Still Working Hard and Having Fun
Week #36 May 27-31, 2019

This week we completed many end-of-the-year assessments to show our knowledge, and balanced that with other fun experiences.  Students worked very hard on their final spelling, writing, reading and math assessments for second grade to be collected in their portfolios.  They were focused and calm.  We also enjoyed meeting our new Farm-to-School teacher, playing 3 new math games, hearing a butterfly presentation from Jerry Schneider and of course, Spirit Week.

Jerry Schneider is with the VT Entomological Society and Morphos Productions.  He conducts butterfly and bat presentations all over the east coast.  He shared all about butterflies with all of 2nd grade and then we made our beautiful t-shirt craft.  One tip from Mr. S about the t-shirts:  toss them in the dryer to help set the RIT dye color before washing.

We welcomed Kayli, our new Farm-to-School teacher and learned about pea shoots.  This was a nice complement to our work with Eric von Wettberg about legumes.  The students already new a lot about plant needs, nitrogen and nodules!

Math games anyone?  What a great way for us to practice our addition and subtraction of 3-digit numbers.  We learned 3 math games, and the students were such nice opponents--they let me win every time!  Next week, we'll start our work with geometry and 2D shapes.

Spirit Week was a blast.  Here we are on "Throwback Thursday".  What a creative, fun group!

Other things to ask your child about this week:
*Our read aloud The Witches
*talent shares featuring pokemon, tracing characters and group fitness exercise
*Adding and subtracting 100's and 10's during Number Corner

I look forward to seeing you at perhaps the school picnic or field days next week.
Enjoy the weekend!
Mrs. Hock