Scavenger Hunt

We went on a measurement scavenger hunt today for science.  We went throughout the hallway and found the inches and centimeters of many different objects.  They all did a great job working with partners and using quiet voices. 

Box Tops!

We won the 2nd grade box tops contest.  We had 659 box tops in our class.  We voted to have a free dress day on Thursday this week.  Your child will have free dress this Thursday and Friday. 

Thanks for collecting! 

Our Community Mural

We finished our different types of communities today!  We wrote what we learned about them and put it in the hall as one big mural.  They worked hard and it looks great! 

Urban, Rural and Suburban Communities

We have started making our different types of communities with our table groups today in Social Studies.  They will be put together as a big mural when we are finished and we will be writing about them and what resources we get from each type. 

Science

We had Science today in the newly finished Science room.  We are now working on measurement so your child brought home so new vocabulary words today.  They had to measure different types of objects today and record their measurements. 

Ralph Fletcher

Our visit from author Ralph Fletcher was wonderful.  The kids really enjoyed meeting him and hearing about how he writes books.  They were great listeners and they asked intelligent questions.  If you did not purchase any of his books and your kids are interested, they will be at our Book Fair.  His books are also sold at Blue Willow Bookstore. 

Word Study

We played some games today to help us learn our spelling words, patterns and also differentiating between common nouns and proper nouns.  We will be doing this throughout the week, but please make sure they are practicing their words at home as well.