Rockstars Second Graders

We had a great day celebrating our veterans at our Veterans Day program and parade.  Our class had 9 veterans that we honored.  Thank you to Chloe's dad, Everett's dad, Adam's grandpa, Sam's grandpa, Elizabeth's grandpa, Paige's grandpa, Anton's grandpa, Clare's grandpa, and Mary's grandpa and great-grandpa.  Our stars we created to honor our veterans look great in the hallways! We continued to work on addition and subtraction strategies.  The students are doing great on learning the math facts through games and applying their math strategies.  We had fun creating a 2 or 3 digit number turkey. We learned a new syllable type- vowel-consonant-silent E (v-e).  The children are doing a great job with marking up the new syllable type. We enjoyed the stories  The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Wolf, Wolf!   Ask you child what lesson was learned from the stories.  Also ask how the stories are alike and different. PTA is sponsoring their annual Re...

 Thank you for a fun Halloween party and parade!  We had a great time despite the weather! We enjoyed the story  Stellaluna  and learned about how bats and birds are very different. We had creating bats.  We enjoyed learning about our body's bones and creating a skeleton.  We had fun doing many Halloween activities. Thank you for getting the Flat Stanley envelope ready to be mailed.  We created our Flat Stanley and wrote our letter to our friend or family member.  Today we mailed our Flat Stanley letter at the post office.   If the Flat Stanley letter is returned to your address, please do not open it and send it in to school with your child.  It is fun for your child to open the letter at school.   The letter I sent with the Flat Stanley does tell the recipient to return the letter and Flat Stanley to Normandy Elementary School. I included Normandy's address in the letter.  It will be exciting to see where Flat Stanley has...