regular story or test this week.  We will be reading the chapter book, Thanksgiving on Thursday and doing various activities with this story.  It is from the series of Magic Treehouse books.

GRAMMAR:  We will be reviewing all skills taught up to this point.  This includes:  ed and ing endings, plural nouns with s and es, subject/predicate, nouns, verbs, and adjectives, abc order to second letter, guide words, and capitalization of proper nouns just to name a few.  PLEASE review all papers that come home with your child.

WRITING:  We are doing informational writing this week.  Your child has chosen a specific animal that they are writing about.

MATH: Everyone is continuing this unit on subtraction with regrouping, counting money, telling time, and geometric shapes.  Please continue to practice those math facts if you are still assigned to do Math Blaster each week.  Congratulations to those students who have mastered both addition and subtraction!!

SOCIAL STUDIES:  This week we will hear from a Cherokee Indian storyteller.  The students are so excited.  Please don't forget to turn in your $5.00 and permission slip by Wednesday.  This in house field trip will be on Thursday.  We will also be talking about Mary Musgrove and Tomochichi.

NOTES:  

*Congratulations to Will Lantis, our Character Ed. winner this month for citizenship.

*Media Center will be on Friday.  Please return your books so you can check out 2 new ones for over the Thanksgiving holiday.

*Thanksgiving lunch with a special guest will be on Wednesday for grades 1st and 5th only.  Our students will still be served the same Thanksgiving lunch.

*PLEASE wear your lime green second grade t-shirt on Thursday for the storyteller program.

 

*Friday is Cougar Pride Day.  Please show your Kincaid spirit.

There will be NO SCHOOL the week of November 24th-28th.  Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

Mrs. McCoy