Mrs. Carroll's 2018-2019 Class Updates
| week_16_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_17_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_18_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_19_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_20_spelling_words.pdf |
| all_scream_for_ice_cream_flyer.pdf |
| week_21_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_22_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_23_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_24_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_25_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_26_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_27_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_28_spelling_words.pdf |
| week_29_spelling_words.pdf |
May 29th, 2019
I hope you all have a wonderful and safe summer! We will be changing this website to a new google site for next year. Look for announcements to come! The first day of school for next year is July 25th.
Mrs. Carroll
May 17th, 2019
Happy Friday!
It’s hard to believe the last week of the school year is here! Here’s some info for next week:
It’s been such a wonderful year. I hope you all have a great summer!
May 12, 2019
Thank you to everyone who completely spoiled my last week! I felt SO appreciated! The surveys, classroom supplies, sweet treats, and gift cards were beyond generous! It has been my honor to be part of your student's educational journey this year.
Just a few reminders for the last 2 weeks (can you believe it???):
Please have all Friday letters returned by THIS Wednesday May 15th.
Our end of year movie party is May 23rd. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!
Report cards, DRA scores, and data notebooks will be sent home May 23rd.
May 24th is early release at 11:30.
Mrs. Carroll
May 3rd, 2019
Welcome to May! Can you believe how quickly this year has gone by? We have learned and grown so much together! We still have 3 more weeks of learning ahead of us with some fun activities planned. It is going to be a busy, fun time for all!
Thank you to all of you that came out to our summative last night! I hope you enjoyed seeing all of your amazing student's hard work and fun projects! It was great talking with all of you!
Important upcoming dates:
May 12th-Mother’s Day
May 24th-Last day of school 11:30 Dismissal
Mrs. Carroll
April 26th, 2019
Hello Fabulous Families!
Can you believe it's already the end of April? Wow how this year is flying by! We have been busy this week continuing our unit on Buyers and Sellers and working with shapes in math. We have also been working on some fun projects for our summative next Thursday May 2nd from 5-6:30. I hope to see you all there! The students are excited to show off their hard work!
Important upcoming dates:
April 30th-Barro’s night 5:00
May 2nd- Summative
May12th-Mother’s Day
May 24th-Last day of school
Mrs. Carroll
April 19th, 2019
Happy Friday!
We have had a busy week this week! Our class did a great job during testing week, making sure we were on task and quiet while the older grades completed their AZ Merit testing. We included some fun activities to lighten things up a bit! Ask them about their "pet" Peep! We spend the day morning this a morning writing about our adventures with our peep and creating some poetry to go along with it as well. The students seem to have a great time being responsible for their pet!
We also started our new Benchmark unit on Buyers and Sellers this week along with our new math unit on shapes. Keep practicing those math facts at home to prepare for 3rd grade!
We also started our research on our natural disasters. We will continue this into next week as well. The students seem very interested in their topics and are working hard pulling out key information on their chosen disaster. Thank you for helping at home with this!
Important upcoming dates:
April 30th-Barro’s night 5:00
May 2nd- Summative
May12th-Mother’s Day
May 24th-Last day of school
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
April 13th, 2019
It was great to see so many of you at our carnival last night! I hope you all had an amazing time, I know I did! There are some students that have some pretty good pie throwing arms in our class!
We are heading into testing week for the older grades. We will not have specials Monday through Thursday of this upcoming week. We do have some special activities planned to hopefully keep things light and fun in our classroom.
Thank you to all of you that have sent in your natural disaster research. We are going to start using this information in class this upcoming week. Our summative is coming up fast! Please mark it on your calendar for May 2nd!
Important upcoming dates:
May 2nd- Summative
May 12th-Mother’s Day
May 24th-Last day of school
April 6th, 2019
Hello Amazing Families and Happy April!
This week we continued our Benchmark Unit on "How Wind and Water Change the Earth" Some of you have already started sending in research materials for our natural disaster project. Thank you! These items are due next Friday April 12th. Remember, your child will be reporting on a specific natural disaster event that occurred in the past for our summative on May 2nd.
In math, we started our unit on standard measurement using inches, feet, and yards. Yesterday, we folded our own paper airplanes and used tape measures to see how far they flew!
Our Spring Carnival is next Friday April 12th starting at 5pm. A flyer came home Thursday with more information. We hope to see you all there!
AZ Merit testing
Starting the week of April 15-19th AZ Merit testing will take place for grades 3-8. We will also have AZ Merit testing on Monday, April 8th. Although 1-2 will not be testing, it will affect our schedule times. We will not be having our special area classes (Art, P.E., Spanish, STEM & Learning Lab) that week. Thank you for being flexible while we help grades 3-8 complete their testing.
Have an amazing weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
April 12th- Spring carnival
May 2nd- Summative
March 29th, 2019
Hello and Happy Friday! I hope you are all enjoying the beautiful spring weather! We have had a busy week this week diving into our new water and wind Benchmark Unit. We've talked about weather and natural disasters while talking about key details, main ideas, personification, and cause and effect. In math we continued working on our unit on money. Keep counting money and working on Dreambox at home for extra practice! Next Friday will be our 6 and 7 math facts assessment as well.
Important upcoming dates:
April 12th- Spring carnival
May 2nd- Summative
March 22nd, 2019
Welcome Back! I hope you all had a restful spring break and are ready to tackle the rest of the year together! We have a lot of fun things in store for the remainder of this year including a fun unit of weather and natural disasters. We started this week with researching and presenting posters on a specific weather or natural or natural disaster event. Today, we talked about wind and kites and then used materials to complete a STEM kite challenge. If your student wants to fly and record their flight times on their reflection page, they will receive a prize when they return their completed reflection page to school. Next week we will start our new Benchmark unit on "How Do Wind and Water Change the Earth?" In math we are continuing our unit on money. Keep counting those coins and bills as well as practicing those math facts!
Spring pictures will be taken on Tuesday March 26th. This will be a free dress day for all students.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
March 26th- Spring pictures
April 12th- Spring carnival
May 2nd- Summative
March 8th, 2019
We made it! I hope you all have a wonderful, safe Spring Break wherever your adventures take you!
We finished our quarter out strong with a fun filled week of Dr. Seuss. We did an author study, examined the special features of his writing, and created our own wacky food combination and wrote a persuasive writing piece trying to convince people to try our creation!
In math we wrapped up graphing and started our new unit on money. We are working on identifying and counting coins.
If you haven't already, don't forget to sign up for our ILP conferences on March 18th and 19th. I am looking forward to meeting with you all!
Field Trip
Student permission slips were due on Friday. If your child isn’t going on the field trip, please email me and let me know. Our class is going to the Phoenix Zoo, on Wednesday, March 20th from 9:00-2:00. We will be eating lunch at the Zoo. The cost of the field trip will be $15 per student. (If paying by check, please make checks out ASU Prep Academy). If you are choosing not to have your child accompany us on this field trip, your child will have to stay home for the day. Please send a sack lunch and snack with your child. I am looking for 8 chaperones to accompany me on this field trip. The chaperones will assist with monitoring a small group of kids while we are there. If you would like to chaperone, I will need your full assistance with the small group that you will be chaperoning. Therefore, we will not be able to accommodate siblings for this trip. The chaperones will be riding the bus with us to the Phoenix Zoo. If you do not get picked to be a chaperone, you are more than welcome to meet us there at your own expense.
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP Conferences
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
March 1st, 2019
I can't believe it's March! The year is just flying by!
FREE DRESS
ASU Prep STEM Academy, PK-8, will be having a Dollar Dress Down Day (free dress) this Friday, March 8, 2019. If you would like your student to participate please have them bring in $1 to their homeroom/foundations teacher by Friday. There will also be a jar out all week for students to donate their extra change. Some amazing students at our school want to raise this money for an individual who has PSC (Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis) and needs a liver transplant. Thank you!
We finished up our Benchmark unit on Investigating the Past this week, along with arrays in math. We made some super fun array cities for our summative in May and can't wait to show them to you! Next week we will be doing an author study on Dr. Seuss for Read Across America Week and continuing our new math unit on tallying and graphing.
Don't forget field trip permission slips are dues next Friday March 8th! I am still in need of a few chaperones, so if you would like to join us at the zoo, we would love to have you!
ILP sign ups start tomorrow morning! I look forward to meeting with you all again after spring break!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
February 22nd, 2019
The sun is shining! Yes, I can actually see it our my classroom window!
We have had a busy (wet) 4 days this week! We continued our Benchmark Unit on Investigating the Past and working with Arrays in math. The students are doing a great job with both! Next Friday we will have our + and - 4's and 5's timed assessments in math. Keep practicing those facts at home!
Field Trip
The field trip permission slips went home today. Our class is going on a field trip to the Phoenix Zoo, on Wednesday, March 20th from 9:00-2:00. We will be eating lunch at the Zoo. The cost of the field trip will be $15 per student. (If paying by check, please make checks out ASU Prep Academy). If you are choosing not to have your child accompany us on this field trip, your child will have to stay home for the day. Please send a sack lunch and snack with your child. I am looking for 8 chaperones to accompany me on this field trip. The chaperones will assist with monitoring a small group of kids while we are there. If you would like to chaperone, I will need your full assistance with the small group that you will be chaperoning. Therefore, we will not be able to accommodate siblings for this trip. The chaperones will be riding the bus with us to the Phoenix Zoo. If you do not get picked to be a chaperone, you are more than welcome to meet us there at your own expense.
School Carnival
The second-grade students have selected the theme, “We Scream for Ice Cream” for their classroom basket that will be auctioned off at this year’s ASU Prep School Carnival. The carnival will be held on Friday, April 12th. The PTSO and teachers are working hard to help make this year’s carnival a success!
We need your help in collecting new items for the auction basket. If you are able to donate any new ASU item(s) that corresponds with the theme, please send in your donation with your student no later than March 29th. The PTSO will be sending out a sign-up genius for volunteers. I have uploaded the flyer above, so please feel free to take a look!
Thank you for supporting our school!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
March 1st- ASU Prep at Sun Devil Women's Basketball (For Tickets, call 480-965-5812 or visit SunDevilTickets.com)
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
February 15th, 2019
Hello!
I hope you are all having a marvelous Friday! We have had a busy week! We started our new Benchmark unit "Investigating the Past" on Monday and have been discussing our essential question "How does understanding the past help shape the future?" In math, we have been discussing arrays and repeated addition. Today we talked about President's Day and completed a fun STEM project where we created the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial with pasta and Play-Doh. The students had so much fun being creative and learning about our history!
Kids Heart Challenge
This week your child received their Kids Heart Challenge flyer (Formerly known as Jump Rope for Heart). Here’s a message from Coach Fahey:
We have officially kicked off our Kids Heart Challenge program and our school's big event is right around the corner! Last year, we jumped rope for heart and this year we’re kicking off the all-new Kids Heart Challenge! It’s a totally reimagined program with more ways for kids to get heart healthy, more incentives for participating schools like ours and an easier to manage experience for parents. That’s a lot of “MORE!
First things first! We have an easy way for you to raise money online by having your very own fundraising page. Simply follow these steps:
Go to www.heart.org/kidsheartchallenge and search for ASU Prep
Important upcoming dates:
February 18th-Presidents Day-No school
March 1st- ASU Prep at Sun Devil Women's Basketball (For Tickets, call 480-965-5812 or visit SunDevilTickets.com)
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
February 9th, 2019
Happy Weekend!
I hope you are all enjoying your cloudy Saturday! We had a full 5 days of great learning this week! We finished our "Tales to Live By" Benchmark Unit this week. The workbooks were sent home yesterday with the optional extension activity calendar. We spent time this week planning our very own pourquoi tales which we will author this week. The students have been very creative with their topics and explanations of natural phenomenon. I am excited to see the finished products!
This week during math we focused on word problems and key words. How do we know whether to add and subtract? We also talked about the importance of showing our work and thinking about the situation being presented. Do our operations make sense? We also talked about addition as a tool to check our subtraction work and practiced this strategy.
Writing time was spent crafting our own opinion writing piece. Students were to write about their favorite hobby, and support their opinion with reasons and details. They also went back and edited their writing using the CUPS method.
Valentine Exchange
We will be doing a Valentine exchange on Thursday, Feb. 14th. Valentine bags will be decorated at school so you do not need to create a Valentine box at home. If your child wants to participate in the Valentine exchange, please have your child make one Valentine for each student in our class. A class list will be sent home soon. We have 25 students in our class. Small items or candy may be attached to the Valentines.
Important upcoming dates:
February 14th- Valentine exchange
February 18th-Presidents Day-No school
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
February 2, 2019
Hello!
We had an amazing week of learning in room 104! We celebrated kindness week with kindness attacks, spirit dress days, and money wars. The students had a lot of fun and learned a lot about being kind! We continued our Benchmark Unit, Tales to Live By, in which we are studying pourquoi tales, fables, and myths from around the world.
In math, we wrapped up subtraction with regrouping! Your students have done an amazing job! Keep practicing those math facts at home for fluency! Next week we will be focusing on word problems and checking our work using addition.
Art is in need of baby wipes. If you are able to donate, it would be greatly appreciated!
Valentine Exchange
We will be doing a Valentine exchange on Thursday, Feb. 14th. Valentine bags will be decorated at school so you do not need to create a Valentine box at home. If your child wants to participate in the Valentine exchange, please have your child make one Valentine for each student in our class. A class list will be sent home soon. We have 25 students in our class. Small items or candy may be attached to the Valentines.
School Carnival
The second-grade students have selected the theme, “We Scream for Ice Cream” for their classroom basket that will be auctioned off at this year’s ASU Prep School Carnival. The carnival will be held on Friday, April 12th. The PTSO and teachers are working hard to help make this year’s carnival a success!
We need your help in collecting new items for the auction basket. If you are able to donate any new ASU item(s) that corresponds with the theme, please send in your donation with your student no later than March 29th. The PTSO will be sending out a sign-up genius for volunteers.
Thank you for supporting our school!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
February 7th-Talent show tryouts
February 14th- Valentine exchange
February 18th-Presidents Day-No school
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
January 26th, 2019
Happy Saturday!
I hope you all have an amazing relaxing weekend! We had a busy week this week! We started our new Benchmark Unit, Tales to Live By, in which we will be reading fables, myths, and folktales from around the world. In math we have still been focusing on subtraction with regrouping. We paused to do a short review on subtraction math facts using number lines and the "count back to subtract" strategy. We also reviewed fact families with the hopes of further solidifying those subtraction math facts. Keep working at home! We started our unit on opinion writing as well this week. Students wrote about their favorite season and gave three reasons for their opinion. These were fun to read! We will continue to expand upon this theme next week!
Next week is kindness week! Please see the schedule below for special events. Also please remember there is no school on Friday as it is a teacher training day.
Art is in need of baby wipes. If you are able to donate, it would be greatly appreciated!
Valentine Exchange
We will be doing a Valentine exchange on Thursday, Feb. 14th. Valentine bags will be decorated at school so you do not need to create a Valentine box at home. If your child wants to participate in the Valentine exchange, please have your child make one Valentine for each student in our class. A class list will be sent home soon. We have 25 students in our class. Small items or candy may be attached to the Valentines.
School Carnival
The second-grade students have selected the theme, “We Scream for Ice Cream” for their classroom basket that will be auctioned off at this year’s ASU Prep School Carnival. The carnival will be held on Friday, April 12th. The PTSO and teachers are working hard to help make this year’s carnival a success!
We need your help in collecting new items for the auction basket. If you are able to donate any new ASU item(s) that corresponds with the theme, please send in your donation with your student no later than March 29th. The PTSO will be sending out a sign-up genius for volunteers.
Thank you for supporting our school!
Kindness Week
We will be having a money war among all the grade levels. We are collecting money to donate to the “Kind Coins for Liberia”. Coins count for our class and dollar bills count against us (we still encourage students to send dollars to put in another grade level cluster’s bucket). We are trying to collect the most coins/dollars for our 1-2 cluster and win!
In addition, NJHS will be selling kindness grams on the playground before school. Each gram is .50 cents and all proceeds will go to the “Kind Coins for Liberia” fund.
January 28th-31st
Monday, Jan. 28th – Hat’s off to Kindness
Tuesday, Jan. 29th – Crazy for Kindness
Wednesday, Jan. 30th – Team up to Clean up
Thursday, Jan. 31st – Dollar dress Down
Thank you for all of your support!
Mrs. Carroll
January 18th, 2019
Hello Everyone!
We have had an amazing full week of learning this week! We dove back in and finished our technology unit in our Benchmark language arts curriculum this week. We talked a lot about summarizing, compound words, and main idea. the magazines will come home today with a new optional homework calendar if you want to take a look at them. In math, we started subtraction with re-grouping. This is probably one of the most challenging 2nd grade math standards. We've been working with apples and cubes, really trying to solidify the concept of re-grouping in a concrete way. Later this week, we moved to working on problems on our personal white boards. We are going to continue practicing this into next week and please feel free to reinforce this skill at home! Also please practice math facts! Especially subtraction! The stronger and more fluent our students are with these basic facts, the easier the more difficult concepts become. Thank you so much for all your support at home! We couldn't do it without you! During our project group time, we've be talking about fact vs. opinion. The students had a blast using Kahoot and Flip Grip to ask and answer opinion questions, making sure to give a reason for our opinion. Ask them about it! Next week we will begin to explore opinion writing.
Art is in need of baby wipes. Any that you could donate would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Kindness Week
More details will be coming home soon.
January 28th-31st
Monday, Jan. 28th – Hat’s off to Kindness
Tuesday, Jan. 29th – Crazy for Kindness
Wednesday, Jan. 30th – Team up to Clean up
Thursday, Jan. 31st – Dollar dress Down
Important upcoming dates:
January 21st- No School - Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
January 28th-31st-Kindness Week – See Spirit days above
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
January 8th, 2019
Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a wonderful winter break and are ready to start the new year! Thank you to all of you who participate in our ILP conferences. It was great meeting with all of you and sharing all of the amazing growth that your young learning have been making. Some notes from conferences:
1: Remember to edit the weekly writing sample that will come home stapled to your student's Friday letter.
2: Graded math fact assessments will begin Friday January 18th.
This week we will gradually get back into the "swing of things" by reviewing our classroom procedures and completing some new year and STEM activities. We will also be experimenting with FlipGrid, which is a fun app that lets us record and share our projects that we've created in the classroom. Ask your student about it!
This week we will review and practice subtraction without regrouping in anticipation of introducing subtraction with regrouping in the upcoming weeks. This is a great time to start practicing those subtraction math facts!
I am looking forward to seeing everyone Thursday!
Mrs. Carroll
Upcoming Dates
January 21st- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
December 15th, 2018
One busy week to go before break and the excitement is building! We have been busy reading, writing, regrouping, and crafting. We have some fun learning activities planned this week along with ILP preparation.
Please remember that Ugly Sweater Day for 1st and 2nd Grade will be Thursday December 20th due to our Field Trip to the Science Center on Friday December 21st. Uniform bottoms must be worn with the Ugly Sweaters. Our Winter Party is also this Thursday December 20th from approximately 1:00pm until 3:00pm.
Important upcoming dates:
December 20th-Winter party and Ugly Sweater Day of 1st and 2nd Grade ONLY
December 21st-Field trip to the Science Center
December 22nd-January 7th-Winter break
January 8th & 9th-ILP’s
January 10th- School resumes
January 21st- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
December 7th, 2018
Happy Friday!
We have had a busy week writing, reading and adding with regrouping! We wrote some Christmas point of view stories today which were super fun! Ask your student about theirs!
Our permission slips for our field trip are due THIS Monday December 10th. Please submit your permission slip and payment to me by this date. Also, I still have a few spots left for chaperones if you anyone is available.
You should have received an email invitation link to a supply Sign Up Genius for our class Winter Party. Please sign up and bring these items to school by Friday, December 14th.
We are also still in need of Band-Aid Donations for our classroom.
I hope you have an amazing weekend!
Important upcoming dates:
December 20th-Winter party
December 21st-Field trip
December 22nd-January 7th-Winter break
January 8th & 9th-ILP’s
January 10th- School resumes
January 21st- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
December 2nd, 2018
Hello Fabulous Families!
We had a wonderful first full week back, and are in full swing learning about point of view, addition with regrouping, and continuing with our writing skills. This coming week with will introduce the editing process. For the month of December we will be focusing on kindness in our classroom. The students will be provided with opportunities to do kind acts and share kind notes with others in the class and others around the school.
On Friday we had the opportunity to participate in another Build-and Write. This time we worked on the genre of a fable. Students had to build their setting and characters with Legos, and then write a story with a beginning, middle, and an end that included a lesson or a moral. Ask your student about theirs! They always have so much fun with this activity! On this note, if you have any spare Lego building blocks lying around the house, we could always add them to our collection. The students never seem to have enough ;-)
We could also use Band-Aid donations. We seem to go through those like crazy with all of the skinned knees and elbows we incur daily! Thank you!
We have a wonderful team of parents already working hard on planning an amazing winter party for our classroom! Be on the lookout for a supplies Sign-Up coming your way soon! Thank you for all you do to make our classroom a great experience for our students!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
December 20th-Winter party
December 21st-Field trip
December 22nd-January 7th-Winter break
January 8th & 9th-ILP’s
January 10th- School resumes
January 21st- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
November 18th, 2018
We had an amazing week last week with our Summative and our Run Devil Run events! Thank you all who came out and supported us at these events. The students did an amazing job and had a great time!
We introduced our Week 10 spelling words last week, and our test will be this Wednesday before break.
I hope you all have an amazing Thanksgiving break this Thursday and Friday!
November 22nd-23rd-Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30th-Holiday boutique
December 21st Field Trip
November 11th, 2018
Hello!
I hope everyone is enjoying their amazing 3 day weekend!
We have a busy week coming up with our Summative preparation and Summative event on Thursday night! On Tuesday we will be building our dioramas in class in the morning, and the afternoon will be spent assembling our animal posters to display for you on Thursday night. We will have work displayed throughout the halls and in the classroom, so plan to take some time to explore.
2nd graders will be singing in the 7/8 Gallery at 5:45 on Thursday with Mrs. Jernigan. Your students have been working very hard in music learning their pieces and are excited to perform for you!
I am looking forward to seeing everyone and the students are excited to show off all of their hard work!
Our Run Devil Run fundraiser event is next Friday November 16th. Please come with comfortable shoes ready to run! Thank you to all who have donated already!
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
November 22nd-23rd-Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30th-Holiday boutique
November 4th, 2018
Happy Sunday Everyone!
I hope you have all had a restful weekend are enjoying the beautiful November weather!
We are busy, busy, busy, preparing for you to come visit us at our summative on Thursday November 15th from 5:00-6:30. Your students have been researching and taking notes from their research materials, and creating in class projects to display at this event. We have been talking about habitats and how their animal gets what it needs to survive. They are doing an amazing job and we can't wait to show you all their hard work! Please remember to send in diorama supplies the end of this week, as we will be building next week in class!
Don't forget your Run Devil Run pledge forms! We are all looking forward to our 5th annual run on November 16th!
November 7th-9th- Diorama Supplies Due
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
October 26th, 2018
Hello wonderful families!
We have had another amazing week here in room 104! We started our new Benchmark unit on How do Plants and Animals Get What They Need to Survive? We have been busy reading and annotating passages about different habitats and animals that live there.
Many students have brought their research materials. Next week we will be diving into our research and collecting data for projects for our summative. We are going to be animal experts!
On Wednesday we will be doing our pumpkin STEM activity in the afternoon. We will be making predictions, measuring, counting, and then following up with a writing activity. We are still in need of a few medium size pumpkins and volunteers if anyone is available to help us with the fun project.
Book Orders went home this week. These are a great way to stock up on some grade level reading materials and a very reasonable price!
Please submit your orders by next Friday November 2nd.
November 2nd Book Orders Due
November 7th-9th- Diorama Supplies Due
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
October 19th, 2018
Happy Friday!
Another successful week is in the books! We finished up our 2nd unit in Benchmark Advance today, so you should find your student's workbook in their backpacks. Earlier this week, I sent home a homework calendar with extension activities that you can use with these workbooks. Feel free to use these as a homework option if you wish.
Today we read "The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything" and then used Legos to build our own "spooky story." Students were to design a setting, choose characters, and then write a story with a beginning, middle, and ending. Students had a blast building and writing! Ask them about their "spooky story!"
You should have also seen a yellow letter come home with information about or animal/habitat research and diorama project. Please remember to send all research information in a bag, labeled with your student's name by next Thursday October 25th. Please do not send diorama materials until November 7th, as we do not have room in the classrooms to store everyone's materials for any length of time. These projects will be displayed at our summative on November 15th.
The back of the yellow letter detailed information about our Halloween STEM activities! If you are available to volunteer or donate materials, please email me! Thank you!
I hope you all have an amazing weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
October 23-Dinner & Dessert night (see flyer in your child’s folder)
October 25- Animal/Habitat Research Materials Due
November 7th-9th- Diorama Supplies Due
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
October 13th, 2018
I hope you all had an amazing Fall Break! It was great meeting with you all at ILP Conferences!
Our Charlotte's Web Field Trip was a huge success and enjoyed by all! We spent yesterday planning and completing a Billy Goat Gruff STEM Challenge. Ask your student about their raft!
Next week we dive into the the 2nd quarter. Our new October homework menu will come home Monday. Please continue to read and do Dreambox and RAZ-Kids. Mark your calendars for our summative on November 15th!
Enjoy your weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important Upcoming Dates:
October 17th-Internet Safety parent night
October 19th- Trunk or Treat / Movie Night
October 23-Dinner & Dessert night (see flyer in your child’s folder)
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
September 29th 2018
I hope everyone has an AMAZING Fall Break! I look forward to seeing you all at ILP Conferences October 9th or 10th.
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
October 1st-5th–Fall break
October 8th No School-teacher PD
October 9th-10th-ILP’s
October 11th Charlotte's Web Field Trip
October 17th-Internet Safety parent night
September 21st 2018
Wow! It's hard to believe we are already heading into the last week of Quarter 1! The ILP Conference Manager opens tomorrow morning, so be sure to sign up for a time that both you and your child can meet with me. We will be sharing data notebooks and discussing goals, so it is important that you can both be there. Also, I will not be able to re-schedule your conference if you are out of town, so please plan accordingly. Thank you!
This week we started our new unit on Characters Facing Problems. We have been reading, annotating, and comparing and contrasting fairy tales. Ask your student how many different versions of Cinderella there are! During math we have continued our unit on measurement, and this week we dove into writing a personal narrative based on a class experience.
If you are planning on your child attending out field trip to Charlotte's Web, please return your payment and permission slip by September 27th. Also we will be drawing names for our chaperones this week, and will notify you if your name was drawn. Thank you!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
September 26th– Picture Retakes
September 27th Field Trip Forms Due
October 1st-5th–Fall break
October 8th No School-teacher PD
October 9th-10th-ILP’s
October 11th Charlotte's Web Field Trip
October 17th-Internet Safety parent night
September 15th 2018
Happy Weekend!
We have finished off our unit on government! Your student should have brought home their government workbook yesterday. Take a moment to look through it with them and take a look at all of the hard work they put in over the past several weeks annotating, asking questions, looking for key details etc. To wrap up our unit, we also had an ASU police officer come in and answer any questions we may have about his job. Next week we will start a new unit Characters Facing Challenges.
We continued measurement in math. We have been talking about centimeters and meters and how to find the difference in length between two objects. We've been using Zearn in the classroom. Be sure to keep using Dreambox at home for extra individual practice.
Yesterday, we celebrated International Dot Day and Growth Mindset in class by reading The Dot. We talked about what it means to have a growth vs. a fixed mindset, especially when it comes to learning, and then we used a growth mindset to complete a STEM index card and dot sticker tower. Ask your student about the experience!
Permission slips for our first field trip came home yesterday! Be sure to check your child's backpack and sign and return these ASAP. Thank you!
September 7th, 2018
We have had a busy 4 day week continuing our unit on government. The students are continuing to practice asking questions before, during, and after reading, looking for the main idea of a text, and practicing open and closed syllable words.
We have also continued our math unit on measurement. This week we made our own centimeter rulers and measured all kinds of items we could find in our pencil box. Today we used our new measuring skills and practiced with the online math program Zearn.
We also worked together to make our own states and flags this week. The students had a blast being creative and coming up with their own unique land! On Thursday, we assembled these states into countries, which we will continue to work with next week.
Thank you for visiting our book fair and supporting our school! Have an amazing weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
September 2nd, 2018
Happy 3 Day Weekend!
I hope you are all having and amazing and safe Labor Day weekend!
We had an awesome week of learning last week. Students dove into our first language arts unit. We spend the week reading, analyzing and annotating various texts in their reading having to do with out unit one theme: government. Spelling words for week two will again be posted on this weebly site.
We took out project group time this week and spent it studying a non-fiction article about bats! We studied key vocabulary, compared and contrasted, and talked about facts vs. opinions. We finished up the week by creating a fun acrostic and bat craftivity!
Homework calendars and Dreambox login information came home in your student's folder last week. Weekly homework will start this week. Please record what you child does (no more than 30 minutes a night) in their homework notebook. Remember, reading and math facts are the priority! The homework calendar just provides options for enrichment and creativity. Homework notebooks should be returned on Friday for me to check. If a students does not turn in their homework notebook for the week they will loose Fun Friday time. Please encourage your student to also practice Dreambox at home. This is a math program that gears activities towards your student's individual level is great for independent enrichment! This can be recorded in their homework notebook as well!
On another note, our school book fair is here! Please feel free to stop by before or after school to do some shopping!
Mrs. Carroll
Important Dates
August 31st-Sept. 10th Scholastic Book Fair
September 26th Picture Retakes
August 24th, 2018
Week 4 is in the books! Next week we dive into Unit 1 of our Benchmark Advance entitled Government at Work. Along with this program, we will be starting weekly spelling tests. We will start each week with a pre-test on Monday, practice the words throughout the week, and then have our final test on Friday. We are also looking forward to starting reading groups next week.
This past week we read, discussed, and annotated the poem Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rosetti. Students did a great job of being active listeners, discussing the author's purpose, looking for short and long vowel sounds, and making inferences. Ask them what they visualized this week as we read this poem!
During math, we talked a lot about number bonds and making a 10 to add with the help of linking cubes and dominoes. We got to experiment with our new math technology program called Zearn this week too! Ask you student about it!
During project group, we read two non-fiction books about giraffes and then used graphic organizers to write our first informational writing piece. On Thursday we got a little crafty and finished the project off with a super fun giraffe directed draw and watercolor painting. These are displayed in our classroom and are amazing!
You should find a new Friday letter in your student's backpack. Please make sure to read, respond, and return these next week and I will add them to the file for the end of year book.
You hopefully also saw the note about the optional Story Stone project. If you and your student feel like getting crafty in the near future, we would love to start a collection in our classroom to use as writing inspiration!
I hope you all have an amazingly relaxing weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important Dates
August 31st-Sept. 10th-Scholastic Book Fair
September 3rd Labor Day (No School)
August 17th, 2018
Happy Friday Everyone!
We have successfully made it through week 3, and have gotten into a great routine! We are growing and learning together as a classroom community every day and it is amazing to see!
Our new playground opened this morning (yay!), so from now on, unless we have a rainy day schedule, the students will be heading to the playground in the mornings before school. We got a little time yesterday to head out as a class, talk about the playground rules, and test it out before the grand opening this morning!
This week we talked a lot about non-fiction writing and text elements by reading our big book Hurricanes. Ask your students what they learned about hurricanes and what some of the elements of non-fiction text that we discussed are! We also dove into our 2nd grade math this week and discussed number bonds up to 10.
Book orders were sent home this week. These are a great, inexpensive way to stock up your at-home libraries! If you would like to order something, please submit your online order, using the class code attached, no later than next Friday August 24th.
We will be starting our class "Owl About Me" posters (aka student of the week) this Friday. If your child is student of the week, the poster will be sent home on Friday. Please fill it out and send it back the following Monday so we can display it for the week! Your student will get to then present their poster at our class meeting the following Friday.
Finally, we started out Friday letters this morning. Each Friday, your student will be writing a family member a letter about their week. We ask that you the write back to your student on the backside of the letter and return it to school on Monday. We will be collecting these letters to create a priceless book for you to keep at the end of the year. This is also a great way to see your child's writing develop over the course of the year!
I hope you all have an amazing weekend!
August 22nd-Fall Pictures
August 24th- Scholastic Book Orders Due
August 31st-Sept. 10th-Scholastic Book Fair
August 12, 2018
It's the weekend! Time to kick back and relax after another amazing week in 2nd Grade! Your students are simply amazing and I really appreciate the positive attitudes and hard work that each and every one of them is putting in every day! We are really coming together as a classroom community and it's amazing to watch!
We continued this week reviewing our classroom procedures, being attentive listeners, and making good choices. We read, discussed and annotated the poem "Foreign Lands" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Ask your student what he or she learned about poems this week! We also reviewed phonics rules and continued to practice our Daily 5 rotations.
Our picture day is Wednesday, August 22nd. Please have your child wear their uniform. Your child will received an envelope for picture money on Thursday. Look for it in your child’s homework folder. If you are ordering pictures, please return the envelope to school on or before Tuesday, August 21st.
If you were unable to attend curriculum night, the PowerPoint is posted on our Weebly Home page. Hopefully your questions were answered and you feel confident knowing your child will be successful this year.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
August 7th-Curriculum Night @ 5:30
August 22nd-Fall Pictures
August 31st-Sept. 10th-Scholastic Book Fair
August 5, 2018
Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you are all enjoying a restful weekend after a successful first week of school! I have thoroughly enjoyed starting to get to know each and every one of your young learners and am looking forward to an amazing year!
This past week we started out with a lot of "getting to know you" type activities as well as getting to know our classroom procedures and community. A lot of students have had the opportunity to share their book boxes already, and we will finish up with those this week. We have loved seeing everyone's creativity and personality shine through on these!
We also talked a lot about what an active listener looks like, reviewed some phonics rules, read a lot of fun stories and practiced having conversations about these stories, practiced picking "just right" books for our book boxes, solved some math problems and so much more. Ask your students about the big book Postcard Clues and the postcards that Sarah wrote to Sam! Where are some of the places that Sarah visited?
We are looking forward to seeing you this Tuesday, August 7th at 5:30 for our curriculum night!
Important upcoming dates:
August 7th-Curriculum Night @ 5:30
August 22nd-Fall Pictures
August 31st-Sept. 10th-Scholastic Book Fair
Hello everyone!
Welcome to our class updates page! Here you will find weekly updates about what's going on inside our classroom as well as important information including upcoming events and announcements. It was a pleasure meeting meeting both parents and students alike at our Meet the Teacher event last Thursday, and I am super excited to start our year off this Monday July 30th. Below are a few details to remember as we start:
First Day: Parents are welcome to park and walk their students to the playground through the south gate. The gate will open at 7:45. When the whistle blows at 8:10, students will then line line up with the class and wave good-bye to mom and dad. Starting the second day of school, please follow normal drive line drop off procedures. Thank you!
Take Home Folder: Students will be bringing home a take-home folder daily that will contain information regarding behavior, daily handouts, graded work, etc. This folder will go back and forth to school every day. Please make sure to check this folder and initial the behavior chart every night. Thank you!
Weebly Page: If you are here, then you know :-) Be sure to check this page weekly for important announcements and class updates!
Dress Code: Please review the dress code policies in the student handbook. We have been asked to strictly enforce these policies this year.
Snack: Please be sure to provide a healthy snack for your child daily. We are asking for the safety of all students that all snack be nut free. Also, please be sure that your student is aware of which item in their lunchbox should be eaten for snack.
Water Bottle: Please send a water bottle labeled with your child's name daily.
Classroom Supplies: Thank you all for all of your generous donations of classroom supplies!
Primary email: Be sure to email me ASAP with your primary email address that you would like me to use for communication this year. Thank you!
Book Boxes: Please be sure to decorate and reinforce your child's book box with lots of duct tape! Fee free to personalize and be creative as we will share these as a getting to know you activity the first week of school!
Thank you all for everything that you do! I am looking forward to an amazing year with your awesome students!
Mrs. Carroll
Upcoming Dates:
Curriculum Night
August 7th 5:30
I hope you all have a wonderful and safe summer! We will be changing this website to a new google site for next year. Look for announcements to come! The first day of school for next year is July 25th.
Mrs. Carroll
May 17th, 2019
Happy Friday!
It’s hard to believe the last week of the school year is here! Here’s some info for next week:
- Wednesday is game day. Students may bring any board game from home to play. Please be mindful of small pieces that may get lost, and label games with their names.
- Thursday is free dress and party day! Students won a free dress day (grades K-4) from Mrs. Mendoza for our kindness bands. We will also be having our popcorn, ice cream, and movie party. Thank you for your donations!
- Report cards and data notebooks will come home on Thursday. Please check for those in student backpacks.
- Friday, school is done at 11:30. Please do not send backpacks. Students may bring a snack, but lunch is not served. We will be signing yearbooks in the morning and doing the grad walk.
It’s been such a wonderful year. I hope you all have a great summer!
May 12, 2019
Thank you to everyone who completely spoiled my last week! I felt SO appreciated! The surveys, classroom supplies, sweet treats, and gift cards were beyond generous! It has been my honor to be part of your student's educational journey this year.
Just a few reminders for the last 2 weeks (can you believe it???):
Please have all Friday letters returned by THIS Wednesday May 15th.
Our end of year movie party is May 23rd. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!
Report cards, DRA scores, and data notebooks will be sent home May 23rd.
May 24th is early release at 11:30.
Mrs. Carroll
May 3rd, 2019
Welcome to May! Can you believe how quickly this year has gone by? We have learned and grown so much together! We still have 3 more weeks of learning ahead of us with some fun activities planned. It is going to be a busy, fun time for all!
Thank you to all of you that came out to our summative last night! I hope you enjoyed seeing all of your amazing student's hard work and fun projects! It was great talking with all of you!
Important upcoming dates:
May 12th-Mother’s Day
May 24th-Last day of school 11:30 Dismissal
Mrs. Carroll
April 26th, 2019
Hello Fabulous Families!
Can you believe it's already the end of April? Wow how this year is flying by! We have been busy this week continuing our unit on Buyers and Sellers and working with shapes in math. We have also been working on some fun projects for our summative next Thursday May 2nd from 5-6:30. I hope to see you all there! The students are excited to show off their hard work!
Important upcoming dates:
April 30th-Barro’s night 5:00
May 2nd- Summative
May12th-Mother’s Day
May 24th-Last day of school
Mrs. Carroll
April 19th, 2019
Happy Friday!
We have had a busy week this week! Our class did a great job during testing week, making sure we were on task and quiet while the older grades completed their AZ Merit testing. We included some fun activities to lighten things up a bit! Ask them about their "pet" Peep! We spend the day morning this a morning writing about our adventures with our peep and creating some poetry to go along with it as well. The students seem to have a great time being responsible for their pet!
We also started our new Benchmark unit on Buyers and Sellers this week along with our new math unit on shapes. Keep practicing those math facts at home to prepare for 3rd grade!
We also started our research on our natural disasters. We will continue this into next week as well. The students seem very interested in their topics and are working hard pulling out key information on their chosen disaster. Thank you for helping at home with this!
Important upcoming dates:
April 30th-Barro’s night 5:00
May 2nd- Summative
May12th-Mother’s Day
May 24th-Last day of school
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
April 13th, 2019
It was great to see so many of you at our carnival last night! I hope you all had an amazing time, I know I did! There are some students that have some pretty good pie throwing arms in our class!
We are heading into testing week for the older grades. We will not have specials Monday through Thursday of this upcoming week. We do have some special activities planned to hopefully keep things light and fun in our classroom.
Thank you to all of you that have sent in your natural disaster research. We are going to start using this information in class this upcoming week. Our summative is coming up fast! Please mark it on your calendar for May 2nd!
Important upcoming dates:
May 2nd- Summative
May 12th-Mother’s Day
May 24th-Last day of school
April 6th, 2019
Hello Amazing Families and Happy April!
This week we continued our Benchmark Unit on "How Wind and Water Change the Earth" Some of you have already started sending in research materials for our natural disaster project. Thank you! These items are due next Friday April 12th. Remember, your child will be reporting on a specific natural disaster event that occurred in the past for our summative on May 2nd.
In math, we started our unit on standard measurement using inches, feet, and yards. Yesterday, we folded our own paper airplanes and used tape measures to see how far they flew!
Our Spring Carnival is next Friday April 12th starting at 5pm. A flyer came home Thursday with more information. We hope to see you all there!
AZ Merit testing
Starting the week of April 15-19th AZ Merit testing will take place for grades 3-8. We will also have AZ Merit testing on Monday, April 8th. Although 1-2 will not be testing, it will affect our schedule times. We will not be having our special area classes (Art, P.E., Spanish, STEM & Learning Lab) that week. Thank you for being flexible while we help grades 3-8 complete their testing.
Have an amazing weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
April 12th- Spring carnival
May 2nd- Summative
March 29th, 2019
Hello and Happy Friday! I hope you are all enjoying the beautiful spring weather! We have had a busy week this week diving into our new water and wind Benchmark Unit. We've talked about weather and natural disasters while talking about key details, main ideas, personification, and cause and effect. In math we continued working on our unit on money. Keep counting money and working on Dreambox at home for extra practice! Next Friday will be our 6 and 7 math facts assessment as well.
Important upcoming dates:
April 12th- Spring carnival
May 2nd- Summative
March 22nd, 2019
Welcome Back! I hope you all had a restful spring break and are ready to tackle the rest of the year together! We have a lot of fun things in store for the remainder of this year including a fun unit of weather and natural disasters. We started this week with researching and presenting posters on a specific weather or natural or natural disaster event. Today, we talked about wind and kites and then used materials to complete a STEM kite challenge. If your student wants to fly and record their flight times on their reflection page, they will receive a prize when they return their completed reflection page to school. Next week we will start our new Benchmark unit on "How Do Wind and Water Change the Earth?" In math we are continuing our unit on money. Keep counting those coins and bills as well as practicing those math facts!
Spring pictures will be taken on Tuesday March 26th. This will be a free dress day for all students.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
March 26th- Spring pictures
April 12th- Spring carnival
May 2nd- Summative
March 8th, 2019
We made it! I hope you all have a wonderful, safe Spring Break wherever your adventures take you!
We finished our quarter out strong with a fun filled week of Dr. Seuss. We did an author study, examined the special features of his writing, and created our own wacky food combination and wrote a persuasive writing piece trying to convince people to try our creation!
In math we wrapped up graphing and started our new unit on money. We are working on identifying and counting coins.
If you haven't already, don't forget to sign up for our ILP conferences on March 18th and 19th. I am looking forward to meeting with you all!
Field Trip
Student permission slips were due on Friday. If your child isn’t going on the field trip, please email me and let me know. Our class is going to the Phoenix Zoo, on Wednesday, March 20th from 9:00-2:00. We will be eating lunch at the Zoo. The cost of the field trip will be $15 per student. (If paying by check, please make checks out ASU Prep Academy). If you are choosing not to have your child accompany us on this field trip, your child will have to stay home for the day. Please send a sack lunch and snack with your child. I am looking for 8 chaperones to accompany me on this field trip. The chaperones will assist with monitoring a small group of kids while we are there. If you would like to chaperone, I will need your full assistance with the small group that you will be chaperoning. Therefore, we will not be able to accommodate siblings for this trip. The chaperones will be riding the bus with us to the Phoenix Zoo. If you do not get picked to be a chaperone, you are more than welcome to meet us there at your own expense.
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP Conferences
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
March 1st, 2019
I can't believe it's March! The year is just flying by!
FREE DRESS
ASU Prep STEM Academy, PK-8, will be having a Dollar Dress Down Day (free dress) this Friday, March 8, 2019. If you would like your student to participate please have them bring in $1 to their homeroom/foundations teacher by Friday. There will also be a jar out all week for students to donate their extra change. Some amazing students at our school want to raise this money for an individual who has PSC (Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis) and needs a liver transplant. Thank you!
We finished up our Benchmark unit on Investigating the Past this week, along with arrays in math. We made some super fun array cities for our summative in May and can't wait to show them to you! Next week we will be doing an author study on Dr. Seuss for Read Across America Week and continuing our new math unit on tallying and graphing.
Don't forget field trip permission slips are dues next Friday March 8th! I am still in need of a few chaperones, so if you would like to join us at the zoo, we would love to have you!
ILP sign ups start tomorrow morning! I look forward to meeting with you all again after spring break!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
February 22nd, 2019
The sun is shining! Yes, I can actually see it our my classroom window!
We have had a busy (wet) 4 days this week! We continued our Benchmark Unit on Investigating the Past and working with Arrays in math. The students are doing a great job with both! Next Friday we will have our + and - 4's and 5's timed assessments in math. Keep practicing those facts at home!
Field Trip
The field trip permission slips went home today. Our class is going on a field trip to the Phoenix Zoo, on Wednesday, March 20th from 9:00-2:00. We will be eating lunch at the Zoo. The cost of the field trip will be $15 per student. (If paying by check, please make checks out ASU Prep Academy). If you are choosing not to have your child accompany us on this field trip, your child will have to stay home for the day. Please send a sack lunch and snack with your child. I am looking for 8 chaperones to accompany me on this field trip. The chaperones will assist with monitoring a small group of kids while we are there. If you would like to chaperone, I will need your full assistance with the small group that you will be chaperoning. Therefore, we will not be able to accommodate siblings for this trip. The chaperones will be riding the bus with us to the Phoenix Zoo. If you do not get picked to be a chaperone, you are more than welcome to meet us there at your own expense.
School Carnival
The second-grade students have selected the theme, “We Scream for Ice Cream” for their classroom basket that will be auctioned off at this year’s ASU Prep School Carnival. The carnival will be held on Friday, April 12th. The PTSO and teachers are working hard to help make this year’s carnival a success!
We need your help in collecting new items for the auction basket. If you are able to donate any new ASU item(s) that corresponds with the theme, please send in your donation with your student no later than March 29th. The PTSO will be sending out a sign-up genius for volunteers. I have uploaded the flyer above, so please feel free to take a look!
Thank you for supporting our school!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
March 1st- ASU Prep at Sun Devil Women's Basketball (For Tickets, call 480-965-5812 or visit SunDevilTickets.com)
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
February 15th, 2019
Hello!
I hope you are all having a marvelous Friday! We have had a busy week! We started our new Benchmark unit "Investigating the Past" on Monday and have been discussing our essential question "How does understanding the past help shape the future?" In math, we have been discussing arrays and repeated addition. Today we talked about President's Day and completed a fun STEM project where we created the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial with pasta and Play-Doh. The students had so much fun being creative and learning about our history!
Kids Heart Challenge
This week your child received their Kids Heart Challenge flyer (Formerly known as Jump Rope for Heart). Here’s a message from Coach Fahey:
We have officially kicked off our Kids Heart Challenge program and our school's big event is right around the corner! Last year, we jumped rope for heart and this year we’re kicking off the all-new Kids Heart Challenge! It’s a totally reimagined program with more ways for kids to get heart healthy, more incentives for participating schools like ours and an easier to manage experience for parents. That’s a lot of “MORE!
First things first! We have an easy way for you to raise money online by having your very own fundraising page. Simply follow these steps:
Go to www.heart.org/kidsheartchallenge and search for ASU Prep
- Once you find our school, click on Sign Up
- Create a username and password and then fill out the registration form
- Share your personal fundraising link with friends and family right away
- Download the FREE Mobile app for iPhone or Android by searching for Kids Heart Challenge and fundraise no matter where you are!
- Send 10 Emails or Ecards to friends and family. You can start by making your very own donation and earn the first Heart Hero character and clasp! For just a $10 online donation, your child will earn both Echo and Finn and your teacher has them now.
- Download the app to watch your Heart Heroes come to life and fundraise on the go. Search Kids Heart Challenge in the Android or Apple store.
Important upcoming dates:
February 18th-Presidents Day-No school
March 1st- ASU Prep at Sun Devil Women's Basketball (For Tickets, call 480-965-5812 or visit SunDevilTickets.com)
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
February 9th, 2019
Happy Weekend!
I hope you are all enjoying your cloudy Saturday! We had a full 5 days of great learning this week! We finished our "Tales to Live By" Benchmark Unit this week. The workbooks were sent home yesterday with the optional extension activity calendar. We spent time this week planning our very own pourquoi tales which we will author this week. The students have been very creative with their topics and explanations of natural phenomenon. I am excited to see the finished products!
This week during math we focused on word problems and key words. How do we know whether to add and subtract? We also talked about the importance of showing our work and thinking about the situation being presented. Do our operations make sense? We also talked about addition as a tool to check our subtraction work and practiced this strategy.
Writing time was spent crafting our own opinion writing piece. Students were to write about their favorite hobby, and support their opinion with reasons and details. They also went back and edited their writing using the CUPS method.
Valentine Exchange
We will be doing a Valentine exchange on Thursday, Feb. 14th. Valentine bags will be decorated at school so you do not need to create a Valentine box at home. If your child wants to participate in the Valentine exchange, please have your child make one Valentine for each student in our class. A class list will be sent home soon. We have 25 students in our class. Small items or candy may be attached to the Valentines.
Important upcoming dates:
February 14th- Valentine exchange
February 18th-Presidents Day-No school
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
March 20th-Field trip
April 12th- Spring carnival
February 2, 2019
Hello!
We had an amazing week of learning in room 104! We celebrated kindness week with kindness attacks, spirit dress days, and money wars. The students had a lot of fun and learned a lot about being kind! We continued our Benchmark Unit, Tales to Live By, in which we are studying pourquoi tales, fables, and myths from around the world.
In math, we wrapped up subtraction with regrouping! Your students have done an amazing job! Keep practicing those math facts at home for fluency! Next week we will be focusing on word problems and checking our work using addition.
Art is in need of baby wipes. If you are able to donate, it would be greatly appreciated!
Valentine Exchange
We will be doing a Valentine exchange on Thursday, Feb. 14th. Valentine bags will be decorated at school so you do not need to create a Valentine box at home. If your child wants to participate in the Valentine exchange, please have your child make one Valentine for each student in our class. A class list will be sent home soon. We have 25 students in our class. Small items or candy may be attached to the Valentines.
School Carnival
The second-grade students have selected the theme, “We Scream for Ice Cream” for their classroom basket that will be auctioned off at this year’s ASU Prep School Carnival. The carnival will be held on Friday, April 12th. The PTSO and teachers are working hard to help make this year’s carnival a success!
We need your help in collecting new items for the auction basket. If you are able to donate any new ASU item(s) that corresponds with the theme, please send in your donation with your student no later than March 29th. The PTSO will be sending out a sign-up genius for volunteers.
Thank you for supporting our school!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
February 7th-Talent show tryouts
February 14th- Valentine exchange
February 18th-Presidents Day-No school
March 7th-Talent show
March 11th-15th- Spring Break
March 18th & 19th-ILP’s
January 26th, 2019
Happy Saturday!
I hope you all have an amazing relaxing weekend! We had a busy week this week! We started our new Benchmark Unit, Tales to Live By, in which we will be reading fables, myths, and folktales from around the world. In math we have still been focusing on subtraction with regrouping. We paused to do a short review on subtraction math facts using number lines and the "count back to subtract" strategy. We also reviewed fact families with the hopes of further solidifying those subtraction math facts. Keep working at home! We started our unit on opinion writing as well this week. Students wrote about their favorite season and gave three reasons for their opinion. These were fun to read! We will continue to expand upon this theme next week!
Next week is kindness week! Please see the schedule below for special events. Also please remember there is no school on Friday as it is a teacher training day.
Art is in need of baby wipes. If you are able to donate, it would be greatly appreciated!
Valentine Exchange
We will be doing a Valentine exchange on Thursday, Feb. 14th. Valentine bags will be decorated at school so you do not need to create a Valentine box at home. If your child wants to participate in the Valentine exchange, please have your child make one Valentine for each student in our class. A class list will be sent home soon. We have 25 students in our class. Small items or candy may be attached to the Valentines.
School Carnival
The second-grade students have selected the theme, “We Scream for Ice Cream” for their classroom basket that will be auctioned off at this year’s ASU Prep School Carnival. The carnival will be held on Friday, April 12th. The PTSO and teachers are working hard to help make this year’s carnival a success!
We need your help in collecting new items for the auction basket. If you are able to donate any new ASU item(s) that corresponds with the theme, please send in your donation with your student no later than March 29th. The PTSO will be sending out a sign-up genius for volunteers.
Thank you for supporting our school!
Kindness Week
We will be having a money war among all the grade levels. We are collecting money to donate to the “Kind Coins for Liberia”. Coins count for our class and dollar bills count against us (we still encourage students to send dollars to put in another grade level cluster’s bucket). We are trying to collect the most coins/dollars for our 1-2 cluster and win!
In addition, NJHS will be selling kindness grams on the playground before school. Each gram is .50 cents and all proceeds will go to the “Kind Coins for Liberia” fund.
January 28th-31st
Monday, Jan. 28th – Hat’s off to Kindness
- Wear your hat
Tuesday, Jan. 29th – Crazy for Kindness
- Crazy hair & socks
Wednesday, Jan. 30th – Team up to Clean up
- Wear your favorite team jersey
Thursday, Jan. 31st – Dollar dress Down
- Free dress for $1
Thank you for all of your support!
Mrs. Carroll
January 18th, 2019
Hello Everyone!
We have had an amazing full week of learning this week! We dove back in and finished our technology unit in our Benchmark language arts curriculum this week. We talked a lot about summarizing, compound words, and main idea. the magazines will come home today with a new optional homework calendar if you want to take a look at them. In math, we started subtraction with re-grouping. This is probably one of the most challenging 2nd grade math standards. We've been working with apples and cubes, really trying to solidify the concept of re-grouping in a concrete way. Later this week, we moved to working on problems on our personal white boards. We are going to continue practicing this into next week and please feel free to reinforce this skill at home! Also please practice math facts! Especially subtraction! The stronger and more fluent our students are with these basic facts, the easier the more difficult concepts become. Thank you so much for all your support at home! We couldn't do it without you! During our project group time, we've be talking about fact vs. opinion. The students had a blast using Kahoot and Flip Grip to ask and answer opinion questions, making sure to give a reason for our opinion. Ask them about it! Next week we will begin to explore opinion writing.
Art is in need of baby wipes. Any that you could donate would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Kindness Week
More details will be coming home soon.
January 28th-31st
Monday, Jan. 28th – Hat’s off to Kindness
- Wear your hat
Tuesday, Jan. 29th – Crazy for Kindness
- Crazy hair & socks
Wednesday, Jan. 30th – Team up to Clean up
- Wear your favorite team jersey
Thursday, Jan. 31st – Dollar dress Down
- Free dress for $1
Important upcoming dates:
January 21st- No School - Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
January 28th-31st-Kindness Week – See Spirit days above
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
January 8th, 2019
Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a wonderful winter break and are ready to start the new year! Thank you to all of you who participate in our ILP conferences. It was great meeting with all of you and sharing all of the amazing growth that your young learning have been making. Some notes from conferences:
1: Remember to edit the weekly writing sample that will come home stapled to your student's Friday letter.
2: Graded math fact assessments will begin Friday January 18th.
This week we will gradually get back into the "swing of things" by reviewing our classroom procedures and completing some new year and STEM activities. We will also be experimenting with FlipGrid, which is a fun app that lets us record and share our projects that we've created in the classroom. Ask your student about it!
This week we will review and practice subtraction without regrouping in anticipation of introducing subtraction with regrouping in the upcoming weeks. This is a great time to start practicing those subtraction math facts!
I am looking forward to seeing everyone Thursday!
Mrs. Carroll
Upcoming Dates
January 21st- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
December 15th, 2018
One busy week to go before break and the excitement is building! We have been busy reading, writing, regrouping, and crafting. We have some fun learning activities planned this week along with ILP preparation.
Please remember that Ugly Sweater Day for 1st and 2nd Grade will be Thursday December 20th due to our Field Trip to the Science Center on Friday December 21st. Uniform bottoms must be worn with the Ugly Sweaters. Our Winter Party is also this Thursday December 20th from approximately 1:00pm until 3:00pm.
Important upcoming dates:
December 20th-Winter party and Ugly Sweater Day of 1st and 2nd Grade ONLY
December 21st-Field trip to the Science Center
December 22nd-January 7th-Winter break
January 8th & 9th-ILP’s
January 10th- School resumes
January 21st- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
December 7th, 2018
Happy Friday!
We have had a busy week writing, reading and adding with regrouping! We wrote some Christmas point of view stories today which were super fun! Ask your student about theirs!
Our permission slips for our field trip are due THIS Monday December 10th. Please submit your permission slip and payment to me by this date. Also, I still have a few spots left for chaperones if you anyone is available.
You should have received an email invitation link to a supply Sign Up Genius for our class Winter Party. Please sign up and bring these items to school by Friday, December 14th.
We are also still in need of Band-Aid Donations for our classroom.
I hope you have an amazing weekend!
Important upcoming dates:
December 20th-Winter party
December 21st-Field trip
December 22nd-January 7th-Winter break
January 8th & 9th-ILP’s
January 10th- School resumes
January 21st- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
December 2nd, 2018
Hello Fabulous Families!
We had a wonderful first full week back, and are in full swing learning about point of view, addition with regrouping, and continuing with our writing skills. This coming week with will introduce the editing process. For the month of December we will be focusing on kindness in our classroom. The students will be provided with opportunities to do kind acts and share kind notes with others in the class and others around the school.
On Friday we had the opportunity to participate in another Build-and Write. This time we worked on the genre of a fable. Students had to build their setting and characters with Legos, and then write a story with a beginning, middle, and an end that included a lesson or a moral. Ask your student about theirs! They always have so much fun with this activity! On this note, if you have any spare Lego building blocks lying around the house, we could always add them to our collection. The students never seem to have enough ;-)
We could also use Band-Aid donations. We seem to go through those like crazy with all of the skinned knees and elbows we incur daily! Thank you!
We have a wonderful team of parents already working hard on planning an amazing winter party for our classroom! Be on the lookout for a supplies Sign-Up coming your way soon! Thank you for all you do to make our classroom a great experience for our students!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
December 20th-Winter party
December 21st-Field trip
December 22nd-January 7th-Winter break
January 8th & 9th-ILP’s
January 10th- School resumes
January 21st- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
February 1st- No School-Teacher PD
November 18th, 2018
We had an amazing week last week with our Summative and our Run Devil Run events! Thank you all who came out and supported us at these events. The students did an amazing job and had a great time!
We introduced our Week 10 spelling words last week, and our test will be this Wednesday before break.
I hope you all have an amazing Thanksgiving break this Thursday and Friday!
November 22nd-23rd-Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30th-Holiday boutique
December 21st Field Trip
November 11th, 2018
Hello!
I hope everyone is enjoying their amazing 3 day weekend!
We have a busy week coming up with our Summative preparation and Summative event on Thursday night! On Tuesday we will be building our dioramas in class in the morning, and the afternoon will be spent assembling our animal posters to display for you on Thursday night. We will have work displayed throughout the halls and in the classroom, so plan to take some time to explore.
2nd graders will be singing in the 7/8 Gallery at 5:45 on Thursday with Mrs. Jernigan. Your students have been working very hard in music learning their pieces and are excited to perform for you!
I am looking forward to seeing everyone and the students are excited to show off all of their hard work!
Our Run Devil Run fundraiser event is next Friday November 16th. Please come with comfortable shoes ready to run! Thank you to all who have donated already!
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
November 22nd-23rd-Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30th-Holiday boutique
November 4th, 2018
Happy Sunday Everyone!
I hope you have all had a restful weekend are enjoying the beautiful November weather!
We are busy, busy, busy, preparing for you to come visit us at our summative on Thursday November 15th from 5:00-6:30. Your students have been researching and taking notes from their research materials, and creating in class projects to display at this event. We have been talking about habitats and how their animal gets what it needs to survive. They are doing an amazing job and we can't wait to show you all their hard work! Please remember to send in diorama supplies the end of this week, as we will be building next week in class!
Don't forget your Run Devil Run pledge forms! We are all looking forward to our 5th annual run on November 16th!
November 7th-9th- Diorama Supplies Due
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
October 26th, 2018
Hello wonderful families!
We have had another amazing week here in room 104! We started our new Benchmark unit on How do Plants and Animals Get What They Need to Survive? We have been busy reading and annotating passages about different habitats and animals that live there.
Many students have brought their research materials. Next week we will be diving into our research and collecting data for projects for our summative. We are going to be animal experts!
On Wednesday we will be doing our pumpkin STEM activity in the afternoon. We will be making predictions, measuring, counting, and then following up with a writing activity. We are still in need of a few medium size pumpkins and volunteers if anyone is available to help us with the fun project.
Book Orders went home this week. These are a great way to stock up on some grade level reading materials and a very reasonable price!
Please submit your orders by next Friday November 2nd.
November 2nd Book Orders Due
November 7th-9th- Diorama Supplies Due
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
October 19th, 2018
Happy Friday!
Another successful week is in the books! We finished up our 2nd unit in Benchmark Advance today, so you should find your student's workbook in their backpacks. Earlier this week, I sent home a homework calendar with extension activities that you can use with these workbooks. Feel free to use these as a homework option if you wish.
Today we read "The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything" and then used Legos to build our own "spooky story." Students were to design a setting, choose characters, and then write a story with a beginning, middle, and ending. Students had a blast building and writing! Ask them about their "spooky story!"
You should have also seen a yellow letter come home with information about or animal/habitat research and diorama project. Please remember to send all research information in a bag, labeled with your student's name by next Thursday October 25th. Please do not send diorama materials until November 7th, as we do not have room in the classrooms to store everyone's materials for any length of time. These projects will be displayed at our summative on November 15th.
The back of the yellow letter detailed information about our Halloween STEM activities! If you are available to volunteer or donate materials, please email me! Thank you!
I hope you all have an amazing weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
October 23-Dinner & Dessert night (see flyer in your child’s folder)
October 25- Animal/Habitat Research Materials Due
November 7th-9th- Diorama Supplies Due
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
October 13th, 2018
I hope you all had an amazing Fall Break! It was great meeting with you all at ILP Conferences!
Our Charlotte's Web Field Trip was a huge success and enjoyed by all! We spent yesterday planning and completing a Billy Goat Gruff STEM Challenge. Ask your student about their raft!
Next week we dive into the the 2nd quarter. Our new October homework menu will come home Monday. Please continue to read and do Dreambox and RAZ-Kids. Mark your calendars for our summative on November 15th!
Enjoy your weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important Upcoming Dates:
October 17th-Internet Safety parent night
October 19th- Trunk or Treat / Movie Night
October 23-Dinner & Dessert night (see flyer in your child’s folder)
November 12th- Veteran's Day No School
November 15th- Summative 5:00-6:30
November 16th- Run Devil Run
September 29th 2018
I hope everyone has an AMAZING Fall Break! I look forward to seeing you all at ILP Conferences October 9th or 10th.
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
October 1st-5th–Fall break
October 8th No School-teacher PD
October 9th-10th-ILP’s
October 11th Charlotte's Web Field Trip
October 17th-Internet Safety parent night
September 21st 2018
Wow! It's hard to believe we are already heading into the last week of Quarter 1! The ILP Conference Manager opens tomorrow morning, so be sure to sign up for a time that both you and your child can meet with me. We will be sharing data notebooks and discussing goals, so it is important that you can both be there. Also, I will not be able to re-schedule your conference if you are out of town, so please plan accordingly. Thank you!
This week we started our new unit on Characters Facing Problems. We have been reading, annotating, and comparing and contrasting fairy tales. Ask your student how many different versions of Cinderella there are! During math we have continued our unit on measurement, and this week we dove into writing a personal narrative based on a class experience.
If you are planning on your child attending out field trip to Charlotte's Web, please return your payment and permission slip by September 27th. Also we will be drawing names for our chaperones this week, and will notify you if your name was drawn. Thank you!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
September 26th– Picture Retakes
September 27th Field Trip Forms Due
October 1st-5th–Fall break
October 8th No School-teacher PD
October 9th-10th-ILP’s
October 11th Charlotte's Web Field Trip
October 17th-Internet Safety parent night
September 15th 2018
Happy Weekend!
We have finished off our unit on government! Your student should have brought home their government workbook yesterday. Take a moment to look through it with them and take a look at all of the hard work they put in over the past several weeks annotating, asking questions, looking for key details etc. To wrap up our unit, we also had an ASU police officer come in and answer any questions we may have about his job. Next week we will start a new unit Characters Facing Challenges.
We continued measurement in math. We have been talking about centimeters and meters and how to find the difference in length between two objects. We've been using Zearn in the classroom. Be sure to keep using Dreambox at home for extra individual practice.
Yesterday, we celebrated International Dot Day and Growth Mindset in class by reading The Dot. We talked about what it means to have a growth vs. a fixed mindset, especially when it comes to learning, and then we used a growth mindset to complete a STEM index card and dot sticker tower. Ask your student about the experience!
Permission slips for our first field trip came home yesterday! Be sure to check your child's backpack and sign and return these ASAP. Thank you!
September 7th, 2018
We have had a busy 4 day week continuing our unit on government. The students are continuing to practice asking questions before, during, and after reading, looking for the main idea of a text, and practicing open and closed syllable words.
We have also continued our math unit on measurement. This week we made our own centimeter rulers and measured all kinds of items we could find in our pencil box. Today we used our new measuring skills and practiced with the online math program Zearn.
We also worked together to make our own states and flags this week. The students had a blast being creative and coming up with their own unique land! On Thursday, we assembled these states into countries, which we will continue to work with next week.
Thank you for visiting our book fair and supporting our school! Have an amazing weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
September 2nd, 2018
Happy 3 Day Weekend!
I hope you are all having and amazing and safe Labor Day weekend!
We had an awesome week of learning last week. Students dove into our first language arts unit. We spend the week reading, analyzing and annotating various texts in their reading having to do with out unit one theme: government. Spelling words for week two will again be posted on this weebly site.
We took out project group time this week and spent it studying a non-fiction article about bats! We studied key vocabulary, compared and contrasted, and talked about facts vs. opinions. We finished up the week by creating a fun acrostic and bat craftivity!
Homework calendars and Dreambox login information came home in your student's folder last week. Weekly homework will start this week. Please record what you child does (no more than 30 minutes a night) in their homework notebook. Remember, reading and math facts are the priority! The homework calendar just provides options for enrichment and creativity. Homework notebooks should be returned on Friday for me to check. If a students does not turn in their homework notebook for the week they will loose Fun Friday time. Please encourage your student to also practice Dreambox at home. This is a math program that gears activities towards your student's individual level is great for independent enrichment! This can be recorded in their homework notebook as well!
On another note, our school book fair is here! Please feel free to stop by before or after school to do some shopping!
Mrs. Carroll
Important Dates
August 31st-Sept. 10th Scholastic Book Fair
September 26th Picture Retakes
August 24th, 2018
Week 4 is in the books! Next week we dive into Unit 1 of our Benchmark Advance entitled Government at Work. Along with this program, we will be starting weekly spelling tests. We will start each week with a pre-test on Monday, practice the words throughout the week, and then have our final test on Friday. We are also looking forward to starting reading groups next week.
This past week we read, discussed, and annotated the poem Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rosetti. Students did a great job of being active listeners, discussing the author's purpose, looking for short and long vowel sounds, and making inferences. Ask them what they visualized this week as we read this poem!
During math, we talked a lot about number bonds and making a 10 to add with the help of linking cubes and dominoes. We got to experiment with our new math technology program called Zearn this week too! Ask you student about it!
During project group, we read two non-fiction books about giraffes and then used graphic organizers to write our first informational writing piece. On Thursday we got a little crafty and finished the project off with a super fun giraffe directed draw and watercolor painting. These are displayed in our classroom and are amazing!
You should find a new Friday letter in your student's backpack. Please make sure to read, respond, and return these next week and I will add them to the file for the end of year book.
You hopefully also saw the note about the optional Story Stone project. If you and your student feel like getting crafty in the near future, we would love to start a collection in our classroom to use as writing inspiration!
I hope you all have an amazingly relaxing weekend!
Mrs. Carroll
Important Dates
August 31st-Sept. 10th-Scholastic Book Fair
September 3rd Labor Day (No School)
August 17th, 2018
Happy Friday Everyone!
We have successfully made it through week 3, and have gotten into a great routine! We are growing and learning together as a classroom community every day and it is amazing to see!
Our new playground opened this morning (yay!), so from now on, unless we have a rainy day schedule, the students will be heading to the playground in the mornings before school. We got a little time yesterday to head out as a class, talk about the playground rules, and test it out before the grand opening this morning!
This week we talked a lot about non-fiction writing and text elements by reading our big book Hurricanes. Ask your students what they learned about hurricanes and what some of the elements of non-fiction text that we discussed are! We also dove into our 2nd grade math this week and discussed number bonds up to 10.
Book orders were sent home this week. These are a great, inexpensive way to stock up your at-home libraries! If you would like to order something, please submit your online order, using the class code attached, no later than next Friday August 24th.
We will be starting our class "Owl About Me" posters (aka student of the week) this Friday. If your child is student of the week, the poster will be sent home on Friday. Please fill it out and send it back the following Monday so we can display it for the week! Your student will get to then present their poster at our class meeting the following Friday.
Finally, we started out Friday letters this morning. Each Friday, your student will be writing a family member a letter about their week. We ask that you the write back to your student on the backside of the letter and return it to school on Monday. We will be collecting these letters to create a priceless book for you to keep at the end of the year. This is also a great way to see your child's writing develop over the course of the year!
I hope you all have an amazing weekend!
August 22nd-Fall Pictures
August 24th- Scholastic Book Orders Due
August 31st-Sept. 10th-Scholastic Book Fair
August 12, 2018
It's the weekend! Time to kick back and relax after another amazing week in 2nd Grade! Your students are simply amazing and I really appreciate the positive attitudes and hard work that each and every one of them is putting in every day! We are really coming together as a classroom community and it's amazing to watch!
We continued this week reviewing our classroom procedures, being attentive listeners, and making good choices. We read, discussed and annotated the poem "Foreign Lands" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Ask your student what he or she learned about poems this week! We also reviewed phonics rules and continued to practice our Daily 5 rotations.
Our picture day is Wednesday, August 22nd. Please have your child wear their uniform. Your child will received an envelope for picture money on Thursday. Look for it in your child’s homework folder. If you are ordering pictures, please return the envelope to school on or before Tuesday, August 21st.
If you were unable to attend curriculum night, the PowerPoint is posted on our Weebly Home page. Hopefully your questions were answered and you feel confident knowing your child will be successful this year.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs. Carroll
Important upcoming dates:
August 7th-Curriculum Night @ 5:30
August 22nd-Fall Pictures
August 31st-Sept. 10th-Scholastic Book Fair
August 5, 2018
Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you are all enjoying a restful weekend after a successful first week of school! I have thoroughly enjoyed starting to get to know each and every one of your young learners and am looking forward to an amazing year!
This past week we started out with a lot of "getting to know you" type activities as well as getting to know our classroom procedures and community. A lot of students have had the opportunity to share their book boxes already, and we will finish up with those this week. We have loved seeing everyone's creativity and personality shine through on these!
We also talked a lot about what an active listener looks like, reviewed some phonics rules, read a lot of fun stories and practiced having conversations about these stories, practiced picking "just right" books for our book boxes, solved some math problems and so much more. Ask your students about the big book Postcard Clues and the postcards that Sarah wrote to Sam! Where are some of the places that Sarah visited?
We are looking forward to seeing you this Tuesday, August 7th at 5:30 for our curriculum night!
Important upcoming dates:
August 7th-Curriculum Night @ 5:30
August 22nd-Fall Pictures
August 31st-Sept. 10th-Scholastic Book Fair
Hello everyone!
Welcome to our class updates page! Here you will find weekly updates about what's going on inside our classroom as well as important information including upcoming events and announcements. It was a pleasure meeting meeting both parents and students alike at our Meet the Teacher event last Thursday, and I am super excited to start our year off this Monday July 30th. Below are a few details to remember as we start:
First Day: Parents are welcome to park and walk their students to the playground through the south gate. The gate will open at 7:45. When the whistle blows at 8:10, students will then line line up with the class and wave good-bye to mom and dad. Starting the second day of school, please follow normal drive line drop off procedures. Thank you!
Take Home Folder: Students will be bringing home a take-home folder daily that will contain information regarding behavior, daily handouts, graded work, etc. This folder will go back and forth to school every day. Please make sure to check this folder and initial the behavior chart every night. Thank you!
Weebly Page: If you are here, then you know :-) Be sure to check this page weekly for important announcements and class updates!
Dress Code: Please review the dress code policies in the student handbook. We have been asked to strictly enforce these policies this year.
Snack: Please be sure to provide a healthy snack for your child daily. We are asking for the safety of all students that all snack be nut free. Also, please be sure that your student is aware of which item in their lunchbox should be eaten for snack.
Water Bottle: Please send a water bottle labeled with your child's name daily.
Classroom Supplies: Thank you all for all of your generous donations of classroom supplies!
Primary email: Be sure to email me ASAP with your primary email address that you would like me to use for communication this year. Thank you!
Book Boxes: Please be sure to decorate and reinforce your child's book box with lots of duct tape! Fee free to personalize and be creative as we will share these as a getting to know you activity the first week of school!
Thank you all for everything that you do! I am looking forward to an amazing year with your awesome students!
Mrs. Carroll
Upcoming Dates:
Curriculum Night
August 7th 5:30
