Newsletter 3-4-15

Hello 2D Families! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! This last week was so fun and a great start back from vacation. We started many new units and had so much fun launching them.

Science

This week started off with a visit form the Museum of Science. We watched an informational show on the States of Matter. It was a great way to start our week and show off our knowledge about matter. We also got to watch many interesting experiments with liquid nitrogen and even some with fire! The students loved this and were able to take some great experiences back to the classroom! A dragonfly from 2D even got to participate up on stage! Mr. Saltus also came into our room to run an experiment on gas. We learned that fire needs oxygen to keep the flame burning and we also spent time sketching our observations. We are continuing this experiment next week. 

Reading

We started our Fairy Tale Unit this week. Thank you for getting all of the fairy tale preferences back to me for the wax museum. We have begun exploring fairy tales in the classroom and looking closely at the characters. The students have enjoyed going to the "fairytale club" during reading time to explore different fairy tales so we can build our knowledge. We have also focused on looking closely at our goals during conferencing time and making sure that we are working toward them during independent reading time.

Writing

We started our persuasive writing unit and the students have loved launching this! To start, students created skits trying to sell silly objects that they were given on an index card. Some of these included- a pet frog, grapes, dog food and tacos! The students did so well with this and it is clear that they love trying to persuade others already! We then looked at how authors use their writing to persuade readers. We practiced by writing to persuade others to like our favorite food. The students did so well with this!

Math

We have started Unit 6 in math and we spent time creating and interpreting data and then putting it into bar graphs. We used the graphs that we made and answered questions. It is important for us to spend time on reading graphs and answering questions because it truly shows our understanding. We then looked at new diagrams for subtraction. We also spent time working on addition with carrying over. The students loved math this week and were so eager to try challenges. 

Dragonfly News

Thank you for supporting me in the Staff Vs. Fifth Grade Basketball Game! It was so fun and it meant so much to see some dragonflies sitting in the audience. We had a mystery reader this week and the students did such a great job solving the clues! We can't wait for more mystery readers to come in!

Wax Museum Update

Hello 2D Families. It was brought to my attention that the handout sent out to all second grade families regarding the Fairy Tale Wax Museum had a mistake. The date of the event will be Friday, April 8th- same time, same place! I apologize for the confusion! Please let me know if you have any other questions. 

Quick Note 3-1-16

Hello 2D families! Tomorrow night, March 2nd is the Teacher Vs. Fifth Grade Basketball Game! I hope to see you all there! The game starts at 6:30. 

Newsletter 2/28/16

Hello 2D Families! I hope you enjoyed your February vacation. I enjoyed the week traveling with family. I am so excited to get back to school to see my dragonflies and to continue our learning. Information about our new unit in reading was sent home in Friday folders. We will be starting our Fairy Tale Unit and students will be asked to work at home to get to know one fairy tale very well. Your child will then dress up as the main character and partake in the second grade Fairy Tale Wax Museum at the end of the unit. Please review the information and send in your child's first three choices of fairy tales to me by Friday, March 4th. Here is a quick wrap up of our latest week. Have a great last night of vacation!

Read Across America Week

We had so much fun celebrating Dr. Seuss all week. We had many mystery readers, including Mr. Fosher! We dressed wacky, wore our favorite hats, pajamas, socks and dressed as our favorite characters. To end the week we wore pajamas and read with our favorite stuffed animals. This was an exciting week for the dragonflies because we love our reading time!

Math

We wrapped up with Unit 5 and had so much fun learning how to subtract with number lines, number stories, and different diagrams. We will be coming back to subtraction to review these strategies and go over subtracting with regrouping. We will head into Unit 6 which involves creating and pulling data from graphs. We will start by creating our own classroom data and creating a bar graph. Students will learn what a graph key is and learn how to create their own graphs by analyzing data. 

Writing

We created our class fictional story and it is hanging in the hallway on display! The students are so excited about this and truly worked their hardest on their writing and illustrations. We will be moving into persuasive writing next!

Science

We have the Museum of Science coming in tomorrow to present on the states of matter! This will be so great to see and help solidify our learning! 

Quick Note 2-16-17

Hello 2D Families! Today we wore our favorite hats for Read Across America Week. Don't forget that tomorrow is Wacky Wednesday- so wear mismatched clothes! Thursday is Theodore Geisel Day where you can dress as your favorite book character and Friday is Curl Up and Read Day where you can dress comfortably and bring in a stuffed animal to read with. Have a great week!