More Butterflies :)

Ms. Schlegel is doing a little blog catch up today! Here are a few pictures from when we found out that our butterflies had come out of the chrysalis! We were so excited when we came into the room!

 We did a fun, simple butterfly craft where all of the butterflies stages of life was on one paper! I hope your child showed you all 4 and how to make them on their strip of paper!

Guess what?!

WE HAVE BUTTERFLIES!! :)

When I came in this morning, I had forgotten about the butterflies in their chrysalis when Mrs. Hankins asked me if I had any butterflies come out. I was so excited to go check and when I walked over there we have a couple flying around our butterfly net!

We will wait until all of our butterflies come out and then we will release them into our Meadow Lane courtyard!

Butterfly Progress!

We got some more caterpillars at the start of this week so each child had a job in preparing them for the jars! We found out that they were really hard to pick up with the brush and get them in the jar!

We have the start of some chrysalis! Some of our caterpillars have started their third stage of life and are starting to make their chrysalis. We transferred them to our butterfly net this morning and will patiently wait for our next step! We think this is the coolest thing!!!

Spelling FAQ

The students have had lots of questions about spelling and I figured it would be a great idea to answer all of them in one place!

• Spelling Pretests are given right away Monday morning
• There are 15 words on the list and we go over them together. The students check their own paper
• Depending on how many words the student got right, they are given a new list to practice for the week. Your list may not look the same every week! 
• In their green homework folder, there is some suggested spelling homework for the week. This is not required and you do not have to return it to school (although you can) but it is recommended to help them practice their words all week!
• We practice the spelling words during our Workstation time every day, but the majority of spelling practice is done at home. You can find lots of ideas on how to practice spelling words online!
• Spelling Post Test is done right away on Friday mornings

Hopefully that clears up some of the questions you may be having at home about Spelling! 2nd grade learns so many words a week including vocabulary words, high frequency words, words in their stories, as well as their spelling words, so it is important to practice these at home!

Feel free to contact me for any more questions you may have!

Caterpillars!

Last week we got to start on our first unit...Butterflies! We received the caterpillars and we joined Mrs. Hankins class to learn how to put the food in the containers, press it down, add the caterpillar, and put gauze over the top in order for them to live and grow.

It was super fun to watch and learn about these little caterpillars and what they will soon turn in to!

When I got here this morning, this is how much our caterpillars have grown! The kiddos are going to be SO excited!

**Ms. Schlegel was losing her mind Friday, and forgot to send home the completed spelling test! We all did great and all the hard work over the week paid off! Those will be coming home today along with a new list for this week! Keep working hard on those words! :)

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!