Busy Bees

• Raz Kids: busybees57
• Read Works: HPBZY7 (Password 1234)
• Epic: vum0598
• Freckle: mu6d9p
• Zearn: EY8Y8T
• Clever: (Login is student#@dearbornschools.org/ Password: Birthdate ex: 01012011)

With the sudden closure of school, I am attaching a link for your children to access. I encourage playing games together, watching Schoolhouse Rock, and Magic School Bus videos on YouTube, along with the daily reading and access to the attached resources. Please email me if you have any questions.

2nd Grade Online Learning Link

Here is our link to Read Works: HPBZY7

Hello Parents!

Hoping everyone enjoyed their sunny weekend.

Our Hive plans:

Spelling: (irregular plural nouns) Our words are: woman, women, mouse, mice, foot, feet, tooth, teeth, man, and men. Bonus words: person, people. Our silly sentence is: The woman’s teeth chattered as she pushed the mice out the door with her feet.

Reading: Working on graphic organizers for the elements of fictions.

Writing: Personal narratives

Math: Module 6—Introduction to Multiplication and Division. New homework books will be coming home.

Science: Your little engineers are constructing Leprechaun traps. So many exciting and creative ideas—a great deal of problem solving going on.

Reminders:

Friday, March 13th: 1/2 day of school.

Here’s to more sunny days!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello Parents!

Hello March—March is Reading Month. Your child should have brought home a green “packet” with various reading activities for home and at school. As a kick off, students are asked to dress as a Dr. Seuss character or in the infamous red, white and black–Cat in the Hat colors.

Book Fair: All week 🙂

Thursday, March 5th: Literacy Night 5:00-6:00

Friday, March 13th: Half day of school

Also, if you have any empty shoe boxes, please have your children bring them in for an “engineering” project. Many thanks!

I would like to thank all our parent chaperones that attended our bowling field trip. The children had a blast—many unique techniques of bowling all those spares and strikes. Couldn’t have had such a successful trip without you!!!! Super thanks!!!!!

Our Hive Plans:

Spelling: (schwa “a” pattern) Our words are: again, agree, above, comma, ago, alike, balloon, away, idea and alone. Our bonus words are: banana, along and about. Our silly sentence: Long ago, the banana agreed with the balloon that they weren’t alike.

Reading: Locating details in non-fiction to support author’s specific point

Writing: We will work on our story boards then onto first drafts for personal narratives.

Math: Subtraction with 3 digit numbers (regrouping/trading). Our delayed math assessment, will be on Wednesday or Thursday—watch your child’s planner.

Social Studies: Continuation with Economics

Here’s to a wonderful week!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello Parents!

Hoping all are enjoying their “wintery” days off!!!! Just a reminder that we will be heading to Ford Lanes tomorrow for our bowling field trip. Children will be eating lunch at school, just like any other school day. I want to suggest that they wear comfortable clothing, enabling them to bowl more strikes. 🙂

I don’t have my list of drivers here at home, but I know we had a wonderful response. I did send home little reminders for some drivers that the office needs copies of some parents’ driver’s license and or insurance. Please be sure to take care of that tomorrow morning or come to school prior to leaving (12:30). Many thanks!

Here’s to a fun afternoon of bowling!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello Parents!

Here we are in the last week of February and that means we’re moving closer to SPRING!!!!!! Yeah!!!!

Our plans for the Hive:

Spelling: (oi, oy patterns) Our words are: soil, spoil, coin, voice, noise, boy, toy, royal, enjoy and loyal. The bonus words: avoid, choice and destroy. Our silly sentence is: The little boy enjoyed his royal toy, but it sure made loud noises!

Reading: Reviewing main ideas/details

Writing: The class has been stirring up their creative juices and writing stories for our school’s assembly—Brainstormers.

Math: Addition and subtraction with 2-3 digit numbers. We will be working through Module 5 this week and have our assessment on Friday.

Social Studies: Economics

Tidbits:

Box Tops continue to be collected through Friday.

Thank you to all the parents that volunteered to drive/ chaperone for our bowling field trip this Friday. We are looking forward to bowling some strikes!!!!!

Literacy Night is Thursday, March 5th, 5:00-6:00

Enjoy our last week of February—-it’s a Leap Year—enjoy the the extra day!!!!!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello Parents!

Here are our plans for our week before winter break:

Spelling: (ou and ow) Our words are: loud, sound, round, house, cloud, brown, down, frown, crown and scowl. Bonus words: mouth, ground and shower. Our silly sentence is: A loud sound came from a cloud and made the brown mouse frown.

Reading: Non-fiction generating questions to help with understanding of a topic. Also, practicing using context clues to assist with the understanding of more complex vocabulary.

Math: Module 4 assessment is tomorrow.

Writing: Almost all informational/research pieces are completed. They should be in hanging in the hallway by midweek after sharing them with our classmates.

Social Studies: Working together in our community

Tidbits:

Friday, February 14th: Celebration of Valentine’s Day. Your children may bring valentines to pass out to their classmates, (25 students). If you wish to send in a little treat, please feel free to do so. I will be providing a little frozen treat to enjoy in the afternoon, along with playing board games, emphasizing our friendships, all part of our Valentine celebration. Bringing in a board game from home is encouraged—please label with your child’s name. Thank you!!!!

Enjoy our winter break!!! If you are traveling have a wonderful and safe trip. School resumes on Monday, February, 24th.

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello Parents!

Hello February– time to change the calendars, again!

Our Hive Plans:

Spelling: (suffixes, ing, ed, er, and est) Our words are: looked, looking, talked, talking, joked, joking, fastest, faster, biggest, bigger and our bonus words are: stopped, having, making. Our silly sentence is: The biggest and fastest runners were joking around and almost crashed.

Reading: Fiction: Identifying causes (Why did it happen?) and effects (What happened?) within a story.

Math: Completion of Module 4 this week and a planned assessment will probably be on Friday. Keep your eye on your child’s planner. Please continue to practice the addition and subtraction strategies at home—-overall the children are doing well.:)

Writing: Finishing with our informational/research piece of writing on an animal of choice. These will be displayed in the hallway upon completion. We will also be working on a piece for the Brainstormers‘ Assembly. .

Science: Plants

Now for our tidbits:

Math Night: TONIGHT, Monday, February 3rd from 5:30-6:30

Late Start: Wednesday, February 5th

100th Day of School: Thursday, February 6th. I sent a note home, but just a reminder that your child may come to school dressed as a 100 year old. Have fun being creative!!!! Also, to help celebrate our 100th Day, we are making a special snack. Each child has been asked to bring in 100 pieces of a small snack (goldfish, mini pretzels, popcorn, cereal, etc…) in a baggie on Thursday. We will combine all our “treats” and then share them Thursday afternoon. They have fun sorting, creating math problems and then of course, devouring them.:) Thank you in advance for your donations!!!!!

Collection boxes for “Pennies for Patients” will continue to be collected.

That should do it for now, until my next post.

Here’s to a great week!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke