Library & Computer Lab Newsletter

2nd      Dear Second Grade Parent,

This year in Media Center Special your child will...

 

·        Be encouraged to check out books within their lexile range

·        Listen to 12 books from the Young Hoosier Book program and vote for their favorite (a statewide reading program)

·        Learn how to take a Reading Counts quiz

·        Learn how to search the online library catalog using pictures

·        Identify the table of contents, index and glossary of a book

·        Learn how authors and illustrators work together

·        Understand the alphabetical arrangement of books in the library

·        Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction

·        Learn how to use a dictionary

·        Enjoy author studies of Mo Willems and Dr. Seuss among others

·        Understand characters, setting and sequence of stories

·        Learn about biographies and poetry

·        Have the opportunity to participate in The Book Swap (Spring)

·        Understand that folk tales are very old stories passed down

·        Learn about Caldecott medal winning books

·        Understand the difference between print books and e-books

·        Participate in library stations

This year in Computer Lab Special your child will...

 

·        Learn how to open and save documents

·        Explore MS PowerPoint and create a slideshow

·        Explore MS Publisher and create a document

·        Learn the importance of Internet safety

·        Understand how to print a document

·        Learn how to access the Internet and type in a web address

·        Play age appropriate online games to strengthen and support computer literacy and keyboarding

APPLES

If you are able to donate apples we would appreciate it very much! Please have them at school by Friday.

Red apples: Mrs. Wagers
Green apples: Mrs. Willman, Mrs. Gordon
Yellow apples: Miss Hayes

Cadet Teacher!

Katie Allen is our cadet teacher this year. She is a senior at BHS and is here every afternoon from 1:15-3:00. She loves working with the children and is passionate about becoming a teacher. She is a great help during our math stations! Also, as a part of her senior project, she wants to have an after school book club. Look for more information and a permission slip to come home in the next couple of weeks!!

Silly Sock contest

So, we have quite a creative bunch! Take a look at these socks:)

In the end, there could only be 1 winner and that was Carter! Nice job Carter.

Short week

Hopefully your Labor Day weekend way enjoyable and relaxing!

Even though it is a short week, we will still have the spelling and dictation test on Thursday. 

Remember that next week, we won't have spelling or dictation since we'll be taking a break from our reading books to work on an author study!


We've had a great start to our peanut butter collection-----5 jars already!!! We are on our way to winning the pizza party!

Good News

For all you iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, (and probably more), users there is a new Spelling City app available.  If you search for Spelling City vocabulary, it is a free one!

Something to think about

Any Snapple drinkers out there?? We would love to have the caps, there are facts inside them. We love facts at our Nonfiction News station.

Also, a week from Monday, I will be sending home a 12x12 sheet of scrapbook paper home with your child. This will be to create an "all about me" page. Be thinking about things in magazines that your child may want to cut out to use to describe him/her. For example, if I saw a pizza I would cut it out and put it on my collage, it shows that pizza is one of my favorite foods is pizza. It would be great to have a picture of your child on the page as well (not a huge one). Think sports, favorite subjects, hobbies, etc. Don't feel like you have to find everything in magazines, I also used stickers on my page as well as hand drawn pictures. After presenting these to the class, I'll have them in page protectors so we can look at them all year.