Thank you, thank you... for your wonderful responses to Lori’s & my requests for volunteers! It looks like we’re set for our Kindness Market tomorrow morning! Please make sure your child’s hand-made goods to sell are here at 8 AM. If you need to, you may bring them to the room as early as 7:30 AM. It would help your child if tonight you could pretend to be a customer, and, using real money, have your child make change for 1, 2 or 3 items. Also please remember to help your child set a price and determine how to display these treasures. The 2nd grade students have voted to have the local homeless shelter, PADS, be the recipient of our Kindness Market. PADS is a fine organization, staffed by many volunteers, so the money raised really will go (almost) directly to those in need.
The students did a wonderful job last week with their book reports, and engaged our interest in many fiction and non-fiction books! The evaluation is coming home today. When working on the report cards, I was pleased to note how many students met goals they had set at our fall conference—Congratulations!
The main things we will do & learn this week center on finishing these projects:
1. The Kindness Market! Having been producers, now we’ll be business people, selling our product, and mathematicians making change and counting our net sales.
2. Taking the different components of the Camouflage Unit test; the only part you can really prepare for is Wednesday’s vocabulary test (the definitions came home last Monday).
3. Finishing & assembling all the pages for our Tastings book, so you can celebrate your child’s learning (academic & nutritional) over the vacation. This may be a good time to put math & reading to use in making the recipes together in your kitchen.
4. Revise & polish the writing of our “Mayflower” voyage.
5. Continue “Author’s Chair”: each student is reading his/her best writing of the fall.
6. Start learning “the Scientific Method”. Last week’s investigation of the composting we’ve done was supposed to end our Rocks & Soil unit; however new questions emerged, so together we will design & begin another experiment about composting.
7. Continue work with concrete strategies of adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers. Counting up when making change is a great example of this.
8. Make a gift for you – remember to let your child know how much you appreciate it.
Reminder… Wednesday we go to the library; bring in your old books so you can check out new ones for the vacation.
If you are able, bring in non-perishable food items or cash for Longfellow’s Drive to help care for hungry people. (Thank you for all the generosity so far!)
Homework Please sign & return the report card envelopes ASAP. I want you to have Happy Holidays, so no written work is assigned until the new year!! However, do find time every day to read (& mark your Book It calendar)!
Attached is the class directory, in case you want to arrange play dates.
I wish each of my students’ families peace, joy & contentment; I’ll see you in the New Year, on Monday, January 4, 2010!
fondly, Ms. Lambshead
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