The First Week of School!

     Can you believe that we have almost finished the first week of second grade?! We have had a great week getting to know one another and learning about the routines and expectations in second grade!

    This week we have read the following books together: Frog and Toad are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, Brave Little Monster, The Crayon Box that Talked, Chrysanthemum, The Important Book, Froggy Goes to School, and The Pain and the Great One. Ask your child to tell you about their favorite book from this week!

     We did a lot of work in school this week! We wrote friendly letters to Frog from Toad (or to Toad from Frog) and wrote conversations between Frog and Toad. We designed t-shirts that taught our classmates about ourselves and drew pictures of what we thought a scientist did. (We even met the ULTIMATE scientist! Ask you child to tell you about this fabulous person!) We designed bathing suits for toad (or frog) and illustrated a picture of our special reading space. We started talking and thinking about our hopes and dreams for the school year. We wrote pages for our own class important books. We also took a reading survey that asked us to think about what we liked and didn't like about reading. As you can see, we have had a VERY busy week! Has anyone had a tired second grader at home each night?!

     Tomorrow we will be sharing our artifact bags! We will also be writing captions for our scientist pictures. Tomorrow is our first school meeting! All of the first and second grade classes will meet with Mrs. McCubrey and Ms. Day as we work on building our school community.

     Have a restful and rejuvenating weekend!