Letter from The White House

During election time, each student wrote a letter to the candidate of their choice explaining why they thought that person (Barack Obama or Mitt Romney) should be president.  Today, we received a response!! It is very exciting to receive mail from The White House!

FRIENDLY REMINDER:

Please make sure you are sending boots, snow pants, hats, and gloves to school with your child.  When there is snow on the ground, students are not allowed to be off the cement without snow pants and boots. :)

Thursday, December 13th 

This week we are focusing on The Polar Express.  Students are invited to wear their pajamas to school on Thursday!  We will pretend we are boarding the Polar Express train.  We will also enjoy hot chocolate. Students may bring their favorite stuffed animal and a cookie treat to school, if they choose. :)

Friday, December 14th

We will be attending the Nutcracker at the Sami Center at 1:15 p.m.

Thursday, December 20th

Christmas Party at 2:15 p.m.

Friday, December 21st - January 2nd NO SCHOOL

QUESTION :) (If students come to school tomorrow (Dec. 11th) and tell me this question and answer, they may put a cotton ball in their bucket): 
What continent is Germany on?

Concert @ 9 a.m. THURSDAY

Please remember we have our Holiday Concert tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m.  We also have P.E. tomorrow.  Do NOT forget to send tennis shoes to school with your child as many will have fancy shoes on for the concert! :)

Word Journeys!

      

A little water and instant Snow To Go! and we made practicing our spelling words even more fun!

Updates

Second Grade Families,

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!  Things get a little crazy getting back into the swing of things after a break from school.   So everyone is on the same page, today is Day 2 (Library/SMART) and tomorrow we have Music/P.E. (Day 3).

Special Dates

FRIDAY, November 30th:          Book orders are due!

Thursday, December 6th:          Winter Concert at the Sami Center 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Thursday, December 20th:        Christmas party in our classroom 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.

December 21st - January 2nd:   NO SCHOOL
Thursday, January 3rd:              School resumes

2nd Grade News

We have started talking about our family heritages and will begin discussing holiday celebrations around the world.  We are basing our studies on where our families originated.  A few countries we will be discussing are: America, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and Ireland.  If you have any information about your family heritage, please share it with your child!

We are also having a theme every week up until Winter Break.  The theme this week has been Gingerbread.  We have been reading and comparing the different versions of the gingerbread stories, along with creating our own gingerbread story.  The next three weeks we will be focusing on reindeer, The Polar Express, and The Grinch.

We are working on telling time and money in math class.  If you have a few spare minutes at home, ask your child to tell you what time it is or ask them to give you change for an "item you would pay for".

Bucket Fillers

Alex joined our class about a month ago and has been a great addition!  She is a great friend and is found filling other kids' buckets often!

Sam has been a great example the past few weeks.  He is always volunteering, showing enthusiasm, and has been a great friend to all the kids in our class.  He always raises his hand to participate, too!

Pep Rally

Sending the football team off to the UNI Dome at the pep rally this morning for the Championship game tomorrow.  The McKim's made our class some awesome signs to show off at the pep rally!

Mikayla and Sarah

The football players loved our signs, too!

The sun was a little bright. :)

Decision 2012

The voting booths in our classroom today.  

 

Hannah and Jake casting their votes!

The votes were counted and it was a close race at first, but then Mitt Romney took the lead and won 15 to 6!

Bucket Fillers

Last week's Bucket Filler was Cale!  Cale has been showing characteristics of a bucket filler by being thoughtful and caring.  He has also been respectful to others by listening while others are speaking.

 Allison was named Bucket Filler of the Week today!  She always has a smile on her face and I have heard several times from other students, "Allison filled my bucket."  She is a great friend and has a big heart.