Be Proud, Read Aloud

Maggie used a Fuzzy Ticket and brought in a book to share with the class.  We enjoyed hearing the book about birds!

Leprechaun Finders

Yesterday our business partner, Dr. Trixie, stopped by for another visit!  She brought us leprechaun finders to be able look for leprechauns.  Here we are looking for some!  😊

Fine Arts Night

Fine Arts Night will be this coming Monday, 5:30-7:00.  Eagle Point will be celebrating by showing off our artwork, talent, and musical voices.

Dress Up Days for Youth Art Month:

• Monday (3/18)- Monochromatic Day - Pick one color of any shade and wear as many pieces of that color as you can.
• Tuesday (3/19)- Pattern Day - Pick your favorite patterns - plaids, polka-dots, or stripes and mix as many as you can.
• Wednesday (3/20)- Primary Color Day - Red, yellow, and blue colors.
• Thursday (3/21)- Black and White Day
• Friday (3/22)- Rainbow Day!  Get as many colors as you can and become a rainbow for a day! 

Our class won the Golden Boot Award for grades 1-2 this week!  This means that they chose our class to win this week since we had our cubbies all picked up with a minimum of things on the floor!  ☺

Food Drive

KHEP Council (the 4th graders of Eagle Point) is sponsoring a Food Drive.  2nd grade has been asked to bring in juice boxes or pouches to donate.  All donations will be used to help supply Blessings in a Backpack and should come to school by March 21.  Thanks!

Mystery Doug

Yesterday, Mystery Doug showed us a video of how many magic tricks use a distraction to help "trick" the eye or person watching.  We enjoyed doing the extension activity where we made gold pointers.  We practiced the trick using the story of how we asked a leprechaun to help find the magic gold. Maybe your second grader came home last night wanting to practice their new magic trick!

This Week's Learning

Coming Up For This Week:  (March 11):

Word Work:  Words using y as a vowel.  Words such as fly, puppy, dry, candy, and story are some examples.

Reading:  Unit:  Reading Nonfiction Cover to Cover:  Nonfiction Book Clubs
Lessons:  Trying to Understand What We're Learning by Thinking About Why the Information Matters, Thinking Deeper with Questions, Changing Our Thinking As We Read

Writing:  Lab Reports and Science Books
Lessons:  Remembering All You Know About Science and About Scientific Writing for New Experiments, Comparing Results and Reading More Expert Materials to Consider New Questions, Designing and Writing a New Experiment

Math:  Learning About Problems with Lengths, Solving 2-step Problems About Length, Practicing Adding and Subtracting Lengths

Upcoming Dates:

• March 25-March 29 - No School, Spring Break
• April 19 - Now a school day.  This was formerly listed as a day off on the District Calendar.
• May 16 - Eagle Point Grandparent Lunch (last names A-L)
• May 17 - Eagle Point Grandparent Lunch (last names M-Z)

Writer's Workshop

This was the experiment the class did yesterday in small groups for Writer's Workshop.  We asked the question:  Will the cotton ball or the ping pong ball go farther using the catapult?