October 26-30

It’s RED RIBBON WEEK! Red Ribbon Week is a nationally recognized week in which schools across the United States focus on turning young people away from drugs and alcohol. We are going to educate our students at HCE about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Please encourage your child to participate in the dress up themes throughout the week! Although national Red Ribbon Week is a complete focus on staying drug free, we are broadening the focus to include making healthy choices and staying positive. It is hard to explain to our younger Cougars when the focus is all about staying drug free. Check out our dress up themes:

MONDAY: “Red”y to lead a healthy lifestyle – wear read clothing and get a red ribbon to wear all week.

TUESDAY: “New friends are all around you” – wear something pink for Breast Cancer Awareness and let’s be kind and pass it on.

WEDNESDAY: “My future is bright” – wear a college t-shirt – use your brain, be smart and make healthy choices.

THURSDAY: “Wild about being healthy” – wear crazy hair day – You can still have fun and not make bad decisions.

FRIDAY: I “mustache” you not to bully or do drugs – wear HCE shirts or your spooktacular auction shirts to school and all kids will be getting a fake mustache to wear all day.

Now.. Here’s what we are learning this week in 2^nd grade!

Reading – Readers describe characters using their traits and prove feelings with textual evidence. Readers use author’s clues to help predict what may happen next in the text and they can talk about it.

Writing – We will continue our Argumentative/Review unit!

Math – We will finish up our regrouping in tens and ones with additionJ Thursday we will begin our subtraction without regrouping!

Social Studies – We will continue to talk about our nation – government, laws, taxes, branches of government!

Science – We will learn about energy!