Pine Class News Update
December 19th, 2015
Important Compass Calendar Reminders:
YES! We have school on Monday.
No school for the rest of the week or the following week. We hope you all enjoy this time with family and friends.
We return to school on January 4th, 2016. Happy New Year!
Enjoying the unseasonably warm weather...
inventive hockey
The ongoing and very popular recess soccer game!
Hot off the press!
Our very one Pine Class Brooklyn book is nearing completion with lots of great publishing going on this week.
Publishing pens on final drafts
Beautiful diagrams
Detailed maps
Community Walk
Continuing our pursuit of Brooklyn knowledge, the Pine class took a community walk to make observations and develop questions about Brooklyn and its history.
Getting our Donation Ready
Sorting and counting our coins for our donation to the soup kitchen.
We are looking forward to walking over with $20.61 on Monday!
Exploration time!
The hamster playground has more features
The castle continues to grow and so does our castle vocabulary
Creating miniature people
Paper cut work is now hanging!
Pine Class Designers
A new interest in fashion design that started in sketch pads at recess has led to using some "real looking" people models for design in the classroom!
Jump! Jump!
Math this week has involved using an "open number line" and making jumps (by 1, 5, or 10) to get to a certain number. Lots of great thinking is going on and examples of different methods too!
Continuing to Measure
Measuring our portraits to make signs with our names under them.
New Hires!
The Pines decided what positions needed filling in our classroom to make things run more smoothly. They updated our chart, filled out applications, and are beginning their new jobs! We're still hiring for a few!
A great activity for the walk to the store, the car, the train, or the plane during this break...
We've been working on "counting around the circle" and going up by tens. In this example we started with the number 6 and went up from there.
Event Information
Trip to the New Victory Theater
The second grade has a great opportunity to go to the theater! We're heading to the New Victory Theater to see a performance of the old beloved tale, The Velveteen Rabbit.
It would be lovely to have some family members join us! Please let us know if you're interested.
When?
Friday, Jan 22, 2016, 09:00 AM
Where?
209 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, United States
Extra Clothes Reminder
Please send your child with a ziplock bag of extra clothes. We don't anticipate very many bathroom emergencies in 2nd grade, but we want to be prepared for art projects carrying over onto clothes, water fountain explosions, or the unfortunate sick stomach. Thanks!
Contact Information:
Paul - paul@brooklyncompass.org
Anna - anna@brooklyncompass.org
Feel free to reach out at any time with questions, concerns, comments!
We love hearing from our Pine families!