Highlights of the Week 2-4-16

Hello families,

This week we celebrated our 100th day of school! We made the exciting trade of all our coins for a giant magnetic dollar on our Penny-a-Day job board. We also traded our 10 groups of 10 for a 100 flat on our Counting the Days job board. Together we read a poem that had 100 words. In second grade math we also did some skip counting to and from 100 as well as a 100 Name Game.

We also did a very funny opinion writing connected to the number 100. We imagined what we would be like..."When I'm 100!" Students thought of what they might do, wear, and say when they are 100 years old. When we finished this writing we posted our opinion papers on our hallway bulletin boards. Check them out if you're ever in the building! Our skills in writing opinion papers have really been improving!

We had a variety of read aloud this week. We read Snowflake Bentley in connection to our 4 Winds about snowflakes. Ms. Israel came in for a special read aloud, Taking Diabetes to School, to help us learn about what diabetes is, what it means, and why some people need a special plan to stay healthy. (We also saw what really happens when someone gets their blood sugar tested.) Finally we began a new chapter book, The Magic School Bus: Voyage to the Volcano. This is in a chapter book series based on the picture books but written by different authors. We'll be reading this chapter book for a few weeks and connecting the story to our science study of landforms, bodies of water, and processes that shape the Earth.

Second grade mathematicians began a new unit on measurement. This week we focused on the Standard System of measurement (inches and feet). Some students are working on measuring with whole and half inches. Others are taking on a challenge and measuring with quarter and eighth inches!


Dates to Remember:
Friday February 5th -- Teacher Inservice -- NO SCHOOL for students
Thursday February 11th -- All School Meeting 2:30 p.m.
Monday February 15th -- Classroom Valentine's Day Celebration 11 - 11:30 a.m.
Monday Feb. 22nd - Tues. March 1st -- Winter Vacation - NO SCHOOL 
Wednesday March 2nd -- School resumes