Today we are having field day. Thanks to Mr. Crisp for organizing this fun filled, active day.
Monday, May 21, we will be going to Ky Horse Park.
No school May 22 for students.
May 24th 1/2 day- Awards Program
May 25th First Day for summer break.
We only have 7 1/2 days left of school.
Monday we will finish our testing GRADE- reading comprehension.
We have field day Thursday, May 17th beginning at 9:00 a.m. and look forward to a fun day!
Fun Friday, May 18th, will be “Let’s go to the movies”
Monday, May 21st, FIELD TRIP to Ky. Horse Park.
Tuesday, May 22nd, NO SCHOOL, ELECTION DAY
Thursday, May 24th 1/2 day LAST DAY!
This week we are testing each morning. Please try to have your child go to bed early and eat a good breakfast. We plan on doing the following tests this week:
Monday: Reading Street Baseline test
Tuesday: Math Common Assessment
Wednesday: Reading Common Assessment
Thursday: Part of GMADE ( math assessment)
Friday: Depends on how the students are doing whether we do more
or wait til following week. Our Fun Friday activity (for those earning it with 0 /1 refocus forms) will be outdoor games & popsicles. Students may bring in outdoor toys.
Because we are testing this week, we will not have spelling words or homework. Please continue to have your child read, or read to your child, a few minutes each evening.
In the afternoons we will continue with our Kentucky unit, particularly as related to Ky’s horse industry. We had a great derby on Friday. Thanks to all that sent in items for hats, and helped his/her child dress for his/her part in the derby. To wrap up our unit we look forward to our field trip. We will be going to Kentucky Horse Park on Monday, May 21st.
We received our caterpillars and are watching them grow. We should be able to watch the complete metamorphosis before school is out in a few weeks.
Clean Trash Collection: We are asking students to bring in items that would normally be throw in the trash. Items such as empty cereal, shoe tissue or other boxes; pringles cans,empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls; or anything that could possibly be used for our clean trash sculptors.
Derby Museum had to cancel Tuesday due to sickness.
Week of 4/23 we will study the earth and our environment.
Spelling words for week of 4/23:
1. phone
2. enough
3. stuff
4. laugh
5. puff
6. giraffe
7. graph
8. tough
9. photo
10. rough
11. cough
12. cliff
13. * dolphin
14. * physical
15. * autograph
16. * should
17. * would
18. * could
Make sure students know addition and subtraction facts. Practice daily.
The Ky Horse Museum will be here on Tuesday, April 17th to give educational talks about Horse Sense.
Story for Week: Bad Dog Dodger with concept of plot
Spelling Words- basic ones for this week are silent consonants:
knock, sign, knee, wrong, write, climb, wrap, wren, gnat, lamb, comb, knob
Math: Mental Math Strategies: Using tens, estimation
THANKS TO ALL FOR THEIR HELP WITH THE EGG HUNT AND PARTY TODAY.
HOPE EVERYONE WILL ENJOY THE BREAK!
We raised over $700 for this project.
Math: Review of Graphing
Begin working on geometry
Reading: One Dark Night Concept: Sequencing
Spelling/ Grammar: Prefixes & Suffixes
Words this week: unsafe, preheat, rerun, disappear, unlock, retie, rewind, unpack, unplug, regroup, preschool, disagree, bonus words: prehistoric, unfortunate, reunion, their, there, they’re
Friday we will be doing a Walk around the Track for our Relay For Life
Spring Pictures coming soon
This week we are reading story ” Firefighter”
Spelling Words:cheerful, visitor, slowly, weekly, teacher, helper, hardly, graceful, yearly, quickly, fighter, sailor, gardener, competitor, extremely, Spring
Math: We have reviewed money and worked more with collecting data and making graphs.
THIS WEEK (MARCH 12-16)
Stories: stories about St. Patrick’s Day
Spelling words: words centered around this theme
Math: Potato measurement and graphing
PROJECT FOR TORNADO VICTIMS: 2nd grade is providing cans for each classroom to collect coins. Money collected will be counted by the students and totaled. After two weeks it will be sent to help families get relief from the ravages of the recent tornadoes.
UPCOMING EVENTS; BATTLE BOOK COMPETITION THURSDAY
FRIDAY, MARCH 16TH -NO SCHOOL
MONDAY, MARCH 19TH REPORT CARDS COME HOME