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!

Happy 2nd Semester!

Welcome back to 2nd Semester of 2nd grade! So hard to believe that we are already halfway done! It has flown by!!

I managed to take almost zero pictures of all of the holiday and winter stuff we did before break, but here are a few random ones to share!

I hope everyone's break was fantastic! I know it was MUCH needed. I am excited to be back and for all of the fun things we have coming up!

We are jumping right back into all of our curriculum. Starting with nutrition, finishing up time with a math test at the end of this week, and starting a new unit in Literacy! We get to have a ton of fun with research writing during our writing time as well. We are all excited!

Spelling this week is TOUGH! It is on silent letters. The pre test was pretty difficult, so don't be worried when you see your child's score. We will work on these silent letters all week long in literacy, phonics, and during guided reading time. But keep practicing at home other wise this weeks test will be a hard one! 

As always, if you have any questions about anything, feel free to contact me!

Happy Monday! 

St. Patricks Day & Parent Reader

With St. Patricks Day being the Monday after Spring Break, it snuck up on us fast! We made some hats to wear during the day and did a writing activity about the six things we would wish for if a leprechaun gave us a rainbow of wishes! We used our brains to really figure out how to spell the things we were wishing for by sound spelling them out!

We also had a parent reader on Monday! Ethan's mom came in to read to our class and bring Ethan's treats for his birthday that he had over Spring Break! She read us a Dr. Seuss book, an alien one, and a Bad Kitty book, which we always love! Thanks for coming to read to us!

Just a few things...

Hi there!

I sent an email this morning about a book order. If you didn't get it, can you email me back with your currect email address so I can make sure I have it updated! Some of them came back undelivered! Thanks! (The email I sent is below if you are worried about not receiving it!)

Yesterday a book order was sent home with your child! If you have any interest in ordering anything from this book order, you can send it back with the order form filled out and checks made payable to Scholastic Reading Club (Please no cash!) These are due back by September 13th. If you would rather order online, you can go to this link https://orders.scholastic.com/MCN7Q and place your order through our classroom Scholastic website!

Scholastic has so many great offers on not only books, but also on items for our classroom. We get all kinds of special things when certain books are ordered so if there are any you have been searching for, take a look in the book order! Let me know if you have any questions!

Your kindergarteners are adjusting great to school! We have jumped right into every thing and they are loving it! More recently we have started Writers Workshop. This is a time when children have some time to write stories from their lives. If anything happens in the evenings, over the weekend, or with your family, remind your child that that would be a great story to write about in Writers Workshop! This helps them make the connection with things that happen outside of school! Here's some of the children doing their work during writing!

Our first homework assignment also went home today! They should've come home with a red homework folder. Please assist your child with the homework (they need to be the ones to complete it, but will need help with the words and procedures these first few times), and then send back the completed paper in the homework folder! We will not have homework every day, but when their red folder is in their backpack, they need to be sure to return their homework the next day! We have a special prize for returning homework without missing an assignment!

Have a happy weekend! :)