Important Dates:
Friday, June 15th- Highland Playground Tuesday, June 18th- LAST DAY! Walking field trip to Main St. Ice Cream |
Another wonderful week in Room 212! We have experienced a lot of illness this week, and missed various friends throughout the week. Please continue to remind your children of healthy practices such as washing their hands in warm soapy water and covering their coughs. We want to try to keep us all as healthy as possible!
Don't forget to register your child for the UPES Learning Fair in February, deadline for registration is January 29th. The UPES learning fair is an exhibition that showcase the variety of student interests on topics including science, history, music, animals and more! Projects are displayed in a format of the student’s choice and design. Use of the school Media Center for research is encouraged, but projects are completed outside of school. This is always an excellent opportunity for students to research a passion project and use their creativity to demonstrate what they've learned. Yearbook orders have gone home. If purchasing a yearbook is a financial burden for your family, but you'd like your child to have one. Please reach out to Mrs. Cantie, our school social worker, as she can assist with funding. [email protected] Reading: Reading groups were in full effect this week. We began new books, studied long a and o vowel sounds, and discussed point of view. Math: Unit 3 Shapes and Measurement This week we reviewed our Unit 3 learning and took the test. This will be coming home next week; please sign and return it. Social Studies Students continued learning about the Olympic torch this week and the history of the Olympics. Students used our MakerSpace to create their very own Olympic torch! We are excited to continue this unit in collaboration with Mrs. Smith's class as we track an assigned country's medals, and learn about that country!
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"Life's most persistent question is 'what are you doing for others?'" Martin Luther King Jr.
We have been focusing our energy towards living an intentional life helping others in second grade through various activities. In November we walked to the Dollar Store to buy canned goods for the HHS food drive. In December, we spoke about the gifts we can give others that aren't necessarily materialistic. Now, in January, we have focused on thanking others and acknowledging their kindness, as well as our own kind actions. Our hallway bulletin board has displayed the quote "Through Kindness Around Like Confetti" since the start of the school year; we will now be sprinkling kind acts we witness on that board to continue to encourage ourselves and those in our school community to taking a proactive approach in making this world a bit more kind. On this note, I'd like to take a moment and thank so many of you who have donated to our classroom in various ways. Through your time, through class party donations, through donating extra stamps for our thank you letters, donating extra money for other students to use in the Merry Moose Shop, through donating extra money towards assisting other students in paying for our upcoming field trip, and many more ways, it's clear that our students have parents that exemplify doing for others- thank you for that. We had an enjoyable week studying Snowflake Bentley, beginning to wrap up our math unit, and listening to some wonderful presentations by a reading group who studied a specific dinosaur. Next week will be our first full-week in quite some time, we have certainly been spoiled with long weekends! Don't forget to register your child for the UPES Learning Fair in February, deadline for registration is January 17th. The UPES learning fair is an exhibition that showcase the variety of student interests on topics including science, history, music, animals and more! Projects are displayed in a format of the student’s choice and design. Use of the school Media Center for research is encouraged, but projects are completed outside of school. This is always an excellent opportunity for students to research a passion project and use their creativity to demonstrate what they've learned. Reading: We continued practice reading skills focusing on specific vowel sounds. We also finished up our school-wide AIMsWeb testing and running records for our classroom. Math: Unit 3 Shapes and Measurement We practiced measuring in inches this week and learned about inches, feet, and yards. Students were reminded to always read directions carefully to check if they should be measuring in centimeters or inches. We will take our unit test next Friday. Writing Students wrote their thank you letters to a family member or friend for a holiday gift they received. We discussed showing gratitude, writing more than just "thank you", and making sure the person knows how special they made us feel. These will be mailed out soon! With all of our snow days and holiday busy-ness, I have neglected to update this site for some time, my apologies for that! We have had some exciting times already in 2018 as we've wrapped up our Holidays Around the World studies, made goals and resolutions for the new year, and studied measuring and geometry in our new math unit!
Thank you for all of your generous gifts. I feel very grateful for teach in such a giving and thoughtful community with so many wonderful families. Don't forget to register your child for the UPES Learning Fair in February, deadline for registration is January 17th. The UPES learning fair is an exhibition that showcase the variety of student interests on topics including science, history, music, animals and more! Projects are displayed in a format of the student’s choice and design. Use of the school Media Center for research is encouraged, but projects are completed outside of school. This is always an excellent opportunity for students to research a passion project and use their creativity to demonstrate what they've learned. Reading: Math: Unit 3 Shapes and Measurement Students began their new unit on geometric shapes and measurement. Currently, we are measuring to the nearest centimeter and getting a lot of practice using rulers. It's important for children to understand that when measuring, they have to look at the ruler because many times you will not start right at the front. Students practiced measuring the distance around a shape by measuring each side and adding those lengths together. Writing Students practiced their writing skills throughout last month and this through paragraph writing on the countries we studied. We will be beginning our friendly thank you letter writing to a family member or friend next week. Social Studies: Holidays Around the World This was our last journey as we went to China to learn about their Chinese New Year. Students are bringing home their suitcases filled with airline tickets, mini-books on each country, and question/writing responses. |