Happy Friday! What a fantastic week we have had in second grade! Kid Town has been a success and the students have enjoyed it immensely! We have seen wonderful examples of generous spirits and students who are polite and caring business boys/girls, and they have also been wonderful shoppers with a lot of patience. They have had a ton of fun learning about businesses and economics! Thanks so much to all the parent helpers who came in and were a banker so kids could get paid, glued items together, helped with ideas, ran stores, and helped us pack things up!! We could not have done it without all of you!!!! Your support is appreciated and we are so thankful for the wonderful, supportive community here at South Side!
Homework:
Reading slips and math pages are coming home on Monday April 29. They will be due Monday, May 6.
Words of the week will be coming home.
-If you have extra time around the house some great things to practice are: Writing numbers up to 100 (watch for letter/number reversals!), double digit addition/subtraction problems, names of coins and amounts, and counting piles of spare change!
Words of the Week:
Our words from our final set were: really, understand, question, against, old, happen, several, someone, slowly, follow, better, since.
Our 3 new words this coming week are: answer, plan, wanted.
Look for a blue half slip in your child'd Homework Folder on Monday! We will be having a quiz on these words on May 10!
Lunch Helper:
I could use a lunch helper for next week Wednesday if anyone is able to come. We are having a staff shower for Christine Hoeze during lunch to celebrate her upcoming marriage! Sign up with the link or email me! Thanks!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0D48A4AB2BA4F58-lunch1#/
Tulip Time
Wednesday, May 8 will be a full day for all students due to Tulip Time removing the Wednesday parade. On Thursday, May 9, our 1st and 2nd graders will participate in the Tulip Time Kinderparade. We will have a normal school schedule in the morning. Preschoolers will be dismissed at their normal time (11:15am) with no afternoon enrichment. Kindergarteners will be dismissed at 11:30am. All Kindergarten students will need to use carpool that day, as all buses are being used for getting students to the parade. First and second graders will remain at school, eat a sack lunch from home (hot lunch is NOT provided), have recess, change into their marching apparel (if they choose not to wear it to school that day), and be bussed to the parade route.
An peach colored paper with information about Tulip Time is coming home with all first and second graders today. Please return the bottom portion of this slip to your child's teacher by Friday, May 3 so she has the contact information of the person who will be picking up your child at the parade. Thank you!
End of the Year Chapel
Save the date! We will have a special end of the year Chapel to send off our 2nd graders on the last day of school, Wednesday, June 5. Come gather with us from 10:25-11:15am for a time of worship together. We’ll be out on the playground, so bring a lawn chair if you’d like (if there’s rain we’ll move it to the gym). After chapel, Preschool students will be dismissed, and K-2 students will have a quick 15 minutes to close out the year in the classrooms with their teacher, and their dismissal will follow at 11:30am.
Thank You
A huge thank you to all for supporting the 1st grade Rainforest Bake Sale initiative to raise funds to help save and protect these precious lands! Through your support, we raised $436.00! We feel so blessed by your support with this project--it's a great, hands-on way for us to teach our students about stewardship of this beautiful Earth God has blessed us with!
Lost and Found
The office is continuing to update our South Side Lost and Found Album as items come into the gray tub in the office. Please check it out to see if any of these items belong to your child. Feel free to email Rachel Steen, to claim your item(s), and we will be sure to get it into your child's backpack.
