Thank You!

Thank you very much to Marissa, Cameron, and Josh's families for wish list items!

Homework This Week

Homework this week is a little bit different due to the short week.  Each student is required to do the writing on Thanksgiving.  They may do the attached white worksheets for coupons, but they do not have to.  Homework is due tomorrow.  There will be no reading homework this week.

A Few Reminders...

That busy time of the year has begun! Here are a few reminders of important things coming up soon...

• There is no school next Wednesday, November 27th
• Book Orders are due next Tuesday the 26th
• Field trip money is due next Tuesday the 26th, we have already had to pay for our tickets so please make sure to send in the money for yours.  Let us know if you will need to pay later for special circumstances.
• Winter weather has officially arrived this week! We will continue to go outside for recess and dismiss to the outside even if it's cold so please make sure to send your children to school with coats and winter accessories.  The rule of thumb for it to be indoor recess is typically for the weather to be below freezing, extremely windy or raining/snowing heavily, otherwise we'd be inside every day. :)

Let us know if you have any questions.

Online Educational Games

Caughlin Ranch purchased a fun program called Zoner-Bloser this school year that allows us to have access to lots of great online educational games.  You can log-in at home to play!

Use the school id code: renonvd3
User name: first initial of first name + last name (bfredrickson)
Password: teacher name (drlik or fred not fredrickson :))

A letter with this information will go home soon.  Once you log-in you can save the information so you do not have to keep re-entering it!

What's the Matter?

In order to tie up our Science unit on matter that we've been working on, on Friday we did a few fun experiments.  One in particular had the kiddos pretty excited which was making bouncy balls out of a few simple ingredients.  We weren't able to make enough so that each kiddo got one, but at the end of the day we did a raffle to see who the lucky 7 would be.  Below is a link to instructions for making your own bouncy balls at home.

Making a Bouncy Ball

We've had a lot of fun learning all about matter the last few weeks.  Here are a couple songs that we've enjoyed in class.  As well as a fun song on the human body that the kids loved.

States of Matter Rap

2nd Grade Matter Song

Anatomically Correct Bone Song

Music Program

The first and second graders will be performing in our holiday music program on December 17th. We will post the times soon.  Mrs. Jackson, our music teacher, would love any help that parents are willing to give to help with preparations including the set or even costumes.  Please email us if you are willing to help with this and we will pass your name on to her.  Thank you!

Thank You!

Thank you so much to Colin and Marissa's families for bringing in wish list items!

Thank You!

Thank you to Evan's family for wish list items! :)