Today the children were very lucky to have a Mad Science presentation.  I was so impressed with the children’s knowledge of rocks, and the earth.  They had a lot of fun talking about and classifying rocks and minerals.  They had the opportunity to explore different characteristics and elements of rocks and minerals.  The children had a lot of fun, and learned quite a bit!  They even had some fun things to bring home to share, and experiment with!

This week in Wonders, we will be completing the Unit 4 assessment.  This is a fairly lengthy assessment, so we will not have a spelling list this week.  We will also be revisiting some skills throughout Unit 4 that could use another look.  We will continue to work on contractions, irregular verbs, and similes, as well as spending a little extra time on writing skills. We have been revisiting writing really great opening sentences.  I am anxious to see how the children do on unit 4 assessment.

Wow!  We had such amazing donations at the beginning of the year, that our donations of soft tissues and disinfecting wipes have lasted us until now!  We could really use a few donations of either tissues or wipes.  We still want to keep our surfaces clean, and our second grade noses dry.  Thank you all so much for all of your generous donations!