Dear Families,
I'm looking forward to a wonderful year with you and your child!
Second Grade is an exciting year with lots of interesting projects and challenges! I'm looking forward to meeting all of you at Open House. Please feel free to bring in supplies and we'll get them organized.
Because we don't have desks in our classroom, each child will have a plastic box to store materials. Last year, some of my students brought a small pencil box to use to store their own pencils, crayons and other supplies to keep the larger box more organized. Please send in an inexpensive pencil box or zippered pocket to store these items if you wish. Also, we are collecting long paper towel tubes for our math number scrolls. Please save them for us and send them in whenever you have them.
Please look over this blog and see some of the interesting things we learned about last year. Also, visit the other pages on this blog, especially the Parent Page for suggestions for back to school, some parent articles for you to read and some of the books that I read over the summer.
Please feel free to email me anytime, I'm happy to answer any questions or concerns.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Friday, June 9, 2017
June 9, 2017
June 9, 2017
Dear Families,
We can’t believe how fast the year has flown by! We’ve enjoyed seeing your children grow and learn.! This is our last newsletter for the year.
Here is what is happening in the Second Grade Team!
Reminders:
*Last Week of School Fun!
Please see the note we sent home earlier for more details.
Monday: Game Day and Pajama Day-bring a board game and special snack
Tuesday: Camping Day-bring a blanket, flashlight, special snack, book
Wednesday: DF Spirit Day-field day-wear your field day shirt or a grey one
Thursday: Hawaiian Luau Day-Wear Hawaiian clothes, bring towel, sunglasses, and bring in a movie to watch
Friday: Last day of school, half day-dismissal 12:35 p.m.
Language Arts
Reading Workshop: Second graders focused on presenting their Passion Projects and reading Scholastic Newspapers. We also began returning book room books and cleaning out frog boxes and crates. Remember to join the Summer Library Program this summer and read!
Word Work: We worked on finishing up some pages in our Wordly Wise Books. Anything not completed can be used for summer review. Don’t forget the website for extra practice over the summer!
Be sure to go to the free activities at the bottom of the page and go to “student page.”
Writing: We cleaned out our writing binders and tried to organize. Don’t forget to use the leftover pages in all of the notebooks sent home to practice writing over the summer! Students can write narratives, informational pieces, realistic fiction, and opinion/persuasive letters or even just lists! Also, the blogs are available. Encourage your child to blog about summer activities!
Math: This week we took our Unit 9 math test. A lot of it was review and many did really well. Your child can finish up any pages in the math book for practice over the summer! We'll send those home next week.
Social Studies: We're finishing up our last unit on Government!
Summer Review Activities:
*Library Reading Program
*Math Homelinks and finish up any unfinished pages in the math workbooks!
*IXL math, Everyday Math and Xtra Math Websites: Practice any counting coin activities
*Read ( second graders should be able to read 10-20 minutes of uninterrupted time)
*Wordly Wise- Explore the website!
* Blog!
Have a great weekend and a wonderful summer!
The Second Grade Teachers
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Friday, June 2, 2017
June 2, 2017
Dear Families,
This week flew by!
Some important dates coming up:
*June 3rd: Our Bee Booth will be held from 10:00-2:00. Come if you can, even if you didn't sign up, we'd love to see you stop by!
*June 3rd: Our Bee Booth will be held from 10:00-2:00. Come if you can, even if you didn't sign up, we'd love to see you stop by!
*June 6th: Field Trip to Greenfield Village- Wear DF shirt
(Please don't forget to read email about the field trip!)
(Please don't forget to read email about the field trip!)
*Week of 12-16- End of the year fun/ see the purple calendar sent home today!
*June 14th: Field Day! Second Graders try to wear gray t-shirts!
*June 16th: Last day of school- half day for students
Reading and Writing
We were busy all week finishing up our Bee projects. We edited, copied and finalized our Bee Brochures, made Kites, posters and signs for our Bee Booth and sent out a great commercial for our Bee Informational Project. We also continued to read websites and articles to find more information for our Passion Projects. Please take a look at your project this weekend and add your Driving Question and edit for capitalization and punctuation. Some have finished but still need to look them over and edit.
Math:
We're finishing up the last unit of the year! Unit nine test will be given on Friday, June 9th. Home links will be attached!
IXL
Skills for Unit 9
:
- W.1Equal parts
W.2Halves, thirds, and fourths
WIN
This time was used for working on our Passion Projects, researching, writing and revising.
Have a great weekend!
The Second Grade Team
Saturday, May 27, 2017
May 26, 2017
Dear Families,
June 3rd is our Bee Sharing Day at the S.L. Kite Festival. This is a great opportunity for the kids to share their learning with our community and make a change. This community sharing is a big part of PBL and the culmination of our plant/bee study together, though I know for me and hopefully for the kids, what we've learned about will always stay with them. Please take a minute and sign up on our Sign Up Genius for next Saturday. I'll put the link on my email. Please see the link below to read about PBL and authenticity, which is what I hoped to achieve when we began learning about bees.
Gardening is hard work! Everyone worked together to get our courtyard cleaned up and ready for the plants and the bees!
Some important dates coming up:
*May 29th: No School- Memorial Day
*June 6th: Field Trip to Greenfield Village
*June 14th: Field Day
*June 15th: Rain Day for Field Day
*June 16th: Last day of school (dismissed at 12:30)
Our Chicks Hatched!
We had so much fun anticipating our chicks hatching (for 21 days) and Monday morning we had a chick in our incubator! Throughout the day, they continued to hatch and by Tuesday we had six chicks! We had fun watching them and caring for them. They went to their permanent home Friday evening. If you'd like to visit them, they are at MSU Tollgate Farms, on Twelve Mile.
My former students that used to be shorter than me, graduating next week and ready for college!
Reading
We worked on finding and reading research for our Passion Projects. The passion is definitely there! They are so interested in what they're researching, that they actually moan when we have to go to lunch and many are asking if they can stay inside from recess to continue to research! Remember that your child can work on this at home this weekend if there is time.Next week we'll finish up the projects and practice our presentations.
Writing
We finished up our Bee Brochures so that we could educate our community about bees and we wrote thank you notes to all of the experts that helped us with our learning. We are very grateful to all of our families and community members who helped us to learn everything we could about gardening and the importance of bees to our ecosystem, as well as how to recover from a bee sting!
As I’m sure you know, we really dove in to our "Genius Hour" projects this past week and many chose to create Google Slides. They are having so much fun and enjoying learning how to insert pictures, videos and writing text.
As I’m sure you know, we really dove in to our "Genius Hour" projects this past week and many chose to create Google Slides. They are having so much fun and enjoying learning how to insert pictures, videos and writing text.
Math:
Unit 9 lessons continued this week, ending with us completing unit 9.5. This unit is generally a review from the entire year. We have planned to take the final math test of the year on Friday, June 9th. Here are the homelinks for unit 9.
IXL Skills for Unit 9:
Science
We had lots of fun cleaning up the courtyard and creating our Pollinator Garden. We need to finish up our planting next week and finish our Fairy Garden. We also reviewed and learned about chlorophyll and photosynthesis. We'll finish up our planting and cleaning up for the courtyard next week!
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