This week in 2nd grade... point of view, time, poetry

Hello all! The countdown is on until 3rd grade in Room 335! I still say every day, I am blown away by the fact this year is almost over! We have some awesome things happening this week!

Upcoming Events

Monday, May 1: Monday Meeting in Gym

Friday, May 5: Runge/Central Dairy Field Trip (see below)

Friday, May 5: 3rd Grade Fun Run

Tuesday, May 9: Gentry Choir Performance

Runge Field Trip

We are super excited to take a trip to Runge this Friday! This will be an all day field trip, with us leaving when school starts and returning around 2:15. We will be spending our morning at Runge, eating lunch, then heading over to Central Dairy (a Ms. Lister FAVE) for a sweet treat!

Our class is currently short-handed on volunteers for this trip. If you are able to volunteer your time, even just the morning (until around 12/12:30) please let me know. 

3rd Grade Fun Run

There is still time to attend the fun run on Friday! The cost will be $5 at the "door" and the course will go through the Thornbrook subdivision. This is 3rd grade's service learning project. They are raising money for Make A Wish!

Our week this week...

Point of View

To go along with our poetry unit, we will be focusing on Point of View during our shared reading time this week. We will be working hard to identify what point of view a story is being told from, and using that knowledge to help us write point of view stories and poems.

Time

Our time unit will finish up this week. I encourage you to work with your student at home on telling time (to the 5 minute). We are great at identifying the time, but also working on terms such as "quarter till, half past, quarter after" and "_____ minutes before/after ___ o'clock" and seem to be struggling to understand the terms and their use. We will continue to work on telling time and identifying time in those terms in class as well!

Poetry

We are working on poetry in writing after finishing up our opinion unit. We are creating poetry books that will be published and sent home before the end of the year! It has been awesome, even just in the two days we've been doing poetry, to see how creative these kids can be! They are such amazing writers and SO incredibly creative. I cannot wait to see the poems they create this week :).

That's all for this week! If you have any questions, email me at klister@cpsk12.org or on Remind! Again, if you are able to volunteer Friday, it would be greatly appreciated!

Here are some photos from last week!