Jolly and JoJo's Adventures in 2F

Jolly and JoJo had a great time in our classroom. They left and are back up at the North Pole (I went to school today to check that they were gone). Here are some pictures of some of the adventures they had in 2F!

NEWS FOR THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS

WE HAVE A VERY BUSY WEEK AHEAD. ON FRIDAY IT WILL BE GRINCH DAY. KIDS CAN WEAR GREEN OR RED OR ANY COMBINATION. IT IS ALSO PAJAMA DAY SO THEY CAN WEAR PAJAMAS. PLEASE MAKE SURE STUDENTS WEAR SHOES ON THE BUS AND THEY CAN CHANGE INTO THEIR SLIPPERS ONCE IN SCHOOL IF THEY WANT TO OR THEY CAN WEAR SNEAKERS OR SHOES WITH THEIR PAJAMAS.  THIS IS OPTIONAL!

ON FRIDAY WE ARE WATCHING THE PG MOVIE THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS AND HAVING CANDY CANES AND HOT COCOA. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOUR CHILD HAS AN ALLERGY!

THIS WEEK THE SPELLING TEST WILL BE ON THURSDAY. LISTS ARE COMING HOME ON MONDAY. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD STUDIES THE WORDS AS THERE IS ONLY ONE LIST THIS WEEK.

THIS WEEK WE ARE CONDUCTING MAGNET EXPERIMENTS TO GO ALONG WITH OUR WONDERS READING STORY "I FALL DOWN".  WE ARE ALSO WRAPPING UP OUR UNIT ON SUBTRACTION IN MATH AND ON WEDNESDAY THE STUDENTS WILL BE TESTED.

HOMEWORK THIS WEEK: PLEASE READ MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THERE WILL BE NO HOMEWORK ON THURSDAY BUT STUDENTS DO NEED TO ALSO GO ONTO REFLEX MATH AT LEAST TWICE THIS WEEK.

Hello Dolly comes to LHS!

Congratulations to Nathan who will be performing in Hello Dolly! at Leominster High School this weekend! Come see Nathan and cheer him on at LHS Friday night and Saturday night at 7 pm...tickets available at the door and are $10 for students! Oh, and that girl with him is my daughter Olivia who is playing Minnie Fay!

IMPORTANT REMINDERS FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 8

We are visiting the Elf Shoppe on Monday, December 12 at 12:45 pm. Parents are welcome to shop with their children.

Students are encouraged to donate $1 (or more if you'd like) for a student in K2 who is undergoing Leukemia treatments. Money will be collected next week (Dec. 12 - 16). If our school raises $500, we can celebrate with a pajama day for kids on Dec. 23rd.

This week we are writing persuasive letters in writing. We are talking about what makes a good reason, and writing letters to Dr. O'Hearn-Curran asking if we can have a Grinch Day in the next two weeks!

Our Chrome Books arrived! The students have started using them. Tomorrow we will be doing Book Buddies with Mrs. Barnaby's class, who will show us how to log in and the things we can do with them! I will set up another Donors Choose in a few months to try and raise money for three months!

Holiday Elf Shoppe

We are visiting the Holiday Elf Shoppe on December 12th (Monday). We are shopping from 12:45 to 1:15 pm. Parents and grandparents are welcome to shop with their child. It's a great fair where students can purchase inexpensive gifts for family members, and it is sponsored by the PTO. Red notices were sent home about it today so be on the lookout for it!

THE FLAG FLEW IN OUR CLASS'S HONOR AT THE U.S. CAPITOL!

Thank you to the Washington, D.C. Police Department for flying the flag in our class's honor at the U.S. Capitol last week! Richie received the flag on Monday along with Flat Stanley, who shared in the festivities in Washington, D.C. Richie's family has a friend who is a police officer in Washington, D.C!

HABITAT PROJECT PICTURES!

Donors Choose Update

We only have to raise $103 more to reach our goal of purchasing three Chrome books for our classroom through Donors Choose!!!!!

What's Coming Up in 2F

-Next week the second grade students will be having a special Thanksgiving snack on Tuesday. It will consist of apple juice and muffins. If your child has an allergy, please send in a different snack.

-Next week students will be participating in heart healthy activities in the gym. Please have them wear sneakers both days!

-The habitat projects are FANTASTIC!!! I will be posting pics later but please know they will be on display during Parent-Teacher conferences next week. Parents are welcome to take home the dioramas at that time. This Friday we are going on a "Habitat Walk". Students will visit each other's classrooms in second grade to look at everyone's projects!

-Thank you for all of the food donations for the Thanksgiving food baskets! We appreciate your generosity!

-Our class is at 47 percent fluency in Reflex Math! I hope to get up to 50 percent by December, and 100 percent by June. Please continue to go on Reflex Math twice a week until you hit the green light. Thank you for all of your support!

We Are Trying to Raise Funds To Purchase Three Chrome Books For Our Classroom

I want to make sure my students have the materials they need to succeed, so I just created a request for my classroom at DonorsChoose.org: Superhero Students Soar with Technology.

Give to my classroom by November 22 and your donation will be doubled thanks to DonorsChoose.org. Just enter the code LIFTOFF on the payment page and you'll be matched dollar for dollar (up to $50).

If you chip in to help my students, you'll get awesome photos and our heartfelt thanks.

Thanks so much!

Mrs. Wilson

P.S. If you know anyone who may want to help my classroom, please pass this along!

Reminder - We are visiting the Scholastic Book Fair this week! Students will be going with the second grade class that they travel to specials with. Parents and grandparents are welcome to shop with their child!

There will be NO spelling lists this week due to the shortened week. A reading log will go home and is due on Thursday. Students should also go onto Reflex Math two times this week. Thank you!

Election Results!

Our schoolwide election results for president are in!

Clinton - 374

Trump - 174

Johnson - 36

Stein - 13

Habitat Projects due Nov. 16 - Please see your teacher if you need any supplies!

Books and Beyond Is Officially Up And Running Again - 1/2 sheet bonus week - Sheets due on Thursday!

Bewitching Blueberry Pancakes Recipe

On Monday students will be reading one of my favorite seasonal books, Old Black Witch. In this adorable picture book, Old Black Witch is a pro at making blueberry pancakes. Here is the recipe if you want to try to make them at home!

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 beaten egg
3/4 cup milk
3 tablespoons melted fat or oil
1/2 cup washed blueberries

As you stir in the blueberries (this is the magic part) say three times:

Gooble dee gook
With a wooden spoon,
The laugh of a toad
At the height of the moon!

Pour on a hot griddle and watch.

You can make things disappear just like Old Black Witch. Put three pancakes in front of any hungry boy or girl and watch them go!

There will be NO reading log assigned for Monday, October 31. A habitat project will be coming home on Tuesday for students to begin working on. Please save a shoe box for the project!

We're Off To See The Wizard!

We had a fantastic day at the Wizard of Oz Fair! The students watched a skit by the fifth grade students and listened to the JA chorus perform "Over the Rainbow". Then students took part in games and arts and crafts in the gymnasium. The day culminated the month-long school-wide read aloud of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!"

FLAT STANLEY CONTINUES ON HIS JOURNEY ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES AND BEYOND!!!!!!

Firefighter Rob From the Leominster Fire Department Pays a Visit to 2F!

HERE'S WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS COMING WEEK

Writing - This week we are finishing up our personal narratives. A narrative is a real story about something that happened in a person's past. It includes a "small moment" with a lot of detail. A narrative can be about a vacation somebody took, a trip to the store, or riding a bike for the first time. It is factual and can include dialogue. We are learning about quotation marks, and how to properly use them in our writing.

Homework alert - Students on Tuesday will be coming home with a construction paper pumpkin that they will need to decorate and return to school on Wednesday. We will use the paper pumpkins to write dialogue in school. 

Social Studies - We are concluding the first part of our social studies unit on maps and globes. For the past few weeks we have studied the continents and their locations. This week we are also studying the four major oceans. Students are coming home with a map of the world. They will be assessed on their knowledge of the locations of the seven continents and four oceans on Friday! Please help your child look over the study guide coming home on Tuesday! Students will be given a word bank to assist them on the test. 

Math - We are continuing with our unit on arrays and even/odd numbers. Three times a week students take a "Mad Minute", and on Friday I take an assessment on how many problems a student can correctly solve within a minute and a half. Last week we focused on addition. This week we will continue with addition before moving on to subtraction. As the year goes along we will decrease the time to one minute. Please help your child study his or her basic facts to become more fluent in solving math facts. This will ultimately make solving word problems much easier for students. 

Reading - In reading we will be learning about features of non-fiction texts. This week we are reading about different occupations , and students will come home later in the week with an assignment in which they need to interview a family member, relative, or friend about their job.

Walk to School Day was a huge success today! We had a fantastic time and even met the mayor! He told us that he received our letters and had been reading them. Thanks to all of the parents who walked with us. We had great weather and some of the kids asked if we could do this every day!