Book Characters

Anyone from Fancy Nancy to Super Woman!

Book Swap and Character Dress-Up

 

The Book Swap & Character Dress Up Day

The Media Center will be hosting a school-wide used book swap. On Thursday,

April 18th and Friday, April 19th, students may bring in up to 3 books that they

would like to exchange. For each book brought in, students will earn one “book buck”,

for a maximum of 3. The swap will then take place during the student’s Media Center

visit the week of April 22nd, at which time students will redeem their “book bucks.”

Books brought in for the swap should be gently used and age-appropriate. It is preferable that books to be

exchanged are on the student’s reading level. For example, older students are encouraged to bring in chapter

books—this way there will be a wide selection to choose from. Chapter books are in high demand! The Media

Center is also accepting additional donations of gently used books that can be used for the book swap.

Donated books will be added to the book swap, so that there is a greater selection to choose from.

Book Character Dress-Up Day

Brown students and staff are encouraged to dress up as their favorite book character on Friday, April 19th.

Character costumes can be from any children’s book!

 

 

 

Update on Senior Project

Alyssa and I shopped over spring break with $807 (from the gingerbread ornament sales). She thought it may be hard to spend that much money.....hmmm. Healthy Families of Hendricks County had asked for as many safety items as possible, like baby gates, outlet covers, drawer locks, etc. so more than half of the money was spent on safety items. I can not tell you how grateful they are that we chose them to support. The items have been in the classroom for the students to see but Healthy Families of Hendricks County is sending someone to pick up the stuff this week.
Again, you made this all possible with your support and Alyssa and I both thank you!!

Yay, decades day!

Challenger Learning Center

We had a great time! Thanks to all the helpers who made it very easy for me to get to each station and takes pictures and talk with the students about what they were doing!

The LAST week before spring break

I have lots of information to share for the upcoming week and into the last 9 weeks of school:
Riley Caring and Sharing week is this week! Students may dress and participate with a .50 donation each day.
Monday 3/18-wear Bulldog gear and do your Bulldog best
Tuesday 3/19-Sports Day-wear your favorite team apparel
Wednesday 3/20-Pajama Day (make sure you have appropriate shoes for recess)
Thursday 3/21-Hat Day
Friday 3/22-Decades Day-dress up in clothes from your favorite decade!

Poptabs-2nd grade is doing very well-we have a full tub but we can continue to collect them through Wednesday soo.... bring them all in. WE WANT A PIZZA PARTY:)

Flat Stanley Projects: We hope to have them back when we return from spring break. I've showed students some examples of them coming back on poster board with labels telling what is going on in the picture, in a construction paper book format, or maybe even a power point presentation (there's also scrapbook format or photo albums too). Students will begin presenting them to us the week we return. I can't wait to see the adventures! This project will take us into a study of regions during Social Studies time.
AND to continue with regions, if you are heading anywhere for spring break, we would love to have a postcard with the city and state that you visited. We'll be mapping the information we get back!

Spelling-as we head into the final grading period of second grade (sniffle, sniffle) we will no longer be sending home spelling homework. I'm sure this is a relief for many of you as spring sports will be getting under way very soon. As you are very familiar with the types of activities on the tic-tac-toe and menus, you are welcome to continue doing them at home as a way to study and practice spelling words, plus Spelling City still has all the remaining lists too. We will be incorporating spelling work into our morning work block but please know that your child may still need some additional time at home to practice his/her words, especially if you begin to see your child's spelling grade slip. I will be grading the spelling work your child does in class to have grades in the gradebook other than just the weekly test.

MONDAY-Field trip

So your child should be getting home soon as it is Friday, 4:01pm. I realized as they were lined up at the door that we didn't write "field trip" for Monday in assignment notebooks. I reminded them before the bell rang, but let's face it...it is Friday and they were ready to go:)
I have many green Dog Dash shirts here and I told the students which ones I had, I'm hoping those that have theirs at home will find it so they can all be the "green team' on Monday. No big deal if they can't though!

Have a great weekend!
Mary