Unfortunately, fun fitness Friday is cancelled again this week due to weather :(
We will hope for better weather next week.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Newsletter
Second Grade News: January 29, 2013
Things to Note:
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Book
orders are due next week if you would like to order.
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We
will celebrate the 100th day of school on Feb 6th.
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K-3
will take a field trip to the Barre Opera House Tuesday Feb 5th,
please turn in permission slips and $2.00 ASAP.
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Report
cards will be sent home with students Jan 30th please sign the report
card envelop and return to school to show that you received this important
information.
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Fun
Fitness Fridays remaining: Feb 1 and Feb 8!
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Please visit our classroom blog for
news, tidbits about our learning, and links to fun things! www.mrsraynors.blogspot.com
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Science
Students will be experiencing a virtual field trip this
week! For this field trip students will
be “going” to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to learn about the states
of matter. During this field trip
students will participate in an experiment with solids, liquids, and
gases. I am hopeful that the students
will enjoy this lesson and virtual trip!
Math
Students will
continue to learn about telling time. I
would love to see students coming to school with analog watches to use as a tool
to continue practicing this skill. So
many of the clocks in our world have gone digital that at this current time it
is often a rarity to see analog clocks.
The more exposure students can get to reading a variety of analog clocks
the more proficient they will be. Help
your child find the analog clocks (if any) in your home and practice reading
the time to the nearest five minutes together!
Students have begun a new investigation in unit 3 of their
math curriculum. In this investigation
students will be (1) making sense of and developing strategies to solve
addition and subtraction problems with totals to 45, (2) counting by equal
groups, (3) understanding the equivalence of one group and the discrete units that
comprise it, (4) developing strategies for accurately counting a set of objects
by ones and groups, and (5) using manipulatives, drawings, tools, and notation
to show strategies and solutions.
Have a Great Week! – Mrs. Raynor
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Martin Luther King JR
The second graders enjoyed learning about MLK on Friday. They also enjoyed thinking about their dreams for our community, country, and world!
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Fun Fitness Friday
Unfortunately, this week's Fun Fitness Friday activities have been cancelled due to a lack of snow. We will have an extra FFF on February 8 to make up for this missed day of winter fun.
Volunteers
The second graders would love to invite a parent or family member to come into our class and read with us during reader's workshop. Visitors could come in once a week or once a month and enjoy hearing students read to them as well as sharing the reading! If you're interested in being part of the second grade classroom in any way contact Mrs. Raynor.
Melting Matter
Students experimented with turning a solid (chocolate chips) into a liquid by using heat. Students then turned the liquid back into a solid by leaving the liquid in the snow. Students also enjoyed eating the solid at the end!
Friday, January 11, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Newsletter
Second Grade News: January 10, 2013
Things to Note:
·
Please be sure that students are bringing
everything they need on Fridays to participate in Fun Fitness Friday activities!
·
If you would like to order books from scholastic our next classroom order is due Monday,
January 14, 2013.
·
Mark your calendars: No school Monday, January
21 or Tuesday, January 22.
Science:
In the last two weeks
students have enjoyed a few science experiments. Our first experiment involved predicting and
testing what happens to both warm water and boiling water when thrown into
below freezing air. The second graders
were excited to see that the boiling water quickly turned into ice crystals
while the warm water just fell to the ground!
During other experiments we have begun to work different types of matter
(solids and liquids). Students have been
observing what happens when you mix a solid and a liquid together as well as what
happens when you freeze a liquid.
Mathematics:
We have recently begun a new section in our math unit. In this section students will be making sense
of and developing strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems with
totals to 45, understanding the properties of addition and subtraction, as well
as using manipulatives, drawings, tools, and notation to show strategies and
solutions. Students have really enjoyed
learning new strategies from each other and trying out more effective
strategies when solving word problems.
Homework:
Please
don’t forget to help your child record the reading they are doing at home on
their reading logs that SHOULD be in their homework bags! I have been looking at these regularly and have
discovered that there is not much reading recorded.
Your child’s reading homework each night is
to read for AT LEAST 20 minutes. Reading for this amount of time
is proven to be beneficial for your beginning reader… and it fosters a
reading habit that is sure to last a lifetime!
* Listen to
your child read and encourage him/her!
* Read to
your child!
*Have fun and talk about the book (before,
during, and afterwards)!
Have Great Weekend - Mrs. Raynor
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Cold Weather Science Experiment
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