May you be Blessed with health, family, and friends during this busy time of year.  Happy New Year!

We enjoyed the day with friends.  You should see a small package coming home.  This is a gift to share together.  It went along with our busy week here in second grade.

We do return to school on Wednesday, January 2.  It will be a full day of school.  
 
I wish you the very best Holiday Season!

Thank you so much for all the donations that were sent in, parent/sibling help, and your children who practiced good listening today.

Our crafts and games were so much fun!  Tomorrow we have another day of hands-on learning happening.  Don't forget it is Ugly Sweater Day for Morgan!  

​Enjoy the night!

Look at those hard working engineers!  Some smiles, some not.  They were given supplies to build a bridge for the gingerbread man.  They loved it!  

We did some Reader's Theater this afternoon as well.  Take a peek at those actors!

The entire school did AMAZING with our new procedure for assemblies.  This morning, Eisenhower Show Choir came to Morgan for a holiday sing along.  We received compliments and a class reward!

Tomorrow is our holiday celebration in the morning.  The children can wear hats, headbands, jingle bells, etc.  Friday is our Ugly Sweater day!  We have two days of fun coming our way left this week.  Keep healthy!

This week we are enjoying all sorts of gingerbread!  Yesterday, we learned the history of gingerbread.  Where it originated from, different shapes, etc.  We even tasted fresh ginger root and sticky molasses.  

Today, we left our expository text behind to have some fun with folktales and fairytales.  We shared a few different versions of the Gingerbread Boy/Man.  We practiced our retelling skills and summarizing the story.  We had a chance to taste a crispy gingerbread cookie and do a soggy experiment.  Oh, what fun we had!

We will continue our week with more adventures and fun with gingerbread!

Just a reminder, our Thursday volunteers can plan to arrive at 8:30 and stay until 11:30.  Mrs. Farmer, Mrs. Skiera, Mrs. Dotter, and Mrs. Leideker.

​Have a wonderful evening!

Just a quick note for some Friday News.  We completed our Unit 2 theme work today.  The students did some exploring about reindeer in Alaska.  We read about how they have adapted to the harsh environment.  Watch for that to come home along with some adorable art work.

We continue to practice vocabulary words within measurement and geometry. Today we looked at congruent shapes, did some estimating on length, and introduced perimeter.  Big stuff happening here!

Tonight is a family movie night hosted by our PTO.  Feel free to have the family come to the school in their pajamas, bring a blanket, and snuggle in for a movie.  We'd also like to thank our many volunteers who were able to help this past week at our Santa Shop.  Thanks again!

​I hope you all have an amazing weekend.