Weekly Newsletter

Since we only have 2 days of school this week I am not sending home a newsletter today but here are a few reminders !

-We have a Math test tomorrow!!! We did a review in class today together and I sent home another review home with them to do for homework and I also told them if they would have a parent sign it letting me know they saw it or went over it with them I would give them 2 extra dojo points!

-NO FACES TOMORROW!
-Dec 1st Forms for the 3rd session of FACES go home. They are due Dec 4th.
-Tomorrow I will be sending home a note with information about our Christmas Party on Friday morning December 19th.

-2nd grade Christmas program is Thursday December 18th @ 6:30 in the auditorium.

-We had a great time last Friday on Treat Day.  I will post pics and videos soon

How To Blow A Bubble

We have been learning all about and working on Procedural writing or as we sometimes call it.. "How To.." writing.  This is where we write and explain in detail how to do something.  We use transitional words in our writing such as:  First, Next, Then, After That, Finally, etc.  We also found that it is very important that the steps be in order.  Also, it is good to add pictures at times to help the reader understand. Normally, I do not allow the kids to have or chew gum in our classroom.... BUT-Today we did "How To Blow A Bubble".  We took it one step at a time and wrote each step down as we did it.  We learned that sometimes it can be easy to skip steps if you are not careful.  The goal is to make the writing detailed enough so that someone else could read it and do it themselves.  Here are some pictures from our procedural writing experience today!  Some bubbles were small and some were BIG!  If we were to have had a contest Lily definitely would have won! She had huge bubbles every time!!  Not every one has mastered the bubble blowing yet, but that is ok.  They still had fun trying!

The kids insisted that I take a "selfie" with the bubble that I blew... They also requested that I post it on the blog with their pics. So, here it is..

Leaf Hunt

On Friday November 7th, we took a break from our normal routine and went outside to go on a leaf hunt.  We walked all around the campus looking for different kinds of unique, colorful leaves to put in our ziploc bag.  Here are some pictures I snapped while we were out searching for beautiful leaves.  After we collected our leaves we went back inside and I taught the kids how to make a leaf rubbing. We had a great time. Have I mentioned how awesome my students are lately?? THEY ARE SO AWESOME!!!!!!

No Name Papers

Dear Parents,

The very first thing the students are supposed to do when given an assignment of any kind is put their name on their paper.  Sometimes I take papers up by hand and sometimes they are instructed to turn their paper in to the correct work basket (Math, Reading, Lang. Arts).  Either way I always remind them by saying, "Please make sure your name and date is your paper before turning it in or handing it to me."  Many times I give that reminder more than once.  Also, right above our work baskets is this sign..

Yet I am still spending much of my time on the weekends searching through student work trying to figure out whose paper is whose.  This is a habit that they should have already learned.  The students know about this problem and I have been telling them for the past 2 months that I was going to start taking points off if they would not put their names on their papers.  I will now be taking off 5 points for any paper that does not have a name on it.  For ex:  If they had made a 100 on an assignment then it would turn into a 95.  Hopefully this will catch their attention and cause them to slow down and check first before turning their papers in. If your child is one who has trouble with this and seems to forget often please discuss this with them. 

Thank you for your cooperation and as always if you have any questions about this please contact me at kpoole@flcobras.com. 

-Ms. Poole 

Happy Halloween!

We had a very fun day on Friday.  That morning we got to go out in the hall and pass out candy to the Pre-K students who came to Trick or Treat in our building.  Then, at lunch we enjoyed our Pizza Party from the PTO for winning the Box Tops competition.  Finally, that afternoon we had our 2nd Treat Day.  The students got to make things from a variety of candy supplies (oreos, pretzels, m&m's, chocolate chips, and more).  Below are some pictures of the very creative treats that they made!  Thank you to everyone that sent items for our Treat Day!

Learning Through The Arts

Here are all of the pictures and videos from the wonderful time that we had with Ms. Wurst when she was with us just a few weeks ago. She taught the students all about The Wild West and Tall Tales through songs and performances while using her guitar.  She had them acting out stories such as "Pecos Bill" and singing old western songs like "Diamond Joe".  Our class worked with Ms. Wurst to write their very own song which you can hear in one of the videos below, it is called "Rattlesnake Jake".  You can also find a video of our kids singing the song they wrote with Ms. Wurst on our Official Fountain Lake School District facebook page, youtube channel, and twitter account! We are FAMOUS!  I apologize that it has taken me so long to post about this great experience our students had!