Symbaloo

The link below will take you to our class's Symbaloo Page. This is a page that I created that has all the links we utilize in class and might be helpful to have handy at home:

http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/secondgradewebsites7

For the reading section of the daily homework, your child is more than welcome to use any of the online reading resources our school has access to (Tumble Books, Achieve 3,000, We Give Books, etc.). Please make sure they are still filling out a written response to the story they have read.

Homework Passes

We are starting to have a few birthdays this year! When it is your child's birthday they will receive a homework pass. This pass can be used for one night's homework. They can choose any night they would like throughout the year to use their homework pass. Please staple the homework pass to the homework packet by Friday of the week they choose. If your child has a birthday over track-out, they will receive it once they return. If your child has a birthday over our very last track-out, they will receive one before we track-out.

Our Soap Experiment

We had a great first day back! What better to get back into the swing of things than a science experiment? Today we put soap into the microwave and predicted what would happen. We assumed the solid soap would turn into a liquid, but the results were surprising...

We observed the soap before the experiment by passing it around.

We predicted what will happen to the soap when heated in the microwave.

We predicted what will happen to the soap when heated in the microwave.

We were ALL surprised the soap did not turn into a liquid! The soap stayed a solid, but the shape definitely changed. We learned that this happened because this soap had air in it and that helped it keep its state of matter of solid.

We loved touching the soap and everyone got to take some of it home--it can still be used as soap.

Scholastic Book Order

If you would like to order Scholastic News from the flyers that were sent home before track-out, please do so by September 14th. If you want another copy of the flyer, please let me know, as I have extras.

Remind 101

If you are interested in receiving text messages reminders to your phone, please email me your cell phone number. I would send out a class text with reminders such as due dates, conference reminders, field trip info, etc. No one but myself will see your cell phone number and you can not text me back or anyone with this feature. This is through Remind101. I download the app on my phone and you receive the texts as you normally would, you do not have to download anything. If you are not interested, all reminders will still be sent out in weekly emails and I'd use this feature to send out a text a day before an event or reminder is needed.

Fall Festival PTA Basket

Second Grades Track 2 (Ms. Strom) and Track 3 (Ms. Lawrence) are teaming up to create a Movie-Themed Teacher Basket for the PTA Fall Festival on October 16^th from 5pm-7pm! We are requesting your child to please bring in $2 to help create this basket by October 2^nd. The basket will be auctioned off and the money will be used to support grade-level funds. Thank you for your support! 

Science Experiment Help

We are going to continue to learn more about matter in science and have a few science experiments lined up! If you are able to help bring in an item for our experiments, please sign-up at this link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f084fa4af2ca1f85-science  Thank you for your help!