Greetings Parents,
On Monday, June 1st, our students will be celebrating their writing for the year. We are extending a formal invitation to all parents, or a special adult, to attend our Open House at 11:00 am in our classroom. Each student will have a writing piece or two to share, and will take their adult on a tour of the school to see other’s writing. We would love to see as many parents as possible on Monday, June 1 at 11:00 am in our classroom for this special time!
Hey Everyone! Going to the football game tonight? If so, it’s Homecoming for the Hudsonville Eagles, as well as a fundraiser for the Hudsonville Education Foundation! You can dunk your favorite teacher and participate in other really fun pre-game activities! So hope to see you there!
We have had another great week, families! My fourth graders have landed on “Outstanding” at least twice this week! Won’t be long and we will have a class celebration for earning our “10 Tallies”!
In math, we have been working FEVERISHLY on subtracting multi-digit numbers up into the 10 thousands and 100 thousands. We do have a couple of students who are still struggling with understanding when to “ungroup” (borrow from) the next number over, especially when there are zeros involved. Parents, you would be a blessing to me if you would just double check with your student to see if they have the concept or not. Just throw a few problems down on paper and see if they can do them. If they can’t, I would love it if you would try to explain it to them and have them practice a bit. Sometimes hearing it two or three times can help them finally turn that “lightbulb” on. Thanks!
Hope you have a great weekend! And as we sing in our song hear at school, “Mrs. Q’s kids are made of gold!”
Mrs. Q
Wow! What a great way to end our “Just Write” Celebration by holding a school-wide assembly honoring our great readers and writers! Two very important people from our class were honored today! The first was Milena S. as she has been logged in for reading 2 MILLION words!!! Way to go Milena!! We are so proud of you!!
The next honor goes to Brycen K for writing a super-cool story called “The Snowboarding Trip”! He got to sit on the special “Writer’s Throne” while the second grade teachers acted his story out in a skit! Way to go to you, Brycen! We are so proud of you, too!! And to all parents who attended our writing celebration on Thursday, I send a big THANKS FOR COMING your way! It means a lot to your students and to me, too.
Parents, these children have all grown SO MUCH in all of their skills academically, and I feel honored to be the one to witness it first-hand on a daily basis! Thanks for sending me such great kids with amazing skills and capabilities! It has been one FABULOUS year!!
Hi Parents,
Just a quick announcement to save the date of May 15th for our Just Write Celebration up here at school! Parents are invited to come to school from 10:30-11:30 that day to tour the school and read some of the writing from our fantastic elementary writers!!
Our very important celebration of our year long work in writing takes place next week – May 24-28. Our class will tour parents and important visitors on:
May 24th from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Everywhere you look, descriptive and rich and meaningful words will be displayed on: lockers, walls, windows, and doorways. Our published books from this year and year’s past will be on display in the rotunda.
Each writer’s story is published in a class anthology (collection) that is available for purchase (shipped directly to your home) or free download. To see these books, visit the LULU link on the front of our school blog look for our class link on this link: ABOUT OUR WRITING JOURNEY
Kings, Queens, Knights, Princes, Princesses, and Wizards all dared to enter into the “Enchanted Castle” last Friday! Complete with a castle moat, upon which you could only cross if you knew the “exact” time, students celebrated the finishing up of our fairy tale unit! We not only read many, many fairy tales but we wrote our own as well. Below are pictures of our celebration! Mr. Bowen’s class came to read our fairy tales with us and one nice student in Mr. B’s class said, “Mrs. Q, I think those were some of the best fairy tales I’ve ever read!” So take heart, second graders! Even the third graders think you are great writers!! Our final picture is of us toasting to our future writers!
This past Friday (11/6), we had our first Writers’ Celebration. The students and I celebrated the milestones they have already made in writing for the year. Many gains were celebrated since the beginning of second grade. Periods and capitals are starting to show up! Book spelling is becoming more of the norm! Revision is taking place, as well as, good beginnings and solid endings. Students are using much more detail and talking more about feelings as opposed to just making a “list” of what happened. It is really exciting to watch this class BLOOM!!! Mr. Bowen’s third graders came down to share our exuberance and to offer up suggestions to our eager second graders from his really wise third graders! 🙂 It was an awesome celebration!
