May 2-5
Our school is growing by leaps and bounds! Thanks for sending your registration forms back super quick! If you have not turned your child's in yet please do so by Wednesday, May 4th.
REMINDERS
Tuesday: Library Day. All library books are due at 8:00 AM. *Last turn in of the year!
Tuesday folders come home. Please sign the folder and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday: Early Release Day. Dismissal is at 12:45
Math homework is due.
Thursday:
Sunday: Mother's Day!
SECOND GRADE FUNDRAISING PROJECT
Our students in 2nd grade are holding a fundraiser to help the animals in Austin Zoo. To raise awareness about their fundraising project, they are asking all grade levels to wear special clothes each day (this activity is optional).
Monday: Hats Off to Helping- Wear a crazy hat to school
Wednesday: Early Release Day. Dismissal is at 12:45
Math homework is due.
Thursday:
Sunday: Mother's Day!
SECOND GRADE FUNDRAISING PROJECT
Our students in 2nd grade are holding a fundraiser to help the animals in Austin Zoo. To raise awareness about their fundraising project, they are asking all grade levels to wear special clothes each day (this activity is optional).
Monday: Hats Off to Helping- Wear a crazy hat to school
Tuesday: Socks for Snakes- Wear mixed up socks
Wednesday: Tattoos for Tigers- Wear stripes.
Thursday: Operation Ocean- Wear blue of all shades
Friday: PJs for Pandas- wear your PJs and enjoy a movie showing during lunch in the cafeteria (PJs optional)
I will be doing the End of the Year Reading Assessment starting this week until May 20th. This is a time that I will be reading with each child individually to assess their reading level and readiness for next year. We will continue our At home reading routine with the Reading Logs. Thanks for helping your child fill it out and turn it in when it's full! I will give them a new one when they are ready!
SPRING PBL PROJECT
Our first graders have been hard at work learning and discussing about growing manageable, non-traditional gardens. Last week we had a guest speaker who grows small vegetable gardens. She showed us pictures of her garden and talked to us about the process which started with growing mini-gardens in egg cartons, and then transferring the growing sprouts into bigger containers or spaces. Growing our own garden has so many benefits. Not only we could have quick access to fresh and organic vegetables, we would also save money and time spending in grocery stores. Our students will be thinking about designing a mini garden and presenting their learning and ideas about non-traditional gardens in different ways such as making posters or brochures.
READING and WRITING
We will continue reading fiction and non-fiction stories and review different comprehension strategies that we have been working on this year. In writing, we will be working on some heartwarming mother's day projects and use all of our writing and art skills to say thank you to our wonderful moms.
We will continue reading fiction and non-fiction stories and review different comprehension strategies that we have been working on this year. In writing, we will be working on some heartwarming mother's day projects and use all of our writing and art skills to say thank you to our wonderful moms.
MATH
We will continue on composing and decomposing numbers. For example, there are so many ways to show 18, such as, 9+9, 10+8, 9+8+1, 8+8+2, 7+8+3, ....The options are so many and for our students to have a strong number sense, they need to be able to see what other smaller numbers can come together to make bigger numbers. We will use coins such as dimes and nickles to count by 5's and 10's. Our students should be able to count by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's from any given number from 1 to 120. For example, starting from 35, counting by 5's to 120 or starting from 48 and counting by 2's to 120. Thank you for reinforcing these skills at home.
SCIENCE
Last week, we learned about plants, their parts and what each part does. This week, we learn about seeds and how they grow. We will grow a few seeds in the classroom and observe the growing sprout and its parts (roots, stem and leaves). All of this learning is being done through our PBL (Project Based Learning) Experience. We are super excited to see where our learning journey takes us! We will share our learning on May 19th at our evening Knowledge Night!
We will continue on composing and decomposing numbers. For example, there are so many ways to show 18, such as, 9+9, 10+8, 9+8+1, 8+8+2, 7+8+3, ....The options are so many and for our students to have a strong number sense, they need to be able to see what other smaller numbers can come together to make bigger numbers. We will use coins such as dimes and nickles to count by 5's and 10's. Our students should be able to count by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's from any given number from 1 to 120. For example, starting from 35, counting by 5's to 120 or starting from 48 and counting by 2's to 120. Thank you for reinforcing these skills at home.
SCIENCE
Last week, we learned about plants, their parts and what each part does. This week, we learn about seeds and how they grow. We will grow a few seeds in the classroom and observe the growing sprout and its parts (roots, stem and leaves). All of this learning is being done through our PBL (Project Based Learning) Experience. We are super excited to see where our learning journey takes us! We will share our learning on May 19th at our evening Knowledge Night!
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