THE FOX MONTHLY NEWSLETTER JUNE 2009

Welcome to the Month  of June!

In the steamy month of June,

underneath the silver moon,

we can eat vanilla ice cream

from a silver spoon.

And even though

ice cream will melt

we'll still recall how nice it felt

to eat it all,

though it went too soon

underneath the silver moon

in the lovely month of June.

By Helen H. Moore

Events of the Month

June 1st: Summer Reading Program presented

 by the E. Greenbush children's librarian

June 3rd: Volunteer Breakfast

June 5th: "Junie B. Jones" at Genet in the AM

June 12th, 19th, and 25th: Half days for students.

One day during the week of June 22: Second Grade Luau

June 24th: Class Picnic approx. 11:00 - 1:00

Last Day of School: June 25th at 11:30

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ARTS

The McGraw-Hill "end of the year" test and our fluency testing has been completed. We are now reviewing several skill areas such as figurative language (idioms), contractions, adjectives/nouns/pronouns/verbs, quotation marks,and multiple meaning words. Use of appropriate capital letters and punctuation will continue to be reinforced! We will continue to read a variety of fiction and non-fiction books as a class, with partners, and independently.

We've had a busy few weeks writing poetry! The student's collections of shape poems were wonderful! Then, we moved on to terrific comparing poems and now we're finishing up with challenging acrostic poems. The children were very motivated to do their best! Lots of creative thinking, visualizing, and interesting word choices were demonstrated. Some of the students didn't want to stop! I hope they share all their poems with you and will continue writing poetry into the summer. We received our last set of penpal letters and we'll write back this week during writing workshop. All of the manuscripts have been typed and are now ready to be illustrated! Quite exciting to be "published authors"! Our "Author's Reception will be one morning from 9:30 -10:30 during the week of June 15th. Look for an announcement soon!

MATH

We will complete our second measurement chapter by Friday. Then, during the rest of June we will do two "bonus" chapters: "Exploring Multiplication" and "Numbers Through 1,000".

SCIENCE

We"ll finish up with a mini-unit on the desert; learning how animals and plants adapt to this harsh environment. We'll also do one more science project.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We have been following "Flat Stanley" as he travels around the United States.It's been wonderful getting mail from different parts of the country!Thanks again for your help with this interesting geography project
We have also begun to learn about the continents and oceans of the world.

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT

The students enjoyed their six sessions of Jr. Achievement and learned a lot about our community, different jobs, unit vs. assembly line production, and money. Thanks again to Ms. Persell, Jared's mom, who did a terrific job!

FIELD TRIP

There may be one more field trip.

REQUESTS

Large oatmeal containers and clear, 2 liter bottle for projects.

Mrs. Hirt and I look forward to seeing you at our author's reception and picnic.

SUNNY WISHES,

Mrs. Fox

Teacher Websites © 2009 SchoolWorld