We celebrated World Geography Week on Wednesday, November 13th with Amy Haas, a Geospatial Technology Specialist.  She taught us how to use an app to GIS our playground.  Each student came home with a certificate and a copy of the map we made together as a second grade.  Thank you to Mrs. Courcelle for helping us with this learning opportunity.   

 

We completed our models of the earth this week. 

 

 


Wednesday, November 13th was also World Kindness Day!.  Each Kindness we share in our classroom helps us grow as learners in our community.  We are a strong group of kind people and I'm proud to be their teacher. 

We celebrated the hard work of our writers this week.  Each writer shared a component of their personal narrative while their classmates listened and drank apple cider.  Our new writing unit will be real-life writing.  We will be creating lists, cards, how-to pieces ie recipes, signs, and notes etc.  I'd love to share some real-life writing you have in your home with the class.  If you'd be willing to send some in with your student this week, that would be great!  

Each student is in a guided reading group, reading independently, listening to books read aloud, interacting with books on bookflix and practicing their repeated reading as part of our reading menu each week.  We recently taught our students skills to figure out words we roll up our sleeves and try these strategies:

Thank you for your support labeling and preparing your children with snow gear.  

I sent home paper copies for conference time choices if I haven't heard back from you yet.  I look forward to meeting with each of you during our upcoming parent-teacher conferences.

Thank you for all you do,

Jen Belisle