Seymour Snapshots
Picture Yourself Growing in Second Grade
Happy Thanksgiving
Thank you to all of the families that joined us and helped to make our day extra special.
Author Celebration - A Special Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
In writing workshop, the writers of Room 11 enjoyed and admired all of our hard work with a very special author celebration! We have finished our first writing unit - personal narratives. We worked extremely hard over the past few weeks. We learned how to think of a meaningful idea, plan across the pages, and write our stories. We worked on spelling challenging words, editing on the go, and reading our writing. We learned how to bring our stories to life by making our characters think, feel, and talk. We spent the majority of our time studying mentor authors like Jane Yolen. After reading Owl Moon closely, we tried special writing crafts in our own writing like using comparisons, using BOLD words, and using exact actions!
After all of the hard work preparing for our author celebration, the day finally came! We held a SPECIAL ribbon cutting ceremony to introduce our published work to the world! We even had an EXTRA special guest as our ribbon cutter, Mr. Zimmerman! He talked to the class about how proud he was of their work, and he celebrated with us! Every smile on every face as they walked the red carpet to be congratulated was the perfect end to an incredible unit.
It was a wonderful day, and every student in Room 11 was beaming with pride! We were able to share our published stories with each other and the special adults that were visiting our class.
Up next in writing... Writing Poetry! Stay Tuned!
Presentation of the Published Books
Smiles and Cheers From Our Authors
Sharing Our Work
Everyday Math
Not only are the students working hard during lessons and small groups with the teachers, they are working hard as they play games independently or with a partner. Ask you child about the new games Salute! and Subtraction Top It! These would be great games to play with your family at home...you just need a deck of cards!
Parent Teacher Conferences
If you have any questions regarding our upcoming conference, please let me know!
Reminders and Dates
* Early Dismissal Days - Monday, December 4th and Tuesday, December 5th for Parent Teacher Conferences
* School Closed - Wednesday, December 6th for Parent Teacher Conferences
* Tuesday, December 5th - Township Tuesday!
* PTO Holiday Shop - Wednesday, December 13th - our class will visit the Holiday Shop to purchase gifts for their family ranging from $1-$10. An envelope will come home with your child. To make this a smooth shopping experience - please write the amount in the envelope and who you would like your child to purchase a gift for! It will help me tremendously! Thanks in advance!
* Thank you for all of your Scholastic Book orders. With all of your orders, we are earning FREE books for our classroom!
Specials Schedule
Tuesday - Music
Wednesday - Library (please return library books this day)
Thursday - Computers
Friday - PE (please wear sneakers)