March 17, 2017

Dear Families,

Volunteers: Thank you so much to all the volunteers who donated fabric and/or helped with cutting the blankets for the kids! We truly appreciate all your help! Our Cabin time was great! We had enough fabric so that everyone in the school was able to help make a blanket for our service project!

Some important dates to remember:

*March 23rd: Second Grade Spring Concert, 7:00-8:00 pm

*March 24th: Records Day/ half day,  Dismissal is at 12:30 pm.

*Spring Conferences: Spring conferences are on March 30th in the evening. These conferences are on as needed basis. If we, the teachers, feel we need to meet to talk with you about your child, we will email you.

*April 3-7: Spring Break

*April 28th: Celebration of Learning during the school day in the afternoon.  More information to come!

Reading:

This week we read book reviews and worked on picking out our favorite books in order to write a review. We read several book reviews in order to find things that are important to include in reviews such as hooks or grabbers, summaries and even opinions!

Writing: 

This week we continued to work on writing book reviews about some of our favorite books. We are drafting them on Kidblog and hope to publish them sometime next week.

Math: 

We learned a new thinking routine this week and modeled it in front of eight teachers from our school! They were really impressed with the thinking that second graders were able to share in their math and writing notebooks. Ask your child about C.E.R. I was super proud of them and their amazing behavior and thinking!
We finished up unit 6 and took our test.  Please be on the lookout for the cover sheet to be coming home soon.  We are also sending home the Unit 7 at home review that is attached to my email.  PLEASE keep this is a safe spot where you can go over it and use it as a review for our next test.

IXL SKILLS FOR UNIT 7

IXL Skills: 1^st Grade: B17, 2nd Grade: E 17, E19, G13, G15

IXL Skills: 1^st Grade: N4, N11, 2nd Grade: S2, S8

IXL Skills: Second Grade: R6, R7

IXL Skills: 1^st Grade: N4, N11, 2nd Grade: S2, S8

Social Studies:​ 

We worked more on learning about some key vocabulary words for the economics unit.  We also got ready for our cabins on Thursday where the whole school helped us to make blankets for the cats and dogs in the shelters. TLC Animal Sanctuary stopped by today and picked up all of the supplies that we collected and made for them. They were thrilled! We will finish up our project next week with our whole school community circle. This is our culminating event where we show the school what we have accomplished as well as celebrate all we have done to help the TLC Animal Sanctuary and the Happy Days Cat and Dog rescue. Thank you so very much for all your support! 

Poketti Pocket Powers
Take a look at this website! Pokettis were created by kids!

Have a great weekend!

The Second Grade Teachers