Welcome to another week of learning! Here is our week of learning at a glance:

Reading: I can infer using text evidence to support my thinking. 

Writing: I can use the writing process to write an enchanted tale.

Math: I can use various strategies to help me problem solve. 

Science:  I can describe how weather and seasons affect activities and clothing choices.

SEL (Social-Emotional Learning: I can identify and celebrate my strengths.

Thank you so much for making Pirate Day a success!  Here is our week of learning at a glance:

Reading: I can describe my purpose for reading a text and identify the author’s purpose.

Writing: I can use the writing process to write an enchanted tale.

Math: I can tell time to the hour, half hour and quarter hour.

Social Studies:  I can tell important facts about American symbols.

SEL (Social-Emotional Learning: I can identify when I feel confident.

Class Celebrations: Declan  is our Star of the Week! We can’t wait to share his poster! We hope Kelton  had a very Happy Birthday!

Thank you so much for helping us celebrate our Safe, Respectful, and Responsible behavior!  We had a great, comfortable day of learning with our stuffed animals, blankets, and our PJ's!  Here is our week of learning at a glance:

Reading: I can use inferences to help me understand the text I am reading.
Writing: I can write an informational text using the writing process.

Math: I can use square units to determine the area.
Science: I can explain how magnets are used in our daily lives.
SEL (Social-Emotional Learning: I can identify my feelings.

Class Celebrations: We hope Ava had a very Happy Birthday!  Congratulations to Hudson! He is our Star of the Week!

Welcome to another week of learning!  Thank you so much for sending in supplies for our bridges!  We  will begin building our bridges this week!  We are still in need of pipe cleaners and craft sticks.  You can send those in this week if you are able to pick some up for us!

Here is our week of learning at a glance:

Reading: I can ask questions after reading and identify text features in an informational

text.

Writing: I can write an informational text using the writing process.

Math: I can subtract two digit numbers.

Science: I can observe and describe how materials work together to build a stronger

structure.

SEL (Social-Emotional Learning: I can use self talk to help me focus.

Happy Monday!  Just a friendly reminder that our library day has changed to Mondays so please have your child bring their library books on Monday.  Here is our week of learning at a glance:

Reading: I can describe the  main character of  a story.
Writing: I can write a small moment story using sketches and words.
Math: I can draw conclusions and answer questions from a bar and pictographs.
Science:  I can describe the physical properties of an object.
SEL (Social-Emotional Learning): I can have a growth mindset.

Class Celebrations

We would like to say congratulations to Hee-Jing! She was our first Student of the Week! We were excited to share her poster!  This week we look forward to learning more about Olivia who is our new Student of the Week. We also want to wish Olivia a very Happy Birthday! We hope your day is special!

Mark Your Calendars

Sept. 10: Walk & Bike to School
Sept. 10: PTA Mtg 6pm
Sept. 17: Coffee, Celebrations & Concerns with Mrs. Sharp 
 Sept. 19: Family Night @  MOD Pizza

Wow!  It's hard to believe this is only our second week of school!  We are doing such a great job learning our routines and procedures! Here is our week of learning at a glance: 

Reading: I can make connections (text to self, text to text, and text to world) with a story.

 Writing:I can write a small moment story using sketches and words. I can work with a writing partner . 

Math: I can write numbers using different forms. ( Standard form, expanded form, base 10 blocks, and word form). I can use a 100’s chart to compare numbers.

 Science: I can make safe choices with science tools.  

Class Celebrations:  

We ALL had enough points to cash in for rewards!  I am so proud of their behavior! Ellie lost a tooth today!  She was able to add her name to our tooth graph!

Upcoming Dates:

Sept. 2: No School

Sept. 6: Grandparents Day  

    at Lunch. Please RSVP by 

    visiting link on FCE 

    website.

Sept. 10: PTA Mtg 6pm

WELCOME TO SECOND GRADE!

It's hard to believe we will begin our year of learning together!  I hope you had a great summer and you are as excited about this school year as I am!  I just wanted to send a few reminders to help make our first few days successful!

*  I will meet your child in the hallway tomorrow morning between 7:15 and 7:30.  We will enter our  class together to begin our day.

  * Our class has PE on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.  Please make sure your child wears tennis shoes on these days. With our busy day of learning, we do not have time to "change into our tennis shoes." 

   *   To help ensure a safe, timely dismissal you can help by making  sure you have your car tag before dismissal on Thursday if your child is a car rider.   You can get as many tags as you need from our wonderful office staff. 

  *  If your child is a bus rider,  please make sure your child knows their bus number. If you have not given it to me yet, please just send me a quick e-mail so I can get your child home safely. 

* We have a long morning and I will provide time for a healthy, snack each day.  Please make sure to pack a healthy, easy to eat snack so we can transition to our learning. Also, please make sure your child has a water bottle to keep cool, fresh water at their desk.  Water bottles with spill proof lids are the best since we have access to iPads and chrome books on a daily basis.  

I look forward to getting to know your  child this year!  

HI!

It's hard to believe this is the last week of February!  Where is this school year going?   We have a very busy next few weeks ahead of us.  We are constantly learning new material so it is important to remind your child to follow our be safe, be respectful, and be responsible rules!  

Here is what our week of learning will look like this  week:  

Reading and Writing  Workshop-  We will  continue our unit on folktales.   This week we will focus on fables!  The students love reading fables and when we discuss the moral of the story, I love how they are relating it to their own lives!  We have had some great conversations!               We have also started planning our fractured fairy tale writing! Ask your child which fairy tale they are using and how they are going to change it for their very own fractured fairy tale!

Science/ Social Studies-  This week we will continue our unit on maps and globes. We will work on reading a map and creating our own pirate map!

Math-   We are beginning our unit on fractions. This week we will focus on equal and unequal parts.  We will also focus on halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, and sixths. 

Important Information:   We will take our spring and  class pictures on March 7 .  I am not sure of the time but hopefully before lunch :)   I am super excited to announce we will have a student teacher who will begin next week!  Her name is Rachel Sorensen and she will join our class on Monday.   She  will begin by observing our routines and procedures and then she  will begin teaching lessons that we have  planned  together.   I am excited to share our excitement of learning with her.  If you are in the building, please feel free to say hi to her! 

STEAM Supplies:  As usual, we need paper towel rolls and toilet paper rolls!  For our STEAM project this week, we will also need wooden craft sticks, tissue paper,  and plastic Easter eggs!  You can send those in so we can have them for Friday.  

Class Brighteners:  We would like to wish Lori  a very Happy Birthday!  She will celebrate her birthday this week!  We would like to say Congratulations to Serenity!   She lost a tooth this week!    Our  Pleasing Penmanship Award goes to Farrah and Tyler  this week!  These two always put forth their best effort in everything they do!

HI!

Welcome to a crazy week of learning! We will have our Valentine's Party on Thursday, February 14.  We will have stations this time so if you are planning on attending, don't be surprised if you are in charge of a station/ activity.  Also, since the day will be full of excitement,  we will do our STEAM activity that day instead of Friday! We will try to make a candy box that will hold five chocolate kisses! If they succeed, they will get to keep the chocolate kisses :)  

Here is what our week of learning will look like next week:  

Reading and Writing  Workshop-  We will  continue our unit on Folktales.   This week we will focus on classic folktales like the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, Tikki Tikki Tembo, and The Gingerbread Man. We will also begin looking at Fractured Fairy Tales which are my absolute favorite!

Science/ Social Studies-  We made our salt maps and a huge thank you to all the moms who mixed and made a mess with us :)  We are hoping they dry so we can begin painting our landforms this week! This week we will focus on our map unit. We will focus on cardinal directions and learning how to read a map.  

Math-   We will continue  our unit on three digit place value. This week we will focus on comparing three digit numbers and looking at three digit numbers on a number line. 

Important Information:   We will have our Valentine's Party on Feb. 14 at 1:30. We will hand out 

Valentine's cards.  I sent home a list of names so if you do not have one, let me know!  We had so many friends out sick it was hard to keep track of who received a list!  

Class Brighteners:  We would like to wish Tatum  a very Happy Birthday!  We hope your day was special!  This week we are beginning our Pleasing Penmanship Award!  This award will go to one or two students a week who display neat, quality work across the curriculum! They will receive special writing tools only they can use for the week. These include mechanical pencils, special erasers, and their own set of smelly markers in a fancy pencil holder! The two students who earned this award are Emma and Sebastian! Congratulations!

Have a great week!

HI!

Wow!  It's hard to believe it's already February!  This school year is flying by!  We are staying 

super busy and learning new things each week!  It is so important to remind your child to stay 

focused and on task! As the year progresses, I know it gets harder and harder!  

Here is what our week of learning will look like next week:  

Reading and Writing  Workshop-  We will  begin our unit on Folktales.  We will begin with fairy tales and this week we will study Cinderella  around the world! This is such a fun unit and the students really enjoy the texts we read.

Science/ Social Studies-  We will wrap up our landform  unit.  I would love to make salt maps

with our class so if you are willing to help make the dough, please respond to this email and I 

will send directions!  I would need the dough by Friday this week.  We will also begin our unit on

maps this week.  

Math-   We will begin our unit on three digit place value. This week we will focus on the various

forms of a number ( standard form ,  (124), expanded form,  (100+20+4=124), base ten blocks,

and word form.).  

Important Information:   We will have our Valentine's Party on Feb. 14 at 1:30. We will hand out 

Valentine's cards so I will send home  a list with our names. If your child passes out cards, 

please make sure they give one to everyone in the class. Thanks!

Class Brighteners:  We would like to wish Miguel a very Happy Birthday!  We  also want to say

Congratulations to Lori! She lost a tooth this week!

Have a great week!