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It's That Time!

This next week is a very busy week for second grade.  We will be learning, reviewing, and assessing every day.  Please be sure your child has a good breakfast, and is well rested so that he/she will do his/her personal best.  We know some absences cannot be helped, but please make every effort to have your child here on time every day, and ready to learn. Any missed assessments will have to be made up.

Our math assessment includes time, money, counting back change, place value, subtraction and addition with and without regrouping, word problems, shapes, and parts of shapes (angles, vertices, sides etc.).  Any and all review that you do at home is beneficial.  The math sites to the side of our blog may offer additional review as well.

In Language Arts, we will be reviewing synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homographs, plural forms, subject & predicate, as well as compound words and sentences. Reading for details, main idea, cause/effect relationships, and inferencing are also among the skills we will be working on. The various websites on our blog may be of some help as we prepare for our benchmarks.

This is a wonderful time of the year for families to do things together.  Enjoy the season, and show pride in your child's learning every day.  They do grow up fast!

 

Fire Safety Village

Second Grade is excited to be able to share an excellent safety program instructed by uniformed officers who can provide knowledge from first-hand experience (making them very credible).  The Cobb County Fire & Emergency Services provides eight learning stations within the Fire Safety Village that teach students how to stay safe and what to do in case of emergencies.  The simulations/lessons are very engaging and provide a unique opportunity for children to experience learning. Fire safety, bike safety, car safety, swim safety, and safety from “strangers” are among the many lessons incorporated in the stations.  This outstanding field trip is provided to engage and instruct all Cobb County students in appropriate safety procedures at no additional cost to the schools &/or families.  Students may purchase sack lunches at school, or pack their own lunch to bring with them.  We plan to leave school by 9:15 and return to school around 1:45 on Tuesday, December 20^th, 2011.  The children will enjoy a lunch break at the village as part of their rotation. 

I have sent home a permission slip for the Fire Safety Village field trip.  Please return your child's permission slip as soon as you are able.  I would like to have them all on file so that no one will miss this learning experience.

Thank you.

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful and safe holiday with family and friends.  It was a wonderful break for my family and a great time to visit with long distance relatives. 

I do look forward to the many activities and lessons coming up before the winter holidays.  We have a lot to accomplish and I am sure that we will be able to achieve with success.  Please continue to support your children at home with homework, reading, and math. 

We will be tackling money this next week with the goal of not only counting dollars and cents, but also counting back change.  Additional support at home with these skills is appreciated and welcome.  Reviewing previous skills this next couple of weeks will also be very important.  Let's be sure ro revisit telling time up to five minute intervals, subtraction and addition with and without regrouping, and geometry concepts.  Any additional review you are able to do at home will have a positive impact on your child's success.  Thank you in advance for all that you do!

Don't forget... December 3rd is Breakfast with Santa and the book fair.  I look forward to seeing you there!

Thanksgiving Food Drive

  

Thanksgiving Food Drive- November 1-11

 

We will be collecting nonperishable food items to benefit local families. Please support this very special project. All items should be dropped off on the stage in the cafeteria. Some of the items needed for the families are as follows:

 

*Grocery Store Gift Certificates  (drop off in the front office)

Cereal                                            Canned Vegetables

Cranberry Sauce                          Cake mix with canned frosting

Canned Yams                               Boxed jello and pudding 

Boxed Stuffing                             Boxed Mashed Potatoes

Canned soup                                Canned fruit          

Canned beans                              Rice         Pasta     Gravy

                   

We have a lot of families to help this year so please bring in food items!!!! Thank you for your support! J

 

Lori Armbruster
Professional School Counselor
Keheley Elementary
678 494 7836

Caring Cougars

Below, please see programs that are available to our Keheley families:

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The Guiding Good Choices parenting program is a 5 week class for parents and caregivers of elementary school children at Keheley and Nicholson. Workshops cover:

• Developing clear family guidelines and expectations for behavior
• Teaching children the skills they need to stay out of trouble while still
having fun
• Managing family conflict in a way that maintains and strengthens
bonds
• Increasing children’s involvement with the family
• Creating a parent support network

Nicholson Elementary School Cafeteria
1599 Shallowford Road
Tuesdays 8:00—9:30 AM
October 11 - Nov. 1, 2011
Workshop and materials are provided FREE of charge

Registration Deadline October 6th!!
Contact: Adia Fields, Nicholson Professional School Counselor
Adia.Fields@cobbk12.org or (770) 928-5573
or
Lori Armbruster, Keheley Professional School Counselor
Lori.Armbruster@cobbk12.org or (678) 494-7836

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Cobb Holiday Assistance

WHAT

Thanksgiving and Cobb Christmas Programs

Registration

770.428.2601, extension 414

WHEN

Tuesday, October 4 and Wednesday, October 5, 2011

9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The number of applications accepted each day will be limited.

Registration may close earlier than 4 p.m., depending on the number of people waiting to be screened.

WHERE

Cobb Civic Center

548 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060

--Applicants must be low income and live in Cobb County. Cobb Christmas applicants must have dependent children living in the household with them. We will not be able to verify benefits with DFCS. All applicants must bring the following documents

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• Picture ID such as a driver’s license for the applicant;

• Social Security cards or birth certificates for all household members;

• Written verification of all household income for the previous 4 weeks such as check stubs or letter from employer on letterhead;

• Written verification of all unearned income such as TANF, unemployment, workman’s comp, Social Security, SSI, or child support, etc.; and

• Verification of residency in Cobb such as a lease, utility bill in your name, etc.

Curriculum and Coffee

Please join us for “Curriculum and Coffee”

The topic: Gifted Services Eligibility: “How Does a Cobb County Elementary Student Qualify for Target?”

Wednesday, September 7

7:30-8:00 AM

Room 333

(Mrs. Simpson’s room, the 1^st room on the left side of the 4^th & 5^th Grade hallway)

Who should attend?
Anyone who is interested in learning more about how a Cobb County student qualifies for gifted education services

Presenters: Annette Simpson and Diane Gillen, Gifted Education Teachers

Hosted by: Keheley’s School, Family, & Community Committee

Coffee, muffins, and doughnuts provided by the School, Family, and Community Committee

Looking Forward to a Great Year!

Dear Parents,

It was great seeing many of you at Open House. I hope that you found our meeting very informative and that I was able to put many of your questions to rest. I'm excited about working with you and your children this year. It's so gratifying to watch them grow as learners and put forth effort to become the best that they can be. I look forward to a very productive year!

Descriptive writing is our area of focus in Writer's Workshop. We’ve written several poems and will now move on to descriptive paragraphs. In Social Studies, we have fine-tuned our map skills and will learn about the five regions of Georgia by creating a “step book” that summarizes the attributes of each region. We will learn about the many landforms that we have in our state as well as the major rivers and how they are used. We have so many resources available to us!

In math we will continue with our study of place value and ways to show numbers. We will also be reviewing and applying strategies that should help make your child more successful with the basic facts. Math homework will usually be sent home Wednesday night.

Please feel free to jot questions or concerns in your child's agenda. I consider the agenda a wonderful communication tool. I will check it daily; however, if you have written a note you may want to have your child mention it to me so that I have time to read and respond to it quickly. Please continue to initial your child's agenda daily.