January 26th - January 30th

This week we received a response from our penpal letters!  Everyone was excited to see what their penpal wrote.  We spent some time writing back to our new friends.  We need to make sure our printing is neat so that our penpals won't have any trouble reading them!

We have been learning about retelling a story.  We have talked about the characters, setting, problem in the story and solution.  We have been creating iMovies to summarize and retell stories.

We wrapped up our Cardboard Challenge with a cardboard arcade on Thursday. What creative kids we have in grade 2!

Read-a-thon packets were sent home this week.  Please ensure that your child is reading as much as he/she can over the next few weeks!  We are also recording reading minutes in the classroom. Reading to raise money for a new playground structure is a win win situation!

Our Battle of the Books will take place this Friday February 6th! We have done a few practice battles and the kids want more!

Upcoming Dates:

• Read -a- thon: January 27th - February 12th ~ Keep Reading!!
• February  Break (No School)  ~ February  16th - 20th
• February 9th ~ 100th Day of School (homework project coming home this week)
• February 13th ~ Red, white, purple and pink day.  You may send Valentine cards on this day.  A class list will be coming home in the agenda.