March 18, 2016






A Great Performance :  We had the opportunity on Thursday to watch the first grade's performance and they were awesome.

Second Grade Poetry Book - the children did a great job creating and illustrating their poems.  Everything is ready to be submitted for publication.


Reading/Language Arts
This week everyone did a wonderful job learning about text features that are used in books and how these features are used to locate information.  Next week they will begin to collect information about the animal they selected from either the rainforest, desert, or ocean habitat.  A note went home about an animal project that should be done at home and is due on Friday, April 15th.  They will be sharing their projects with their classmates.

Math
We will begin our unit on geometry.  Children will learn to describe the attributes of solids figures such as:  pyramids, cubes and rectangular prisms by using faces, edges, and vertices.  

Social Studies
We will be identifying the functions of the President, Congress and the Supreme Court in our government.

Homework
Reading - read for 20 minutes and complete the Reading Log
Math - practice facts
Spelling - practice words, test on Thursday