Weekly News 5-29-26

 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. 

Dance Party (with a couple of big brothers!)

School wide dance party Friday afternoon!

Working on a realistic toucan drawing

Working on final drafts of reports

Note catchers for research

Chewonki brought lots of artifacts for us to explore

We met Haven, the saw-whet owl.

And Loona, a barred owl.

We got to look up close at Haven.

Exploring wings, talons and feathers