We had the best time with Beth and Curtis on Friday. We learned all about different animal teeth and how inspecting them can tell you if they are a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore. We also made tooth fossils!
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| Checking out the skulls with Curtis |
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| Beth showing us artifacts |
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| Measuring the size of a megaladon! |
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| Making our shark tooth fossils |
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| Describing the characteristics of a mystery tooth |
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Weekly News for 2-P 6-12-26
6/15- 2nd Grade Bird Showcase 12:15-1:30
6/16 Reid State Park Day for grades 1 and 2
6/17 - Field Day!
6/17 - K-7 Step Up Day (p.m.)
6/18 - Last Day of School for WCS K-8 Students (Dismissal at Noon))
*Next Thursday, students will have a ziploc bag with report cards, their memory book, their bird bookmarks, and the summer work packet - this can be returned for a prize in the fall. Keep an eye out for this! Tonight they have portfolios and UFLI folders.
*This week we solved a math mystery, “The Case of the Graduation Gremlins.” This involved creating fun detective names, solving lots of review math problems, and using codes to discover clues and riddles. We had a great time eliminating “suspects” to find the culprit. Kids loved this so much we started a new one on Thursday, “The Case of the Jungle Joker.”
*We continued individual choice writing projects (poem anthologies, fiction, research books), wrote thank yous to special teachers at school, practiced contractions and celebrated all of our summer birthdays!
*In phonics we did lots of review work with these tougher new patterns. Students will soon bring home their black UFLI folders. These stories make for great summer reading practice and the roll and reads provide great spelling practice.
*We got to see the 4th Grade Famous Mainers Wax Museum this week and will visit the 6th Grade Ancient Civilizations Museum next week. We had an amazing visit with Beth and Curtis of Go2 Science on Friday.
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| We made shrinky dinks in art! |
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| Playing a silly game! |
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| Listening at the Wax Museum! |
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| Mrs. Eckert brought us popsicles for the summer birthdays! |
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| We are having fun being math detectives! |
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Weekly News for 2-P 6-5-26
6/11 Go 2 Science’s Beth and Curtis visit!
6/15- 2nd Grade Bird Showcase 12:15-1:30
6/16 Reid State Park Day for grades 1 and 2
6/17 - Field Day!
6/17 - K-7 Step Up Day (p.m.)
6/18 - Last Day of School for WCS K-8 Students (Dismissal at Noon))
**In math this week we did a ton of review work, focusing largely on 3 digit addition and subtraction, telling time, counting money and bills, refining our 3D shape and partitioning knowledge and solving problems. We are working our way through the year-end test as well.
*Students completed their research on a bird of their choice. They wrote a report from their notes, practiced drawing realistic pictures of their bird and typed their own report in Google Docs. I will now turn these into bookmarks! In writing, we have also been working on our memory books, writing letters to the third grade teachers and completing the year-end writing prompt.
*In reading workshop we have been doing a variety of comprehension work with Scholastic News, short passages and fiction texts. Some of the skills we have been refining are identifying the main idea and supporting details, making inferences, and answering questions about characters or factual information.
*In phonics we worked on the suffixes -ible and -able and the prefixes uni, bi, tri. We also reviewed doubling rules when adding suffixes and when to drop the final e and how to spell words with -sion and -tion endings.
*We will start to clear out our lockers and desks a bit at a time. If you can send a plastic bag or a recyclable grocery bag next week, it will help your child carry some extra items home so there is not a huge load on the last day.
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| Proofreading our bird bookmarks to give Mrs. Pols any changes to do this weekend before she prints them! |
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| Writing Projects on Friday |
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| Kids got to choose from several different writing projects; nonfiction, fiction, poetry books! |
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| Free Choice Friday Fun! |
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| Scooter time in PE! |
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| Researching countries |
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| Careful drawing for the bird project |
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| We used our drawing guides to help us be accurate. |
Weekly News for 2-P 5-29-26
6/1 - Run Club Race 3:30 pm
6/11 Go 2 Science’s Beth and Curtis visit!
6/15- 2nd Grade Bird Showcase 12:15-1:30
6/16 Reid State Park Day for grades 1 and 2
6/17 - Field Day!
6/17 - K-7 Step Up Day (p.m.)
6/18 - Last Day of School for WCS K-8 Students (Dismissal at Noon))
*In math we worked on partitioning shapes into equal shares (halves, thirds and fourths) and completed the unit 12 test. We will be doing lots of review work with essential concepts from here on out and will take the end of the year test as well.
*I am doing year-end reading assessments with students who hadn’t already met the benchmark - it is amazing to see so much growth! We are also completing year-end phonics/spelling assessments and I will pass this detailed information onto the third grade teachers.
*On Tuesday, we completed our loon projects. This time our project was a poster and students created nonfiction “cutaways,” with facts and quality illustrations. We added a big loon drawing to our poster. Second graders are proud of their high quality projects! They are pulling so many big skills together in these projects. Now we are working on our last research project - an individual bird research project! Students chose and researched a bird of their choice. They wrote a report from their notes, and next week will continue to practice drawing realistic pictures of their bird. They will also type their own report in Google Docs. I will turn these into bookmarks. You will be amazed by all their projects. We are fortunate to have the tools to do research online (Pebble Go), as well as many nonfiction books from Ms. Luchies. These projects will be on display at our Bird Showcase on June 15th from 12:15 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.
*Our phonics focus was suffixes (-ment and -ible and -able). We did more work on synonyms and antonyms as well, and also practiced writing “shining sentences” by adding predicate expanders that give more detail.
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| Dance Party (with a couple of big brothers!) |
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| School wide dance party Friday afternoon! |
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| Working on a realistic toucan drawing |
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| Working on final drafts of reports |
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| Note catchers for research |
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| Chewonki brought lots of artifacts for us to explore |
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| We met Haven, the saw-whet owl. |
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| And Loona, a barred owl. |
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| We got to look up close at Haven. |
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| Exploring wings, talons and feathers |
