End of the Year Notes

We are almost there!!!  I have had such a wonderful year with your children!!!

Here are a few upcoming dates that I wanted to keep you posted on:

Monday, May 28 Memorial Day No School

Tuesday, May 29 Field Trip to Wolfson's Children's Hospital ***Bring a bag lunch and wear blue Bartram Springs T-shirt

Monday, June 4 2nd Grade Awards 9:45 am in the Cafeteria

Tuesday, June 5 Game Day Children may bring in board games or handheld games.  Parents, it is up to you if you want to allow your child to bring in their DS games.

Wednesday, June 6 End of the year party We will be rotating around the 2nd grade classrooms playing games, having snacks and making crafts.  Pizza, snacks and drinks are provided.

Thursday, June 7 Last Day of School Noon Dismissal

Releasing Butterflies

When we got to school on Monday we discovered that all of our butterflies had emerged from their chrysalides.

On Wednesday we released our butterflies back into the world.  Here are some pictures of our butterfly release.

Benchmark and FAIR test this week

This week I will be administering the last benchmark test of the year and the last FAIR test of the year.
Please make sure you child is well rested and has had a healthy breakfast each day so that he or she can be focused for testing.

Thanks a Bunch!

Thank you all so much for the kind words and goodies this week!

I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful class this year and you have no idea how much I am going to miss each and everyone of my students when this school year is over.

Thank you for everything!

Love,

Mrs. Pacciano

Look at these Habitat Dioramas

The students did a stupendous job on presenting their habitat dioramas! 

Here are some pictures of their projects!

Trevor and the King Cobra

Tucker and the Snake

Kalia and Dolphins

Camdyn and Coral Snakes

Amanda and Rabbits

Inari and Butterflies

Ryan and Alligators

Morgan and Flamingos

Savannah and the Green Tree Python Snake

Joey C and the Jaguar

Joey D and the Anaconda

Victor and the Great White Shark

AJ and the Bull Shark

Carter and the Hammerhead Shark

Caitlin and the Dolphin

Habitat Projects

Just a reminder that Habitat Projects are due tomorrow.

Here are some examples:

Brushing Up Our Math Skills

Next week we are taking an end of the year math test.  Please brush up on math skills at home.  Certain skills that need review are addition and subtraction with regouping, measurement (yards, feet, centimeters), place value,  patterns, expanded form and standard form, fact families, even and odd numbers, time and money.  I know this is a lot but there are several math websites that have fun games to review these skills.  You can always try studyladder.com or studyisland.com too.

Caterpillars are here!

We have exciting news!  Our class has caterpillars and we will be observing them daily watching them change in the life cycle.  Ask your child what they observed today.  Ask them everyday until he or she comes home telling you we have butterflies!  It is very exciting watching this life process at school.

Here are some pictures from day 1 in the classroom:

Kalia, Caitlin and Trevor

Victor, AJ and Ryan

Savannah, Joey C and Carter

Amanda, Camdyn, Joey D and Morgan

Amanda, Camdyn, Joey D , Morgan, Caitlin and Kalia