ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS
CALLING ALL RECYCLED GOODS! We will be needing some recyclable items from your home for a project we will be doing this week. Please send in one or more of the following items:
small snack boxes, plastic lids (shaving gel lids, clorox wipe lids, plastic jar lids, etc) paper or plastic cups.
Please send these items in with your child by Wednesday! A reminder notice will be going home with students tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning we will be heading to a special presentation! Leo from EcoMaine will join the second grade. His presentation will focus on things we can do to help planet Earth and boost awareness and excitement for Earth Day!
Wednedsay night from 5:30-7:00 is the second annual literacy night! All families needed to pre-register for the event. A certain someone might be coming to the event. Hope to see you there!
BE ON THE LOOKOUT! A permission slip will be coming your way tomorrow afternoon as well. Our next field trip will be to Hannaford. We will be taking their Guiding Stars Tour as a part of our ICARE and healthy choices curriculum. We will not be needing any chaperones for this particular trip.
SAVE THE DATE! On may 1, 2014 (it’s a Thursday!), Team Blowey will be hosting it’s first annual Poetry Night! More information and a formal invitation will follow soon.
This week in...
Phonics: We are studying the dipthong oi and oy. Here are our focus words: soil, broil, mosit, point, boil, oil, toy, joy, soy, and royal.
Vocabulary: Here are our new focus words: gathered, agreed, randomly, jabbing, and signal. We’ll define these words and build relationships with them to help us remember them better. Then, we’ll search for them in the short play called Why Sun and Moon Live in the SkY.
Comprehension: This week, we will focus on problem and solution. The problem is something the characters want to change, fix, or find out. The solution is what solves the problem. We will be practicing this skill while we read the play called Pushing Up the Sky by Joseph Bruchac.
Writing: This week, we will finish up our poetry books. First, we’ll write haikus. Haikus are a form of Japanese poetry that follows a specific pattern. It is made up of three lines. The first and third lines both have five syllables. The second line has seven. Here is an example:
Summer is the best
With blue skies and a bright sun
Smiling everyday
The other kind of poem we will write is a concrete poem. Concrete poems are poems where the words literally take on the shape of the subject. These poems do not have to rhyme.
Finally, our books will end with an “About the Author” page where Team Blowey will write their names, age, and where they live. They will also include three of their hobbies.
Math: Our flexible groups for adding and subtracting within 100 with a focus on word problems will continue this week. Remember to use the strategy sheet that I sent home when you are helping your child with their homework. Those are the strategies that are developmentally appropriate and are the strategies the students will be assessed on.
Science: Today we read The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola. We learned about all different kinds of clouds and how different clouds can mean different kinds of weather will be coming. For this week, students will be keeping track of the clouds and writing predictions for what weather they think will be coming. Today, we observed cirrostratus clouds. These kinds of clouds usually mean that moist weather will be here soon. We might see drizzle, showers, or rain within the next 24 hours or so.
Earth Day Fun: Earth day is on April 22. To help us look ahead to this day, we will be doing two different activities. First, we will be reading The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. We’ll create our very own truffula trees and take pictures with a lorax mustache to display with our Earth Day promises that we will be writing. We will also be using your recycled goods that you send in to create our very own litterbugs! We’ll take something that could have been litter and recycle it into a fun and unique bug that will display our friendly reminder: “Please don’t be a litterbug!”
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