Good morning everyone! I wanted to send you ALL a great big “THANK YOU” for the wonderful conferences we had on Thursday evening and Friday morning! I greatly appreciate all of your support in our students learning and in believing in them as well! They truly are a pretty amazing group of young people and have so much to offer! Like all of us, teachers included, we have strengths and areas to work on (Mr. Engel is STILL working on his “spelling” skills and still uses the strategy of STRETCHY SNAKE). Keep up the GREAT WORK you are doing and please continue to read with them (asking them the 5 Ws for comprehension and in correcting their DETAILED SPELLING SENTENCES by using Adjectives and Adverbs). With the work we do together, at home and at school, we can work as a TEAM to help our young minds grow and reach for the stars =;)
PLEASE NOTE:
1) LA WRITING – we will be writing about a CELEBRATION that you and your family celebrate together. We will write about the TRADITIONS (things you do as a family during the celebration) in order to describe the exciting activities you celebrate together. Please begin discussing this with your child so they are able to write about it at school (HINT: use our Story Strip for our Walking Stories to help you organize your thoughts and ideas):
2) MAGNET GAME/ACTIVITY – our upcoming Homework #11 will be asking our Grade 2 students to create their own magnet game or activity to share with their classmates. You will be provided TWO magnets to create this at home and then we can all play with them once they are brought back to school. You will have 2 weeks to complete this activity but you can begin brainstorming your ideas now. Each student will get the magnets this upcoming week. Please do not just print a maze/activity from the internet and use this as your project – I am encouraging you to research some ideas but please create your own project, thank you =;)
Have a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for the great conferences this week! You are doing a fantastic job and I enjoy working with your children and families as we are a TEAM =;)
Your teacher,
Mr. Engel
Please take some time to share some of the learning activities we have done over the past week:
Math Games and Centers:
