Happy Friday!

I hope you have had a wonderful week!  We have had a lot of fun learning occurring this week. 

Health

This week in health, we learned about the nervous system.  We learned that the main organs are the brain, spinal cord and nerves.  They also learned the main parts of the brain.  Below is a picture of them wearing their "brain caps" that we made today.

Next week, we will learn about the muscular/skeletal systems.  This will wrap up our health unit.  Some of the students will be studying more about the body systems for the RBE Showcase on Monday, February 29.

Reading

This week in reading, we learned about characters and how they changed throughout the story.  We will continue working on this next week.  The students have been doing a nice job identifying the changes in the characters as well as the reasons why the characters have changed.  

Math

We wrapped up our addition unit today and the students overall rocked the test!  I am so proud of how hard the students worked throughout this unit.  I will be sending this test home next week to be signed.  

Next week, we will do some reviewing of concepts we have covered thus far this year.  The following week, we will start our 2 and 3-digit subtraction unit.

Writing

We continued to learn how to research this week.  We used a strategy called close reading to read over articles and identify the main idea and then details through repeated readings.  We discussed looking at the articles through different lens each time you read it.

Next week, the students will choose their topic to research for the RBE Showcase.  They will be researching dinosaurs or body systems.  They all seemed very excited this afternoon when we were discussing the topics.  

Next Week's Homework

Next week's homework will look a little different.  For reading, there will be a passage and response for Monday.  The passage is 3 pages and the students will need to identify how the characters (the parents specifically) changed throughout the story.  Their response will be due on Tuesday next week.  Tuesday and Wednesday night will have normal reading (15 minutes or more).  The math homework will be just like normal homework.

Valentine's Day Party

Our Valentine's Day Party is scheduled for Thursday, February 11 at 1:45 p.m.  We will pass out Valentines at the party.  Please have your child write who the valentines are from, but leave the to line blank.  This makes passing out the valentines faster which means more time to have fun at our party!  We will decorate bags at school for our Valentines, but if your child would like to make a box at home they can and then bring it in on Thursday.

Reading Week 2016

Reading Week is schedule for March 7-March 11.  This will be a week to enjoy and encourage our students to read!  

I will be working on setting up a Sign Up Genius so that parents, grandparents, family members, etc. can sign up to come in and read to our class.  This was so much fun last year and the kiddos LOVED being able to hear lots of different people read their favorite stories.

We will have dress up days during Reading Week also.  

Monday: "Hats off to Reading", students can wear hats.

Tuesday: "Reading Rainbow", students can wear as many colors as possible.

Wednesday: "Relaxing with a Good Book", students can wear their PJ's.

Thursday: "Lasso a Good Book", students can wear Western wear.

Friday: "Book Character Day", dress as your favorite book character. 

RBE Showcase

RBE Showcase is scheduled for Monday, February 29.  The 2nd grade Showcase is from 10:30-11.  The students will be creating invitations as we get closer to the date.  This is an opportunity for the students to show you all their hard work they have done creating their informational writing pieces. 

Maker Space

Today, we went to Maker Space and got to play with some fun robots.  Check out the pictures!

Have a wonderful weekend!