Happy 100th Day and News from the Computer Lab

Happy 100th Day Owls and Owl Parents,

The kids looked wonderful this morning---the cutest 100 year olds I've ever seen in fact!  Take a look below!

I hope to add some more details/pictures of our 100th Day Activities later this afternoon, but we are having a great time celebrating!

Please pay attention to this note from Mrs. Alter in the Computer Lab

Happy New Year!

Our New Year Resolution in the computer lab is to become better typists.  Typing is a common core standard.  The foundation helped the computer lab invest in speedskins to help improve our typing skills.  We want to thank the foundation for their help in meeting our goal.

We are beginning the new year working with the new skins in 3rd thru 5th grade.  Kindergarten thru 2nd grade are working on improving typing skills before moving onto the use of skins in the older grades.

If a student comes home talking about the new skins in the computer lab, here is the link:  http://www.academicsuperstore.com/products/SpeedSkin/Keyboard+Covers to check out for yourself.  This is in no way asking you to purchase your own, but we would like to share how the Foundation is helping us.  

We do ask that you have your student practice typing at home a few times a week for about 15 minutes.  There are many free sites on our webpage to chose from for this task.  The link for our typing page is http://www.eastsidetechnology.org/?page_id=28.

The students have begun working with the skins and are doing a great job.

Thanks for your help,

Amanda Alter – Computer Lab

Wednesday Wrap-Up

Dear Parents,

We are having a GREAT week in second grade!  Please check out the announcements below and the information about what we've been doing in class!

Welcome:
A warm Outstanding Owls welcome goes out to the Russell family!  The Russells moved to Marietta
a few weeks ago and joined our class!  Their daughter has been the perfect addition to our class family, and we are so excited to have them!

Lunch Change:
This Friday we are changing our lunch time.  This Friday, January 15th, we'll be eating lunch from 12:03-12:33.  If you would like to have lunch with us that day, please be sure to come at the different time!

Save the Date:

East Side STEM night is coming soon! Tuesday, January 26^th and Wednesday, January 27^th from 6-7:30.We will break up the two nights alphabetical by last name (A-L) on the 26^th, and (M-Z) on the 27^th. Bring the entire family there will be 10 fun activities including engineering, robotics, coding, and more! Uncle Maddio’s will have pizza dinner here for you to purchase. Flyer will be coming home soon!! 

Social Studies:

We've started learning all about Civil Rights and the contributions that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made to the Civil Rights Movement!  Students are fascinated by this time in history and have loved making a flip book all about Dr. King!

Writing Workshop:

We started last week writing some goals we had for the New Year!  Then, we jumped right into learning the difference between facts and opinions.  We read the book Duck! Rabbit! and formed opinion paragraphs supporting our stance on whether the main character was in fact a duck or a rabbit!

Math:

We've been hard at work learning how to identify coins/bills and count combinations of money!  This is a challenging skill, so we'll be working on it for the next several weeks!

Reading:

The class LOVES reading folk tales and fairy tales--there are so many new versions of traditional tales we've been studying!  We're keeping track of the story elements we find as readers, and we're learning to make connections to the characters!

We're having a GREAT week!

Love,

Mrs. Kidd