Wednesday, June 20, 2012

A Beautiful Way To End A Fabulous Year!



Hello New Second Grade Families!

This week has been really special.  I feel so lucky to have known your students, they are fun and interesting people.  I was feeling the love between them this week.  Their community connection is beautiful to watch.  I am excited for what they will become as each year unfolds.  Next year will be full of more amazing learning together!

This week we did lots of fun stuff that we love to finish the year off well.  We danced, did a new experiment, wrote lots of cards for people we love and reflected on how much we learned together.














This week the students created a few brainstorms.  The concept of reflecting on the year is important to us at IA.  These students thougtht about all the things they have learned and want to keep learning.  It makes us think as adults, too.

What did each of us learn this year?  What do we want to learn next?



This week we also investigated more about hummingbirds.  Since you helped to create such a special garden, the students have had so many hummingbird sightings!  They have been facinated and so amazed each time they see them.  It feels magical each time the students say, "Jennifer, I saw a hummingbird!!!"  This video is almost an hour long, we watched parts of the beginning.  The students were interested in many aspects, so I hope they shared a bit about this with you!

Here is the amazing hummingbird video!

Our sun prints were a facinating process.  Here are links to read together to understand more about them.  Interesting to think about the beginnings of the photographic process.  The sun and water effect the paper in lovely ways!














Also, we were lucky to have Milayna and her mum, Naomi, come to share how to use an abacus.  Milayna showed how she is learning in her classes and the types of skills practice she does to internalize the ma thematic information necessary to calculate sums quickly.  The students were quite interested.  The concepts of memorizing the numbers that work together to make five and ten is a great extension for summer homework and practice!  These skills come in handy so often in life, that we usually don't even realize we are doing it.  Thank you, Milayna, for sharing your budding skills and inspiring the class!





Wishing you all a summer full of fun, laughter and lots of learning!  Thank you for sharing this special year with me!  Love, Jennifer








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