Week of November 5th

We have been working like crazy getting reading for our 2nd grade program coming up in two weeks! Last week we made our "signs" for one of our songs AND today we painted our tshirts! They look amazing and we are so excited. Thank you to our moms who traced the flags this weekend and to Stephanie DeFrain for helping with the painting today. Please practice nightly the poems for the program. We need them to be memorized in their entirety.

This week on Thursday is POETRY IN THE PARK. This is one of my favorite events here at Shorecrest. Hopefully the cool weather will come back around :).  The festivities begin on Friday at 8:30. Please bring a lawn or beach chair because there will be a limited number of seats. I have not received the order of classes. There will be a 15 minute snack break where the kids will come back to the classroom to have a quick snack. There will be snack for parents in the breezeway during this time. Please work hard this week on making sure your child knows the parts of the poem. Please also remember that your child can dress up on Thursday. Please see the post from last week regarding what they can wear.

We are finishing up publishing a poem. The kids had a great time writing poetry. Their published piece will be hung up at Poetry in the Park.

We have been talking about adjectives. As you may have noticed, your child was assigned a country to make a flag of. The country started with the same letter as your child's name. The students worked last week in Technology and in class on researching 5 adjectives/verbs/nouns that began with that letter as well. We have been working on an alliteration piece. This has been a lot of fun.  This will be a part of our program on Friday (November 16th) and hung up in our 2nd grade hallway.

With the program approaching, here is a reminder of some of the things we will need:

• brown paper grocery bags (for rainforest vines)
• clear/white gallon milk/water jugs (no yellow) for "ice" sculpture
• stuffed animals - labeled with your child's name (the animals aren't needed until next week)-think South American rainforest and Antarctica only please.

We will also need volunteers to help set up stage on Tuesday, November 13th from 9:30 - 11:30 in the theatre as well as tearing down on Friday after the performance.

Please make sure your child wears denim bottoms (shorts, skirts/skorts, or pants) on Wednesday, November 14th through Friday November 16th. We will keep their flag shirts here at school. They will take them home after the show on Friday. Thank you so much!

The Book Fair is here! I took the kids over to make their "Wish Lists" today. They will bring home their wish list. Ideally, it would be great if you could take your child to the book fair to buy books, however, I have a time for them to go on Wednesday. If you send in money please give them instructions on how much they can spend and/or specific books. Thank you!

Looking forward to seeing all of you this Thursday. Remember, there is no school on Friday!