Scholastic Reading Club

If your child is interesting in buying books from Scholastic Reading Club Online, you can do so through here: https://orders.scholastic.com/NWTXL

A flyer will go home as well. September orders are due by 9/23/16.

First Quarter Conferenes

We are ALMOST done with our first quarter! Report cards will go home on September 30th, but I figured I would send out the link now for conferences, as I know how busy everyone is. If you do not see a date/time on there that works for you, please contact me.   First Quarter Conferences

Fun Run!

Thank you to everyone who helped raise money for our school! The class did an amazing job today running laps in our Fun Run! Please click this link for a slideshow of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ0AF6oSBqE&feature=em-upload_owner

A TIRED thumbs up! 

Matter Experiment

Today we learned that matter can change forms from solids to liquids and then back to solids again. Here are our scientists at work!

First, we observed chocolate chips in their solid state of matter.

Then, we added heat from our hands onto the chocolate chips and they turned into a liquid.

Then, we got SPECIAL permission to go to the teacher's lounge and put the liquid chocolate chips into the freezer and saw them turn back into a solid!

Please see below for some upcoming dates to remember:

August 12th: Interiums will go home

August 17th: Yearbook/Fall pictures

August 18th: Fun Run will be at 9:30 and all parents and family members are welcome to come cheer on your children!

August 19th: Yearbook Picture Contest Due

August 19th: Early release and our last day of school before we track out! Also, due to your generous pledges for the Fun Run, our class will be able to come to school wearing crazy socks this day and we will also enjoy a popsicle party!

Class Election

We have been learning about elections, ballots, and voting in Social Studies. Today we held a class election and submitted our ballots. We voted on inside or outside recess for tomorrow. It was a tight race and inside recess won!

Helpful Websites

Our class will be using a lot of technology in second grade! If you click this link:http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/secondgradewebsites7 --I have linked all the websites we use onto this page for easy reference, as they can also be utilized at home. Below is a brief descriptions of the ones we use the most often and want to highlight:

Achieve 3000-this site allows students to read articles and answer questions pertaining to the articles. The site begins to level the articles based on their level of understanding. We will start using this website next week, so the class will be familiar with it shortly. We do this during our "listening to reading" center during Daily 5 rotations. I like this website a lot because kids can search for articles that interest them, the articles are at their reading level, and then they answer questions based on the article.

Sumdog-this site allows students to practice math skills and the more they "play" the more customized the questions will get based on the concepts they grasp/need more review on.

IXL- This site also has math and language arts practice problems.