Mrs. Ballnik's Second Grade

Classroom News from Mrs. Ballnik’s Class My email is ballnic@dearbornschools.org
Friday, May 11, 2018
Important Days to Remember
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
Gym – Tuesday-Please remember to wear tennis shoes and bendable clothes (not jeans or slip on shoes).
NWEA COMPUTER TESTs FOR THE END OF THE YEAR ARE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
Please try to have your child prepare with practice at home such as Prepdog.org.
Be sure to read and go over math this weekend. Most importantly, have your child get plenty of sleep and be well rested for the morning tests. Breakfast is important, also.
Field Trip – is on Tuesday, May 29th at the Cranbrook Science Center and students will need to bring a lunch with a drink (not pop or gatorade). We do not shop at the store. We are busy with exhibits, a demonstration on magnetism and electricity, the traveling exhibit about Rome and visiting the many different areas of the Center while doing a scavenger hunt. It is a fun and busy day. We share the bus with Mr.s Herrod’s class. Thank-you for sending in your permission slip and $2.00.
INVENTION FAIR- Our class will have an invention fair on Wednesday, June 6th at 1:30 p.m.. Your child should send in something that they created from the bag of recycled materials sent home last Monday. DO NOT THROW THIS BAG AWAY. Send in anything that isn’t used, if you are going to throw it away. I do not have extra bags and actually have to buy the scrap at a scrap store.
Your child should make either a game or something useful (but it does not have to work at this time). It is just the idea of what the invention can do. Your child will name the invention with a name that hasn’t been used before. If it is a game, he/she should develop rules to play it.
Your child could start writing about the invention at home, if they want. We will be writing an opinion paper selling the invention’s attributes to parents, staff and students that come to the invention fair. Your child will be the inventor selling the invention idea (short speeches) to all the presidents of different companies (invention fair visitors). Then the presidents decide to give $1,000.00, $100,000.00, or $1,000,000.00 dollars for the idea (They circle the amount on a piece of paper). The inventors add up their papers from the presidents (parents, staff, students) and find out how much money they made from their invention idea.
This is a big event! Please encourage your child to get their idea put together with the materials ( no store bought materials allowed) before the May 24th due date. Thank-you for your support and if you are available to come on Wednesday, June 6th at 1:30 p.m..
FRIDAY SPELLING TESTS
Here are the words for the next spelling test. The spelling pattern will be words with x, sh, and ch endings that are made plural with es endings.
The spelling words are;boxes, foxes, witches, stitches, dishes, swishes, fixes, mixes, sandwiches, riches.
The Dolch words; together, shall, could, would, should..

MATH MATH MATH MATH MATH
We are working on place value and money. Test may be next week depending on how exhausted the class seems from taking the NWEA computer test. It will probably be the following week.

Science
We are planting and investigating seeds.
We are learning about live science (plants and animals) until the end of the year. Please go on a seed walk and see if you can send in different seeds..
Social Studies- .
Thank- you for sending in the 4 events to make a Timeline. Our History test study guide will be coming home next week, but we will probably take the test the following week, because of the the NWEA computer tests.
Reading- Read, Read, Read!
BOOK BAGS! Read and ask questions about homework and books that are read.

Have a great weekend with your wonderful child and read, read, read!