Newsletter:
Fennema’s Friday Feature
June 4, 2010
Writer’s Workshop:
As we wrap up the school year, the students are finishing thier letters to the future second graders as well as thier future 3rd grade teachers! We have also been working on a creative piece that incorporates some of our science unit on animal life cycles. The kids had to finish the thought: If I were a butterfly... They then colored the butterfly on the page and we attached a sticker of each child's face to complete the transformation of them into butterflies.
We have also been focusing as a group on paragraph writing. They are becoming quite the experts on many of the aspects of writing a paragraph such as indenting, writing a topic sentence, detail or supporting sentences, a wrap up or closing sentence and rereading their work to check for errors and to make sure it makes sense!
Reader’s Workshop: The guided reading groups are coming to a close. Each groups is either finished or near finshing and we are working on creating book reviews to share with the class as well preparing a "mini" book report. They have all done an incredible job with their reading and have made excelllent strides forward this year!
Spelling:
We have completed the spelling unit for the year and the kids are very excited! :)
Science/Social Studies:
Our science unit on animal life cycles has been going great! The kids seem to have a great deal of prior knowledge and love learning about animals! Our test for this unit will be on Tuesday morning June 8th.
Math:
Math is finished for second grade!!! The students completed their assessment on the multiplication unit yesterday. I am so proud of all of them and how enthusiastically they took on this new concept!
Other things to know:
-A reminder to inform the office and myself if you anticipate days that your child will not be in school As many of you know, Fun Day had to be rescheduled do to weather conditions. We will now be having Fun Day on Monday June 7th. Our field trip to Camp Blodgett is scheduled for Wed. June 9th. If you haven't done so already, please have your child's letters turned in no later than Monday June 7th. The last day of school is June 11th and is a half day!
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