A couple things...

A couple things...

- PICTURE DAY is tomorrow! You are able to place your order online or send in the order form by tomorrow morning. We will be taking pictures at 10am

- LIBRARY DAY is also tomorrow. Please remember to bring your books back so you can get some new ones!

- The way our curriculum works is that we teach for 5 weeks and take weekly comprehension tests. The 6th week is our assessment week and we take a booklet test over all of the things we have learned the past 5 weeks for Unit 1. This assessment week is NEXT WEEK! That means we will not have spelling this week, so they will not be bringing home a spelling list to practice.

- In two weeks, spelling will continue as normal! Words will be counted wrong starting in Unit 2 when we see reversals or capital letters where they do not need to be capital. This will be very difficult for some of our students so while you are practicing spelling words please give reminders on this!

- Our math test is also tomorrow! We don't have homework on math test days so there will be no homework tomorrow!

- Positive Pennies is also going on right now and we are raising money for Matt Talbot Kitchen, so you can send your spare change to school if you want to participate!

LOTS of updates right now. If there are any questions at all, please let me know and I will be glad to give you more information!

Butterflies have hatched!

We've been patiently watching our chrysalis to watch when they turn into butterflies! We got to let them go! Unfortunately, it was so windy this year that when Ms. Schlegel got them out, the wind just took them right away instead of letting them hang out on our fingers like they usually do!

Chrysalis!

A couple weeks ago our caterpillars turned into chrysalis. It was super fun to watch them wiggle all over and shed their skin which we know is called - molting! We pinned them up in our butterfly pavilion to watch them grow into butterflies!

100 Club!

These kids are the winners of eating lunch in the classroom for the month of August! We had so many students doing amazing things and earning 100 points that we had to decide we were only going to do it once a month for all winners at the same time! More fun that way anyway :)

If your child gets to 100 points, make sure you congratulate them! The last school day of September will be our lunch in the classroom day for all students making it to 100 points during the month of September!

Butterflies are HERE!

Your 2nd Grader may have told you one of the things they are the most excited about in 2nd grade. They have probably heard from other people that we get to do butterflies and they are finally here!

We set our caterpillars into their little cups with their food and the lids covered in gauze so they could attach to them. We already have some changing into chrysalis!

You will hear SO many things about butterfly activity in our room!

Here's a few pictures to see what's going on!

Class Dojo Prize

A lot of parents have been asking about the prizes students are able to earn with their Class Dojo points. I am posting it here so you are able to see it anytime you want! We are LOVING Class Dojo!

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! :)