Halloween Schedule

Our Second Grade Halloween Schedule

Hello Parents! We are excited for Halloween to come on Friday, and we would like you to be informed of what we are doing in case you want to join us for any of it.

8:25 School Bell rings - NO COSTUMES. Please send your child to school with their costume in their backpack or extra bag. We don’t want to ruin costumes before showing them off =-)

8:25-9:00 School Business and Reading - No extra visitors please.

9:00 Bathrooms and load for Field Trip - If you have signed up and paid to join us on the field trip please arrive at 9am in your child’s classroom. We will be loading the bus at approximately 9:15 to go to the Arvada Center.

9:15-11:15 Field Trip to the Arvada Center

11:15-12:10 Return to school, Recess, and Lunch - Students will be back in time for their regularly scheduled recess and lunch.

12:10-12:40 Math - No extra visitors please.

12:40-1:15 Specials - No extra visitors please.

1:15-2:00 Academic activities that will vary from class to class - No extra visitors please.

2:00-2:15 Change into costumes for the parade and party - Please feel free to join us at 2:00 to help your child get into their costume and find a spot to watch the parade.

2:45-3:15 Class Parties

3:15 Regular dismissal from school

We hope you will join us for some of our Halloween festivities. Please help to respect our learning by allowing us to have our academic time without extra visitors.

Thanks again!

2^nd Grade Teachers

Mrs. Biles Mrs. Desbien Mrs. Quinn

Map Grid

Wow! We had some fun and fantastic learning today. Check out what we did:
Reading: Independent reading time today was focused on using our questioning skills. We were writing down all of the questions that were in our heads as we were reading our books.
Writing: We had a fun prompt today about what happened when we invited our friend to dinner, but forgot to tell mom and dad that our friend was a gorilla. They turned out great, though lots of us need to work on using capitals and periods.
Math: We are continuing our geometry unit and got to experiment with mirror symmetry today. We also talked about rectangles by solving a big class problem. We have a 6 foot by 10 foot space that we wanted everyone to be able to sit in. We needed to figure out how many rows and how many columns we would need. We ended up with a 7X3 rectangle. It worked great!
Social Studies: Our math led right into our social studies today, because we were talking about map grids. We equated our rectangle on the floor to a map and pretended we were playing BattleShip and launching missels to different grid squares. What fun!
I am certainly impressed with our great learning today!
There is no homework packet for next week, but be sure to continue reading 20 minutes a night. Expect a new homework packet to go home next Wednesday.
Remember NO school next week on Thursday and Friday, and then the following Monday (the 27th).

Helicopter Landing and Rectangular Prisms

We had a surprise visit from some guys from the National Guard today. They landed their helicopter right in the middle of the soccer field! They brought us an important message for red ribbon week. We learned all about avoiding drugs. Watch the movie below to see what happened.

We also had a busy afternoon today. We are learning all about rectangular prisms in our geometry unit, and today we got to build some. Students worked with partners to tape together their rectangular prisms. Though it was tricky, we did it!




I apologize that the blog hasn't been updated recently. I am still regaining my energy from last weeks parent teacher conferences and 12 hour work days.

Tomorrow we will be having lunch in the classroom for all students that have returned their last four behavior logs signed. If you have them at home be sure to send them tomorrow!

Remember that there is no school next week from October 23rd (Thursday) - October 27 (Monday).

Skip Counting in October

We have been working hard on skip counting. We have learned to skip count by 2's, 3's, and now 4's. What smart kiddos!

Reader's Theater

Isn't reading fun?