Classroom News March 1st, 2018

Dear Families,
Welcome to March! Tomorrow is an especially fun day. Tomorrow we celebrate Read Across America. All students are welcome to dress up as a book character tomorrow.  Along with that we will be having our Seuss Extravaganza for K-3rd grade.  Students are welcome to visit classrooms for Seuss Activities.  In addition to this, 2nd graders have been working hard on their 'Silly Seuss News' website,  You can visit our website at
https://camaskids.weebly.com/seuss-news.html
In other news we have moved on from Medieval Times. We are now diving into learning about Ancient Egypt. We will be exploring topics such as Mummies, Pyramids, The Nile River, Hieroglyphics, and much more.  It is certainly an exciting time to be in second grade. 
Thank you to all the families who sent in amazing 100's day collections.  Rest assured, if you were unable to come up with a collection idea for your child, we took care of them at school so EVERYONE had a hundred's collection to display. 
If you turned in your sock hop money thank you very much. If not there is still time. We are over half way to our goal. The money raised does a lot to keep art and projects alive in our building.
Thank you all for your support. Each of you are appreciated!


~Donna

Create a Castle

DVD's 2nd grade class wrapped up our Medieval unit by constructing castles.  We wrote reports about our creations and we presented our reports & castles to 4 other classes. We learned a lot about Medieval life long ago. 

Our 2nd grade class wrapped up our Medieval unit by constructing castles.  We wrote reports about our creations and this week we presented our speeches and castles to 4 other classes. We learned a lot about life long ago.

Classroom News ~ January 11, 2018

January 11^th, 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 14^th ~ 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, 2^nd Grade Teacher