Monday

Have you heard about Storybird yet?  It's a really cool website where you can choose artists' work and make books out of it!  Your child had a chance to explore this a little on Friday and we worked more with it today.  If you are interested, go to storybird.com and log in.  Your child's user name is his/her first name and last name as all one word with no capitals.  Passwords are the passwords that your child uses to log into the computer at school.  If you need help, let me know.  You can see some of the work that we've been doing over these last 2 days.  This is a great avenue for the reluctant writer.  It's digital storytelling at its best!

In reading today, students learned what book reviews are as well as how to write one.  This will be their Write about Reading for the week.  They continue to work on their fluency videos this week as well.

The new lunch menu went home.  Make sure you remember that February 13 is second grade eats hot lunch free day!

I sent homework home today. There is the usual reading log and math log. Also, I've attached the February word wall word list.  One last thing is a Scholastic News calendar activity.  This calendar is not part of the math log and should be completed for Monday.  Thanks!

We had a test on multiplication and division today.  The beginning of the test was difficult, really testing understanding of the concepts.  Students struggled, which means I will spend more time on the concepts in class in the future.  No Daily 5 Math today.