January 4 - 8

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to each of you!  Have a wonderful, relaxing time with your family over the holiday break.

Thank you to all the parents who sent in cookies and appetizers for our annual cookie exchange.  The treats were delicious and I took home a wonderful assortment of yummy cookies.  Thank you very much!  

Reading - When we return from holiday break we will be discussing an article titled, Little Free Libraries.  Our essential question for the week is, Can small acts bring a community together?  We'll be doing a close read of the article, looking for text evidence to support our answers, and working with new vocabulary:  stunning, encourage, contain, public, and variety.  

Reading logs for December are due on Monday, January 4.  The students voted to have a Crazy Clothes Day as their reward for completing their home reading logs.

Math - Our next math chapter will focus on problem solving and story problems.  The students will be using drawings to create a story problems.  Continue to work on math facts over the holiday break.  Many students need lots of practice.  

Dates to Remember

Dec. 21 - Jan. 3 - No School  Holiday Break

Mon. Jan. 4 - School Resumes

Fri. Jan. 15 - Early Dismissal

Mon. Jan. 18 - No School MLK Holiday

Positive Paw Winner - Chistine

New Student of the Week  - David

Estimation Jar Winners -  Jack W. and Grant

Junior Achievement Day - Mr. Jose Gonzalez, a training facilitator for McDonalds Corporation, spent Tuesday morning with us.  He did a fantastic job not only telling the students about his interesting job at McDonalds, but teaching about jobs in the community, taxes, and money.  Mr. Gonzalez taught us about working together as a team and why that is so important.  

  

December 14 - 18

Dates to remember

Dec. 14, 16, 17 - Holidays Around the World                         

Tues. Dec. 15 - Jr. Achievement Day

                       Early Dismissal  11:30

Fri. Dec. 18 - Silly Sweater Day

                    Classroom Holiday Parties

Dec. 21 - Jan. 3 - No School Holiday Break

Holiday Traditions Project
The students will be sharing their holiday traditions next week!  Your child has been assigned a day to share.  If you have any questions, let me know.  

Holidays Around the World
During our Reading block this week, all 2nd graders will take part in a Holidays Around the World unit.  Students will be learning how people in different parts of the world celebrate holidays.  They will have a passport and travel to the different 2nd grade classrooms as they learn about holidays in Sweden, Israel, Mexico, France, and Italy.  Look for your child's Holidays suitcase to come home on Thursday!  

Students should continue filling in their reading logs through the end of December.  Return completed reading logs on January 4.    

No spelling lists or test this week.  We'll continue our Word Studies in January.  

Math - We will continue working on measurement this week.  We'll learn about area and perimeter.


December Birthdays - Aili  Dec. 17
                                Olivia  Dec. 21      

Estimation Jar Winner - Jack B. and Olivia

Positive Paw Winner - Jack B. 

Peppermint the Elf - Thank you to the Flannery family for bringing us some holiday cheer via our new elf, Peppermint.  If you haven't heard about his appearance, check out your child's iPad.  They've been taking pictures!

December 7 - 11

Fuzzy Friend Day

I'm so proud of these kids!  Everyone brought back their November reading log and was able to celebrate by bringing a stuffed animal to school!  We also celebrated earing 10 class PAWS and had a popcorn party!  Fun day in 2nd grade!!

Dates to Remember
Thurs. Dec. 10 - Holiday Shopping at Ide
Dec. 14, 16, 17 - Holidays Around the World
Tues. Dec. 15 - Early Dismissal and Jr. Achievement Day
Fri. Dec. 18 - Silly Sweater Day and Classroom Holiday Parties
Dec. 21 - Jan. 3 - No School  Holiday Break

Positive Paw Winner - Alyssa
Estimation Jar Winners - Caitlin and Ariana
New Student of the Week - Kenneth

Holiday Tradition Project
Students are bringing home information today about a holiday project.  The paper explains all about it as well as a page for the students to fill out.  This project is due on Monday, December 14.  If you have any questions, please let me know.

Reading - We will be reading Aero and Officer Mike this week.  It is a non-fiction story about a police officer, Mike, and his K-9 partner named Aero.  We will be comparing this selection to Officer Buckle and Gloria.

We will continue to work on recognizing the main idea and details in a story and we'll focus on identifying the author's purpose in stories we read.

Everyone has been given a December reading log.  The students voted to have a Crazy Clothes Day for their reading reward.  This should be interesting!

Grammar focus will be on irregular verbs.

Math - We have begun a new unit on Measurement.  This week we'll be measuring to the nearest inch, foot, and yard as well as centimeter and meter.  We'll also learn to make reasonable estimates.

Reminder - I'm still missing a few report card envelopes.  Please return it if you have not done so.  We'll use them again for next trimester's report card.

November 23 - December 4

Too Much Noise 

The kids worked so hard on their songs and I thought they did a great job!  Look at their happy faces!  What a terrific group!  

Dates to Remember
Tues. Nov. 24 - Grandparents Day at Ide
Nov. 25, 26, 27 - No School  Thanksgiving Break
Tues. Dec. 1 - November Reading logs are due

Positive Paw Winner - Emily 
Estimation Jar Winners - Sara and David
New Student of the Week - Sara

Reading - We are starting a new unit in Reading, Neighborhood and Community.  We'll begin by reading and comparing two texts, Officer Buckle and Gloria and Office Mike and Aero.  Our focus will be on identifying the main idea and details of the stories, as well as drawing conclusions.  

Grammar 

Math - Students will use "skip jumps" of 1, 5, and 10 to reach a given number on an open number line.  We will be estimating large collections of sticks by regrouping into hundreds, tens, and ones.

Continue to practice math facts at home.  This week we will do our monthly 5 minute fact fluency tests.

Happy Thanksgiving

I told the kids today how thankful I am that we have a wonderful school to come to each day.  I'm so grateful for the abundant resources we have, happy children, and supportive families.  I hope you all have a great holiday celebrating the gifts we have in family and friends.  

November 16 - 20

Veterans Day

We celebrated our veterans several ways this week!  Our class was assigned a veteran, Matthew Parris, who is a former Marine, stationed in Japan and Hawaii.  We wrote letters of appreciation to Mr. Parris.  He is now a Darien Tri-State firefighter!  The students got to see pictures of him both in action and with his family and learn a little about him.

I'm so thankful for our veterans ~ such courageous men and women who love our country and are willing to fight for us!  Thank you to Matthew Parris and so many others this Veterans Day Week!

Dates to Remember
Wed. Nov. 18 - Picture Retakes

Thurs. Nov. 19 - 2nd grade concert at Lakeview  7:00 pm

                           Students are asked to wear a solid brown shirt and jeans
                           Please be at Lakeview by 6:45

Fri. Nov. 20 - Movie Night at PV  Inside Out
                     End of 1st Trimester

Tues. Nov. 24 - Grandfriends Day 

                          Report cards go home

Nov 26, 27, 28 - No School  Thanksgiving Holiday

Positive Paw Winner - Sophia
Estimation Jar Winner - Ariana
New Student of the Week - Alyssa

Reading - We will finish our Unit 1 assessment and work on collective nouns and irregular plural nouns.

Math - We will finish our chapter on 2 digit subtraction focusing on problem solving with tables as well as story problems.

Parent Teacher Conferences - I sincerely apologize for having to cancel some of our conferences this week.  I value our conference time, and without a voice, that would be difficult.  So, on Monday, I will send out another Sign Up Genius invitation for those of you who I did not meet with.  I'm planning to have times afterschool on both Tuesday and Wednesday.  If these days are not convenient for you, please contact me and we will schedule something else.

November 9 - 13

School Board Appreciation Day ~ Mon. November 9

We appreciate our school board members!

Dates to Remember
Fri. Nov. 6 - No School
Mon. Nov. 9 - No School  Institute Day
Nov. 10, 11, 12 - Parent Teacher Conferences
Wed. Nov. 18 - Picture Retakes
Thurs. Nov. 19 - 2nd Grade Musical  7:00 pm at Lakeview


Thank you to the following families that sent in food, drinks, and paper goods for the Halloween party last week: Clinton/Williams, Dewart, Miski, Flannery, Durkin, and Kosinski families!

Thanks also to Mrs. Hines, Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Pecoraro, and Mrs. Hanneman who volunteered to help with the party.  We had a great time playing games, having our picture taken with a special Halloween frame, and eating!  Great afternoon!

Positive Paw Winner - Ariana
Estimation Jar Winners - Olivia and Ariana
New Student of the Week - Jake

2nd Grade Musical is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7:00 pm.  Please read the following letter from Mrs. Brockman regarding "costumes" and help needed.

Dear Second Grade Parents:
The musical is approaching very very quickly now and we are still in need of a few volunteers to help organize costumes.  The costumes are not very difficult but do require a little bit of time.  As you know, each class is a different animal.  Instead of doing full animal costumes we are just making headbands with the appropriate colored ears and accessories.  To be on the safe side, we need 25 headbands for each class.

Mrs. Onorato's class are Black Dogs.  Black and white floppy ears (think Dalmatian spots) would be perfect.

Mrs. Walega's class are Red Hens.  I believe there are yellow foam visors in the music cabinet from a previous show.  If someone could glue some red feathers and doctor them up a bit, I think they would work great for the Red Hens.

Caroline Durkin and Pam Hines have volunteered to lead the charge for Mrs. Oliver's class, but they could use some help getting the Brown Horses put together.  Please talk to them about how you can help.

Michelle Brown is organizing the White Sheep ears for Mrs. Schultz's class. Once again, if you can help her out I'm sure she would appreciate it.

And finally, Tracy Moriarty has agreed to help make the Gray Donkey ears for Mrs. Holtrup's class.  This is the largest class and I know she would appreciate another set of hands to make their headbands.

The kids are doing a fabulous job and are going to sound wonderful.  Now we just need to make them look as great as they're going to sound!!  Thank you in advance for helping us out!

Amy Brockman

 Reading - This week we will be doing a Unit 1 Assessment on skills learned during our Friendship Unit.  We'll also be working on collective nouns (flock of sheep, gaggle of geese).

We will also read a story called Chick 'n' Pug, as part of a Nearpod presentation on our iPads.

Reading Logs - Nearly every student was able to participate in show and Tell Day for returning their reading logs.  Thank you parents for encouraging them to read and helping to complete the reading logs.  For November, the students voted to have a Stuffed Animal Day as their reward.

Math - We will continue working on 2 digit subtraction with and without regrouping.  We will also be estimating differences and learning to check our answers with addition.

November 2 - 6

Spooky Story Day

Dates to Remember

Fri. Nov. 6 - No School

Mon. Nov. 9 - No School  Teacher Institute Day

Nov. 10, 11, 12 - Parent Teacher Conferences

Thurs. Nov. 19 - 2nd Grade Music Concert at Lakeview

Fri. Nov. 20 - End of Trimester

Tues. Nov. 24 - Report Cards go home

                          Grandparents' Day

Nov. 25 - 27 - No School  Thanksgiving Break

Positive Paw Winner - Grant
Estimation Jar Winners - Alyssa and Ariana
New Student of the Week - Jania

Reading - We will be finishing our Friendship unit this week by reading How to be a Friend.  We will discuss "I Messages" and work with the vocabulary words compromise, conflict, cooperation, and resolution.  Students will participate in an activity by role playing a friendship scenario with a small group.

Grammar focus will be on the past tense of irregular verbs.

Reading logs for October are due on Monday, Nov. 2.  Pizza Hut certificates will also be awarded to students who have completed their October reading log.

Math - We will continue our new chapter on two digit subtraction, with and without regrouping.

October 26 - 30

Bus Driver Appreciation Week!  

We are so appreciative of the drivers who carry our children to school every day.  The students made cards and wrote thank you notes to their drivers today!

Dates to Remember                                                                      

                                                   
Fri. Oct. 23 - Family Halloween Party at IDE 6:30 pm
Thurs. Oct. 29 - Spooky Story Day  Wear orange and black and bring a Halloween book from home if you have one
Fri. Oct. 30 - All School Parade 1:00 Everyone is welcome!
Fri. Oct. 30 - Classroom Halloween Party 1:30  Only parents who have signed up to help at the party may attend.
Mon. Nov. 1 - October Reading logs are due

Six Flags Reading Log - Today the students are bringing home a blue reading log from Six Flags.  If you are interested in your child earning a free ticket to Six Flags, this blue reading log must be filled out and returned by Tuesday, Feb. 23.  The books your child reads for their regular 20 minutes each night may also count for the Six Flags log.  If you are not interested in getting a free ticket, no need to return the blue reading log.

Classroom Reading logs are due on Monday, Nov. 2.  The class voted to have a Show and Tell Day for all students who return a completed log!

Parent Teacher Conferences - You should have received an email from me this morning inviting you to sign up for a conference through Sign Up Genius.  If you did not get the email, please let me know.  Conferences will be held on Nov 10, 11, and 12.

Reading - Our focus this week will be Poetry.  We will be reading lots of poetry and learning how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a poem.

Vocabulary words will include:  rhyme, rhythm, regular beats, repetition, figurative language, and alliteration.

Grammar focus will be on past tense of irregular verbs.

Math - We will finish working on two digit addition with and without regrouping.  We will learn about estimating sums, and decomposing numbers to add by mental math.  We will then begin subtraction, with and without regrouping.

These can be difficult skills for 2nd graders.  Please check or go over your child's homework with them to be sure they understand the skill.  If you have time, have them explain to you how they got their answers.

Positive Paw Winner - Ava
Estimation Jar Winner - Ariana
New Student of the Week - Emily

October 19 - 23

Thank you to our generous PTO for a delicious pizza lunch!  Thanks also to Mrs. Rizzo, Mrs. Kosinski, and Mrs. Bauer who helped serve pizza, drinks, and cookies!  What a special treat!

These kids LOVE pizza!!

Dates to Remember
Fri. Oct. 23 - Family Halloween Party  6:30 pm
Thurs. Oct. 29 - Spooky Story Day - Wear black and orange and bring a Halloween book from home if you have one
Fri. Oct 30 - All School Parade and Classroom Halloween Parties
Fri. Nov. 6 - No School
Mon. Nov. 9 - No School  Institiute Day

Positive Paw Winner - Ben
New Student of the Week - Olivia
Estimation Jar Winners - Emily and Ken

Halloween costumes - Halloween costumes should be brought to school in a bag and should be easy for your child to put on over clothes.  No toy weapons or make up will be allowed.  Students will be putting costumes on after lunch.

Costume parade will be held outside ~ weather permitting.  The parade will begin at 1:00 and everyone is invited!  Our classroom party will follow at 1:30.  Only those parents who have signed up to help may attend.

Reading - This week we will focus on writing an opinion paragraph.  Students will learn to state their opinion, find reasons that support it, and write a concluding statement.  We will work on editing, and use strong adjectives in our writing this week.  

Grammar focus will be on adjectives.

Math - We will continue to work with 2 digit addition this week, with and without regrouping.  We'll also solve story problems by choosing the best strategy.

Parent Teacher Conferences - Conferences will be held on November 10, 11, and 12.  You will receive an invitation email to sign up (through Sign Up Genius) next Friday, Oct. 23.

October 12 - 16

Dates to Remember                                                                   

Mon. Oct. 12 - No School  Columbus Day
Wed. Oct. 14 - Pizza Lunch in the Room
Fri. Oct. 23 - Family Halloween Party 6:30 pm
Fri. Oct. 30 -  Spooky Story Day
                      All School Parade and Classroom Halloween Party

Progress Notes came home today.  Please check your child's home folder, sign and return the note on Tuesday.

Magazine Drive Pizza Party!
Our class won the prize for having the most participation!  40% of our class participated in bringing in magazine subscriptions!  Thank you to all who participated!  Thank you to our PTO for surprising us with a pizza lunch!

Our pizza lunch will be on Wednesday, Oct. 14.  Cheese pizza and a juice box will be served.  If your child would prefer another lunch, they can bring it, and of course celebrate with us in the room.  Thank you again PTO!

Reading - This week we will be reading Tarra and Bella, a nonfiction story about an elephant and a dog who became best friends.  We'll finish our research writing and also focus on the comprehension strategy of using context clues.

Grammar focus will be adjectives this week.

Math - We'll continue to look at 2 digit addition this week.  We'll begin with mental math, then model problems with and without regrouping, and use symbols to compare numbers.

Estimation Jar Winners - Emily and Alyssa
New Student of the Week - Grant
Positive Paw Winner - Ken

October 5 - 9

Dates to Remember

Tues. Oct. 6 - Fall Picture Day
          Please return payment envelope or pay online
Wed. Oct 7 - Literacy Night at Ide
Fri. Oct. 9 - Early Dismissal  11:35
                   Progress Notes sent home with all students
Mon. Oct. 12 - No School  Columbus Day
Fri. Oct. 23 - PTO Family Halloween Party
Fri. Oct. 30 - Classroom Halloween Parties

Reading
Our focus this week be on collecting research and learning about text features.  Students will be researching either hippos or the Aldabra Tortoise (both characters in Owen and Mzee).  We'll discuss author's message and relate it to the essential question, "How can stories help us learn life lessons?"

We will focus on shared research.  The students will pull important information from a text and put those facts into an expository paragraph.

Reading Logs - Almost every student returned their September reading log and was able to enjoy a fun lunch in the room!  We will start all over again this month and work toward a new reward as well as a Pizza Hut certificate!  Nice job everyone!

Grammar focus will be on adjectives and action verbs this month.

Math
This week we will focus on place value and two digit addition.  Continue to work on math facts at home.  The students have many fun apps on their ipads to help with this important skill.

Estimation Jar Winners - Ava, Kate, and Jake
New Student of the Week - David
Positive Paw Winner - Olivia

Sept. 28 - Oct. 2

Dates to Remember...
Sat. Sept. 26 - Team 66 Family Day
Tues. Sept. 29 - Last Magazine Drive turn in day
Wed. Sept. 30 - Go For the Goal Day * Wear your football tshirt/jersey
Thurs. Oct. 1 - Reading logs are due
Tues. Oct. 6 - Fall Picture Day
Wed. Oct. 7 - Literacy Night
Fri. Oct. 9 - Early Dismissal  11:35
Mon. Oct. 12 - No School  Columbus Day

Reading
Reading logs are due on or before Thurs. Oct. 1.  Our class voted to have lunch in the room as their reward!  All students who return completed logs will be able to have lunch in the room and watch a fun movie.

Thank You for filling out the Name Jar information this week.  We had some wonderful conversations about the origin of the students' names!  Students designed their own name stamp and wrote in their journals about their names.  

This week we will read the text, Owen and Mzee.  It is a story about 2 animals that formed a bridge of friendship, that also helped them live happier lives.  Discussion will focus around author's purpose and we'll talk about using context clues to find the meaning of unknown words in a text.  

Grammar lessons will focus on plural nouns this week.    

Math  this week we will continue to work with story problems and we'll also review addition strategies.  Our unit 1 test will be on Wednesday.  Our next unit will focus on place value.  

Our second 5 minute addition and subtraction timings will take place this week.  Please encourage your child to practice thier math facts at home with one of the fact fluency apps or Xtra Math.  
   
Estimation Jar Winners - Sara and Ben
New Student of the Week - Aili
Positive Paw Winner - Jania

Have a great fall weekend!

September 21 - 25

Fall is in the air!                                                                  

Math - We are continuing to work on addition strategies, odd and even numbers, number lines and patterns.  We've been adding lots of activities to our Math Work Places to help us practice addition strategies and subitizing.

Next week we will focus on stubtraction strategies and using our number racks to help solve story problems.

Reading - This week we will read do a close read of Weird Friends:  Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom.  We will read to determine the main purpose of a text and also discuss how specific images in a book help to clarify the text.  Next we will read, The Name Jar.  This story is about a little girl who recently moved to America from Korea and is getting used to a new school.  Students are bringing home a "questionaire" today.  Please take a few minutes to answer the questions relating to your son/daughter's name.  We will be discussing our names next week and this information will be helpful.

Literacy Night - Our first Literacy Night of the year will be on Wed. October 7.  The deadline to sign up is today, Sept. 18.  Follow the link below if you are interested.  The evening is for both parents and kids!

Literacy Night

Spelling - Our first spelling test will be next Friday, Sept. 25.

BOOK FAIR - I hope everyone enjoyed the Book Fair and Ice Cream Social last evening!  Thank you to the Hines, Durkin, Spencer, and Flannery families for donating money for new classroom books!  I was able to purchase lots of fun books for us to read!  The kids were SO excited to see them on Friday morning!  Thanks also to those parents who volunteered their time to scoop ice cream and sell books.  We so appreciate you!  Thank You!

Magazine Drive turn in dates - Tuesday, Sept 22
                                             Thurs. Sept. 24
                                                                    Tues. Sept. 29

IPads - We have had great fun this week as we have looked at apps to use during our Reading and Math blocks.  The students received earbuds which they will be keeping at school.  Please support us by not installing apps from home.  The ipads are intended for instructional use only. 

Positive Paw Winner - Alyssa

New Student of the Week - Ariana

Estimation Jar Winner - Emily

Dates to Remember
Thurs. Sept. 24 - Early Dismissal  11:35
Sat. Sept. 26 -TEAM66 Fall Family Day and BBQ
Mon. Sept. 28 - Art to Remember artwork is due
Tues. Oct. 6 - Picture Day at Ide
Wed. Oct. 7 - Literacy Night Daily 5 Night at Ide

September 14 - 18

We're Getting in the Groove!

Reading  We're finished with our Fall Reading and Math MAPS Assessments.  Next week the studens will take the AimsWeb Reading test (on Wed morning).  We'll continue our launching of Daily 5 by working on Word Work as well as continue to build stamina on Read to Self, Read to Someone and Work on Writing.  

We'll begin on our first Literacy Unit, Friendship.  We'll read books and do activities focusing on "What it means to be a good friend".  We'll learn about character traits and compare and contrast various characters in the texts.  We'll also practice making text to text connections.  

Literacy Night will be held on Wed. Oct. 7 in the evening at Elizabeth Ide.  Follow the link below for information and to register.  

Register for Literacy Night

Math - This week we will finish our chapter on number facts by working with number combinations to ten and more.  Then we'll begin a new chapter focusing on Addition and Subtraction Strategies.  We'll start with Doubles and Halves, then Doubles Plus or Minus One.  We'll continue to review odd and even numbers.  

Spelling - Your child will be given their first word sort on Monday.  We have been practicing how to work with the sorts this week.  Please encourage your child to work with the words each night.   No test will be given this week.  

Science - We will learn about the last of the 5 food groups, the Grain Group.  The students have learned not only why we need to eat a balanced diet, but what those food can do to maintain a healthy body.  

iPads - We spent time today discussing proper care, use, and safety of the iPads.  We also took a "scavenger hunt" learning about the basics functions of the iPad.  Please help in reinforcing responsibility with your child's iPad.  They know to be sure it's fully charged when arriving at school each day.  

                         

Dates to Remember

Monday, Sept. 14 - District Magazine Kickoff Assembly

Thursday. Sept. 17 - Fall Book Fair and Ice Cream Social at Ide

Thursday, Sept. 24 - Early Dismissal  11:35

Thursday, Oct. 1 - Reading Logs are due

Tuesday, Oct. 7 - Literacy Night at Ide  

Positive Paw Winners - Dane and Caitlin 

Estimation Jar Winners -  Ariana and Emily

New Student of the Week -  Sophia

It was so nice to see all of you at Curriculum Night!  I enjoyed meeting with you again and hope I was able to answer some of your questions about 2nd grade. Feel free to email me if you have any specific questions or concerns.  

We had a GREAT week!  Have a nice weekend!

September 7 - 11

It's Official!  We're the Golden Eagles!

Curriculum Night for 2nd grade parents is Wednesday, September 9 at 6:00.  The evening is for parents only please.  We will talk about this year's curriculum, daily procedures, and iPads.  Please be sure to bring your child's apple id on Wednesday evening.  Any questions, please call the school office.  I'm looking forward to seeing you all again!  

Reading  Students will be taking the MAPs Reading and Math tests this week.  It is a test taken on the computer similar to those they took last year.  The kids should be familiar with it.  Our class will be taking the tests each day in the morning.  

We have been working on our Daily 5 structure and are building stamina during Read To Self and Read to Someone.  We've learned how to choose "Good Fit" books.   We'll begin Work on Writing and learn what good writers do to develop independence.  We'll be reading several selections to learn how to make good text-to-self connections.  

Grammar - We'll begin working on nouns this week.    

Science  We will continue a unit on nutrition!  We met "Little D and the Royal Food Family" and learned the importance of eating foods from all 5 food groups.  Ask your child what they have learned about the milk and meat groups.  This week we will learn about the vegetable and fruit groups.

Math   We'll continue to work on our first unit, Sorting and Graphing.  We've been introduced to Work Places and will continue to practice using them.  

Dates to Remember 
Wednesday, Sept. 9 - 2nd Grade Curriculum Night  6:00 - 7:30 pm
Thursday, Sept. 17 - Book Fair and Ice Cream Social at Ide  6:30 pm  
Thursday, Sept. 24 - Early Dismissal  11:35

Estimation Jar Winners  - Jack B. and Ben                            
                                 
Positive Paw Winner  - Jack W.

Have a great weekend!

August 31 - September 4

Welcome to 2nd Grade!

We have had a terrific first few days!  The kids are adjusting to new routines and especially our early start! Curriculum Night is Wednesday, September 9.  Please mark your calendars ~ I'm looking forward to seeing you all again.  

Dates to Remember:

Mon. Sept. 7 - No School  Labor Day
Week of Sept. 8 - MAPS Testing (Reading and Math)
Week of Sept. 14 - Benchmark Testing (Reading and Math)
Wed. Sept 9 - Curriculum Night  6 - 7:30 pm
Thurs. Sept. 24 - Early Dismissal

If you have any specific questions or information that I should know, send a note with your child or email me at joliver@ccsd66.org.  I will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Next week we will be doing some classroom reading assessments, starting our math program, and taking a spelling inventory.  Here's a peek at our great class!  

Education is a partnership between parents, school, and community.  Together we can make school enjoyable, fun, and challenging.  Thanks in advance for working with me to make 2nd grade a great year!

Mrs. Oliver

Last Few Days...

Picnic Day was terrific!!

Thank you to all the parent volunteers who made the day so nice for us!  The weather was nice and cool, we had tons of pizza for lunch, and lots of tired kids at the end of the day. Success!  

Estimation Jar Winners - Filip and Marifer

Monday, June 8 - 

         1.  Pizza Lunch today for winning the Boxtop Contest!   If your child would prefer something other than pizza, please send it.  

         2.  We will be cleaning out desks and cubbies.  Supplies will be coming home.  Please send an extra bag for school supplies.  

Tuesday, June 9 - Early Dismissal at 12:00

       1.  Please send a backpack and snack today.  Students will be bringing home a few items as well as their Report Card and a backpack is necessary.  

       2.  Six Flags Tickets (for those that earned them) will be in the students' report card envelopes.  

Thank you once again for all your support this year.  I've really enjoyed spending my days with your children and loved watching them grow and learn.  They are ready for 3rd grade!  

Stay in touch!  I always love to hear how "my kids" are doing.  I've promised the kids that if they email me, I will always email back!  Have a terrific summer with your families!

Janet

June 1 - 9

Our Little Free Library is here!!

We dedicated our Little Free Library on Wednesday morning!  It was such an exciting time to see our project for the first time!  Jake Burrows (LV Class of 2014) designed and built the structure as part of his Eagle Scout project.  Each 2nd grader signed the bench and it was dedicated to our students.  Check it out if you haven't already!

Sunglasses Day!

For ABC Countdown this week, we wore Sunglasses!  

Dates to Remember...
Wed. June 3 - Pen Pal visit to Prairieview
Fri. June 5 - All School Picnic
Tues. June 9 - Last Day of School
                        12:00 Dismissal
                     
Positive Paw Winner - Ashlyn
Estimation Jar Winners - TJ, Sean, Alyssa, Marifer, and Gio

Our class won the BOX TOP Collection Contest!!  Thank you so much for your help in collecting 2091 boxtops!  We are so excited to have won a Pizza Party!  Our class will enjoy a pizza lunch before the end of the year.  Thanks also to Mrs. Harvat for organizing this great fundraiser!

Things to Remember

 1.  Report Cards will go home with students on Tuesday.  If your child will not be in school, please stop by the school office after Tuesday to pick it up.

2.  Your child will be bringing their supplies home on Monday, June 8.  Please send a bag with your child for all their supplies, notebooks, etc.

3.  Math money will be sent home on Friday, May 29.