Friday, January 21st

 Happy Friday Weckie Families!!

Welcome back to the Blog... I honestly did not realize it had been so long! Time / Days are flying by over here!! It has been a great last couple of weeks as we have returned to school and gotten back into the routine of things after Winter Break!

Phonics:

In Phonics we wrapped up our unit of study with some time spent reviewing rhyming words. So often if we know one word (such as: night) we forget that we also know many other words (sight, light, fright, tight, etc.) that we come upon in books! We then moved into our new unit of phonics which aligns nicely with our non-fiction reading and non-fiction writing. We have spent the last few days learning to methodically break words apart (most often by syllable) to help us piece together the sounds within tricky or challenging words. 

Readers' Workshop:

In Readers' Workshop we began our look into non-fiction reading! Each week our readers "shop" for new books in our classroom library and the past couple of weeks they have been encouraged to find some fiction and some non-fiction books. We have spent time talking about being readers of non-fiction answering these questions:

• What non-fiction readers notice and learn (I see... I think... I learned...)?
• What is this book teaching me?
• What are the features of a non-fiction text?
• How is my non-fiction book set up? How does it  go?
• What have I learned that I can celebrate as a reader?
• What lingo can I anticipate seeing about the topic of my book?

This week we also began our iReady Reading Diagnostic! Everyone seemed pretty calm and I'm happy to report the website has not flagged anyone for rushing (a huge victory)! While we are hoping to see growth, please know that this diagnostic may actually be harder for many than the September version as the expectations rise on this latest diagnostic. I will be reaching out to parents in the coming weeks as the kids finish to let them know if their child has qualified for an Individualized Reading Intervention Plan (IRIP).

Writers' Workshop:

In Writers' Workshop we began 2022 with an "On-Demand" writing assessment. Our writers' were given time over two days to plan and then write their own non-fiction piece on a topic that they consider themselves an expert on! It was interesting for me to go back and read their work and learn all about: how to train a dog, how to make a quesadilla, how to make a grilled cheese, facts about cheetahs and more! Then I took some time to look at the non-fiction features our writers were using and compare those to the lessons ahead for new things we will teach them about writing non-fiction. The remainder of days have been spent with just having a free-write of sorts. Kids have been given ideas of topics to write about, while also enjoying that they could write on any subject/genre this week. Next week we launch our expert writing unit of non-fiction.

Math Workshop:

The last few weeks were spent wrapping up Unit 4 which took a lot of time to look at place value using ones, tens and hundreds as well as short form for base-ten blocks. We learned how to write expanded notation for numbers (i.e. 512 = 500 + 10 + 2) and we reviewed strategies for solving addition facts. We have also learned a new game this week called "Beat the Calculator" which helps with addition fact fluency.

Money, money, money... MONEY!!! Here it comes!! We are moving into a big unit in math all about coins! Please continue to review coins at home with your children. By the end of the unit we will be making change with coins from $1, and many still need help simply recognizing coins and knowing their value. 

Social Studies:

We are deep into our geography unit in social studies! We have learned about the features of maps and spent a day looking at all sorts of road maps from our county, state and country! We spent time then creating our own classroom maps complete with map keys and a compass rose. Then we moved onto talking all about how goods and services can move in and out of a community through transportation. We made a giant list of transportation on land, air and water. Lastly we will be talking about the different land-forms that help to shape the land we live on in our community and around our country!

Upcoming Important Dates...

We have A LOT of important dates coming up. Info will come home accordingly closer to each date but I wanted to make you aware of what's coming ahead (so many fun things)!

-Tuesday, January 25th: Half-day of school: Dismissal begins around noon (ish)

-Wednesday, February 2nd: Global Day of Play - more to come soon :-)

-Wednesday, February 9th: Student Count Day (rumored to maybe be a PJ day, no promises yet), Valentine's Day boxes and Valentine's Day cards can start being brought in to school

-Friday, February 11th: Hundreds Day Celebration in 2nd Grade (start to think about your 100s day outfit... I expect to see lots of elderly folks here that day ;-)... Nana Weckstein can't wait to see their outfits)

-Monday, February 14th: Valentine's Day Celebration in 204 (thank you for volunteering to donate all of the ice cream sundae goodies). Feel free to send anything in ahead of time!

-Monday February 21-Friday February 25th - No School - February Break

-Thursday, March 3rd: Second Grade Field Trip - Walled Lake Outdoor Center

Wednesday, November 24th

 Hello Weckie Families! 

Let me begin by saying: Happy (early) Thanksgiving!! I have so much to be thankful for this year with this group of kids... I just love 'em!! We have really been doing awesome work this year while having fun and growing together. Our routines are down, partnerships are working like fine tuned machines and it is simply a delight to be apart of this classroom family! I hope that you take some time this weekend with your child to find out all of the things that they are thankful for. They have been loving all of the Thanksgiving projects the last week and getting a chance to express all that they are thankful for in their lives. I also hope you found the turkey recipe book comical but not in the least bit helpful! Please do NOT use those recipes ;-). But we sure did enjoy writing them. We happened to be working on them the day when the Cabinet team from the ESC came. It was pretty funny to hear the kids ask Mr. Gutman, Mr. Lonze, Mrs. Kochanski and Mrs. Moore all about turkey prep and what they might suggest the kids add or not add to their recipes! Lots of laughter for sure.

Readers' Workshop

We continue to work through a unit on solving tricky words. We have spent time doing slow checks, triple checks, breaking words up into familiar word parts, finding words within new words and more! Reading groups are picking up steam as all students are now a part of a reading group. Please make sure to keep the reading group books in your child's baggie that was provided so that books are not lost and are always available in their backpack for school instruction time. You may have also noticed word cards in their bag. If that's the case, those are high frequency words I will be working with them on in their group but are specific to their individual needs. You can use these to practice reading them, finding those words in their books, and then to practice writing and spelling them correctly! Their card pile will continue to grow as old words are mastered and new words are added!

Writers' Workshop/Science

Our Writers' Workshop is overlapping still with our science kits. We are becoming experts on plants and experts on writing lab reports! We currently have three lab reports in the works that answer the following three questions:

• What do plants need to grow?
• Can a seed grow without soil?
• What happens if you cut grass and alfalfa? Will they grow back?

In the next few weeks we will take our plant clippings that have been chilling in cups of water, growing roots, and plant them in soil as we attempt to create new plants from old plants! We call this process propagation!

Math Workshop

In Math we are deep in the work of subtraction. We have been learning many different strategies for solving subtraction. Strategies we have covered so far include:

• counting up
• counting back
• counting back through 10
• using doubles to subtract
• the -0 strategy for subtraction
• the -1 strategy for subtraction
• using fact families to subtract

The fantastic part here is that all and any strategy is encouraged and you'll see, each child tends to pick their favorite to use and help them to subtract. We also learned to play two new games, "Subtraction Top-It" and "Salute!". Both games help to work with subtraction skills and missing addends. Thank you to all who are completing the home links. I try to get them back to you in a timely manner so that you can see how your child is doing with our math concepts.

Parent - Teacher Conferences - Thursday, December 9th - 12:00- 

Now is the time to sign up on Skyward for PTC! Please know hat they will be virtual this year and a Zoom code will be sent the day prior so that you can attend your conference time from any location! I do believe the sign-up closes on December 1st, so please make sure to sign up ASAP.

Friday, November 12th

 

Good afternoon Weckie Families!

It has been another fantastic couple of weeks in Second Grade and it's hard to believe we are already two weeks in to November! We have really come together as a class family and it has been a pleasure to be here daily with your kids. I love seeing them work together in math stations, work in partnerships to read or solve a tricky math problem and brainstorm solutions in our Second Step SEL work for showing empathy and reading other people's feelings. As we move into this "thankful" time of year, we have SO much to be thankful for in 204.

Readers' Workshop

In Readers' Workshop we have moved onto a unit that focuses in on solving tricky words in our reading! There are so many different strategies that we teach to help all children learn to solve tricky words in the way that works best for them. We have been slowly working through the strategies of: breaking words apart, doing a slow check (stretching out each sound), and doing a triple check (does it look/sound/feel right) using the "Ice Cream" story from the book Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel. We have had time to practice these strategies in our own reading by marking places where we tried a strategy and then sharing our work with our partners to see if we tackled the tricky word correctly! We have also spent more time talking about the work of partnerships: the different ways you can read together, the different types of conversations you can have before reading a new book and the different kinds of conversations you can have during and after you read a book together.

Guided Reading groups have continued for students on who have qualified for an IRIP. Right now this encompasses about half of our class. Students who are not on these plans have been guided in the classroom for selecting just-right books and will begin receiving instruction on Monday as I work to finalize groupings. Individual reading assessments are important and time consuming. With all of the interruptions we have had this year with holidays and new school days, this has made taking time out for testing a bit trickier, but not impossible. Thank you for understanding! As books begin to come home, it is safe to simply keep them in your child's book bag and remove them each night to read. If something comes up on their designated date where I cannot pull them, it is likely I would pull them the next day as time allows.

Additionally, the kids brought home information this week about our Digital Literacy Library that they can now begin using at home. Literacy Footprints is a wealth of online books that have been set to the just-right reading level of your child. I have taken feedback from first grade as well as their most recent iReady reading data to make these book assignments. Please know that some may seem simple and this is to continually help build confidence and reading fluency. As I work with them in groups and see growth, these levels will continue to be adjusted. This is a great way to continue reading just-right books at home with your child and also to see what they are reading and how they are reading! Each child received their log-in information as well as a class username in their folders this week. Please hang onto this information for home!

Writers' Workshop/Science

Our Writers' Workshop and Science are intertwined these days! Our writing unit is all about learning to write non-fiction in the form of lab reports and our Science Kits work perfect for exploration through a lab report! So far we have generated two lab reports. One asks the question: What does a plant need to grow? The second lab report asks: Can a seed grow without soil? And the third lab report is upcoming, so I hate to ruin the surprise just yet! We have been growing Brassica in a mini-greenhouse, wheat seeds in straws (yes, you read that right) and now grass and alfalfa together in mini pots. Our scientists are absolutely LOVING this combined unit! We have been learning to generate questions, write hypotheses, and list off materials needing and write the procedures we have followed for our experiments. We have been taking detailed observations as well as all of our plants begin to sprout and grow!

Math Workshop

In Math we are ALLLLL about fact families! We have spent a great deal of time looking at fact families and using fact triangles as well as dominoes to practice these families. Fact Family triangle cards have come home in the 3.3 Homelink for you to keep at home and use to practice addition and subtraction. You simply add the two bottom numbers to equal the top number, or subtract one bottom number from the top to get the other bottom number. So a triangle with 3, 4 and 7 shows the fact family of: 3 + 4 = 7,  4 + 3 = 7, 7 - 3 = 4 and 7 - 4 = 3. Please keep these fact triangles at home.

Unit 2 Assessments came home this week with all students. There was SO much great learning and growth shown on these unit check ins! The Unit 2 Assessment specifically covered topics we learned about in the unit. The Unit 2 Cumulative Assessment covered topics we have been learning and building on since Kindergarten, many are foundational math skills. 

Phonics

In Phonics we have been spending a TON of time working on SNAP words the last two weeks! Magnetic letters, letter tiles, Magna-Doodles, and whiteboards have been some of the tools we have used to practice SNAP words from first grade and SNAP words from second grade. We have played fun games like Bingo twice with the SNAP words from iReady as well as countless games of "Sparkle" where we work together as a team to learn to spell these words. It has been a challenge of mine to get the kids to use the tools we give them: word wall and SNAP word books when doing their writing so that they can practice spelling words correctly that are given to them!

Friday, October 29th - Happy Halloween!

 Hello Weckie Families - Happy Early Halloween!!

What an awesome couple of weeks we have had in our classroom. I am absolutely LOVING this group of kids, and our small class size! We have been busy establishing routines, learning about our friends with weekly Main Moose presentations, talking about SEL as we watch the Dublin Monday Morning Meeting (we even led the meeting the last two weeks with Mrs. Weckstein) and doing some fun Halloween projects building our anticipation up to our class party!

Readers' Workshop

In Readers' Workshop we have wrapped up our first unit about "Growing Stronger" as readers and have been reviewing story elements and setting reading goals for our next unit. We have dug deeper on partnerships when reading and talked about the different types of conversations we can have with partners before, in the middle, and after we read books together. We have talked a great deal about the reasons we re-read books and how that can help us to build our comprehension as well as make new noticings about a text! Reading groups are in motion with about half of our class as we strive to fill some gaps for our readers to all be on pace together! Readers who are reading at or above grade level will begin groups in the next coming week or two!

Writers' Workshop

In Writers' Workshop we have also wrapped up our personal narratives unit! Boy have our writers been BUSY! They will be bringing home ALL sorts of writing on Monday/Tuesday next week. Please be sure to take some time to sit down and listen to their writing. My own second grader son brought his writing home this week and it was so much fun to sit and listen to him read his stories about all of the adventures we went on this past summer. It was also amazing to see how much he has grown as a writer! I sure hope you find the same thing when you sit and listen to your child's work. We will do a mini celebration on Monday in Writers' Workshop before we bring it all home! Our next unit ties in with our Science Kits as we are learning to write non-fiction including Lab Reports!

Math Workshop

This week we finished up with the Unit 2 lessons in math and took the Unit 2 Assessment and Cumulative Assessment. The Unit 2 Assessment looks to see how your child is doing with mastery of the new skills taught in Unit 2 and the Cumulative actually encompasses learning that has been done in the first two units of our Everyday Math program. I send these tests home at the end of each unit so that you can see your child's progress as well as reinforce any misconceptions at home. Look for the Unit 2 tests to come home next week! Thank you to all who have been completing the Home Links. These offer a quick review of a concept we tackle each day in Math and can be really helpful for students who might be struggling to get the extra practice.

Science

Our Science Kits have arrived and we are off and rolling with our "New Plants" unit! We spent some time the first day creating a t-chart of what we know/what we want to know about plants. Then we got right into our first lab report as we worked to answer the question: What does a plant need to grow? We generated our own hypothesis about this and then got to work planting Brassica seeds in cups and placing them in our classroom greenhouse. Each child has a plant that they will get to observe over the next few weeks as it sprouts and grows to become a tall flowering plant. Check out the pics below of our growth so far!

An update from Mrs. Wardall in the Media Center: 

Hello! Our Second Graders have been learning to login to computers and google classroom, ology science website, ABCs on shelves, Pebble Go (research website), click/drag and scrolling, finding books including short chapter books and early non-fiction finding the "right" book, code.org --Coming up: Typingquest, more Pebble Go, introduction to Dewey and nonfiction, fairy tales, using a bookmark in a chapter book!

A few words from Mrs. Weckstein:

A HUGE thank you to Erin Roosen for all of her help in making our Halloween Party so spectacular! I keep my fingers and toes crossed that we will be able to have in person volunteers by the time we get to our Holiday Party in December. I promise to take lots of pictures and share them all :-). 

Clarification has been made about Classroom Volunteers... and it's kind of tricky. We can have one parent a day help directly in our classroom. Working with small groups of kids or lending an extra set of hands to our task at hand. Parents who want to help with copy projects still have to sign up through the Sign-Up Genius link Ms. Bigi shares weekly in the Dublin Times, and then let me know when you're coming and I'll have our 2nd grade stuff ready for you! I'm sorry this has been so confusing...

And remember, no school on November 2nd for Election Day! Picture Retakes are on November 5th at Dublin. 

Have a safe and fantastic weekend - And if you feel the need to cut the sugar off around 9pm Sunday night, the 12 hours until they come to school Monday should be helpful ;-). Only kidding... sort of!

Friday, October 15th

 Hello Weckie Families!!

What amazing work we have been accomplishing in second grade!! As a group we have really been busy learning, laughing and exploring all sorts of new things. We are in a pretty great routine now with our expectations for the day and I am seeing all sorts of growth already in our young learners. We have needed to stop many times this week to talk about distracting behaviors. We spent some time Thursday morning writing in our Thinking and Learning Journals answering the prompt: What can I do to help myself focus when distractions happen around me? We then had an awesome circle discussion where we took time to talk about how we can find different ways to ignore distractions (such as: picking a spot away from distractions, using the "Quiet Sign" or even asking an adult for help) rather than feed into the distractions. Our schoolwide SEL goal this week has revolved around being a good listener and we talked about how being a good listener relates directly to this because if you are a good listener, you are also ignoring distractions around you. This might be a great time to discuss this at home with your child too!

Readers' Workshop

In Readers' Workshop we are wrapping up our first unit of study, "Growing Second Grade Readers". We have been learning all about different strategies we can use when approaching books that are new and unfamiliar to us! Some mini-lesson topics have included:

• I can understand my book better by pausing and retelling parts.
• I can use post it notes in my reading to mark important places to talk about with my partner.
• I can use everything I know to figure out a tricky word.
• I can cross check to solve tricky words/I have strategies for figuring out tricky words.
• Different ways to read with a partner (and how to read with a partner)
• I can try to figure out what new words mean using the text to help me.
• I can notice how an author makes readers react.
• Readers must notice how whole books click together.
• Authors have an intent in teaching us a lesson in a book.

I will be launching reading groups next week with many of our students! Please look for colored book bags to come home with many, but not all of our children in the next week. If your child does not bring home a book to read just yet, please know that I will work with them soon, but they have scored high above our iReady cut score and they are already progressing where they need to be and/or beyond! The great thing about workshop is that the kids pick the books they want based on their abilities... so it makes for a just right fit for all levels of readers!

 

Writers' Workshop

In Writers' Workshop we continue to craft small moment stories. These are stories that are a personal narrative told about something a child did in a moment of time (i.e. going on a scary ride at the state fair, getting a tooth pulled at the dentist, the excitement of Christmas morning). I have to tell you, we have some incredible writers!! I have never copied as much writing paper as I have this year, and their folders are getting mighty thick with great stories. In Writing the last week or so we have been focusing on Author's Craft. We have been looking at things our favorite authors do to enhance their writing. Examples like: speech bubbles, rule of 3, sound word, bold words/small words, labels, etc. have all been good examples I have been encouraging our writers to use. In conferences we have been doing editing and revising to fix up the stories with me!

Phonics

In our Phonics instruction we have spent a lot of time working with vowel teams (ee, ea, ai, oa, oo, etc) and learning that when two vowels are put together, they usually make a long vowel sound of the first vowel in the pair. We say: When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking! So in the word "rain", you hear the long vowel sound of the a in the ai vowel team. We have also spent time working on the silent 'e' and all of his magical powers! Again, most words that end in silent 'e' have that long vowel prior! We hunted around the room to find good examples of silent 'e'. Next week we will be working with 'r' controlled vowels and reviewing high frequency words from first grade. Word lists will come home in the next week or so to help review these important words at home.

Language Workshop

In our classroom we also do something called Language Workshop. Each week we spend the week studying a high quality picture book enriched with descriptive language. Books we have read from this year have included: Peter Brown's My Teacher is a Monster, Becky Bloom's Wolf!, Jackie Mims Hopkins' The Three Libearians, and Kevin Henkes' Lily's Purple Plastic Purse and Chrysanthemum. The first day of the week we just read and get to  know the story. The second day we revisit the story, re-read it in its' entirety and then practice retelling the story (beg-middle-end) orally as well as do some comprehension questions about the story. The remaining days we take time to do a visible thinking routine (writing about our thinking about the reading) and then we also tackle 2-3 vocabulary words from the text and add them to our picture dictionaries.

Math Workshop

In Math for Unit 2 we are digging deeper with all of the different addition strategies that we can use! Friendly 10s are a huge help when it comes to adding single digits. We can use doubles, doubles helper facts and turn around facts for addition. We have been learning to play new games like: The Exchange Game and enjoying exploring with our math toolkits! It's amazing how much fun a calculator still can be ;-). Thank you for taking the time to do the homelinks you find beneficial for your child! I love seeing their work and progress. These will continue to come home every other math lesson.

Social Studies

In Social Studies we are wrapping up our first unit all about our local community! We have brainstormed the important people and places in a community. We have taken time to find our place in space as we went from our house, to our neighborhood, to our state, to our country! We have learned about our needs and wants as well as the needs and wants of a community. Then we moved on to learning about human and natural features in a community! One day we dug out a basket of maps just to see how maps work and to explore our local community on the map. We will wrap up the unit next week learning about the three types of communities (urban, suburban and rural) before we launch our science kit!

Halloween Party Update... Room Parent Volunteer Update...

Our Halloween Party will be on the morning of Friday, October 29th. I expect more information to be sent out from Danielle Bigi on this special morning. We are going to be asking that the kids come to school in their costume... yep, you read that right! Obviously no masks, weapons, shields, etc. and even moreso if your child takes the bus! The school day is a half day and we will still have Art for an hour in the morning. We will still have a Halloween Party in our classroom, but there will not be any parent volunteers allowed (and this is building wide). Right now with Covid protocols still in place, we are limited to one parent volunteer a day. Having to pick only ONE parent to help with our party would have been difficult and honestly, seems unfair. We do have one parent, Erin Roosen, who has offered to organize the party and she is going to handle all of the supplies outside of school, and I will handle it all inside of school. We may ask for a small donation per child to help cover the costs. I will keep you posted. I will also be reaching out to parents with children who have food allergies so we can all enjoy the party together. At this point, I am going to ask that you not send your child in with any type of food treat that they might share with everyone (i.e. like a goodie bag of candy) because of allergies. However a few kids have asked, and if your child wanted to pass out a bag of goodies moreso like stickers and such, that is totally fine. We have 18 kids in our classroom.

Parent Volunteers - Let's do it! I'm going to be reaching out in the next week to get some days/times set up for November. I will need a criminal background form for any parent looking to volunteer, so please let me know if you need another. The office has asked that we submit a calendar of dates prior to the month with the days/names filled in for all of the month. I am going to begin working on November so we are ready to go! Copying, laminating, playing math games, reading with kids... those are the types of things we could best use help with at this point. 

Last but not least, Dublin Trunk or Treat is next Friday night and a great time to come up to Dublin for some fun, outdoor fun! Kids can wear costumes and PTA has done a great job organizing this event! Thank you to everyone who has sent in Skittles for the Second Grade participatory donation. 

Friday, September 17th

 Hello Weckie Families!

Wow, what an incredible first couple of weeks of school we have been having together! I am loving my time with this group of students. They are picking up on classroom routines nicely, learning to work with new friends and new learning styles and just seem super happy to be here each day! Could I be any more lucky? Every couple of weeks I will post a Blog about our learning and successes in second grade... away we go!

Phonics Workshop:

In our phonics study, we have taken a step back and begun our year with the final unit of phonics from first grade (as this was not covered last year). We have been doing all sorts of work as "Word Builders" learning about vowel teams in words. We have studied the: "ee", "ea", "ai", "ou" and "ow" vowel patterns in words. We are slowly creating a vowel team chart to keep in our Writers' Workshop folders to help us when writing and reading with these vowel teams. You'll notice periodically your child will bring home a baggie of word cards. Often times these go along with a game we played in class. Be sure to ask them about the game and play the game with them to increase their familiarity with these words! We also sent home a list of First Grade SNAP words that we will be working with for a few more weeks. These are great to use at home to dig deeper with your child's recognition of familiar words.

Readers' Workshop:

In Readers' Workshop we are working on strategies for growing as readers! In Second Grade our first unit is all about how "Second Grade Readers Grow like a Beanstalk". After learning some routines for reading in our classroom we began talking about: How to read a book (i.e. if it's a scary book your voice might sound spooky, whereas if it is a book with a kid talking, you want to sound like a kid talking, not like you are reading word-by-word). Next we spent some time talking about sneak peeks and what a reader can do when approaching a new book to get a feel for the book before they start reading. We have talked about our reading stamina and how it takes practice to be able to read independently for 20 minutes! We have also begun working with partners and begun to learn how to share responsibilities during partner reading time. 

Writers' Workshop

In Writers' Workshop we have begun working on our first small moment narrative piece. This is a writing where the kids are telling about a time they did something (i.e. a time they lost their first tooth, their 6th birthday party, a scary ride at an amusement park that they rode, etc.).

We have spent time planning what we would write across several pages of a book, then we took time to add thoughts and feelings onto our writing and last we looked at a mentor text to see how the pictures in a story need to match the words on the page. Students were then sent off to illustrate their story and to make their illustrations tell their story!

Math Workshop

In Math we have been focusing in on patterns with numbers - skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. We have spent time looking at hundreds grids and finding patterns on the grids such as an entire column having the same number in the ones place, or how when you go across on an number grid you add one, but when you go down on number grid you add ten! We have worked with our basic addition facts and we have also learned some new games using math! Look for the first set of Homelinks to come home next week with your child. Remember, while these are not mandatory, they are a REALLY great way to review the math work we have done in class and help your child with any skills they may still find tricky from the work we did that day in class.

Social Studies

Our first unit in Social Studies is all about "My Community". We read a book called On the Town and spent time talking about all of the important places in a community and all of the important people who work and live in a community. Students worked on their own small community mini-books to focus in on their home, their neighborhood and places they like to go in their community.

Important Dates/Reminders:

• Monday, September 20th is Picture Day @ Dublin - We take our pics at 10:35am
• Please remember to sign up for the Dublin PTA. They go above and beyond to help us with funding in our classroom and for field trips. The link is here and it's really simple to do... Meetings are optional, but your $10 contribution helps keep them going! https://dublinelementary.memberhub.store/
• Tuesday, September 28th - Half Day of School - Dismissal will begin around 12:10pm
• FAPES Schedule was emailed earlier this week (Monday: 9:15 Music, 9:45 PE; Tuesday: 2:45 Music, Wednesday: 2:45 PE, 3:15 Media; Thursday: 10:30 PE, Block Recess 2-3; Friday: Art 10:15)
• Please sign up for our REMIND app so you can keep up with the latest news from our classroom
  
  
  

Welcome Back 2021-2022

 Welcome to our Classroom Blog😀😀

AND... Welcome to 2nd Grade!

This is our classroom blog where I will post information all about our learning and share pictures here every couple of weeks! An email will be sent on Friday's when a new blog post is shared with the group so you will know to come and check.

:-) Mrs. Weckstein