The Toucan Squawk, April 23 - April 27

Hello families!  I hope everyone has had a great week so far.  The students have been super busy working through plane shapes this week.  It's a quick unit, since the students have shown knowledge about their shapes- square, rectangle, diamond, triangle, circle, parallelogram, and trapezoid.  This unit is leading them up to 3D shapes- rectangular prism, sphere, cone, cyclinder, cube, and pyramid.  The students have already expressed excitement over the next unit so it should be a fairly neat one to cover.  Next unit scheduled will finally be time We will be finishing working with fractions next week- I'd like to introduce adding and subtracting fractions this week and next. We'll then move on to time to the half hour, and last but definietly not least- multiplication.  We are currently on our last story in the reading series, "The World's Plants are in Danger".

Our theme for tomorrow for We Love Reading! week is "Tied to a Good Book".  The students are welcome to wear a tie.  We also have the parent involvement activity in the library, where parents are welcome to come and read with their student(s), make a bookmark, and participate in other activities.  The office will call in the classrooms to meet you in the library.  Tomorrow is also a 1/2 day, so the activities will be until 11:00.  The rest of the class will be participating in some activities in the classroom, so no one will not miss any lessons. 

Thursday's theme is "Knock your socks off", so students are welcome to wear fun socks.  Our guest author will be present to read to the students and answer any "author" questions from the students.

And last but not least, Friday's theme is "Dress up like your favorite book character".  The students will be participating in a parade around the campus starting at 1:30.  If students are unable to dress up, they are welcome to carry a copy of their favorite book.  You are welcome to come watch the parade- and the creation of Mrs. Frizzle ("The Magic School Bus" book series) on the field.  Mr. Sprigg will be dressed up as this crazy book character for the students meeting a goal of 100 reading minutes for the whole week.  It's sure to be a great way to end such a fun week!


News
April 23 - 27 We Love Reading! Week
April 27 Spring Carnival, 4:30 - 6:00 PM
April 30 General Dental visit


Birthdays
April 4 Lainey
April 7 Brooke
April 14 Gabe
April 27 Mason

Have a great week!

Elizabeth Townsendelizabeth.townsend@svps.k12.az.us
PDS
Second Grade