Writing, Painting and Cheering, Oh My!
Week #24 February 18-22, 2019

Go Cats Go!  We had a great time Wednesday watching the UVM Women's Basketball Team defeat the UMBC Retrievers 58-50.  All of 2nd grade was a fantastic audience!  We enjoyed snacks from Mr. Coon, activity packets from the UVM team, our bag lunches, quick entertainment game shows during time outs, and a Zumba dance-along during halftime.

This week with our opinion writing, we focused on writing to appeal to the audience's perspective.  We used a few mentor texts to inspire our writing.  We enjoyed, The Big Bed, and Hey, Little Ant. We worked hard to consider someone else's point of view and to write them a counter argument.  We were all able to write drafts of 2 different opinion letters so we can continue the writing process with these pieces when we return to school in March.

Our geography unit will close with a state float parade!  We have painted our state floats and we are researching about our states.  We will complete our float creation and assembly during the three days we return from vacation.  Our parade will be on Monday, March 11th at approximately 10:15.  You are welcome to join us.  We will also video it and upload the link.

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• Measuring with yardsticks and measuring tapes
• Telling time to the nearest 5 minutes
• 2nd grade celebration movie afternoon
• Guidance lesson with Mrs. Wheeler reading The Invisible Boy
• Our final skiing session in PE

Enjoy this time with your family and I look forward to seeing everyone in March.

Mrs. Hock