Grand Luncheon- Monday, June 6th

Grand Luncheon Information

Although many of you have already signed up, there is a Grand Luncheon sheet coming home in blue folders tonight. Regardless of the due date, please sign up online if you have a family member joining your child on Friday for the Grand Luncheon event. The registration link is on the SMS homepage. The luncheon will take place this coming Monday, June 6th. Please email me if you have any questions. :)

Pirate Play Rehearsal Tomorrow

Hello 2D Families! Tomorrow at 2:05 we have our pirate play rehearsal. We will perform our play for the 1st-3rd grade as our official dress rehearsal before the big show Thursday night! The Dragonflies should bring their pirate costumes to school to change in to for the rehearsals.

Boys- Black shirt, Jean bottoms

Girls- White shirt, Jean bottoms

*I have the purple bandannas ready to go in our classroom!*

Since the actual performance is Thursday night, please have your child just bring their costume to change in to for the dress rehearsal so it is not worn throughout the day! We can't wait for you to see the performance. We have been working so hard! See you Thursday! Arrrr.

Author's Tea

Hello 2D Families!

Tomorrow is the big day! We are so excited to share our favorite pieces of writing from throughout the year with you. We are also so excited to read aloud our favorite poems for your to enjoy! Please remember that your child should dress up (picture day attire- nothing too fancy) and come to school in their outfit. The event starts at 12:45 and will most likely wrap up around 1:45. We have Music at 2:05. 

Have a wonderful night and we will see you tomorrow!

Important Update!

Important Permission Slip Update 

*I am realizing that some of the permission slips did not have a back page. I am re-sending all permission slips home that were handed in with information and did not have a back page. Please check the back and make sure there is a signature on the slip! We need the signature for your child to attend the field trip. If you there is a blank permission slip in your child's blue folder tonight that means I have not received one for your child yet and this new permission slip has a pack page. I am sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your attention to this! 

Have a wonderful evening! :)

Homework & Quick Note 5/23/16

Homework

As the end of the year is approaching, homework will look a little different. There will be no homework packet sent home this week. Students are being asked to look around their yards for different types of plants and sketch them. Students should also be reading and using IXL or Xtra Math for math practice. Mr. G has also set up the Dragonflies with Qwerty Town. This is an online typing program where the students can strengthen their keyboarding skills. To sign in, students need to use their gmail account username (only what is before the @sau16.org) and their gmail password. We have been working so hard to memorize these so your child should know their username and password. If you have any questions, please let me know!

Important Dates

May 27th- Author’s Tea! Families are welcome to join us at 12:45 pm as we share with you our favorite pieces of writing and poetry that we have worked so hard on throughout the year! Students should wear "picture day attire" for this event and bring a change of clothes for P.E. Please email me if you plan on attending! We can't wait to have you in for this special event!

June 1st and 2nd- Pirate Play: Students will put on the dress rehearsal of our play during the school day on June 1st and will perform our play for families on June 2nd starting at 6:30 pm in the cafeteria. Boys will be wearing black t-shirts, girls will wear white, and all students will wear jean shorts, pants, or skirts. All of the dragonflies will be wearing purple bandannas!

June 6th- Grand Luncheon: Grandparents and friends of SMS students are invited to join us for our annual Grand Luncheon. Times for each grade level lunch are TBD.

June 9th- Field Day: The Dragonflies will be wearing RED as we enjoy field day. If you would like to volunteer during field day please send in the form that was sent home in blue folders! We would love to have you.

June 10th- Field Trip to Great Bay Discovery Center: we will be going on our annual field trip to Great Bay Discovery Center. We will arrive at Great Bay at 9:00 am to spend the morning there. We ask chaperons to meet us at the Discovery Center on Depot Rd. Thank you to those who have signed up to chaperon, we can't wait to have you!

June 15th- End of Year Picnic at Stratham Hill Park: All second grade classrooms will be hiking through the trails from SMS to Stratham Hill Park for an end-of-the-year picnic. Families and Friends are welcome to join us! There is an information sheet in blue folders being sent home today!

June 17th- Last Day of School: It will be a very bittersweet day and it is very fast approaching! I have enjoyed this year so much more than I could have ever expected! (And I really expected that I would) We will be celebrating our last day as a classroom family!

Have a wonderful week and enjoy the sunshine! :)

Newsletter 5-20-16

Hi 2D Families! We had a crazy busy week here at SMS. We are so excited to welcome you to our classroom for the Author's Tea, this coming Friday, May 27th. If you or a family member is planning to attend- please email me to let me know! I would like to haves omeone for each child to share their writing with, so I need to plan who to ask within the building! 

National Park Day

This week we had our Second Grade National Park Day. It was a huge success. We traveled to the different 2nd grade classrooms to learn about various national parks. We visited Denali, Yellowstone, Acadia, Redwood National Park and of course the Everglades. It was such a great day but I was blown away at the level of research the student did for the Everglades. They created projects that would teach the other second graders about the different animals and plants you will find in the Everglades. It was a great day.

Reading

We have been working on making predictions based on all we know from our series books now. We have also been searching for special language that author's use and noticing when author's compare two things together and what they mean. We have been working on our "talk" during book clubs. We have come so far and we are pushing our friends to dig deeper in their thinking and explain their thoughts. It is truly amazing and these Dragonflies are ready for third grade!

Writing

We have been working on poetry and we look forward to hand picking our pieces of writing to share with you at our Author's Tea. The students love writing time and they have been working so hard to convey a feeling through their writing.

Math

We are still plugging away in math. We continue to work on partitioning and making sure that we are dividing shapes into equal pieces that don't overlap and also take up the entire shape. This is a difficult skill and we are doing much better! We also continue to work on strategies for solving arrays, word problems, and addition/subtraction problems.

Maker Fest and Art Fest

The Maker Fest was a huge success. The students loved looking at the different creations from SMS. We even had some entries from our classroom!

 Dragonfly News

*Please look over the important dates that were posted to the blog! I will continue posting them.*

*We have been working so hard at our Pirate Play rehearsals! We can't wait for you to see the performance!*

*Field trip permission slips for Great Bay were sent home today in Friday Folders. Please return those to me by Friday May 27th. If you would like to join us, please let me know via email! *