Wonderful Week!

What a wonderful week this has been. I am so impressed with the study habits these children have. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into studying for the Frog Life Cycle Test. The children were very well prepared with their hand signals/actions, stages, and vocabulary. I hope they taught you the actions at home while they studied. These tests will be returned next week. Thanks again for all your hard work.
I am really enjoying the time with all of you at conferences. What a wonderful group of children we have this year, and we thank you for molding them into the delightful children they are! I appreciate all the insight you shared with me about your child. I am glad we can work together to help your child succeed in second grade.
Next week we will start a nutrition unit. Our spelling and vocabulary words will come from this unit of study. We will learn about the five food groups, healthy eating habits, and what our body needs to grow healthy and strong. We hope to encourage healthy eating habits as always during our morning snack/breakfast. We will create food journals, do taste testings, and enjoy all the benefits of healthy eating together. Here is what we need from you. Our first food group is the Dairy Group (cheeses, milk, yogurt). We would like to do a cheese tasting on Thursday 10/11. We are asking for a few parents from each class to send in donations of cheeses for our taste testing. Donations include: American cheese, Cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, String cheese. If we could have parents from each class participate that would be great. We have 56 students. Please comment on this blog if you are willing to send in cheese for sampling on Thursday next week. We will graph our favorites. We are also asking for boxes from foods to make journals out of. For example, cereal boxes, granola bar boxes, etc. We will cut them in half and use them as a front and back of our in class response journals. Please start sending them in next week Tuesday. We are looking for parent helpers that can come in and assemble (cut the boxes to size and staple the papers inside to make a book) these journals Tuesday anytime. Thank you!
Have a wonderful weekend. We hope you get to spend quality time with your children during these days off.
Mrs. Montes