Happy Valentine's Day!

February 13, 2015

 

Dear Parents,

We had a fun and productive Valentine's Day. Thank you for the donated goodies! For Morning Meeting, we turned to someone next to us, and we thanked them for something we notice they have brought to our  classroom. It was a nice way to begin the day.  After Music, we read more from Mr. Popper's Penguins. Ask your child if he or she thinks you should do to your house what Mr. Popper did to his.

In Writing, we worked on our All-About books, and they are nearly done.  Next week, we will be publishing these books and sharing them. They will be featured in our Reading Restaurant

We are also going to begin a new science unit on plants and animals from different habitats on Monday.

Want to sing with us in the Variety Show?
We are bringing together a Horizon Band for the upcoming Variety Show (March 13th). Harry Bowen, Deacon's dad, is going to join us. EriK Urch, Isabella's dad, is going to be part of it too. Ms. Trasciatti-Holmberg and Ms. Reina will also be singing with us. But we need you!  It's a lot of fun. We sing rock 'n Roll standards. We'll probably be singing "The Letter" by the Boxtops (and also sung by Joe Cocker). Check it out and give us a call!

Have a  great weekend, everyone.

Mr. Bolger

February 11, 2014

Celebrating our 100th Day of  School  by Counting to One Million!

Hello Parents.

As part of our 100th-day celebration, in Second-Grade Math, we challenged ourselves to count to one million. We did it in 40 minutes! (of course we counted by 100s). Each of us wrote the number "100" in every space on a "hundreds" grid (meaning that each of us "counted" to 10,000 for each grid done!)  Then, we worked 'til together we'd made 100 of those "ten-thousand" grids. Finally, 100 ten-thousands  (or ten thousand 100s) brought us to one million. AJ Beverly glued on our  final grid, and we cheered to have counted, finally, to 1,000,000.

We also watched an amazing video called "The powers of 10" Check it out with your child this weekend!

Take care, everyone.

Mr. Bolger