Christmas Around the World

The 2nd grade classes had such a great time studying Christmas Around the World this year.  Your child should be coming home with their scrapbook as well as their QR code boarding pass!

Here is a picture of the many items we created this week.

Here are a few pictures from our tasting party.  Thank you so much to the parents who sent in items to make this party possible!!  They LOVED it!

Weekly Update December 9-13

Christmas Around the World

This week the 2nd grade classes are participating in Christmas Around the World.  They have QR code boarding passes to find out which country they will be visiting each day.  Ask your child what they learned about Germany, England, Sweden, Mexico, and the United States Christmas traditions.

We will be having a tasting party on Friday.  Here is a list of the items needed for this tasting party:
Honey Buns
Little Debbie Gingerbread Cookies
Salsa
Tortilla Chips
Plates
Cups

Please let me know if you are able to send in items.  I am also sending a note home today regarding the needed items.

Gingerbread Houses

Next week we will be building gingerbread houses in order to review math concepts.  A note will be going home later this week with needed items.

Winter Party

We will have our Winter party on December 20th from 1:45-2:15.  Our grade level parents will be contacting parents about needed items.

Upcoming Events:

December 13th: Tasting Party
December 18th: Gingerbread Houses
December 20th: Winter Party

Weekly Update - December 2nd-6th

Reading:

This week we will be continue guided reading using Christmas themed books.  We will be discussing the overall structure of the story.

Next week we plan on having Christmas Around the World!  We will  also have a tasting party that week.

Math:

This week we will continue composing and decomposing numbers (regrouping).  Please look over the parent letters and talk to your child about the skills being learned.

Science:

This nine weeks we will be focusing on weather.  Talk to your child about the tools used to measure weather (rain gauge, thermometer, etc.).

Upcoming Events:

December 3rd:  Santa Shop