The week of new

September 27, 2019
Autumn Begins!

News from Room 15

September 27, 2019

We learned:

    New word study routines with our new word study notebooks.
·      How to gather tiny topics for writing in our new notebooks
·      Routines for have to's and choices during math menu with our new math menu folders

   We experienced:

·      Math menu with corrections and Dreambox
·      Reading aloud Best Friends by Steven Kellogg, Ricky the Rock that Couldn't Roll by Jason Miletsky, Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Rosenthal, The Screaming Mean Machine by Joy Cowley and Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
·      Solving problems with missing addends, counting to the century by 10's and practicing addition facts in number corner.
·      Practicing our classroom rules and agreements together.
·      Mindfulness practice with multiple senses, incorporating the skills we learned this month to help become more aware of ourselves in our space.
    Science STEAM challenge of building the longest paper chain.
    Building our Reader's workshop routines.
    Counting Strategies with counting bags and recording totals.

Other things to ask your child about:

·      Bookflix and Dreambox on our chromebooks

·      Snackcess

·      Book choices

Please note
Our classroom is keeping clean and healthy with baby wipes and kleenex. Thank you for your continued donations.

I hope you enjoy the weekend,

Mrs. Belisle

jbelisle@sbschools.net

A New Start

News from Room 15

September 15, 2019

We learned:

·      How to practice taking deep breaths.

·      Our classroom procedures for:  packing our folders with our mail from our mailboxes and returning empty folders to school.

·      How a monarch emerges from its chrysalis, we let our monarch free this week, we called her “a new start”.

We experienced:

·      Math menu with have to’s and choices.

·      Reading aloud Katie Woo by Fran Manushkin

·      Learning to tell time by collecting minutes and hours in number corner.

·      Writing our classroom rules and agreements together.

·      Reading The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper and I am Peace by Susan Verde.

·      Practicing together as a second grade and running the assembly about mindfulness.

·      Reading Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry and creating a class book about how we can stick up for our friends.

·      mindfulness practice with our hands noticing how our sense of touch is emphasized when we can’t use our other senses as well as building vocabulary to describe how things feel.

Other things to ask your child about:

·      Introduction to chromebook use

·      Our all school recess

·      Lunchroom choices, who are they sitting with, how’s it going?

Please note:

·      Friday, September 20^th – Early Release at 12:30 p.m.

I hope you enjoyed the weekend,

Mrs. Belisle

jbelisle@sbschools.net

**We are brave and kind in our classroom.  Each member of our class was both of these this week in many ways.

Welcome to Second Grade 2019!

September 2019

Welcome to Second Grade!

News from Room 15

August 31, 2019

We learned:

·      Our classmates’ names

·      Our classroom procedures for:  morning meeting, using table baskets, lining up, & safely walking around our school.

·      Our school procedure for fire drills.

We experienced:

·      guided discovery of our playground and math manipulatives.

·      Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting to share how we will celebrate birthdays in our class.

·      giving and receiving feedback as we wrote our best names and drew our best person.

·      quick images and the game NIM during math.

·      our uniqueness and positive character trait to contribute to our class by listening to There’s Only One You by Kathryn Heling, Deborah Hembrook & Rosie Butcher

·      our first whole school assembly to welcome us into the new school year.

·      mindfulness practice with our eyes noticing our space and colors, at, below and above our eye level. 

Other things to ask your child about:

·      First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg

·      If I Built a School by Scott Van Dusen

·      First week of creative arts classes

Please note:

·      September 2^nd – No School

·      September 4^th – School Pictures for 2^nd grade

·      September 13^th – PBIS assembly hosted by 2^nd grade

·      September 20^th – Early Release at 12:30 p.m.

Enjoy the holiday weekend,

Mrs. Belisle

jbelisle@sbschools.net

**We have two monarch caterpillars in our classroom munching on milkweed.  It will be exciting to see what they look like on Tuesday!

**We are brave and kind in our classroom.  Each member of our class was both of these this week in many ways.  I’m excited about our school year together!