VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Sorry there is so much... Thank you for reading!

STL Field Trip

• Please return the lunch forms by Thursday (yellow piece of paper sent home today)
• If you have not already, please return the permission slips
• Please send in a PLAIN WHITE T-SHIRT by FRIDAY, March 24 (sorry for the typo on the letter)
• $2 T-shirts at Marshalls OR "Super Cheap" at Jo-Anns
• Let me know if you cannot get one, I can grab one for you.
• As a heads up: personal technology will be allowed on the bus to STL. Please understand this is your child's responsibility and we are not liable for lost items. 

Service Learning

• Thank you for all the awesome support with our field trip and also our service learning. We are still looking for items for our silent auction baskets. We have gathered some really awesome donations so far, keep it coming! A letter will be going home in Friday Folders that can be used to ask businesses for donations. Remember, this is for an amazing cause and we are donating 100% of the funds raised directly to a corporation in Haiti that helps first-hand with relief efforts. If you have any unused items sitting around at home that you think would fit well in a basket, we would highly appreciate your donation.

Library Field Trip

• Please return the permission slip by FRIDAY
• Our trip is April 5th (Wednesday of the week we return from Spring Break)

Thank you all SO MUCH  for all you have done. These past few weeks have been hectic and I apologize for all the things we have asked you to do. Please let me know if you have any questions about any of this information. I will be happy to answer!

This week in 2nd grade... Theme, 3-digit +/-, Opinion Writing Wk 3, Culture/Communities

Upcoming Events

Monday, March 20: Spring Picture Day

March 27-31: Spring Break
Wednesday, April 5: Field Trip to Daniel Boone Library
Friday, April 7: Field Trip to STL Science Center

FIELD TRIP NEWS

We are so lucky to have an amazing opportunity to take a field trip to the St. Louis Science Center at the beginning of April. Our trip will be April 7th. 

PLEASE NOTE: There is a letter going home about bringing in a white t-shirt to tie-dye for our field trip the week after spring break. Please make sure you send in a plain white t-shirt by Friday, March 24!We will wear these the day of the Science Center field trip AND again in May for our Runge Trip!

SERVICE LEARNING NEWS

We are looking for items to put in baskets for our silent auction! Please email me if you have any questions!

One more week until Spring Break!

Reading

This week in reading we will be talking about the theme (the message) of a story. We will be examining various fiction text to try to find the theme, concluding with finding the theme of a book of our choice on Friday!

Math

This is our final week of 3-digit addition and subtraction. We have been working so hard on understanding how to add and subtract large numbers, as well as stack numbers to add and subtract! We will conclude this unit with a test on either Thursday or Friday (depending on how confident we feel come those days).

Writing

This week we will finish up publishing our first piece on the True Story of the Three Little Pigs vs. The Three Little Pigs. We've been working so hard on forming opinions and coming up with examples to support our opinions. On Wednesday, we will begin a new piece after reading 3 monter books and choosing our favorite, while defending our opinion. (We will be reading: "The Monstore", "I Need My Monster", and "The Monster's Monster")

Social Studies

We are continuing our study on cultures and communities. We will talk about needs vs. wants, traditions, and heirlooms this week while relating these topics to our own families.

This week in 2nd grade... Note Taking (NF), 3 Digit, Opinion Writing Wk 2

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, March 14: Math Night (6-7:30), come and go as you please

Thursday, March 16: Planetarium Field Trip

Monday, March 20: Spring Picture Day, more details coming soon

March 27-31: Spring Break

FIELD TRIP NEWS

We are so lucky to have an amazing opportunity to take a field trip to the St. Louis Science Center at the beginning of April. Our trip will be April 7th. 

SERVICE LEARNING NEWS

We are looking for items to put in baskets for our silent auction! Please email me if you have any questions!

Now onto our week..

Reading

Last week we took notes on fiction books using Venn Diagrams. This week, we will take notes on Non-Fiction books using a biography chart. We are going to practice taking notes while we are reading. We will use our biography chart/notes to write a short summary at the end of the week. 

Math

This week in math we will continue our work with 3-digit addition and subtraction. We are doing a great job tying what we know about 2-digit into our understanding of 3-digit. We are also learning how to stack and add numbers throughout this unit. 

Writing

We will continue with opinion writing this week and begin to draft our first piece. We have worked hard at planning and understanding how to back up our opinions with facts to convince our reader. This week we will continue to refine our opinion and work on being persuasive.

If you have any questions about field trips, service learning, or what we are learning in class, please let me know!

This week in 2nd grade... Note Taking, 3 Digit Addition/Subtraction, Opinion Writing Wk 1, Important Events

Hello All! This blog post has some important updates, please read all the way to the end. :)

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, March 7: Early Release, classes dismissed 2 hours early (12:45)

Thursday, March 9: TimberTonix Practice in Am

Thursday, March 9: Lego Club at 3:30

Thursday, March 9: Countdown to Kindergarten (4:30-6:30 PM)

Tuesday, March 14: Math Night (6-7:30), come and go as you please

Thursday, March 16: Planetarium Field Trip

Field Trip News

We are taking a trip to the planetarium at Rockbridge HS on March 16. Please return the permission slip as soon as possible. Due to lack of space, volunteers are not requested on this trip. 

We are so lucky to have an amazing opportunity to take a field trip to the St. Louis Science Center at the beginning of April. Our trip will be April 7th. A letter went home in Friday Folders last week detailing parts of the trip, and more information will come home as the trip comes closer. Please return the permission slip as soon as possible, and also feel free to mark that you will loan a cooler or volunteer your time to accompany us! Please know if you do accompany us, you will have to drive separately, and it is $10 to park. Thanks in advance!

Service Learning News

We are looking for items to put in baskets for our silent auction! Please see the note in your Friday Folder, or email me if you have any questions!

Math Night

Math Night will be March 14th. Please return the RSVP even if you do not want to buy pie. Please also know that pie is $3 if you purchase ahead of time and $4 at the door.

Now onto the learning...

Reading

This week we will focus on taking notes and using graphic organizers to understand what we have read. Our focus will be on Venn Diagrams. We will spend our week collecting information from a text (fiction) and using a graphic organizer to show our thinking.

Math

We will begin 3-digit addition and subtraction this week. After spending so long on 2-digit addition and subtraction, I don't foresee this unit being challenging at all. We are great critical math thinkers and I know we will be able to apply our learning from 2-digit to help us this month. This unit will continue through the end of March (tentatively) depending on our understanding!

Writing

This week we will begin our first opinion piece. We will spend a lot of the week understanding our organizer/planning sheet, and drafting will begin next week.  We will be looking at the story of the Three Little Pigs in comparison to the True Story of the Three Little Pigs, and picking our favorite book/sharing our opinion on which is better.