Meet a 2nd Grader: Jennifer

Jennifer was our Owl of the Week this week!

Jennifer describes herself as nice. She wants a horse, and dislikes spiders! She can't wait to go to Disney. Jennifer likes her mom, dad, movies, books, and TV.

Jennifer is a great friend and really loves to help others out.

She brought in a bunch of adorable pictures of her and her family and different vacations they went on! Also some of her very favorite toys.

Thanks for being the Owl of the Week, Jennifer!

100th day Reminder!

Hi there! 

A note was sent home Wednesday about the 100th Day of school on Monday! I can't even believe that it's already here and we are over half way done! We talkedtoday about what they are able to bring for the 100th day. If you have not seen the note I have attached a copy of it to this email for you to reference! I am excited to see what kinds of things we get in our room!

Thanks!

2^nd Grade Families,

On Monday, Jan. 26^th we will be celebrating our 100^th day of school! We will be completing all sorts of fun math activities on that day! We would love for you to do a super fun project with your family revolving around the number 100. We would like you to create something using 100 items, please be creative and have FUN. You could make something with 100 legos, a picture with 100 pieces of paper, use 100 pieces of pasta to make something cute, please look on the internet or pinterest for some great ideas!

We are also in need of some donations for our 100^th day snack mix. If you are able, please have your child bring in ONE SEALED bag of items as long as they are GELATIN FREE AND NUT FREE items! Some possible items are goldfish, cheeze-its, teddy grahams, animal crackers, different types of cereals, etc. Please let me know what you are bringing so we don’t have too much of the same snack!

I would also love for all of my friends to dress up like they are 100 years old on this day– so start thinking about your outfits! We are so excited to be 100 days smarter!

As always if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to let me know!

Thank you again for your continued support! J Ms. Schlegel

Meet a 2nd Grader: Kolton

Kolton was our Owl of the Week this week!

Kolton describes himself as nice! He wants a pet shark, he dislikes nothing, and he can't wait to go to the carnival.

His favorite things are motocross, super cross, sharks, snakes, and birds!

Kolton is a really great helper in the room and wants to know all he can about every subject!

He brought in a super cool transformer toy and a car that he built at home.

He brought in some pictures of him riding his dirt bike in competitions!

Thanks for being the Owl of the Week, Kolton!

Healthy Snack

Today we had Miss Alyssa come back to our room to teach us a little bit more about food groups and create a healthy snack! We had fun making Cheese Creatures with a cheese stick, pretzels, and raisins and talked about how it was from the dairy group, grains, and fruits!

Meet A 2nd Grader: Mark

Mark was our Owl of the Week last week!

Mark describes himself as smart! Mark wants an X-box 360, dislikes homework, and can't wait to ice skate.

His favorite things are his Wii, computer, brother, sister, mom, and dad.

Mark brought in two action figures that box each other. He said he loves to play it with his brother and lets him have red since it's his favorite color.

He also brought in some fun pictures of his family for us to see and even one of him swimming with a dolphin!

Thanks for being the Owl of the Week, Mark!

Nonfiction Writing

This week we got to start something fun in Writing! It's research writing! We spent some time looking through some nonfiction books about all different kinds of animals. We talked about what we were interested in, what animals we might want to know more about, and some of the things we learned about at our table groups.

We get to move into learning how to write a research report, what our steps are to set it up, and then move into picking our own animals and writing our own reports. I am super excited to get to do this and I think they are really excited to start something other than writing stories of their own!

Here's a couple pictures from our Book Pass activity where we learned a little about nonfiction and lots of different animals! We got realllllyyy excited and our room got very loud when we saw all of these amazing books about all of these animals!

Daily Class Goal!

If you are hearing your child talking about percentages, and have no idea what's going on! Let me tell you!

We use Class Dojo, as you know, for our behavior goals and rules in our room and school.

We have decided to do a Daily Class Goal regarding our positive percentage as a class. We review our percentage all day long, usually at transition times, so they can see how they are doing and how they can improve.

You can see percentages too! If you click on reports on your child's Dojo, you are able to see their individual percentage if you want to know what that is daily, weekly, monthly, or all time.
                **I am still unsure if you can see the entire class percentage as I do not have a student log in, but if you can, great! 

It's been super fun, they are learning tons about percentages, have figured out if they get negative points it hurts our class percentage, as well as the opposite, if everyone is getting positive points, it makes our percentage go way up! I think they are really enjoying it and are really motivated! Our highest was actually during the week before break and we got 90%! Our goal is 80% right now, and we have been at a consistent 73% - 75% so we are trying hard.

Now you know what they might be talking about with Daily Class Goals. It would be super fun if they had individual goals at home for their points or percentages as well!

Book Orders and Snowboots

Just a few things..

Book orders came home today in Wednesday folders! But there was not a due date on them. If you log into scholastic, our class code is MCN7Q and the due date for these orders is January 14th!

We try to go outside for recess every chance we get, but obviously that can't happen if it's freezing outside! But when we do go outside, I always tell the kids they have to have two pairs of shoes to be able to go into the snow.

That might mean a pair of snow boots and a pair of tennis shoes, or two pairs of tennis shoes, etc. I know not everyone has snow boots, but if they wear boots to school, and then wear those outside, when we come back in and sit on the rug then they are soaked, our carpet is soaked, and they are uncomfortable! So we just say bring two pairs of shoes!

If you have any questions, definitely let me know! Happy almost Friday!

Handwashing

Coming back from break we started our Nutrition unit! It started out with a lady coming from the University of Nebraska Extension Office to demonstrate handwashing. We got a special lotion to mimic fake germs and rubbed it all over our hands. Then we put our hands under a black light to see all the germs, washed properly, and saw how many germs were left and where we might have missed when washing!  

We get to keep learning about all kinds of different things dealing with Nutrition for the next couple of weeks! It's one of my favorite units to teach about because I learn just as much as the kids do!

Meet a 2nd Grader: Dominic

Dominic is the Owl of the Week this week.

Dominic's favorite things are hunting, xbox, and animals. If he could have one wish it would be to have a sperm whale and a giant squid. He wants a Wii and he can't wait to go hunting.

Dominic loves to learn about new things and always has information to share with the whole class!

He brought in two of his favorite books and something from Minecraft that he loves! He also brought in a bag and a ton of pictures of his trip to Disneyland and even one of him and Ms. Schlegel from a haunted house they saw each other at!

Thanks for being the Owl of the Week, Dominic!