Thursday, January 11, 2018

Classroom News ~ January 11, 2018


January 11th, 2018

Dear Parents,

Tomorrow, Friday January 12th is our annual Camas Ridge Dream March.  We will be marching with our Community Time classes. The assembly begins at 12:30 and the festivities should be over around 1:30. All families and siblings are welcome to come and march with us.  It is always a very exciting event.
This week we finally started construction of our Medieval Castles. Students are learning vocabulary words such as battlements, bailey, keep, tower, barbican, drawbridge, etc… It has been quite the engineering project to wrap up our historical study of ancient times. 
In math students continue to work on adding single and double-digit numbers.  We decompose the numbers so we can add in our minds using place value.  Our number talks are very exciting with many students very excited to share their thinking.  We completed our measurement unit and now our focus is relating addition to measurement using number lines.  This seems to be much more difficult as there are so many parts in each story problem to consider. 
In science we are beginning a new unit this term. Second grade students are going to explore solids and liquids.  We have some explosive experiments and some messy gak making coming up in the next few weeks. In addition we will continue our science notebook journaling. We will also be trading classes and learning from Mrs. Walker as well. It is certainly going to be a fun unit.
Next week we will do our second week of district testing in math and reading. This is a very low stress assessment and it gives students opportunities to show what they know!

Some dates to put on your calendar include:

NO SCHOOL Monday, January 15 ~ Martin Luther King Day
NO SCHOOL Friday, February 2 ~ Grading Day
NO SCHOOL Monday, February 10 ~ President’s Day
FEBRUARY 14th ~ Valentine’s Celebration
NO SCHOOL Friday, March 9 ~ Professional Development
NO SCHOOL March 26-30 ~ Spring Break

If you are looking for a way to help our class we need the following:
***A Friday Library Volunteer… We attend library every Friday, 10:45 – 11:15. If you can be at school to help us find and check out books, we would be very grateful!
***A Reading Volunteer … Tuesday and Friday… It could be first thing in the morning directly after drop off.
*** Class Snack   ~ Thank you to all who have donated so far this year
*** A Valentine Party Coordinator

Finally, in Friday folders I have our first book orders of the New Year. Please order online before February 1. My Scholastic classroom code is 149VD.  Your purchases help our classroom earn free books.  We are readers and new books are always exciting!
I’m sure I have forgotten something in this newsletter, but that only gives me reason to write to you again very soon.  Happy New Year everyone!  Thank you for all you do to support our class and your child.

~Donna, 2nd Grade Teacher

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