Spring Dance This Week!

Come on out April 3^rd for the MMH Spring Dance. It is from 5:30-7:30. Bring a non-perishable food item to be entered to win a tablet!

Come in Fairy Tale Costumes to be entered for other prizes!

Great music, good friends and lots of laughs! Bring your best dance moves.

No School Friday, April 4^th – Teacher Development Day

 

Easter Batik

We will be in the Art Room on April 10 from 10:15 – 11:30 ish. If you are able to come help or just want to see what it is all about come and join us. We can always use extra hands. There is a place to indicate you can help on the purple Easter Newsletter that was sent home last week.

Egg Decorating

April 16^th we will be decorating eggs in the classroom. Each child needs to bring 4-5 hardboiled eggs wrapped and packaged carefully for our Easter fun on the morning of the 16^th.

 

Sock Hop Day!

Sock Hope day is a VERY busy day! It is Mr. Braico’s last day in our class and it is also our Easter Party which works out great. We will have our sock hop after lunch until about recess time at 1:50. We will then share treats after recess until home time. The Grade 2’s are practicing their “Happy” Dance and will be performing it for the grade 1’s at the sock hop. We will also be performing it during a family assembly in May hopefully. Please join us for all or some of the sock hop if you are able to.

Aggie Days

Aggie Days will be on April 29^th! We will leave the school at 12:15 ish and arrive back around 2:30. If you are able to drive/supervise please indicate so on the purple newsletter form that went home last week. Thanks so much for your help in advance. PLEASE let me know if your child has allergies to hay, grasses or animals! I have had a few kids with bad reactions in the past with no information about allergies prior. We will be around animals and hay. Thank you!

Easter Break is from April 18 – 27^th! See you back on the 28^th!

 

Spelling words this week:

own – snow – low – throw – blow – window – grow – yellow – show - hello

Challenge words this week:

yesterday – weekend – calendar – month – holiday – since – hour – minute – time - schedule

Sight words this week:

think – said – other – knew - little

Happy Spring

Hot Lunch on Tuesday (25) for those who ordered!

Library day on Wednesday

Skip-a-thon information Assembly – Thursday at 12:30. More information will be sent home closer to the actual skip-a-thon.

Family Assembly Wednesday afternoon

 

Easter Batik

The grade 2's will be creating beautiful Easter/Spring Batik pictures on April 10th. Our class will be working in the Art Room from 10:15 - 11:30. If you are able to come and help with the hot wax, dyes and 24 children please let me know! A note will be coming home this week with the volunteer form.

 

Spelling Words:

old – told – cold – bold – gold – sold – hold – scold – fold – roll -

Challenge Spelling Words:

dance – increase – promise – purchased – distance – province – license – resources – else - release

Sight Words:

hear – here – too – two – to

 

Upcoming April Dates

April 3 – Spring Dance

April 4 – No school – Staff PD

April 10 – Grade 2 Batik – Our class at 10:15 am

April 14 – Skip –a- thon

April 15 – Grade 1/2 Sock Hop

April 17 – Mr. Braico’s Last Day

April 18 – 27 – No School  -Easter Break

April 28 – Back to School

April 29 – Grade 2 at Aggie Days – We will need parent drivers

 

Math Challenge:

Show your subtraction strategy and problem solving steps for the following question:

Mr. Braico was at the store and bought 52 hockey cards. He put 37 of them into his hockey binder. How many cards does he still have left to play with or trade?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Thank you for all of the extra effort in dressing up your kids for our special day of GREEN! They looked awesome and we had a really fun day!

 

Library day is on Wednesday

 

NO SCHOOL this

 FRIDAY – March 21

 

Hot lunch will be

 Tuesday, March 25

 

Celebration of Learning

I hope you all took time to celebrate all of your child’s hard work and their report card over the weekend! The Celebration of Learning was awesome and I THANK YOU for taking the time to come!  

 

Sight words this week:

pull – children – water – work – think

Spelling words this week:

boat – coat – goat- toast – float – road – toad – soak – soap – most

Challenge words this week:

jogging – bottom – twinkle – itself – buses – drop – irritate – culture – tradition – special

 

Math Challenge for this week:

Miss Craddock had 56 books checked out of the library. She returned 32 of them. How many books does she still have checked out?

Show me all of the problem solving steps to get a sticker.

Equation – picture/method – correct answer – word sentence

Celebration of Learning Week

Sorry for any confusion last week with booking times! Monday the 10^th is the day that you can start booking your timeslots for Thursday evening! Please choose a 20 minute timeslot between 5:30 and 7:30 that works best for you! I really hope to see you all there. Our class has been working hard and they are such an awesome group of students. They have a lot they would like to share with you.

Interviews

If you feel the need to have a more private conversation with me about your child please let me know so that we can arrange a time for the following week. You can e-mail me or tell me at the Celebration of Learning! I am happy to make time to answer questions etc.

Report Cards

Report Cards will be sent home on Friday the 14^th! Please use this as a time to CELEBRATE first all of the success and then perhaps set a few goals for the end of the school year.

C.A.R.E Unit

We have begun our conversations about personal safety and our bodies being private. The students were extremely mature and I was happy to hear that they have been having these types of conversations at home.

 

Spelling words this week:

nice – nine – slide – smile – fine – time – line – write – side - live

Challenge words this week:

choice – voice – enjoyment – destroy – spoil – moist – rejoice – appointment – annoy - enjoy

Sight words this week:

lucky – green – sometimes – made – city

 

Challenge Questions:

Get a parent to confirm in your agenda that you have shown them how to add 43+38= and 28+ 59= on a 100 Chart. Hint: Do not count by ones! Make your jumps down with your tens and to the right with your ones. Print a chart off the internet or take one home from school if you would like one!

Solve: If Mr. Bryant scored 32 points in a basketball game and Mr. Platt scored 49, how many points did they score altogether? Show the steps to get 4 points!

How do you like to add Grade 2? Do you like rods and cubes? Do you like to use the 100 chart? Are you comfortable with standard regrouping? Do you know what standard regrouping is? If you don’t that is just fine! (some students are catching on to regrouping without pictures or manipulatives but most are not there YET!)