I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day and I hope you liked the art project we worked on for your special day!

This will be our last BLOG. I'm still teaching and your child is still learning up until the last day. There are a lot of dates and deadlines approaching. Below you'll find the important dates. If I left one off, I'll email..

Important Information for the END of the Year!
Tomorrow we are taking the end of the year Math Student Learning Objective test. Please have your child to school on time. Thank you!

• All ILC books are due this Wednesday
• Scholastic orders are due this Friday so we can receive the books before the end of the year.
• Array projects are due this Friday
• Filed Day is this Friday from 9-11. Your child can wear a hat, bring a water bottle, and should wear sunscreen (Our lunch will be from 12:37-1:07)
• Book Reports will be presented on 5-20
• We will have an end of the year ice cream celebration on 5-20
• 5/23 we’ll have Charlotte’s Web rotations with all of second grade
• 5/24 and 5/25 are early release.
• We’ll have a second grade award ceremony, year book signing, and celebrate the kids that made the 200 Book Club on 5/24 

Summer reading cards are coming home today, Monday. Last year Tritt won for elementary schools. Make your your child reads this summer and logs their minutes. 

Loggerhead turtle
Loggerhead Turtle
Loggerhead Turtle for Kids
Georgia Animals
Georgia Wildlife
Plants and Animals in GA
 Georgia’s Flower
Facts about Georgia
Live Oak
Plants in Georgia ​ 

How is it already May?
 
Reading: novel study on Charlotte’s Web focusing on using context clues to decode the meaning of unknown words
 
Writing: writing an opinion piece on our Georgia Hero, Jimmy Carter
 
Math: Beginning our unit on arrays to help us add and multiply
 
Content: completing our unit on life cycles
 
STEM: Beginning a new STEM challenge. Please send in any clean recyclables
 
Additional Information:

• This week we’ve challenged our second graders to going SCREEN FREE all week. Look inside your child’s folder for more information.
• Help your child choose a chapter book to begin reading at home that is new and interesting to them. This month your child will be doing a book report on a chapter book of choice. I’ve blocked out a whole week of homework to focus on the report.
• If you purchased a yearbook, please bring it back into school tomorrow. PTA is coming around to add the name of the artist of the cover.
• Field Day is May 13th

What are we learning?

Math- solving two step story problems to 1,000 using place value strategies

Reading- beginning a novel study of Charlotte's Web

Writing- finishing our narrative and writing an informational piece of choice

Content- wrapping up our unit of life cycles

Important Information:

*Tuesday- our field trip to the Chattahoochee Nature Center. If your child is packing a lunch, please make sure it's 100% disposable.

Thursday- Chick-fil-a breakfast for $3. Order forms went home last week.
                  - Art Show  4-7 p.m. in the gym
Friday- Arts and Ed. Day
           - last day to turn in 200 Book Club logs (NO LATE ENTRIES)
           - All Pro Dads

The weather is getting warmer. On PE days they are going outside so be sure to check the weather to see if they should have a light jacket. 

What are we learning?
Math; partitioning shapes into equal parts (halves, thirds, and fourths)
           -arrays
Reading: continuing to read leveled books and working to strengthen our comprehension                    of multi-paragraph text 
Writing: working on our narrative of choice and practicing using dialect in our writing 

Science: life cycles: ask about our bean plant and or larvae

INFO: 
-Tomato Plant Sale are due 4-25. 
-Our Field Trip to the Chattahoochee Nature Center is 4-26. All students should wear their Tritt Blue shirt and athletic shoes. We'll be doing a lot of walking on trails. All sack lunches from home should be 100% disposable. We don't want to bring anything back with us.

Have a GREAT week! 

Reading: working on comprehension when reading alone

Writing: typing our partner biographies
               beginning a narrative of choice

Math: finishing our unit on shapes: 2D and 3D 

Content: life cycles (Ask about our plant.)

STEM; evaluating our games we created using a second grade math standard

If you have not sent in the field trip form, please do so by Thursday. I must turn in our lunch count on Friday.

I’m so happy to be back with my class. They have grown lots. We have a full week before spring break.

The school store will be open every morning this week. 
Reading:

• reading about Jimmy Carter and focusing on main point of paragraphs and the main idea of the whole text
• reviewing the purpose of text

Writing:

• writing a biography about a classmate
• edit and revise their biography with the help of peers and the teacher

Math:

• reviewing addition and subtraction to 999 using base ten strategies
• begin our unit on shapes

Word Work:
oo sounds (like brook and spoon)
Content:

• completing our unit on Jimmy Carter and beginning life cycles

Happy Monday! 

It's Exceptional Children's Week - 

Upcoming! 

Today:  guidance

Tomorrow:  
STEM showcase - we are creating Math games 
Exceptional Children's speaker

Thursday: 
Mrs. Woolley returns :) 
Math Night
 ~~~Join us for Math Night on March 24, 2016! It takes place at the Publix on Shallowford Road (at Johnson Ferry Rd.) from 5-7:00 p.m.  Math Night presents students with an opportunity to extend their mathematical understanding in a real-world context. Parents get a first-hand look at how their children apply understanding and may even learn something new themselves. Students see that Math is relevant and fun, and we all connect with a great resource and partner in education. The Papa John’s pizza truck will sell pizzas for $10 a pie. Pick one (or more!) up for dinner.
 
Teachers at the front of the store distribute grade-level problems, clipboards, and pencils. Kids and their parents then go on a scavenger hunt to answer questions. The answer sheet acts as a homework pass for the following day. Be sure to download a QR code reader so kids can check their answers. Please note: Teachers will have a few extra sheets for students who have a conflict on Thursday night but who wish to complete the scavenger hunt and problems over the weekend. Any students completing the task over the weekend should submit their sheets on Monday; teachers will work with those students to arrange for a homework pass. 

FRIDAY: 
Revved Up Kids - 3rd session
​guidance
Field Day order forms due ....... 

In the Curriculum: 

Math:  Review -- adding subtracing - up to 1000 - review regrouping 

Language Arts:  multi-paragraph text - prefixes and root words

Writing: Persuasive Writing -  - we are discussing school uniforms. Pros and Cons. 
We will write a persuasive piece to persuade you one way or the other. 

Social Studies:  Jimmy Carter - identifying contributions and timeline