Mrs. Kowalkowski will be back tomorrow!

Thanks to Ms. Demann for all her hard work.

Meet Madison Marie Kowalkowski!

Born September 11th at 1:03pm

She weighed 5 lbs and 7 oz

She was 18 inches

Hoping that everything is going well at school for the class! Mrs. Kowalkowski will be returning on Monday, December 5th.  

Health!

The last two weeks our science focus has been health. We talked about healthy eating, exercise, and hygiene. Today students wrote goals for themselves to be healthier.

We played activity Jenga to get our bodies moving!

Thanks to our School's Fuel Up to Play 60 team for the activity!

Thanks to Mrs. Straub for coming in and teaching us about some healthy snack recipes! 

We really enjoyed the book I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato

Save the Date!

Our 2nd Grade Curriculum Night will be on Wednesday, September 14 from 5:30-6:30

We hope to see you there!

Correction to my previous newsletters:

We are not having MAPS testing this week. Instead, we will have our MAPS reading test on Thursday, September 15. Sorry for any confusion!

Welcome to the 2016-2017 School Year!

I am extremely excited for this school year! We have had a great start so far and I am looking forward to getting to know your child and family more!

This blog will serve as a communication tool between school and home. Be sure to check back often! 

Take me out the to the Ballgame! 

We are excited that our school earned their field trip to the Chinooks Game tomorrow, Tuesday, June 7. 

Here is some information for you:

• The bus will leave school at 10:00 a.m. and return by 3:00 p.m. All students will be dismissed from Thorson.   

• All students need a bag lunch and a drink. You are welcome to pack snacks as well.

• Students should wear their Fuel Up to Play 60 shirt. Please note that it is much cooler at Kapco Park, so students should dress in layers.

• Students should wear sunscreen to school.

• We will be sitting in the grassy area at the park.  Students are welcome to bring a small blanket or towel.

• Students may bring a small backpack or cinch bag to carry their lunch and blanket/towel in.

• Students should not bring money.  We will not be going to the concession stand to purchase any items.  Thank you for your cooperation with this!

Field Day is planned for tomorrow (Friday, June 3).

Please make sure your child is dressed to be outside in the afternoon.

They need to be wearing tennis shoes.

Send along a water bottle with their name.

Also, join us for Lunch on the Lawn.

Come eat outside with your child tomorrow (Friday, June 3).

Lunch is at 11:30.

Just 10 more days until 3rd Grade!!

Today we started our 10 Day Countdown Surprise until the end of the school year.

Yes, only 10 days left!

(Well, now only 9)

 

Each day we will open a new surprise for our class! 

Today this silly bunch found out that Mrs. Kowalkowski is having a girl! She can't wait to meet these 3rd graders next year!

Japan Kimono Shirts

Many students painted their kimonos today. 

For the students that did not have a shirt to paint, please have one here by tomorrow. 

We are asking for an old button up shirt.

Shaving Cream Word Work!

Today, we practiced our high frequency spelling words in shaving cream! We had fun getting a little messy during our word work time!

We are in need of a few materials.

Our classroom needs some more glue sticks.

Mrs. Letcher is looking for some paper towel tubes for a project they will be doing in Art.

If you can send either to school it would be very much appreciated! Thanks!

Kenya Activities

As part of Kenya Day on Friday, students learned how to play mancala. This is a fun game that you can even play at home with an empty egg carton.

Here's a link to a website that gives instructions. Students should be able to help explain.

Mancala

Today, we learned another game called Sey Sey Sey.

We made a few changes from the original game to play inside our classroom.

Read Across America!

Come join us on Wednesday, March 2 from 3:00-3:30 for our school wide Read Across America Celebration.

Here is a link to sign up.

Sign up

It's helpful for us to know who plans to come and who has their own books to read. We hope to see many of you there!

Calling all surgeons!! 

This quarter one of our grammar topics is contractions. Students practiced cutting apart the two words and stitching them up with a band-aid for their apostrophe. 

Working together to make contractions.

Making the first cut.

Maria's gloves were a bit too big....she still has time to perfect her craft.

This contraction survived.

Possibly our future doctors?!?!

Each surgeon had an assistant.

On Monday, 2nd grade was in charge of running our Jaguar Jumpstart all school meeting. Thanks to these students in our class who helped teach our school about forgiveness! 

Tomorrow 1/5 students earned a game party. We will be playing some games that students can bring from home. Your child can bring a game to share with the class. Please no electronic devices. A game is not required for tomorrow. All students will be participating in this party! 

Good work class!!

Happy 2016!

Tomorrow (1/4) is Pajama Day! 

Can't wait to see everyone back!