Scholastic Book Order

A new Scholastic Book Order went home today!

There are four Scholastic magazines your child is bringing home today. Please take a moment over the next week to look through all the many options of reading materials for your child. They were VERY excited this was going home today :)

All orders that you would like me to place are due back by Friday, Sept. 15th.

If you would like to make an order online please do whenever you like as many times as you like!

Our classroom activation code is 
HFPT3
Happy shopping!!

Reminders

Morning Procedure
Students are allowed to enter the building in the morning at 8:30am only for breakfast. 
Prior to that time there is no supervision and it is not safe to have them outside the school or waiting in the entryway. Please do not drop your student off until 8:30am when they can go out to the playground with supervision

Change to the End of Day Routine
Thank you for the continuous updates for what your child is doing at the end of the day. However, there have been some students who are unsure what they are suppose to do. If you know your child is going to change their schedule at the end of the day often or have a plan that is different than the normal, PLEASE let the office know as soon as you can so they can let me know and to also relieve a stressful child at the end of the day. It is also helpful to send me a note on Sunday or Monday for what your child is doing for the week. My goal is to keep your child safe and make sure they are where they need to be at the end of the day. Very important.
Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Thank you!

Lunch has changed
11:20 out at recess
11:40 at lunch

FIRST PTO mtg
Tuesday, Sept. 12 @ 6:30
Location: Westwoods Library
Free childcare!

Popcorn
First popcorn Friday is next Friday, September 15th!
Please have all pre-orders in by Tuesday, Sept. 12th 
If you would like to sign up to volunteer for popcorn Fridays!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094aa8a92ba6fe3-popcorn1

Please e-mail Nicole with and questions/issues (njphilpott@hotmail.com)

First Week Fun!

Such an awesome first week of school! Not only did we get over our first day jitters, but we are now already getting into the groove of second grade!!

We started our year off with some fun activities and have even jumped full force into our school curriculum.  

Our days have been filled with:

Learning classroom expectations

Organizing our OWN desks

Book shopping and being responsible for our own reading

Getting to know each other with a human scavenger hunt

Creating All About Me hot air balloons

Math games and math activities

Reading to self with book choice

Finding new partners to learn with 

AND SOOOO much more!

 

We have had a week of firsts with many smiles and positive attitudes! I look forward to so many more wonderful weeks as the year goes on!

Our year is going to be AWESOME!

Welcome Back!!

So great to meet you all last night!! Thank you for taking the time to stop in, see the room, meet the teacher, and hopefully get that much more excited about starting an awesome year of school!! 

I know our conversations were brief, so PLEASE let me know if you have any further questions or concerns that were not addressed last night. 

Enjoy the last summer weekend before school! See all your little bundles next Tuesday!

A New School Year!

Hello Families!

Hope everyone is having an awesome summer!! I wanted to let you all know the blog from last year will have the same web address. If you are receiving this e-mail from last years blog you will want to unsubscribe so you do not continue to receive updated posts for the 2017-2018 school year.

Good luck to you and your kiddos for the up coming year! I will miss them greatly but will enjoy seeing each and everyone in the hallways. 

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

Thank you!

K. McNitt

SuMmEr is HERE!

Such an awesome group of now third graders! Thank you for sharing your pride and joys with me! 

Each and everyone worked hard and they are a group to be extremely proud of!

Have a great summer...well deserved!!!

Had to throw in a goofy one :)

End of Year!

The last few days of school were busy and filled with more work, dissecting grasshoppers, listening to stories, creating projects, exchanging stories, having many laughs and enjoying one another as we wrap the year! We had a FANTASTIC second grade year!

Good Bye Mallory!!

Not only are we saying goodbye to everyone for the summer, but we are also saying goodbye to Mallory as she moves on from Westwoods! We had a small surprise celebration for her! We had to sneak around the last couple days of school getting a couple goodies ready for her, but it was worth it because she WAS surprised! 

We are going to miss Mallory greatly, but wish her and her family well with their new adventure!

 

Dissecting Grasshoppers

Tuesday afternoon we finally dissected grasshoppers! The students have patiently awaited this science activity, and we did it...on the last full day of school!

They did an awesome being fragile with each part, then cutting their insect open from abdomen to head. Inside they were guided to examine all the parts of a grasshopper and also use their tools to dissect organs to get a deeper look. In the end, they were free to further their exploration and examine all parts we did not go over. Very cool!