With this week having so many short days with Parent Teacher Conferences and teacher work day Friday, we will be reviewing this week and working on mastery. Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on Wednesday and Thursday this week, with no school for the students on Friday.

• This Week’s Happenings: 
• Monday: Library Day – Remember Library Books!!
• Other Important Dates
• Feb. 2 & 3 – Early out – PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES
• Feb. 4 – No School (Teacher Professional Development)
• Monday, Feb. 14 – Valentine Exchange, 27 students (more info to come)

Reading Passages (optional, but highly encouraged!!) 

**Please read with your child. Make it enjoyable and fun. You can even read to them and then ask them questions!! 20 minutes a day is a great goal.  Your child should be bringing home 2 decodable story pages each week in addition to their on level daily passage pages. These stories can be read and returned for class money with a parent signature. If they read them 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back. It is so important to read every day and ask fact finding questions from the story to develop your students comprehension; this is key to meeting the end of the year benchmark goals for 2nd grade.

Today in science we discussed landforms and how each of them form. The students were then able to build their own landforms. I instructed the students they can wait for them to dry and then color them and add to them. They were all so engaged and begged for the recipe I used for the salt dough. As promised, here it is below:

Click on the link below to watch what’s coming up at the Book Fair! Your students were sent home with flyers this week. This is a great cause to get your students excited about reading! Click the following link for the trailers: K-2 Book Trailer

PArent teacher conferences WILL BE HELD ON wedneSDAY, february 2nd & thurSDAY, february 3rd. both of these days are early dismissal at 1:00pm. Students will also not have school on Friday, February 4th as it is a teacher professional development day.

I HAVE SET UP A SIGNUP on bloomz WITH THE TIME SLOTS AVAILABLE.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT I MEET WITH EVERYONE TO TALK ABOUT YOUR CHILD’S PROGRESS AND OUR GOALS.

PLEASE login to bloomz TO SIGN UP FOR A TIME THAT WORKS FOR YOU.

HURRY, SLOTS FILL UP FAST! 

I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I am so very blessed to be able to teach each one of you every day and I just love each of you dearly. I hope you have an amazing and wonderful holiday season and I can’t wait to see you in 2022. Thank you for all the wonderful Christmas gifts you brought in to me.

Enjoy this fun little video Chippy the elf and I made: Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Video