Don't Miss The Music Assignment from Mrs. Kreiss

Students use iPads to photograph and magnify their germinating seeds.

Here is the update for the week:

Music News and Assignment
Second grade classes are learning about the brass family in music class.  Please go to Mrs. Kreiss's website (mrskreiss.weebly.com/second-grade) to complete an assignment for music class.  On that page, you will see a video about the brass family.  Watch the video and write two things you learned about the brass family in the comment box to the right of the video.  We will  continue the lesson in music class!

NWEA Testing for Spring
The students worked really hard last week during the NWEA literacy exam.  This Thursday, May 7th we will be taking the math portion of the exam.  Please make sure that your students get a good night’s rest and a healthy breakfast before the exam.

Poetry Cafe
Thank you for all of those who attended and helped out with the Poetry Cafe.  The students were really excited to be reading their compositions for an audience.  Thanks for the great time.

Teacher Appreciation Day
Thank you so much for all of the notes you sent in with students this morning.  It was a great start to my week.  If you haven't already, please help your child write a letter for our afternoon custodian Charlene.  Many of the students have never met her, but she cleans our room every night, and since she was hired Room A-2 has been a markedly cleaner classroom.

Curriculum Overview
Literacy - In literacy we will be working on summarizing and synthesizing the text we read.  As we read we will look for the most important information and big ideas and we will work to summarize and share what we learn in writing.

Writing - Students will be working on a Mother's Day letter this week.  We will also begin research in preparation for writing a non-fiction report about plants.

Math - In math we are working on multiplication and division and different ways to solve and represent multiplication and division problems.

Science - We are watching the seeds we planted in plastic bags go through the germination process and begin growing.  We have been using iPads to photograph and zoom in on the seeds to examine the transformation they are going through.  This week we will also begin looking at where seeds come from and how the plant lifecycle is completed.

Social Studies with Mrs. Heron - Last week we wrapped up unit 4 by taking our test.  We are beginning our new unit this week called "How do Communities Change?"  which we will exploring our community's past.

Word Study with Mrs. Sepich - This week we will be working with the new word sorts words as well as adding the new vocabulary words to our journals.  When the journals come home over the summer, save them to review the words learned over the course of this year.

Leadership - In class we are working on Habit 6 - Synergize.  Mrs. Hunt is also leading a Sharpen the Saw activity on Friday afternoon.

A Room A-2 student reads a poem at our Poetry Cafe.

Mrs. Hunt ordered Room A-2 a new classroom rug!