Goodbye April, Hello May!

Dear 2B Families,

Next week begins our last month of school together! It is so bittersweet. I've been reminiscing about the year and it's AMAZING to see how much these kiddos have grown. It's pretty neat to see! They are looking like 3rd graders already! I have been SO impressed with their recitation of Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield! We had a little confusion in the middle about which stanza to recite but we got right back on track :-).

Attention 2B Moms: Our Mother's Day Breakfast (MUFFINS FOR MOM) will take place on Friday, May 19th at 8:15am in the MPR. We look forward to celebrating YOU ~ our sweet moms! There are many surprises in store for you! Don't forget to e-mail your mother/son or mother/daughter pictures to Mrs. Dombrowski and RSVP here *even though it says Mrs. Cook it's for all of 2nd grade :-).

Attention 2B Dads: Can you e-mail me if you're able to do a special project and/or help out on the morning of Friday, May 19th for the mom's breakfast? Thank you in advance!

Scholar Shout-Outs:
We had TWO birthdays to celebrate this week! Happy Birthday Joyful Jocelyn (4/26)! Thanks for the donuts! 

Happy Birthday Sweet Bea (4/29). Thanks for bringing us cupcakes today!

Volunteer Appreciation: Thank you SO much to our sweet classroom volunteers! It was lovely seeing many of you at breakfast this morning. If you couldn't make it this morning, please look for a card and a token of my appreciation in your child's homework folder! I appreciate your helping hands this year! I wanted to give a special shout-out to our two sweet Room Moms! Thank you for "LIGHTING" up our year!

Upcoming Events:
May 1-5: DIBELS Testing for the End of the Year
Wednesday, May 3: Spring Concert - See you all there :-)
Friday, May 19: Muffins for Mom @ 8:15am ~ RSVP Here
May 26: Last Day of School

Next Week in 2B...

Literature: We will continue to explore how the Ingalls’ family makes maple sugar and even sample the real stuff! We will read chapters 8 and 9 and identify what different animal tracks look like!

We will read a story titled Narcissus and differentiate between listening to another person and hearing what they want to hear. We will identify situations in which someone is not listening, and examine our own abilities to listen to others. Ask your child what our class came up with to the question: What does it mean to be a good listener?

Writing and Grammar: We had a lot of fun this week writing a persuasive paragraph! The class VOTED and ALL hands went up to persuade our parents to buy us a cell phone. Good luck with that one mom and dad...they did have pretty compelling reasons though! Be sure to ask them about their paragraph at home! Although I did tell them that when I was their age, I was just trying to persuade my mom to take me to Dairy Queen after school. Cell phones already???

Next week students will work on a topic secret paragraph project! We will brainstorm and go through the writing process to write a paragraph sure to make your heart all warm and fuzzy! 

Spalding:
Monday: serve, estate, remember, either, effort, due, dew, include, allow, position
Tuesday: ledge, claim, primary, result, appoint, information, whom, who, arrest
Wednesday: themselves, self, calves, calf, halves, half, special, present, present

Math: We are taking it WAY back to the beginning of the year! We will spend a day reviewing important concepts we learned in first semester. We will refresh our brains on mental math, multiplication and division, and measurement! Thanks for helping them persevere through the homework next week.


History: Our unit on the Civil War will continue through learning about important figures like General Grant, General Lee, and Clara Barton! Students will compare Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. We will learn how the war ended. You can ask your scholar to explain how General Sherman and his men helped lead the Union to victory; what happened at Appomattox Courthouse; and what happened to Abraham Lincoln after the war ended.

Science: Next week we will conclude our Biography unit through learning about an African-American doctor who performed the first successful open heart surgery! Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was a surgeon who helped set up a teaching hospital in Chicago. It was the first hospital in Chicago to have African-American doctors and nurses on its staff. ALL patients were treated well there. We have truly enjoyed learning about these important people in Science and discussing the virtues they each possessed.


Love,
Mrs. Dombrowski