First Week

Whew! What a whirlwind of a week last week! I feel like it just flew by and we got so much done!

We spent the week getting to know each other with some ice breaker games, learning about our behavior plan BIST, and jumping right into curriculum in math, literacy, AND writing! We are already moving right along!

A couple things to let you know...

• If you haven't signed up for Class Dojo yet, please head over and do that! An account code came home in your child's Wednesday folder. If you need another, please let me know and I will get that sent home. We use Class Dojo for EVERYTHING all day long and I am able to send you messages through the app so it is very convenient!
• If you are unable to log into your student account, let me know and I will resend a code. It looks like there was a glitch and they had to reissue codes to some students so I'd be happy to print one for you! 
• We took a spelling pre test today and your child should have brought home either a yellow, green, or blue list. These are the words they will practice all week long to take a post test on Friday. In their homework folders are some suggested ideas to do at home to practice spelling words. You DO NOT have to do the spelling words every single day! Just a couple days a week will be great. Eventually we will be practicing them throughout our school day as well.
• Please check your students Wednesday folder every week as they are full of important information about Meadow Lane and our classroom! 
• 2nd Graders will have homework pretty close to every day for the school year! This homework needs to be done and returned to school every school day! 
• We do a math workbook page during math every lesson. This workbook page is either done as a group, with a small group, or individually and it is sent home most days as we go over the answers. These workbook pages can be recycled or kept, they do not need to be returned to school! 

Please let me know if you have any questions at all at any time! I will try to get back to you as soon as possible! I hope your child loves school and is as tired as I am at the end of every day! :)

The First Week of 2nd Grade

We had a great first week of school in 2nd grade! We jumped right into learning and spent quite a bit of time learning about our behavior plan and the rules of our school! 

We started our days in the library with the rest of 2nd grade to learn about BIST! Ask your child a few things about this behavior plan. 

Our two Bottom Line rules are:

• It is never okay to be hurtful
• It is never okay to be disruptive

We also use three goals for our life that we use every day in school. These rules are:

• I can take good care of myself, even if I am mad.
• I can be productive and follow directions even if I don't want to. 
• I can be okay, even when others are not okay.

These 3 rules we talk about every single day and if there is a problem, we talk about which rule it was that we had a hard time with. We also practiced how to calmly go to the safe seat in order to remove us from the situation and think about what we need to work on. 

We did lots of review work in our classroom!

We did a collaborative learning activity where students in our classroom had to Find A Friend that had done something to fill in a box on their paper. This was a great way to get to learn a little bit about our classmates and work together!

We also got to visit the library and go on a hunt with Mrs. Schwindt! Our library time will be 1:00pm every Wednesday. Second Graders are allowed to check out 2 books, but only if they bring their books back from the previous week!

We ended our week with our all school assembly to learn a little bit about Meadow Lane and about all of the teachers in our building!

We are so ready for this week to be a great one!