Hello Everyone!
We had a great week in 2A!  Last Tuesday, we had the experience of going to the play, "Lily and the Purple Plastic Purse," at Luther College Center for Faith and Life.  The play was wonderful!  We had already done an author study last fall on Kevin Henkes, who is the author of many great stories including Lily.  The students knew all of the stories that they acted out in the play and were perfectly behaved the entire time!  I was very proud of them!

Here's a picture of all of them waiting patiently for the play to begin!

 Here's a picture of the set for the play.  They would not allow pictures after the play began.

Last week we had our Luther student, Mr. Kennedy teaching us about states of matter.  The students enjoyed learning about solids, liquids, and gases through Mr. Kennedy's experiments and smart board activities.  

In literacy, we worked on making connections, antonyms, comparing and contrasting, and vocabulary.  We also took our MAPS reading tests on the ipads.  WOW!!!! I AM SO PROUD OF ALL OF THE SECOND GRADERS!  THEY ALL MADE PROGRESS AND RECEIVED MUCH HIGHER SCORES THAN IN THE FALL!  YEA!!! 

 Give your child a hug and keep ENCOURAGING them to READ!

We spent a lot of time with beginning multiplication in math last week and will do beginning division and a math review this week.  Our unit 6 test will be towards the end of the week!

On Friday, we had to say good-bye to Mr. Kennedy!  The kids had really warmed up to him and are going to really miss having him in our classroom!  They sent him off with many great hugs and well wishes!  2A wishes him the best in his teaching career!

I am looking forward to another great week of learning in 2A!  

Mrs. Tuchek

Hello Everyone!
It has been great to get into a school routine again after Christmas break.  Although I think the kids were getting tired by Friday, since they finally had a full week of school!

Our exciting news since we have been back from break, is that we have a J-term student from Luther College who is learning about second grade in our classroom.  His name is Mitchell Kennedy and he is a senior from Decatur, Michigan.  He has been teaching the kids about states of matter, doing math games and teaching a few guided reading groups with the students.  We are happy to have him learning about education at Crestwood!  The kids will be sad to see him leave on Friday!

Our new literacy theme is about seasons and weather.  January seems like the perfect time for this unit, since we see a lot of different weather in our Iowa winters!  So far... we have been working on vocabulary, antonyms, oo sound, and comparing and contrasting.

In math, we have been working on subtraction with two digit numbers and number comparison problems.  This week we will also begin learning about multiplication arrays.

Last week we finished testing for FAST reading assessments and this week we will be MAPS testing in reading.

We have an exciting event on TUESDAY!  We are excited to travel to Luther College to watch the play of Lily's Purple Plastic Purse, by Kevin Henkes.  We did an author study on Kevin Henkes last fall, so the students know this story very well!  PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND A COLD LUNCH WITH YOUR STUDENT IF THEY DID NOT SIGN UP FOR A SCHOOL SACK LUNCH!

Please check the Facebook page for the spelling lists if you do not have them.  I will post a picture of them tomorrow!

I am looking forward to another great week of learning!  Mrs. Tuchek