Bucket Filler!

Tyler was selected as bucket filler of the week and as a participant to turn Mr. Boeve into a human ice cream sundae!  Tyler has been showing Bucket Filler qualities by being a wonderful listener, helping friends, and being respectful to the students, other teachers, and myself.  I've really noticed Tyler's effort to be a good friend and student.  Way to go, Tyler! Keep it up!

 Polar Express Day

Maggie and I dressed in our pajamas with our moose!

Hallie and Rylie

Jake and Braden

Sam began reading the Polar Express to himself and more and more kids began to sit around him to listen to the story, again. :)

 Christmas Party

We had very brave parents willing to participate in the build-a-snowman competition!

Team Kueper snowman!

Team Kueper snow woman! 

Team Cornwall snow woman!

Team Alger snow woman!

Students had to follow directions to draw a snowman on a paper plate without looking at what they were drawing!  We had some very interesting art work! :) 

Just a couple things....

No Word Journeys this week.

We will be having a special lunch on Wednesday in celebration of being Bucket Fillers!  Feel free to join your child at lunch on this day.  It is also our Christmas meal. :)

Christmas Party Thursday afternoon.  Please check your email if you are on the Christmas committee. :)

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. :)