Our Last Two Days

Our last two days were filled with friendship, remembrance, and fun. We reflected on our time together and made memory books and necklaces, visited Harrison Field and planted sunflowers for next year's kindergarteners to use for their life cycle study, and most importantly we laughed and played together and cherished the time spent as a class. I have a special place in my heart for this amazing group of kids! See you next year second graders! Have a wonderful summer! Love, Mrs. Dostie

Last Weeks

Wow! The weeks are flying by and the school year is almost at an end. This has been an amazing year with a wonderful group of kids! We are spending our last weeks finishing up our writing with a short unit on realistic fiction. We are using what we have learned throughout the year to create some fun, true stories. You many have heard about our final unit in math, in which the children are creating a paper farm. They are using addition, counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's, spatial reasoning, and problem solving to purchase buildings, roads, land, and animals for a farm. This fun, hands-on project is a great way to end the year, allowing them to use math and be creative. Ask your child to tell you about some of the animals he or she has chosen for the farm! We have had a science and literacy focus of birds for the last few weeks and will continue it until the end of the year. We have been using our non-fiction books about birds to not only learn facts about them, but to also discuss features of non-fiction texts. The past few days, the children have been independently looking for examples of non-fiction features such as diagrams, captions, glossaries, and sidebars and recording why these features are useful to a reader. Next week we will use our knowledge of these features and the information gathered about our own Vermont birds to create a class “Bird Guide”. Don’t forget that we will have our last field trip next Wednesday, June 11th to ECHO, and this Friday is Birthday Breakfast!