June 9-13

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:

FIELD DAY IS TOMORROW... RAIN OR SHINE!  Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately.  Also, it’s a good idea to send in an extra pair of dry clothes for students to change into.  

Next week is our field trip the Gray Wildlife Park!   I’m still looking for the $3.50 admission fee from some of Team Blowey.  A note went home today with those students who I need it from.  Please be sure to send it in ASAP!  We’ll need the money soon so that we can send a check from Russell School over to the Wildlife Park.  It will make for a much smoother entrance as we go into the park.

Also, students are welcome bring an EXTRA $2.00 with them on the day of the field trip to buy an ice cream or a drink.  They should bring no more than $2.00.  We will only be visiting the snack shack.  We will not be going into the gift shop.

The last day of school is coming up so soon!  The last student day will be on Thursday, June 19.  This will be a half day for students.

This week is the last week for volunteers!  Thank you so much to all of you who were able to make a commitment to come into our classroom and help us out all year long!  We truly appreciate all of your help!

This will be the last week for spelling tests and math fact check-ins!

This week in...

ELA:  This week’s focus will be preparing a personal narrative that will go into our folders and be shared with the third grade teachers.  Today, we brainstormed some fun times, scary times, sad times, and some ouch moments.  Tomorrow, we will begin writing our first drafts.  We will be focusing on doing our very best second grade writing!  Here are the things we’ll be doing in our writing:
-lots of elaborated details about our memories
-a great beginning sentence that introduces our writing
-a great ending sentence that concludes our writing
-correct ending punctuation
-upper and lowercase letters where they belong
-good spelling

Math:  This week, we will be wrapping up our measurement unit.  As a culminating activity, we will be collecting materials from outside and measuring them.  Then, we’ll use these items to build our very own fairy houses!  

We’ll also wrap up our work with line plots.  We’ll do this with a lot of the items we’ll be measuring.  We’ll use the measurements to create a line plot.  Then, we’ll read the line plot and be able to explain the data.

Measurement Olympics has been rescheduled to this Thursday instead.

June 2-6

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:

If you have not done so already, please remember to send in $3.50 for the admission fee for the animal park.  We will need this money ahead of time to make our transition into the park a smooth one.  On the day of the trip, students may choose to bring $2.00 extra in with them to purchase an ice cream or a drink at the snack shack.  Another reminder closer to field trip will go out as well.

Next Monday is our Step Up Day at Dunn School!  If you checked off that you would like your child to receive a school lunch from Dunn, you are all set!  If you checked off that your child will be bringing a lunch from home, please remember to send a packed lunch with them to school that day.  We are so excited to be meeting with some of the third graders up at Dunn!

This week in...

ELA:  This week is the final step for our animal projects!  We are currently building our diaramas and using clay to model our animals.  On Friday afternoon, we will be inviting teachers, parents, and students into the classroom to see our projects.  We will be giving “tours” from about 1:45-2:30.  We would love it if any of you were able to stop by and check out our animals!  If you are planning on coming, I would greatly appreciate just a quick email or note as a heads up so I can plan for extra people in the room.

Math:  We are in the final week of our flexible math groups for adding and subtracting within 100 with a focus on word problems.  We will also be doing a ton of review activities for measurement, arrays, odd and even numbers, time, money, and math facts!  We have even planned to have an exciting day on Thursday!  The second grade will be having Measurement Olympics!  Second graders will be participating in five different events.  At each event, they will be facing a new challenge and using a variety of measuring tools.  For example, at my station, students will be building paper airplanes and measuring how far they can fly them!

Science:  Today, we are heading to another second grade classroom to present our research on severe weather!  We will be showing off our wonderful posters and sharing our wealth of knowledge on tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, thunderstorms, volcanoes, and earthquakes!  Then, students will be given a chance to ask Team Blowey’s “weather experts” some questions!  

I know it may look like a short update, but you can definitely count on us using absolutely every free minute we have on all of our challenging learning projects!