Parent Teacher Conferences

Thank you to all who took the time to come meet with me to discuss your child's progress in school. Talking together provides an opportunity to share about home and school and ways to assist each other in helping your child be successful at school. I enjoyed meeting with each of you and hope you find the information included in your folder helpful as you work with your child at home. Enjoy the recipes from our class as our Thanksgiving gift to you! Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving

Our class studied about Thanksgiving this week. On Monday we learned about the Native Americans-the Wampanoag tribe through the book entitled Tappenum's Day. Mrs. Wells made a circle the exact size of a wetu and we tried to imagine how crowded it would be to live inside with 10 people! On Tuesday we studied about the Pilgrims through the books Sarah Morton's Day and Samuel Eaton's Day. On Wednesday we learned about the Mayflower through the book Life on the Mayflower. Students enjoyed a Pilgrim breakfast in the morning. In the afternoon we pretended to be tween decks on the Mayflower and enjoyed a Mayflower meal. And on Thursday, we studied about the terrific turkey through the book Turkeys. To bring together all our studies, students made a mural about what they had discovered each day. We were all excited to travel back in time to learn about the history of our country.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Just a reminder! Parent Teacher Conferences are Monday, November 24 and Tuesday, November 25 starting at 2:30 and ending at 7:00. All parents have an assigned time slot. Remember notices will be sent home on Friday. I look forward to meeting with each of you to discuss your child's progress and learn more from you about your child. See you then!

Veteran's Day

The second grade teachers have planned an activity to teach our students about Veteran's Day. On Monday, Jim Rogers, (kindergarten teacher, Tiffany Rogers' husband) will speak to the second grade about Veteran's Day. He served during Desert Storm. We will also be reading the book about John McCain's life. The second grade teachers made a flag on the wall in the hallway outside the gym to honor Veteran's during the month of November. All students and staff were given a star in keeping with our theme "Our Veteran's are our stars!" to decorate with the name of a Veteran family member or friend. They could also include the branch of service, a photo copy of a photograph, years served, and/or places they were stationed. Students returned the stars to school to be placed on our wall. Students and staff are enjoying reading the "stars" on our flag. We will leave the stars up through parent/teacher conferences for all to view.

Students are learning to write a friendly letter. Students selected a favorite aspect of second grade to write about to a first grade student. In this way they can tell first grade students about the changes in their life to second grade. We have scheduled a time to read our letters to Mrs. Hoesman's first grade class next week. Hopefully, we will have grown in our letter writing skills while giving our first grade friends some insight into second grade.

Our class is finishing a chapter on habitats in science. They made habitat booklets showing the landscape and animals that live in each habitat. Science books were sent home to review for the test this week.

As Thanksgiving approaches, we begin to think about our Thanksgiving dinners. Students brought home a recipe form to be filled out with a favorite recipe from your family. Thank you for taking the time to share a recipe with us.