We have made it the final stretch of the year! The next two weeks will be all about fun with some learning mixed in!
Thank you so much for the donations to make the theme days happen! There are only a few more slots left! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4EA9A82FAAFC1-endofyear Let me know if you have any questions! Theme Days: Monday -May 13- Ice Cream Day Tuesday- May 14- Beach Day- bring beach towel, sunscreen Wednesday- May 15- Popcorn Day- I will be at school but in a training. Thursday- May 16- Bubbles and board games- bring board games Friday- Field Day Monday- May 20- Cupcake Day Tuesday- May 21- Watermelon Day Note from the School Clinic: All medication left in the clinic after school dismisses on May 23, 2019 will be disposed of. Please pick up your child’s medication! Have a great weekend! Mrs. Flaherty
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It is so hard to believe the year is coming to an end! I truly have loved working with each and every student! I am so proud of their academic growth this year! Such an amazing group of students! Note from the School Clinic: All medication left in the clinic after school dismisses on May 23, 2019 will be disposed of. Please pick up your child’s medication! End of Year Theme Days! I have LOVED spending the year with this amazing group of students! I would like to spend the last two weeks enjoying theme days with them. To make this happen I need a little help. I have created this sign up to make this happen! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4EA9A82FAAFC1-endofyear Please bring materials by May 10 unless you sign up for cupcakes or watermelon. Let me know if you have any questions! Theme Days: Monday -May 13- Ice Cream Day Tuesday- May 14- Beach Day- bring beach towel, sunscreen Wednesday- May 15- Popcorn Day Thursday- May 16- Bubbles and board games- bring board games Friday- Field Day Monday- May 20- Cupcake Day Tuesday- May 21- Watermelon Day Reading: We will be reviewing this Friday and Monday. We will test on Tuesday about character traits and changes! Students then will get to pick there own book clubs! Writing: Next week we will write our final drafts letters recommending a book to another person! Students will also bring home written book recommendations we did this week! So impressed! Science This week, we started Forces and Motion. We have learned a lot of vocabulary that goes into these concepts. We have learned about momentum, force, motion, pull, push, gravity, G-Force, and so much more. We will be learning about roller coasters through our force and motion unit! Math: Test is moved to Thursday! Study guide will go home on Monday! Examples and standards that will be tested will be on the study guide. We will review all week! Spring showcase is May 14 from 5 -7:30! Thank you for a WONDERFUL year! Mrs. Flaherty Writing: This week we published a letter to the readers in our room. Each student choose a book to write a persuasive letter encouraging others their book choice! Next week, we will be writing letters to you! Finals drafts will be sent home once completed. The final draft will count as a test grade. Reading: Book clubs have been going great! Each student has been working with other students to determine character traits and how a character changes during a story. On Tuesday, we will take a quiz identifying character traits. Phonics: we have been reviewing skills we have learned daily. Science: We have been taking care of the plants we planted daily. This week was also spent creating life cycle game boards. They are AMAZING! You will get to check them out at Spring Showcase! Next week, we will start our forces of motion unit. Math- 3.1- This week we continued learning different strategies and practicing word problems. We have also practiced how the write equations and determine variables. QUIZ- Tuesday, 4-30 over word problem and variables Test May 10 Next week we will start exploring area of a shape. 3.2- This week we practiced measuring elapsed time. I have shown students several strategies to use to find elapsed time. QUIZ- Tuesday 4-10 over elapsed time TEST May 10 Next week we will explore volume. Have a great weekend! May 17: Field Day May 20: Rain Day Makeup for Field Day May 22: Class Party May 23: Movie Day/Last day of School Writing: We are writing letters. We are getting the chance to write letters to our loved ones or someone we care about. We are getting the chance to tell someone about a book character we love. Stay tuned for some amazing letters. They don't know this yet, but they will be mailing one of these letters out to someone, therefore if your student is writing to someone they might come home and ask for their address. All I ask is that you write that down in their agenda so they can have it when they come home next week asking for this information on Wednesday. Reading: We are reading about character changes across a series. Your student is reading a 'just-right' book on a book character with at least 4-6 peers. Then at the end of reading each day, they discuss what they know and notice about their characters. Science: Last week, we got the chance to get our hands dirty and plant seeds. The students will be watching these seeds and planters grow! We are in full swing with our Life cycles projects. We will creating games over Life cycles and these games will be available to play at the Spring Showcase. So come and play your students games as well as a few more surprises. Math: New units started! ADV: we are working on two step word problems. First identifying the key words and then determining how to solve! ACC: we are going on elapsed time! Thank you! Mrs. Flaherty Important Events: 4/14-5/10: Milestones Testing (3rd-5th) 4/23: Brain Building Day 5/14: Spring Showcase 5/17: Field Day Reading: We have been focusing on characters in our book series. Students are separated due to their reading level and placed in a character bin. We have bins such as Junie B Jones, Mercy Watson, Gernimo Stilton, and etc. We will discussing character changes throughout the book and series as well. Writing: We started working on opinion letters. They are writing letters to the class about main characters. Student are using text evidence to support their opinions. Science: We are spending the next two(ish) weeks working on a science project. They will be taking all the knowledge they've gained of Life cycles and create a board game for you, the parents, to play! These games will be available to you on Spring Showcase night to play as well as another project. MATH: ADV- TEST MONDAY- study guide went home Wednesday ACC- TEST MONDAY- study guide went home Wednesday Students will take the pre-assessment for the next unit on Tuesday and then Wendesday will start our last unit of the year! Welcome back! Hope you had a great Spring Break! Important Dates: 4/14-5/10: Milestones Testing (3rd-5th) 5/14: Spring Showcase 5/17: Field Day Science: We will be continuing to talk about life cycles. The week after break we will be creating games using our life cycle knowledge. They will have these games out and around during our Spring Showcase in May. Writing: We will be starting a brand new unit. We will be focused on persuasive letters. Across the first section, they will be drafting letters about the characters they've met in fictional books, formulating opinions and supporting their ideas, providing reasons, and using their details and examples from the text to support their claims. Reading: We will also be starting a brand new unit. We will be focused on reading across a series of books covering the same characters. Students will begin reading a series with their reading partners, collecting information about the stars of their books (main characters). Math 3.1- We will use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems. (3OA3) 3.2- After break we will generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers with halves and fourths of an inch. Students will show the data by making a line plot. (3MD 4) Test on Monday 4/15/19. Study guide will go home on Wednesday! Thank you, Mrs. Flaherty aThe Field Trip is this Tuesday, 3/26.
If you would like to pack your student a lunch for the day, Please place this in brown paper bag with their name or a Ziploc bag with their name and a disposable drink. We will be throwing away all trash at the site and will not be carrying any lunch boxes, drinks or food back on the bus with us. Our wonderful media center will be graciously hosting a FREE author visit on 3/29. Sherry Crelin (her granddaughter is in Mrs. Ison’s class) for Friday, 3/29 at 9:30 a.m. and may go until 10:20 a.m. Her book is: “My Chickens Lay Eggs” and is about raising chickens in their backyard. She will read the story; discuss the writing process; important things to include in writing a story (perspective, topic, audience, characters, place, time, etc). She will give each student a handout so they can create their own story. She’ll be bringing a chicken! The students are going to be so excited, especially after the field trip. Important Events: 3/25-3/29: Finishing up Reading and Writing Unit 3/26: Field Trip (Wear a blue shirt) 3/29: Author Visit 4/1-4/5: Spring Break! Reading: We will be finishing up our reading units on Non-Fiction book clubs. We will be reviewing Monday-Wednesday. To practice at home, have your student read an informational book and have them explain to you: - Does the author try to persuade you in any way? How? -What new information did you learn? How can you apply this information to an issue or problem in today's world? -Were there any photographs, illustrations, charts, graphs, or diagrams that were important? Explain why you believe they were important. -As you read, what did you learn that you did not know before? What surprised you? Explain why it surprised you? **Test on Thursday** Writing: We will be starting writing more non-fiction and describing experiments and new information in new ways. The students picked a topic they knew a lot about and have been focusing on how to explain that topic. Science: We will be starting discussing Life cycles. We will be focused on different types of Life cycles. We will discuss dogs/cats, frogs, butterflies, plants, and chickens. We will also be creating projects after the break to show at Spring Showcase in May! Sta Math 3.1- quiz on Thursday- The quiz will be over multiplying and dividing. (3.O.A.1 and 3.O.A. 2) We will review all week. Students may use strategies taught in class to help them: arrays, number line, and grouping. 3.2- quiz on Thursday- fractions- we will review this week. Student will have to identify correct equivalent fractions and place fractions on a number line. Have a wonderful week! Mrs. Flaherty Upcoming Dates:
3/19: Brain Building Day 3/21: Report Cards go home 3/25-3/29: Finishing up Reading and Writing Unit 3/26: Field Trip (Wear Blue shirts) 4/1-4/5: Spring Break! (Mrs. Flaherty's birthday) Reading: This week students create informational posters to teach other students about their non-fiction books. On Friday we did a gallery walk to show off the wonderful work they did! Writing: This week students built catapults and did trails. Students then had to write up a lab report to go with the experiment. Next week, students will develop their own experiment and reports. Science: We will be starting discussing Life cycles. We will be focused on different types of Life cycles. We will discuss dogs/cats, frogs, butterflies, plants, and chickens. We will also be creating projects after the break to show at Spring Showcase in May! Stay tuned. Math: 3.1- We will continue working on interpreting whole number quotients of whole numbers EX 56 divided by 8 3.2- We will continue working on equivalent fractions. Thank you, Mrs. Flaherty Field Trip on 3/26, Form due 3/13!
On Thursday, I sent a lot of important documents to see and sign and return. On 3/26, we will have a field trip to Warbington Farms! We will be starting Life cycles unit discussing the different life cycles of different creatures. Some of these creatures are frogs, butterflies, plants, etc. We will spend the whole day at Warbington. We will be leaving promptly at 7:45 so please make sure you have your student here on time that day for school. Also if you have purchased a blue field trip shirt, please put that t-shirt on your student. If you do not have that shirt, please place them in a blue t-shirt so we can see all of 2nd grade across multiple students and areas. If you would like to pack your student a lunch for the day, please place this in brown paper bag with their name or a Ziploc bag with their name and a disposable drink. We will be throwing away all trash at the site and will not be carrying any lunch boxes, drinks or food back on the bus with us. Upcoming Dates: 3/12: Kindergarten Round Up 3/13: Video Permission Form for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 3:13: Field Trip Permission Form 3/15: Shamrockin' Shindig 3/25-3/29: Finishing up Reading and Writing Unit 3/26: Field Trip Reading: We have been reading our non-fiction books in our book clubs. This week we will be changing up our book clubs and learning about a new topic and learn new information. Ask your students what topic they are an expert in! Writing: We have gone a step further into lab reports. We changing one things from our teacher led experiment and then tested that experiment. Social Studies: We finished up our last important people to Georgia, Juliette Gordon Low and Jimmy Carter. We will be starting a week long health unit next week. **WE WILL NOT HAVE A TEST!** Health: We will be starting a new unit in Health over nutrition and healthy eating habits. We will be learning about a balanced plate, as well as eating a rainbow (meaning eating all the colors of the rainbow at least once per day) Math 3.1- We will be starting a new unit this week. We will begin by looking at equations and arrays. 3.2 We will be starting a new unit this week. The focus will continue to be fractions. We will practice placing fractions on number lines and equivalent fractions. Thank you! Mrs. Flaherty Reading
This week we continued to read in our non-fiction book club groups. Each club got to pick there topic and create KWL charts. The students then shared their learning with their club. We also worked on different skills to help us understand tricky parts of non-fiction reading. We will continue this work next week. Writing Writing like scientist is the focus of this unit. Each group is developing a question and hypothesis to test in class. Students have to write out the materials needed and procedures before conducting the trails. Students will complete the trails and write up their results and summary next week. Phonics- next week we will review red words - no quiz Social studies- This week we continued to read and complete activities about Jimmy Carter. We also started to learn about Juliette Gordon Low. Math- 3.1 TEST on Wednesday - place value, adding and subtracting up to 1000 and graphing- study guide went home Thursday 3.2 TEST on Wednesday - shapes and attributes, partitioning into equal parts, finding the perimeter, and measuring to the nearest quarter inch. Have a great weekend! Mrs, Flaherty |
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