4 Days and Counting....

This week is a shortened 4 day week.  Therefore, we will not be reading a story out of our Reading Street series and will NOT have our regularly scheduled tests this week. We will be working on our benchmarks that come at the end of each unit.  In Math we will continue to work on skills including: change back, adding & subtracting money amounts, subtraction with regrouping, and multiplication.  We will have an addition & subtraction timed test on Wednesday morning.  There will be NO Home Links assigned this week but I will send home all necessary homework in the communication folder.  Please make it a point to practice the skills mentioned above at home with your child.  Thursday is Field Day and the kids are super excited!  This year it is beach themed so there will be water involved so teachers have been instructed to advise parents to send students in with a change of clothes, a towel, and shoes that are able to be wet.  We will also have lunch in the room on Thursday, and the lunchroom will provide sack lunches only so if your child would like something other than peanut butter & jelly you are more than welcome to send a lunch from home for them to enjoy.  We are looking forward to a great week!

Wizard of Oz Field Trip

  On Wednesday 2nd grade took a Field Trip to Mathis City Auditorium to see the play of "The Wizard of Oz".  The play was very engaging and the students really had a great time.  The cast of the play made it possible for the students to interact throughout the different musical numbers.  In my opinion, this made the students feel as though they weren't just watching the play, but they were a part of it as well. 

     

Book Fair

Last week Dewar had our annual Spring Scholastic Book Fair.  It was so much fun and had lots of good stuff!  Kids and teachers came to shop and found great books!  They even had cool erasers, pens, and pencils for sale.  One of the hot items was the eraser shaped like an iPhone.  Lego Ninjago books seemed to be the hot selling item on the boy's list. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid books were on the top of the list as well.  On Wednesday, we held the Book Fair, a cake auction for our Hugry at Home in Lowndes County, and had family night from 3-6pm.  It was a great success and a wonderful time for all who were involved.  I always look forward to the Book Fair and now I can't wait for next year...I can't ever have too many children's books. 



Graded Papers

A packet of graded papers were sent home today in each child's folder.  Please look through these papers with your child and go over the papers with them.  Praise them for their hard work and take time to review the pages and skills they may be struggling with.  It is important that they use these papers to help them study at home so they can better understand the concepts when we are discussing them at school, as they build on one another.  If you find as you are reviewing at home that your child is still struggling with a specific concept or skill, I encourage you to look that particular skill up on Study Island.  Study Island provides a fun way to encourage students to approach studying skills and concepts they may not understand quite as well as others.  You can access Study Island directly at http://www.studyisland.com/ or from my class website under the "Useful Links" tab.  If you have any questions or concerns about anything your child brought home today, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Celebrating all of my "Things" in honor of Dr. Seuss

In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday on Friday, March 2nd Ms. Callahan made each student a "thing" placard and then each student that did not have a crazy hat got to wear my Dr. Seuss hat and take a picture.  A few of my little "things" are missing, but most of them are here.  We had a fabulous day celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday!

 

Crazy Vocabulary Hat Day

We had some very creative and crazy vocabulary hats last Friday in our classroom.  The students really did a great job!  I was so proud of all of them and they were excited to show of their creations too.:)

Dollar & Cents Notation

The students are working very hard to grasp the concept of dollar and cents notation.  On this particular day they worked with Ms. Callahan and created a table that showed them how to properly categorize the numbers they were given in the correct dollars and cents notation and their representations for $1.00.