4/7/2023 0 Comments Changes Are ComingHello Families,
This week we have had to opportunity to have Mrs. Carl with us for the entire week. Mrs. Carl will be stepping in as classroom teacher once I go out on my impending maternity leave. This will be tremendously helpful with the transition. Mrs. Carl is getting the chance to see and learn our classroom routines and procedures, she is learning the language that I use with students, and most importantly she is getting to know all of the children. Our hope is that this will make this upcoming change as smooth as possible. She will be ready to jump right in if I end up having to leave before my expected date. Last week, we celebrated our hard poetry work at our March All School Meeting. Our class taught the school about conversation poems, and we had a few students share their pieces. Next week, we will be wrapping up our poetry unit as we prepare to have another writing celebration. We will be setting up a poetry gallery in the hallway, and all of the second graders will have a chance to enjoy the work from other classrooms. During readers' workshop we have been talking about literary language. We've been learning about how authors play with language, and what it means if we find it in our books. We will be moving toward setting up book series partners next. This will be where we work in our final reading units of the year. Science has been focused on animals. Today we listened to frog sounds, and we tried to decipher which species of frog we were hearing based on their unique sounds. We discussed why some lakes might have more species than other bodies of water. Next week we will be thinking about adaptations that certain animals have. In preparation for that we are asking for students look around at home for recycled materials that can be used for their building next week. Please see the letter below for more details: Hello 2nd Grade Families! For the final activity of our Mystery Science unit on Animal Biodiversity, the students get to design a creation to fit a certain animal adaptation. This activity needs a hefty supply of recycled materials for the students to build with. We are looking for items such as plastic bottles, applesauce or yogurt cups, skewers/toothpicks, paper towel/toilet paper rolls, paper plates or anything similar to those items would be perfect for this project. Please make sure all items are clean! We will be collecting these materials next week so that we are able to complete the activity by next Friday. Thanks for all your support! Reminder: If still have the report card envelope that was sent home last week, please return it signed to school. We will use these one more time for our final trimester. You can keep all of the papers that were included inside. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! -Hannah Duval
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