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.

May 25 - 29

Aaron Reynolds Comes to Elizabeth Ide!!

We had a very exciting assembly this afternoon with well known children's book author, Aaron Reynolds.  

Dates to Remember

Mon. May 25 - No School Memorial Day
Fril. May 29 - Sunglasses Day
Wed. June 2 - Pen Pal Field Trip to PV
Fri. June 5 - All School Picnic
Tues. June 9 - Last day of 2nd grade
                        Dismissal at 12:00

Positive Paw Winner - Maddie
Estimation Jar Winners - Filip, Arianna, Cam, TJ, Lindsy

Math - We will continue to work on skills needed for 3rd grade:  Elasped time, congruent shapes, measurement using capacity.  Please encourage your child to work on math facts at home!

Reading - We have received our pen pal letters from Mrs. Olsen's 3rd grade class!  Next week we will be learning about the structure of a friendly letter and reading a few books that model this process.  Then we will write our letters back to our pen pals!  Our visit to Prairieview is on Wednesday, June 3.  This is such an exciting event for our kids!  They will get a chance to talk to their pen pals, ask them questions, play a few games with them, and take a tour around the building with Mrs. Olsen.

Reading Incentive Sunglasses Day is Friday, May 29!  Wear your sunglasses to school!

Reading logs for May are due on Monday, June 1.  The class voted to have freeze pops and an extra recess as this month's reward.  Please encourage your child to return their completed log so everyone can join us!

Social Studies - We will continue to work on Map Skills this week.  We'll learn to use a compas rose, we'll make a map using symbols, and practice finding things on a map using a map grid.

Spelling  - Next Friday, May 29, will be our final spelling test for the school year.

Summer Birthdays - Ariella - June 23
                                 Gage - July 12
                                 Gio - July 18
                                 Joseph - July 28

                                          

May 18 - 22

Brookfield Zoo Field Trip!

We had a perfect day at the zoo!  We started out in a lab learning about Animal Bites.   We looked closely at real animal skulls to practice identifying herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.  Then we had a chance to explore around the zoo.  Thanks to our chaperones, Mrs. Harvat, Mrs. Kasper, and Mrs. Macek.  What a great day!  

Dates to Remember

Tues. May 19 - Summer Library Presentation

Fri. May 22 - Aaron Reynolds visit to Ide

Mon. May 25 - No School  Memorial Day

Wed. June 3 - Pen Pal visit to Prairieview 

Fri. June 5 - All School Picnic

Tues. June 9 - Last day of school  

Math - We'll continue our Step Up to 3rd Grade lessons.  This week we'll focus on Ploygons and Adding and Subtracting in Geometry.  No tests will be given on this material.  

Reading and Language Arts - This week we'll be reading The Three Little Pigs and The Three Little Javalinas.  Our focus will be on retelling and comparing the points of view of different characters in the stories. 

Vocabulary Words:  bundle, load, turnips, churn, fortune, and blazing

Little Free Library - We are excited to see our year long project come to a conclusion by the installation of our Little Free Library next weekend.  Look for it at the entrance to the school right out on Manning Road.  The students had a hand in designing it, filling it, and will hopefully enjoy returning to Ide in the future to check on it.  

Estimation Jar Winners - Mikella and Brendan

Positive Paw Winner - Marifer

May 11 - 15

We Said Goodbye...

On Monday, we released our 10 butterflies.  The kids were sad to see them go.  We all enjoyed watching their transformation from tiny larvae into adult butterflies.

Thank You to all of the students for the cute handmade cards and flowers.  They were so sweet and it really started my day with a smile.  Thanks also to our PTO and parents who contributed toward the delicious lunches and desserts that were provided to our staff this week.  Each day we were treated to a wonderful lunch.  We are so grateful for all you do!  

Dates to Remember

Wed. May 13 - Brookfield Zoo field trip

                               *  Please be on time to school as we will leave shortly after 9:00

                               *  Dress for the weather

                               *  Bring a sack lunch in something disposable

Fri. May 15 - Early Dismissal  12:00
Tues. May 19 - Library Summer Reading Presentation

Fri. May 22 - Aaron Reynolds Assembly

Mon. May 25 - No School  Memorial Day

Tues. May 27 - Dedication of our Little Free Library                 

Estimation Jar Winners - Gio and Alyssa

Positive Paw Winner - Alyssa

Math - We will continue to work on lessons preparing us for 3rd Grade.  We've finished learning about multiplication and division and writing number stories for each.  This week we'll focus on Fractions.  

Social Studies - This week we'll finish our unit on Our Country Long Ago.  We'll discuss slavery as well as historical figures Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln, who have influenced our nation.  

Reading - We'll read a text by Aaron Reynolds this week, Carnivores.  Mr. Reynolds will be visiting our school later this month!  Carnivores is a humorous tale about 3 carnivores, a lion, shark, and timber wolf who realize that it's lonely at the top of the food chain.  They decide to become vegetarians to start making more friends.  They try disguises as well.  It doesn't work out at all.  They finally learn to accept themselves and feel at peace.  

Vocabulary words this week:  frenzies, misleading, carnivores, vegetarian, disguise, appetite

We'll work on writing a story summary and answering the Five "W" Questions (who, what, when, where, and why) about a story.  We'll also discuss the topic of debating a subject.  The students will read a selection, form an opinion, then support their opinion with reasons.  

May 4 - 8

Fuzzy Friends Come for a Visit!

Dates to Remember
Week of May 4 - Benchmark Reading and Math Tests
Wed. May 13 - Field trip to Brookfield Zoo
                        *  Bring a sack lunch and dress for the weather
Fri. May 15 - Early Dismissal  12:00
Tues. May 19 - Library Presentatiion - Summer Reading Programs
Fri. May 22 - Aaron Reynolds Assembly
Mon. May 25 - No School  Memorial Day

Estimation Jar Winner - Aleck
Positive Paw Winner - Filip

Reading and Science - This week we will focus on retelling as we read 2 selections about ants.  Two Bad Ants is a fiction story about 2 ants who decide to leave the safety of their home and explore a kitchen.  Ant is a non fiction story about the life cycle, habitats, and different types of ants.  We'll compare and contrast the two selections and work on the reading strategy of visualization.   Grammar lessons will focus on compound words.

We finished reading our books on owls this week.  Our final activity was to dissect owl pellets.  Hopefully your child showed you the mole bones they found.  Ask them about it!

Students are carefully dissecting their owl pellets.

All 10 of our butterflies emerged from their chrysalises!  We were able to witness 4 of them actually coming out.  It was amazing to watch!  We'll have to let them go on Monday, but it has been interesting to learn all about their life cycle up close.

Vocabulary words for this week:  hovered, violently, deemed, chamber, plunged

Remember to return reading logs for April.  The class voted to have an extra recess as their reward this month.  It would be great if everyone could participate!

Math  We have completed the chapter on Time, Graphs, and Data.  We're now working on a unit called Step Up To Grade 3!!  We started today by working on connecting what we've learned about repeated addition and connecting it to Multiplication.  We wrote multiplcation stories and drew pictures to match our stories.  Up next is Division!