Aug. 29th

 We had a fabulous week! Many of the students passed off +10 from 0-10 and have moved on to +10 from 11-100.  We started a new writing assignment called “Overall Me” and will be working on it most of September. We had our first week of reading groups and have been working on passing off sight words. Once your child has passed off their sight words they will bring home the “Fry Phrases” to work on.  I am sending home a list of sight words for children who need extra help. Most children will be on ‘Fry Phrases” next week.  In Social Studies we have started to fill out the “Me on the Map” of the world.  We start with our “Home” because that is where children are the most.

          I have about half of the class paper plates with pictures and words about them. Please make them and return them to school if you have not finished this project.  I would like each child to bring an old sock to school that they can use to erase their white boards.

Thank You for letting me teach your child.  They are all very respectful and courteous children. We have a very well behaved class.

August 22

Mrs. Kitchen had a great week. The students all looked so nice and were are their very best behavior. I wanted to share their  writing projects after we made cookies the first day of class.

How To Make A Great Classroom

By

Marcus, Alexis, Andrew, Hinton, Damaris, Teara Rose, and Cooper

Ingredients: Start with a classroom.

Mix ½ cup of kids.

Crunch ½ cup of books.

Add a full cup of kindness glue.

Mix paper and pencils with 10 cups of learning.

And you will get a great classroom.

Recipe for a Good Sugary Classroom

By

Drew, Danny, Jenny, Emily, Sampson, Shiloh

Start with 180 school days.

Throw in 152 pinches of happiness, 4 gillion pencils and stir with love.

Add, never ending cups of friends.

Mix in 100 pieces of paper, 21 cups of backpacks, 2 cups of recess and a pinch of smartness.

Add 20 cups of listening and 1 cup of crayons.

And you will get a good sugary classroom.

Recipe for A Good Classroom

By

Kayden, Mindy, Logan, Jordan, Bryson and Jacob

Start with a big bowl for a classroom and mix in 2 cups of friends, 1 cup of books, 11,111 cups of good words, 1 flag and lots of patriotism. Add 1 desk for each child and a chair for each child. Stir in the best teacher.

You will get a great classroom.

How To Make A Great Classroom

By Kennadee, Caleb, Taybor, Emmberlynn, Ellie, Saedy and Aaron

Need: A class of books

                         Smiles

                         Desks

                         Paper

                         Pencils

                         Name Tags

Mix two cups of books, two teaspoons of cubbies, one teacher and 4 cups of glue sticks with 180 days of learning, 1000 cups of listening and 26 responsible, respectful, safe and courageous students.

Stir in friendship and love.

You will get a great classroom

May 16th

Notes:  Last time to turn in April Reading Calendar is Friday.

      Our class is having a “TEA PARTY” and parents are invited.  We will start in the Library Kiva with a short program and then move to our classroom for Lemonade and Cookies.  Please join us on Tuesday May 2oth at 1:15.

      Our class is going on a walking fieldtrip to the ART DYE Park on Tuesday May 27^th after the Talent Show. Approx. 10:45.  We will nr playing cooperation games, having lunch, and going on a Nature Scavenger Hunt.

      Our class will be having Banana Splits on Thursday May 29^th to celebrate passing off MATH FACTS. Mrs. Kitchen will supply the ice cream and bananas. We would appreciate any toppings, whip cream etc. that anyone would like to donate.

      We are still sharing Animal Reports.  The reports are wonderful. Thank you for helping you child do this report.

May 9th

Notes:  Remember April Reading Calendar. We finished our Rock Unit, Study of the Continents, Subtracting 3 Digits with Regrouping, and Measurement Units. We are reading novels in our Reading Groups and working on finding main ideas and supporting details in Whole Groups. 

      The 2^nd grade level talent show will be May 14^th at 10:15 in the lunchroom.  No one has turned in an entry form to me.  I know we have great talent in our class and I would love to see your child perform.

      Our class is having a “TEA PARTY” and parents are invited.  We will start in the Library Kiva with a short program and then move to our classroom for Lemonade and Cookies.  Please join us on Tuesday May 2oth at 1:15.

April 25th

We are almost finished with DRA testing and the students really did well. I was most impressed with their summaries and characterizations.  We finished our math unit on 3 digit addition with regrouping and will start on 3 digit subtraction with regrouping on Monday.  We finished our unit on weather and started to talk a little about rocks.  We stopped and made CHIA pets for a quick experiment on plants.  We took a quick visit to South America and saw some of the places we could visit there.

We are collecting a donation of $2.50 from each child to help pay for bright T-Shirts for the dance festival.

April 18

In your Monday folders you will get a copy of your child's Twisted Fairy Tale.  I stapled all the drafts that we made before we got our final copy. This was an assignment that took a lot of PERSERVENCE. 
We are going to start our final DRA test next week.  We did not quite finish our unit on weather so we will conitnue workig on it  next week.  In math we started our unit on adding 3 digit math problems with regrouping and the students are doing wonderful.
We colored matching easter eggs and we hid them on our Twisted Fairy Tales in the hall so children could find the matching egg.  We also played colored eggs.

April 4th

Have a great Spring Break