December 13, 2010

This week, the 2nd grade will be studying The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. Wear pajamas on Wednesday!!! Remember: Pajamas must have pants or leggings. No sleeveless shirts, shorts or gowns without leggings please. Bring shoes for recess if they wear house shoes.

As you know, the second grade Winter Musical is Thursday. This is a fun and exciting week for our children but a tiring one as well. We will be practicing Monday - Wednesday with one daytime performance on Thursday, December 16th at 9:00 a.m. (plus the night time performance). Therefore, this will not be a regular week for our classroom. I will not be sending home a homework packet or spelling words for this week. Instead we will be doing some review lessons and fun activities for Christmas. Please continue to read nightly as usual. Thanks for your continued help and support. I truly appreciate you!

***Just a reminder: Please make sure that your child wears his/ her costume to school on Thursday and that he/she brings a change of clothes for after the performance.

The Christmas party will be at 1:45 Thursday afternoon. Please sign in at the office if you are attending. Also, if you are providing refreshments, please send them by Wednesday. Merry Christmas!!!

December 6, 2010

December 15th is Polar Express Day!!!

We will be doing activities with the book while wearing our Pajamas!!!!

If you would like to provide refreshments for our Christmas party on December 16th, please let me know by Wednesday.

The entire second grade will perform the winter musical, “A Bugz Christmas” on Thursday, December 16, in the high school auditorium. There will be a daytime performance for students and an evening performance for family and friends at 7:00 p.m. The students will wear their costumes to school on the day of the performance.

*Girls will be glowworms. Costume suggestions: White sweat suit with florescent orange shirt. You can take a t-shirt and spray paint it florescent orange. It will be stiff, but you can cut it out and glue or sew Velcro to attach to the sweat shirt, or felt costume made with multicolor sections.

*Boys will be wood ticks. Costume suggestions: Grey sweat suit with over sized shirt; make sure the shirt is a little big, so you can stuff the shirt to make the appearance of a tick!

*All of the specialty choir students will be lightning bugs. Costume suggestions: Black sweat suit or clothing with an orange, yellow or blue strip, and a toboggan with the same color stripe around it.

***These are only suggestions; any costume that matches the character will be great! Please remember there will be around 300 students on the stage, so no big costumes please!

Each year I like to have all of my children receive the same class Christmas present. Instead of a gift exchange, this year my students will need to bring 25 small Christmas type favors. These needn’t be expensive (the Dollar Store usually has some inexpensive and cute Christmas treats). I will then bag the “Christmas presents” for our boys and girls. This is usually just as cheap as, or cheaper than, purchasing one gift for an exchange, and this way every child gets the same present. Also, if you would like to send in a bag of wrapped Christmas candy to put with our kiddoes presents, that would be great. I appreciate your help in making this a fun holiday time for our children here at school too! Thanks for everything that you do! *Please have all of your treats for the presents sent in by Monday, December 13th. However, you may begin sending them in at any time. Thanks again!