Congratulations to all boys and girls who had 3 or less card flips since the beginning of the year!  We will be celebrating tomorrow in the gym at our first PBIS party!  Keep up the great job class!

Hello Families,

I hope that you all had a nice Thanksgiving.  I am so thankful for an AMAZING class this year!  I truly missed them over the break.  Enjoy your day.

Friendly Reminder – Field trip permission slips and $ are due tomorrow.  Please let me know if you are interested in chaperoning.  Chaperones will be chosen tomorrow and I will let you know if your name was pulled from the hat.

Thank you for your cooperation.

I sent home an optional, fun way to encourage your child to read over the break.  Fifteen minutes a day will do the trick!  For each day your child reads for 15 minutes, he/she will earn 1 Pack Pride Point.

Thank you for your support at home. 🙂

Good morning!

It looks like we will have another beautiful fall day today!

Friendly reminders:

-Please send permission slip and $12 for your child to go to Cranbrook on Dec. 8th by Tuesday, November 22nd.

-If you’d like to be a chaperone, please let me know by Tuesday.  I will let parents know by Tuesday evening if they were chosen.  I can take 5 chaperones.  Chaperones will meet us at Cranbrook.  Cost is $2.

Thank you. 🙂

Bridge the Gap…General Education/Special Education:

This month our students learned more about our Snow School students who have a special education eligibility.  We have 5 classrooms at Snow that are self-contained special education classrooms.  While students in these classrooms learn differently, we are more alike than we are different.  It is up to us as leaders to make sure everyone feels included.  Saying or waving hello, offering a compliment,  helping a student who may have fallen are just a few ways we can connect with students who learn differently.  We can also help students learn social behaviors by modeling good behavior.  When we witness students making a bad choice we can tell them a better choice they could make.  We can also try to understand that if we see challenging behavior, it may be out of that student’s control or part of their disability.  Empathy is the ability to put ourselves into someone else’s shoes.  Questions you may want to ponder at home to further this discussion:  How would life change if  I had a disability?  What would I need to help me learn?  How would I want others to treat me?  Everyone wants to feel included and it is our hope to make sure that we are showing kindness and empathy so that everyone feels included.

Good Afternoon!

I hope that you are enjoying this beautiful fall day!  Spelling words came home today.  Students have until Monday to complete the spelling homework and the spelling test will be on Monday.  We will not have spelling words next week due to the short week.

Math homework came home for both grades today.  Please support your child as needed and have him/her return it to school tomorrow.

**Timed test for 2nd graders for multiplying by zero and multiplying by one will be tomorrow.  Ask your 2nd grader about our Multiplication Star Wars Clubs!

Tomorrow is a late start.  School will begin at 9:35 a.m.

We are working on Transportation in 2nd grade Social Studies and need cardboard egg cartons.  Thank you!