Busy Bees

Hello Parents!

Thank you to ALL the parents who were able to assist with our very successful and heartwarming field trip to the Veteran’s Hospital.  So many touching moments—many smiles both from your children and our veterans, a few tears, too!  Quite an experience!!!!!!

Just a few reminders for upcoming events:

Wednesday, May 15th:  Late Start

Friday, May 17th:  Detroit Science Center—all day—Both children and chaperones will need a bag lunch and drink.  I recommend that children’s lunches be placed in a plastic bag—many paper bags tore on last Friday’s field trip.  Also, please label your child’s bag with their name.  Thank you!

Wednesday, May 22nd:  Spring Concert, 6:00 p.m.

Friday, May 24th and May 27th :  No school

Now onto our classroom schedule:

Spelling:  (schwa a, which sounds like a short “u” /uh)  Our words are:  idea, again, agree, above, banana, ago, alike, balloon, away, and alone.  Bonus words are:  along, about.  Our sentence is:  Long ago the banana agreed with the balloon’s idea to go above the clouds.

Reading:  Reading and acting out short plays

Math:  Completion of Module 6—assessment on Wednesday.

Writing:  Personal Narrative

Science:  Plants and ecosystems

That should do it —

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hi All!

Just a friendly reminder to have your children wear red, white, and blue tomorrow for our trip to the Veteran’s Hospital.  Also, each child and chaperone needs a bag lunch and beverage (no pop).  We do plan on venturing over to Belle Isle after the distribution of the fruit trays for a “picnic” lunch, a visit to the aquarium and some play time on their play structure.  It’s going to be another busy day.

I would like to share with you that your children did an outstanding job today preparing the fruit trays for our veterans. Such on task busy bees—we received numerous compliments from parents,volunteers and actual veterans that visited us today on their wonderful behaviors.  I gave them 10 stones for their reward jar!!!!!!!  Soooooo proud!!!!!!!  Looking forward to another very meaningful day, tomorrow!!!!

I also have to  send out an enormous thank you to our parents who were able to help with all the tray preparations today, Mrs. Ryan, Mrs. Dagher, Mrs. Motowski, and Ms. Ozuna,—-all the wrapping, tying, snipping, and lifting—-amazing!!!  A fabulous community effort—2,022 trays were created today.   A job well done!!!!!

Here’s to a memorable and appreciative patriotic deed!!!!!!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello Parents!

Second grade is going by way tooooooo fast.!!!!! We’re just a day away from the first day of May!!!! Is there anyway to put on the brakes?  We’re going to be busy, busy, BUSY!!!!!!

Let me start with May events for your planning:

Tuesday, May 7th:  Science Challenge Night 5-6

Wednesday, May 8th:  Need volunteers to pick up donated fruit for our Veteran Hospital Project

Thursday, May 9th:  Volunteers needed for fruit tray wrapping in our classrooms

Friday a.m., May 10th:  Volunteers greatly needed to assist with delivery of fruit baskets to Veteran’s Hospital and chaperone at hospital

Friday, May 17th:  Detroit Science field trip, chaperones needed

Wednesday, May 22nd:  Spring concert 6:00 p.m.

Friday, May 24th and Monday, May 27th:  No School

Friday, May 31st:  DuVall Ice Cream Social

Now to our Hive plans:

Spelling:  More suffixes (ly, ness, ful and able ) Our words are:  friendly, slowly, likely, lovely, helpful, thankful, careful, kindness, darkness, likable and lovable.  Bonus words are:  softness, powerful and cheerful.   The sentence is:  A friendly giant walked through the darkness to find his lovable pet.

Reading:  Continuation with deepening comprehension within our fiction and non-fiction readings.

Math:  Arrays—a mid module assessment possibly on Thursday.

Writing: Poetry writing and printing some on the computer

Social Studies:  Economics

A busy hive.

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello There!

Looks like we’re in for another week of April showers!  I’m hoping they will cease in time for our field trip this Thursday afternoon.  Please consider having your child bring or wear boots on field trip day—the conditions may be muddy.  If  you were able to sign up as a chaperone/driver, we will see you at school by 12:25, so I can assign your little passengers.  We may still need one more driver—if you may be able to assist with this, please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you for sharing your time with us.

Our week in the Hive:

Spelling:  (Homophones—words that sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings):  threw, through, write, right, bored, board, wear, where, whole, and hole.  Bonus words are:  there, their and they’re.  Our sentence is, The children were bored as they went through the right door wearing blue.

Reading:  Non-fiction — main ideas and supporting details.  Also, paying attention to new vocabulary.

Writing:  April is National Poetry Month, so we will be exploring forms of poetry.

Math:  We are at the end of Module 5, so we will have our end of the module assessment on Wednesday.  A review will come home on Tuesday.

Social Studies:  Economics

Reminders:

No school this Friday, April 19th.  School resumes on Monday, April 22nd.

Spring Concert: May 22nd at 6:00

For those families celebrating Easter—Happy Easter and for all families enjoy your long weekend!!!!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello and Welcome Back!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Spring Break.  Can you believe that we are in our last quarter of second grade and it will be a busy one?!!!!!

Here are some dates to put on your calendars:

Thursday, April 18th:  An afternoon only field trip to the University of Michigan Dearborn Environmental Interpretive Center (PARENT DRIVERS WILL BE NEEDED)

Friday, May 10th:  Veteran’s Hospital

Friday, May 17th:  Michigan Science Center, Detroit

Thursday, June 6th:  Field Day

Tuesday, June 11th:  Levagood Picnic/Pool

Permission slips will be coming home for the field trips.  Hoping we will have parent chaperones as needed.  Thank you in advance.

I would like to extend my appreciation once again to all the parents who volunteered to read to our class during the month of March.  We loved your book choices and enthusiasm for reading.

Now onto our week’s plans for Hive 108:

Spelling:  (Compound words)  football, everybody, grandmother, bedroom, anything, someone, something, playground, sunshine and birthday.  Bonus words:  downstairs,  rainbow, and haircut.  Our sentence is:  Someone sang the Happy Birthday song while playing football on the playground.

Reading:  Non-fiction—main idea and details

Writing:  Completing our opinion papers—soon to be hung on our bulletin board

Math:  Beginning the second half of Module 5—Strategies for decomposing tens and hundreds within 1,000 (subtraction)

Social Studies:  Completing our unit on Dearborn’s History and then returning to Economics

That should do it!

Enjoy your week!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello Parents!

We are now into our last week of March…our last week of March is Reading Month.  I want to thank all our guest readers and an early thank you to those still scheduled.  Our class has enjoyed these special visits.

Reminders of upcoming events:

Tuesday, March 26h:  Field trip to the Dearborn Historical Museum (am only)

Friday, May 10th:  Fruit basket delivery to the Veteran’s Hospital

Wednesday, May 22nd:  Spring Concert

There will be more….stay tuned:)

Now for Hive 108 plans:

Spelling:  (plurals with es)  Our words are:  boxes, witches, dishes, foxes, fixes, clothes, mixes, riches, lunches, and watches.  Bonus words:  sandwiches, prefixes, and suffixes.  Our sentence is:  Four boxes came filled with dishes for the hungry witches to use for their lunches.

Reading: Author’s purpose

Writing:  Continuation with their opinion writing

Math:  Addition/Subtraction within 1,000 along with related story problems .  A mid-module assessment will be given toward the end of the week.  Watch your child’s planner.

Social Studies:  History of Dearborn

A busy last week of March and here’s to a wonderful Spring Break!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Hello Parents!

Just a quick reminder that permission slips/$5 are due tomorrow for our trip to the Dearborn Historical Museum.  Thank you to the parents that have volunteered to chaperone.  Please be sure you have your IChat form completed in the office. :)Chaperones may choose to drive to the museum or ride on the bus.  Please let me know if you will be riding on the bus.

Here are our Hive Plans:

Spelling:  (irregular plural nouns) Our list for this week is:  mouse, mice, woman, women, foot, feet, tooth, teeth, man, men and there will be only 2 Bonus words this week, person and people.  Our sentence is   The woman’s teeth chattered  as she pushed the mice out the door with her feet.

Reading:  Elements of Fiction

Writing:  We will continue to work on opinion writing.

Math:  Module 5—Adding and subtracting within 1,000.

Social Studies:  We will be discussing the history of Dearborn to prepare for our field trip.  We will also continue with Economics.

Have a happy week!

Fondly,

Mrs. Burke

Please have your child bring a board game to school today as a reward for great behavior throughout the month of February.  They will be enjoy playing their game at 2:00 this afternoon with Ms. Sims’ class and the two third grade classes, so please put your child’s name on the game.  NO ELECTRONICS!

Thanks much!

Mrs. Burke