6-10-22

 Weekly News for 2-P 6-10-22

*Our Beach Trip is next Tuesday - please check your child’s folder for a very important packing list on orange paper.  Please let me know if you are able to chaperone; we do need a few  more volunteers. 

Tuesday: Beach Day

Thursday: Field Day (AM) and Step Up Day (PM)

Friday:  Last Day - half day, dismissal at 12

*In math we continued to review important foundational skills, worked on multiplication and time/money.  Our ability to perform double digit addition and subtraction is improving so much! We worked on a fun Math Mystery toward the end of the week, solving math problems that unlocked riddles and clues to help us plug our way through a “Graduation Gremlins” puzzle. It was a fun change of pace and the kids loved being detectives.

*We completed our individual bird reports and drawings.Second graders have been doing other self-chosen writing projects (narrative, poetry, realistic fiction).  We have also been working on our memory books and writing letters to the third grade teachers.  

*Our spelling focus was homophones; words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings. We played a lot of games to practice these words.  We also worked on compound words in spelling (the last unit in the second grade program) and dividing syllables and identifying adverbs in grammar.

*We have enjoyed several Scholastic News issues this week on fun summer topics.  Mrs. Reny did a great summer lesson on water safety and sunscreen. We are starting to clear out our lockers and desks a bit at a time.

Bird illustrations

We are getting our portfolios ready to share with families!

Lots of hard work!

We proofread our bookmarks on Friday!

Mini investigations into topics that interested us on Pebble Go!

A successful math mystery concluded Friday!

We had to find the mystery hideout.

Each math review page revealed a clue....

The riddles helped us eliminate hideouts.

We are pros at riddles now!

We were proud to solve the mystery!

Beautiful weather for most of our recesses.

But we had a couple indoor ones!

School WOW popsicle/recess break!

Indoor recess fun with friends

Working on homophones with a review game!

Art Class on Monday!

Iris drawings

Writing letters to third grade teachers!