End of Year Pizza Party

 Grade 2 End of Year Celebration: Pizza Picnic     

Grade 2 students will celebrate the end of the school year with a

Pizza Picnic Lunch on Wednesday, June 27th.

If you are able to do so, then please send in $3 to school by Friday, June 22nd

to help cover the cost for your child’s pizza lunch at the picnic.

Students may give their money for the pizza lunch to their teacher.

We appreciate your help!

Thank you!

Brassfield Carnival

Spring Carnival - Friday, June 1st from 5-8pm in the lower field.

Brassfield’s first Spring Carnival will be held on Friday, June 1st  in the Lower Field @ 5-8 PM with parking/bus service from Bayleaf Baptist Church. Bring the family out to enjoy inflatables, games, food, prizes, face painting, a cake walk, a dunk booth and more.   

Volunteers are desperately needed at this point, or we will have to scale the event back dramatically.  There are opportunities to help out with set up during the day if you have plans that evening.  Please help!:

Volunteers can sign-up now to run a game. We are offering 2 shifts during the event to allow everyone time to work and enjoy the carnival with their family. Without our volunteers, we will not be able to run all the game stations we have put together, so please sign-up and encourage other wake county approved volunteers to secure their spot early. Grab a friend and work a station together! It is NOT too late to seek approval. Find out more at the game volunteer link:  

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080b4ea9af2eabf58-spring2

Donations: Thank you families for your generous donations! You too can use this sign-up to provide carnival donations (like small prizes, candy, cakes, soda, water, etc). Donations can be dropped off in the school lobby through Wednesday, May 16th.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080b4ea9af2eabf58-spring

Games: Most games will take 1-2 tickets, with a few free games. To help you plan, one child will be able to play each game once with 20 tickets. Save money and order now!

Pre-Purchase of Tickets is encouraged.  You save money and it will help us gauge attendance, helping us to have enough food and prizes. Tickets are available at a discount ($4 for 10 tickets, $6 for 15 tickets, $10 for 25 tickets or $20 for 50 tickets), by returning your pre-order form with payment (in a sealed envelope) or during afternoon carpool on 5/15 or 5/30, or Movie Night on 5/18.

Reminders

Just a friendly reminder that there are several items that have been sent home and needed to be returned or paid for.  Please check that you have...

• returned any Jump Rope for Heart money or tickets (if collected).
• spring pictures and/or money.
• field trip money (we still have about 5 students who have not paid = more than $100).
• green form about where you plan to send your child for the 2018-2019 school year.
• report card envelope

Also, I want to ask you to remind your pup to be reading each night and taking the reading challenge by answering some of the written practice questions for Friday.  This is very good practice as we will be entering the End Of Year assessment period in a few weeks.  

Super Kids Day!

Super Kids Day!
Who? 
       Tracks 1 and 4
       Volunteers are needed to monitor stations, monitor kids, donate water bottles, set up, take down

     I would also like to ask volunteers to send in sliced oranges or apples, or grapes for our class to share.  

What? 
       Fun and games
       What to wear:  sneakers, hat, sunglasses, sunscreen (applied at home!)

Where? 
       on and around the field

     After the fun and games, our class will gather together to have cool and refreshing snack.  I would like to ask volunteers to send in a box (20 total) popsicles for us to share.  

When? 
       Friday, May 11, 2018   9:15-11:30

Why? 
       To celebrate our SUPER KIDS and and HAVE FUN getting EXERCISE!

Please email me ASAP if you can send fruit or popsicles.  
Thank You!

Our Spring Picture Day is Wednesday!  

The flyer of information and the envelope for ordering a class picture went home in Wednesday folders.  The class pictures are pre-order, but individual pictures will be sent home for you to decide to purchase or return, when we return from track out. 

Enterprise Day is Coming Soon!

Just a reminder that NEXT Tuesday, March 20 will be Enterprise Day in our classroom.  SOme of the pups have already started bringing in their products to "sell." 

Some Quick Notes...

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Here are a few notes about events in the classroom and around Brassfield.

1.  This Friday, March 2 is Read Across America Day (and Early Release Day at 1:15).  Students are encouraged to bring a favorite book or a book they are reading to school.  We will be taking a SCHOOLwide picture at some point with kids holding their books. 

2.  This Friday, March 2, also in honor of Read Across America Day and Dr. Seuss's birthday, the 2nd grade will be doing a rotation of several activities that will incorporate literacy around our curriculum (science, writing, math, reading, and social studies).  We are inviting the pups to wear "Dr. Seuss wear" if they wish.

3.  This Wednesday, February 28, we will have our LAST in-school field trip.  Science Is Fun for Everyone will lead the pups in a variety of hands-on experiments and activities about weather.  Our time slot is 10:35-11:50.

4.  Writing in Reading...To help the pups improve their written responses to reading, I am going to start a weekly challenge in at home reading.  The pups SHOULD be reading each night (independently or with someone) and discussing or thinking about what they read.  I see the evidence of this each day when I hear the pups talk about books with their friends or me. 
     So...starting this week...I will be posting (on the Homework tab) 2-4 questions about reading.  These questions could be those we are currently working on in class, review, or some that will extend their reading and thinking.  Any student that brings in 3 questions with a well-written response to share, will earn the challenge dojos (3).  Pups are welcome to keep a reading response journal to just use lined paper.  I look forward to reading about THEIR reading!

5.  Reminder that on March 20, the pups will become entrepreneurs and sell a product they have made at home.  They have been working hard to earn "class money" to be able to spend at Enterprise Day.  Please make sure your pup comes prepared with 20-40 homemade items (inexpensive) to sell to their classmates.  If you have any questions, please email me.
   

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

This week has been jam packed with activity!  The pups had fun going into MakerSpace and creating their Valentine's Day mailbox.  They also used the MakerSpace materials to create a self-portrait of themselves today and what they think they will look like in 100 year as well as to create a picture using the digits in 100. 

Friendly Reminders:  

1. There are still a few pups that have not paid for the field trips and Scholastic News magazine.  The total cost for everything is $28.00.  Please help us by sending in payments with your pup ASAP.  
2. The weather is crazy this time of year and pups need to be prepared with a jacket at school in the event that the temperature is lower than 45*.
3. Please check with your pup if they are in need of school supplies.  Many of the pups do not have glue sticks, pencils, sharpeners, or crayons.  

The pups have been very busy SWIRLING through math, reading, writing, and more!

In math, we have been exploring the world of GEOMETRY.  We have been discussing the MANY vocabulary words and how they are ALL connected.  We also discussed how many shapes can look different but still have the same name.  They are in the process of completing a choice menu of vocabulary, creative design, literature in math, and specials in math.  


As always, we are reviewing 


1 and 2-step story problems, addition and subtraction to 1,000, telling time, and using money.  

Please continue to help with these skill at home.  Please encourage the pups to practice math skill on Xtramath, Starfall, and Prodigy at home.  I sent home the information about logging on and setting up Prodigy last week.  



There is a lot going on in reading.  The pups have been paying close attention to how characters react and feelings change throughout stories based on events in the story.  They have also begun looking at stories through different points of view - for instance, how would the wolf explain what happened to Little Red Riding Hood?  Please continue to read with your child each day!





The pups just selected a CHOCOLATE book to read and use to explore our learning through this decadent treat.  Please ask your pup which book they selected.  If they have this book at home, they are welcome to read it and discuss it there too.  We would also appreciate any donations or sharing of the following books as we are short a few.  


       
The books we are in need of are:  
                     Hot Fudge by James Howe
                     The Chocolate Sabotage by Geronimo Stilton


Today the pups were well behaved as they listened and watched a cultural arts play about George Washington Carver and many other famous and not so famous African Americas.  In the classroom, the pups have been involved in a scavenger hunt of famous African Americans.  

We are composing a Classroom Listen, Look, and Learn poster. 

This week we took a little break from poetry as a focus in writing to focus on thinking of our friends and how they do wonderful things for us.  Each pup thought of someone that has been a TRUE friend and wrote about that friend, what they have done, and how it changed how they feel.  We have been looking at literary devices for writing poetry and how they can be used in our every day writing as well.  Be sure to ask your pup about the "Fancy Nancy and Fancy Ned" words we have learned and practiced.  We will learning a few more literary devices and then put them ALL to use in a special poetry book.  

Thank you to all of the pups that have participated in bringing in and sharing poems from home!

Our Social Studies unit about economics and money is going VERY well!   The pups are learning about minting, currency, goods and services, budgeting, and more.  As they complete their Big Book of Money, they are reading, answering questions, doing a webquest, and connecting the lessons to their lives.  
At the same time, we are using this a helpful extension to the money unit in math.  The pups are earning coins for their dojos and can save or spend them to "buy" rewards in the classroom.  They are also exchanging coins for equivalent coins.  Be on the lookout next week for information about our Enterprise Day.  This will be the culminating activity and involve pups becoming entrepreneurs in the classroom for a day.  



In the next week or so, we will begin out science unit of weather.