May Flowers

Hi everyone.  It's hard to believe that we are already into May.  This week especially is an Exciting week at East Elementary.

First things first, today a permission from went home regarding our field trip to Miquelon Lake.  The permission form with $12.50 is due back by May 12th, although the sooner the better. Wednesday, May 3rd, is "Hats On for Mental Health" Day.  The students can wear their favorite  or craziest hats to school all day.  It is also early dismissal.  Students are dismissed at 2:15 for staff meeting.  The talent show also takes place from 1:00pm until 2:15pm.  Feel free to come, watch, and enjoy the talent.

Class pictures for grade 2A will take place Wednesday, May 10th.


Language Arts

The grade 2's continue to work hard on their writing.  Some students still need practice and reminders to include beginning capital letters, as well as ending punctuation.  It's never a bad idea to practice writing sentences at home.
As for our structured writing, the students are learning to write introduction and conclusion paragraphs for an informative piece of writing.  This will lead up to writing a full informative piece of writing based on an animal of their choosing in our small crawling and flying animals science unit.


Math

The grade 2's continue to practice addition and subtraction to 100.  For the most part, the students are doing a great job, just a reminder to remember the strategies when doing either addition or subtraction.  In addition, when adding the ones, and there are more than 9, don't forget the carry the bonus 10 to the top of the tens side. When adding the tens, remember to add the one they carried to that side.  When subtracting, and there are not enough ones to subtract, they have to steal a 10 from the tens side to give them enough to subtract the ones. We will be finishing this unit soon and moving on to 2D shapes and 3D objects.


Science

We have been studying the effects of buoyancy on different objects.  How objects float, and different characteristics of boats that allow them to float, and float well.  The students brought home elastic propelled rafts over the weekend. They have had a great time building different boats and experimenting with different objects that float or do not float.  We will be finishing up buoyancy and boats very soon, then moving on to our final unit, small crawling and flying animals.


I hope everyone has a great week ahead.  We are finally getting some great spring weather.  Thank you to you all for doing a great job sending swimming suits and towels every Monday.  I have made the fewest phone calls ever this year so far for students that have forgotten their swimming stuff.  Keep it up awesome parents.