McNitt Reminders

Last Chance Yearbook Orders

Students that did not already order a 2017-18 Yearbook from Timeless Image, received an order form this week to bring home. It is important that students who still want a yearbook do it now as there will be a limited number of extra yearbooks available at the time of delivery in the spring. If your student did not receive an envelope this week and you would like to order a yearbook, please stop by the Office. Yearbook orders are due back to the Office by Friday, January 26, 2018!

Dinosaurs Go To School Night

Lake Ann Brewing Company Fundraiser

Our next fundraising event is with Lake Ann Brewing Company

Wednesday, January 24

2:00 - 10:00

Featuring music in the brewery with the Shady Hill Band! 

20% of sales from that evening will go to the Westwoods PTO. 

2018 Daddy/Daughter Dance

Friday, February 8, 2018

6:30-9:30pm

Wear a dress, favorite outfit, craziest outfit you can make up, or be yourself! 

Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students/children and must be purchased in advanced. 

Wishing Well Wednesday

2018 brings a couple new additions to our classroom! One of which is a Mind Bender Board!

Every so often students will have a mind bender on the board for a morning message, as a small addition to their morning work. These are meant to be fun and get the brain moving in the morning. There is not a certain day we will be doing our mind benders, and they will only show once, or maybe twice, a week. The question to ponder will always connect to the day it is posted.

Our first one was last Wednesday, so the students had Wishing Well Wednesday!

Students had to think of ONE wish and write it on a posed note. All remained anonymous unless they wanted me to know their wish, so they put their name on the back. We read the different wishes aloud. They thought the different wishes were very creative! We had a good chuckle as it also created small discussions back and forth about what if??

Volunteers Needed!

Our book clubs are in need of adult volunteers to lead the students during this time. If you can, and it fits into your schedule, please pick a day, two or more to sign up and spend 30 minutes with a group of fantastic second graders. Each week the students are involved in a book club with a few of their peers. They are making connections, expressing reactions, making prediction, solving tricky words, an identifying the problems and solutions. Your help is necessary to push their thinking, help them stay focused, and to read, discuss and answer questions to engage their interest of reading.

The link is below for the volunteer sign up. I have the sign up trough the end of the year. 

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you for your continued support!

McNitt's Second Grade Book Clubs

http://signup.com/go/mhTLeiA

Back at it!

We are back at it!! Homework came home with all students today. Please help to remind your child to find the time throughout their week to sit down and work through the variety of activities. If the students have any questions or confusion please let me know.

Thank you!

 

 

Happy (late) Holidays

I know this is a tad late...but better late than never :)

Before we left on our holiday break we filled our schedule at school with not only continued learning but also seasonal fun! Due to the busy hussle I was unfortunately not able to snap as many pictures as I would have liked...but I was able to capture a few good ones.

Here is what your little workers were involved with before heading off on break...

Cards for the Pavilions

All students in second grade created their own holiday card for the elderly at the Pavilions. We recognize that not everyone has family or close ones to spend the season with and we wanted to help put a little cheer into their day. From the picture painting to the words they chose to express, it turned out to be a very heartfelt activity that was extremely kind and generous of all students. It was another community project of ours to spread the kindness!

All cards were delivered to the Pavilions on Christmas Eve to pass around to all patients of the Pavilions. They were thrilled!

 

 

 Santa's Stuck!

We read a story about how Santa got stuck on Christmas!! Based on the story and the details they heard, students were to draw a conclusion on how they were going to get Santa unstuck from that particular situation! The ideas were very different and quite priceless!

Stuck in a Snowglobe

Incorporating a little art into some fun writing turned out to be a humurous activity for the students! They had to imagine they somehow got stuck in a snowglobe!!

After creating their own snowglobe, they had to then answer three questions:

How did you get in the snowglobe?

How did you feel when you were in the snowglobe?

How are you going to get out of the snowglobe?

These came home for all students to enjoy with their families. As you have already seen, the immiginations were out there!

 

 

 

Candy Cane Experiment

We also threw in some science to our day by experimenting with candy canes! We went through the scientific method of predicting and developing a hypothesis. The predictions were fun because no one had ever thought to put candy canes in vinegar OR oil! Then the experiment began and they watched as some predictions were correct and others were quite surprised.

The scientists brought their research (papers were recorded on) home the Thursday of break.

 

 

 

 

Our afternoon of board games, goodies and hot chocolate turned out to also be a blast with so many smiles and laughs! Then we rounded out our day at the Westwoods holiday sing along!

It was a great end to a great year of 2017. I look forward to heading into 2018! We have a lot more learning and many more new and engaging activities to dive into!

I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing break! See you Wednesday!

Snowflakes

This week we talk about snowflakes! We looked at magnified images of snowflakes and learned new details about the magnificent art of the small flakes. See if your child can bring home something new to teach you about snowflakes.

In turn, they built their own! We did both 2D and 3D projects with snowflakes. This will also lead into our new discussion on symmetry!

When you are able to visit our building, cruise down our hallway to check out the very impressive 3D snowflakes that ALL students worked super hard to create! VERY COOL!