field trip

Thank you Mrs. McMullen and Mrs. DeBoer for joining us on our field trip to the Hershey Fire Station this morning.  All the students had a wonderful time and enjoying looking and getting inside those big trucks!! And it was a beautiful day for a walk. :)  Here are some pictures of our trip.

Fall Party

Thank you everyone who helped with donating time and treats for our Fall Party. It was a huge success!  As I'm sure you've heard, we had so much fun decorating our pumpkin pets and playing muscial chairs.  Below are a few pictures from our party.

 

Lancaster Science Factory and more

Thank you so much Mrs. Moniak, Mrs. Nambiar and Mr. Mehaffie for volunteering to come with us to the LSF.  We all had a wonderful time. The students really enjoyed learning and playing with Physical Science activities.  If any volunteers have pictures they'd like to share, please email them to me.  Below are a few that I was able to take but I wasn't able to get pictures of all the students in the class. :(
This has been a chilly week. Thank you for sending jackets with your children.  They will be going outside daily.  Please encourage them to dress appropriately.
Class Party is this Friday, Oct. 25th from 1-2.  Thank you to all that have volunteered to help or to donate items.  We're really looking forward to our first class party.
Students have enjoyed making a class scarecrow.  This week we're in the process of writing a descriptive paragraph about the scarecrow.
For next week, we'll be having several special activities.  On Monday, Oct. 28th we will have a Halloween Safety talk, on Tues. 29th, we'll be walking to the Fire house in the morning and on Wed. 30th we'll be having a bus safety assembly.  In addition, trick or treat will be on Thurs. night.  It should prove to be an interesting week.

This week

Parents,
Thank you for coming to BTSN.  It was a great evening to talk with you.  This week we will begin Unit 2 in reading.  There will be a spelling and reading test on Friday. 
We're continuing to learn the differences between fiction and non-fiction writing so that we would be able to write in both modes. We will begin brainstorming about our Scarecrow and then writing about him.
Today we had a severe weather drill. This was during music time. I'm sure the students did well.
Here are a few pictures of students with our scarecrow.

Back To School Night!

Hi all!
The students and I are hoping that you will be able to make it tonight to Back to School Night.  It's held from 6:00-7:30.  The students have worked to display some work,want to show you around our room, and explain what they do all day.  They especially want to show you our class Scarecrow.  It was a fun class activity and we're enjoying all of the other 2nd grade classroom scarecrows too!  Please stop by this evening and let your child "walk" you through his/her day!  Thanks.  See you tonight!!!

Test and Next Week

Parents,
I cleaned up the Box folders and now only your child's tests should be in his/her files.  If you still see another student's test results in your child's file please let me know and I'll go in and move it.  Students should have 3 reading and 3 spelling tests in their files; unit1, weeks 3,4,&5.  To view the questions for the Reading Street test, please log into RS with your child and go to their work.  You can pull up each test and review the questions with your child. In addition, if your child did not score well on a particular skill he/she will have activities under their "to do" folder which will review those skills. For extra practice, you may want your child to do those activities.

Also, next week we will be doing a unit 1 review in reading.  We will review all skills that have been taught this unit and we'll end with a unit test.  There will not be any new spelling words or a spelling test next week.
For math, we'll continue unit 2 addition and subtraction strategies.  We will begin our Weather unit in science and continue talking about autumn and the changes that come with it for writing.  Please make sure your child brings in the item assigned to he/she to make our classroom scarecrow.  It should be a fun activity which will enhance our writing process.

Our specials for next week will be; Mon-day5-art, Tues- day6-gym, Wed-day1-computer, Thurs-day2-library, Fri-day3-gym

One last thing; Back to School Night is on Thursday, Oct. 10 from 6-7:30. Hope to see you there.  I will have conferences and party sign ups out for you that evening.

As always, if you have questions or concerns please email or call me.  Thank you.

Finally I figured it out!

Hi Parents,
Thank you for your patience as I troubleshooted with this blogger account.  We are now back up and running.

• We have a few housekeeping things to take care of;
• we are still in need of 1 or 2 volunteers for the LSF trip on Oct. 22, you should have seen a note come home yesterday regarding items needed to make a class scarecrow.  Please send in those items by Monday. 
• We will have a Halloween Safety talk with Officer Kepple on Oct. 28th. 
• We have a bus assembly on Oct 30th
• We have a walking field trip to the Fire House on Oct. 29th.
• Our room parents are Lotte's mom and Lydia's mom

I think that's it for now.  Thank you again for being patient with me while I was fixing my blog issues.  Please continue to email me if you're having any difficulties or concerns that need to be discussed.  Thanks so much.