Upcoming Dates:
Spring Long Weekend: April 17 - April 21
Free Dress: Friday, April 25
Spring Carnival: Saturday, April 26
Art Show: May 6 -May 7
Spring Dance Performance and Reception: Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17
Grade 2 Publishing Party: Thursday, May 22
Memorial Day; No School: May 26
Olympics: Wednesday, May 28
Last day of school: Thursday, May 29
This week in the Ivy Nook
Social Emotional:
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment:
Singapore Math:
Mrs. Ford's Group: Mr. Rogers' Group:
Reading/Writing/Spelling:
Literature Discussion With Mrs. Peiken:
History:
Gardening:
Technology:
Spring Long Weekend: April 17 - April 21
Free Dress: Friday, April 25
Spring Carnival: Saturday, April 26
Art Show: May 6 -May 7
Spring Dance Performance and Reception: Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17
Grade 2 Publishing Party: Thursday, May 22
Memorial Day; No School: May 26
Olympics: Wednesday, May 28
Last day of school: Thursday, May 29
This week in the Ivy Nook
Social Emotional:
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment:
Singapore Math:
Mrs. Ford's Group: Mr. Rogers' Group:
- Unit 10 - Fractions
- Unit 11 - Time
- Math Sprints
- Kakooma
- Math Puzzles - Real World, Renaming and Count By
- Math-a-Thon Funbook
Reading/Writing/Spelling:
- Reading Workshop/Independent Reading: practice reading independently at "just right" level, with an emphasis on building stamina, journaling, building vocabulary, and completion of books.
- Teacher/student conferencing about reading; fluency checks and comprehension book talks
- Superstar and birthday letters
- Writing Workshop: Expert Books- planning pages and writing as an "expert" on chosen subject
- Read Aloud: The BFG
- Lexia practice
- Fundations
Literature Discussion With Mrs. Peiken:
- The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
- From Mrs. Peiken regarding Monday's homework next week: On Monday night please ask the adult partner to read the poems through once, encouraging the child to join in saying the underlined phrases. The adult then reads the poem a second time, pausing to discuss G.B.'s three questions.After reading, the adult or the child writes the child's own question about "Us Two" on the "my question" paper
- Mineral Observations - Magnetism Test
- Quartz, Fluorite
History:
- Cesar Chavez (book and discussion)
Gardening:
- Read Aloud: Grandpa's Garden
- Planting: lettuce, zucchini, cucumber
Technology:
- Keyboarding practice
- Responsibilities of Digital Citizenship