April 21: Newsletter

UPCOMING EVENTS:

April 25 - Marco's Pizza Night (Don't forget to mention our class when ordering)

May 3 - Field trip to Frederik Meijer Gardens

May 5 - Neon/Popcorn Day

           - Students should be at 100% of their SRC goal

May 12 - Early Release

May 23 - Jet's Pizza Night (Don't forget to mention our class when ordering)

May 29 - No School (Memorial Day)

READING:

Next week we will wrap up our study on fairy tales.  Students will read various summaries of fairy tales to see if they can identify the title of each one.  Students will also practice reading a reader’s theater based on a popular fairy tale.  Some students will even be able to read (perform) their fairy tale to the class.

This session of SRC ends May 5. Students have been working really hard to reach their goal, and many of them are on target to do so. Some have even challenged themselves to double their goal.  Keep up the great work!!!

Also, you will find two new Scholastic book orders in your child’s Friday folder.  This will be our last book order for the year.  Please check out all of the great books.  You could stock up for all of the summer reading!!!  All orders are due by Friday, May 5.  Thank you!

WRITING:

Next week will finish up our small moment narratives.  This last writing piece will be a good indicator of their writing growth this year.  We will look back to the first small moment narrative that we wrote at the beginning of the year.  The students will be shocked to see how much they have improved.  

MATH:

Wow-have the second graders worked hard this week!!!  I am so impressed with their ability to subtract from a 3-digit number.  They even know how to subtract from ONE THOUSAND!  It has been amazing to watch how they can tackle these challenging problems and explain their thinking to a partner.  

SCIENCE:

We just completed our studying of water.  Next week we will take a day to review and then assess on Wednesday.  Please look for the review coming home on Monday.