Friday, May 11th

Friday, May 11th

Just a friendly reminder, the items for our MVP Celebration are due no later than MONDAY. As of today, I only have all of the items from half of our parents. In order for this special event to be a success, I need to be able to get everything prepared ahead of time. This isn’t a project that I will be able to put together at the last minute. Thanks in advance for your cooperation!
Reader’s Workshop:
In Reader’s Workshop, we continued to take a closer look at glossaries and indices. Nonfiction reading partners examined these important nonfiction text features from different books and discussed what they noticed together as a class. Then readers took some time to reflect in their reading journals how these important nonfiction text features helped them with their nonfiction reading.

Writer’s Workshop:
This week we have been PUBLISHING our bird feature articles! Students wrapped up their editing and revising as they took one last look at their rough drafts. Your child’s article will be displayed in the hallway very soon! Students who finished publishing their magazine articles were given time to work on their own blank books about “Birds”. We discussed including a detailed cover, table of contents, dedication page, about the author page, glossary, index and a blurp on the back.

Math Workshop:
Our mathematicians have been reviewing the concepts of mathematics we have learned this year. We’ve taken a look at time and different ways to write time notations, including word phrases (a quarter to four, half past twelve, etc.). Students also worked on telling time and looking at elapsed time. Next, we reviewed our addition and subtraction strategies and talked about the different ways we have learned to add and subtract, as well as which strategy works best for different kinds of problems. We also plotted data on a time line and students had the opportunity to practice their multiplication, single and double addition facts through fun math games. These are great concepts to be reviewing at school and at home!

Word Study:
In Word Study this week we took a look at words with spelling patterns such as: -ack, -ake, -ail, -ant and used them to spell new words. Students then sorted words with similar consonant clusters. We ended the week by practicing some very important high frequency words with a friendly game of GO FISH!

Social Studies:
This week in Social Studies we continued to be very busy! We started working on our Career Choices and even completed our first resumes. It was pretty neat to see the list of credentials the kids came up with for their qualifications for different jobs! Ask your child what job they selected. We also spent time reviewing for our Local Economy test which we took on Friday.

Important Dates/News:
We are in NEED of erasers... No matter how many new pencils we sharpen, erasers are a hot item. If you can send in any "pink" bigger erasers (not pencil top), that would be awesome! Thank you!

Monday, May 14th: Items that are due:

-MVP person selection form

-2 different pictures of your child and their MVP (no computer printed copies please)

-A digital copy of those photographs emailed to my school email.

-$5.00 to cover the cost of the project and celebration

¬-Please also note that the MVP Celebration is strictly for 2nd graders and their MVP. Please make other arrangements for any younger siblings during this special event.

Monday, May 14th: 6:30-7:30pm - Meet n' Greet with Mr. Drewno (parents only)

Wednesday, May 16th: 9:30-10:30am - Meet n' Greet with Mr. Drewno (parents only)

Friday, May 18th: Field Day (We are on the field in the P.M.) - Email went out to use "Sign-Up Genius" to volunteer for a time - Second Grade needs to send in "Cookie Donations" - please no peanuts. Remember it is an all school lunch!
Thursday, May 24th: MVP Celebration @ 2:30-3:30 pm in Old Gym

Thursday, May 24th: PTA sponsored Ladies Night Out

Friday, May 25th: 3pm - Memorial Day Parade

Tuesday, May 29th: Neil Levin Cartooning Workshop

Friday, June 1st: Ice Cream Social

Friday, June 8th: Volunteers needed starting at 9am to help re-organize the Media Center for 2012-2013 school year

Here's an email I wanted to share with all of our 204 families! I plan on stopping by sometime tomorrow to see Chloe participate in her first Relay for Life. Aiming for later in the day!

Hi Mrs Weckstein



I wanted to thank for allowing Chloe to do her fundraising with her class! Relay for life is an event I started to be involved in since I was in 4th grade. Relay is something very close to my heart and I love seeing chloe and all of her friends supporting and involved with. I was told that some kids,families and teachers wanted to come to the day of the event and participate in the fun! Everyone is welcomed and invited to join all the involved teams. Their will be games, crafts, music and food for everyone to participate in for donations, all going to American cancer society. The event begins on Saturday may 12 at 10AM at Walled Lake's Geisler Middle School with a speech from Walled Lakes Mayor. Then the 24 hours of activities and games begin! Then at 9pm the ceremony of luminaria begins. Anyone who has decorated a bag can come see their bag along with the many others along the track. It's a very special and moving ceremony for everyone involved! Again thank you so much for supporting chloe in her first year in relay! I hope to see you and many of Chloe's class mates there!

Kylie Schiller


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