Keyboarding Skills

I hope that everyone is enjoying your summer break.
It is never too early to start thinking about third grade.
Next year you are going to have your very own laptop and that
means it is time to start practicing your keyboarding skills!

Here are a couple of fun sites to play on over the summer.

Dance Mat Typing

Learning Games for Kids

Have Fun!

Let's Get STEM-y!

Hey Girls...

STEM is an initiative that combines SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY,ENGINEERING and MATH. We have been working on these types of activities throughout this school year. I would like for you to continue to explore STEM activities over the summer and I have a few suggested ideas to get you started.

-Attend a Lowe's Build & Grow Workshop and receive an apron and goggles

-Attend a Home Depot Kid's Workshop and receive an apron and pin

-Use a big appliance box to create your own playhouse, store, cave, or vehicle

-Use smaller boxes to create an architectural structure (stack, glue, tie, or tape them together)

-Create an outdoor habitat for your favorite animal

-Use pine cones, peanut butter, and bird seed to make a bird feeder

-Learn to play chess

-Make home-made playdough, silly putty, or bubbles

Have fun! Visit our Linkable page for more ideas and links!

GO TO TECHY TURKEYS TO FIND MORE SUMMER FUN IDEAS!

Animal Character Book Reports

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Molly Day 2012

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Read to Feed

Read to Feed is a reading incentive program for children. Participants obtain sponsorships from parents, friends and relatives based on the number of books (or units of time) they read. The goal is to promote reading and help Heifer International assist millions of people around the world feed their families and reach self-reliance through the gifts of livestock and training. Ultimately, the program offers global education opportunities and will foster in your children a love for reading, a passion to help others and a desire to help create a better world. 

Learn more about Read to Feed at http://www.heifer.org/readtofeed.

Read to Feed ends at St. Mary's on April 30th

Get busy reading!

Rockin' & Blockin' Memphis!

Rockin' & Blockin' Memphis
The Gilmore Lynn Room in the Early Childhood Center
Sunday, April 29th
2:00 - 4:30 pm
Grades 2-4
Partnering with The Bodine School

Wacky Wednesday!

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Thank you, Second Grade Parents!

Thank you so much for 100% participation in this year's 

Annual Fund Drive!

The girls enjoyed turkey cookies and lemonade on the front lawn with our 

very own Turkey mascot to celebrate!

Any Turkey can Tango!

Our 165th Birthday celebration made the national news!A photo of some of our girls doing the "Turkey Tango" was published in today's Washington Post!

Let's Go Fly a Kite!

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Bible Vocabulary Words

The girls will be quizzed on the following words on Monday, March 26th.

1. Betray - to turn one over to his enemies

2. Communion - Another word for the Lord's Supper when Jesus gave His disciples bread and wine and asked them to "Do this in remembrance of Me".

3. Gethsemane -Garden where Jesus went to pray after the Last Supper with His disciples

4. Last Supper - Passover meal Jesus held with His 12 disciples the night before He died

5. Messiah - Hebrew word meaning anointed one. The Greek form is Christ

6. Passover - Celebration of the time Moses led God's people from Egype

7. Pharisees - A group of leaders among the Jews in New Testament times. They stressed strict obedience to the Old Testament law and "oral laws".

8. Roman Empire - The land and people ruled by the emperor of Rome during the time of Christ. This area included the Holy Land.

9. Sin - Doing what you should not do or not doing what you should do. Disobedience to God.

10. Temptation - The desire to sin. Jesus was tempted three separate times in the wilderness. He resisted.

11. Palestine - The name for the Holy Land (Promised Land) in Jesus' time.

Oodles of Oobleck!

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

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16oz Water Bottles Needed

 The second graders are in the middle of the kite-building project and are in need of EMPTY water bottles. These bottles will become our kite flying line holders. We would prefer 16oz. bottles, but can use the 8oz. also. If you have a few extra empty water bottles, please send them in and we'll find a use for them. Please have your water bottles at school by Tuesday, February 21st. We are looking forward to flying our kites in March!

Math Rocks! Perimeter & Area

New Fun Math Games!

Power Lines

Fraction Flags

Bowling for Fractions

Ghost Busters

Addy Games

New Addy games and activities have been posted on

our Linkable page.

Check it out!

Digital Citizenship

One of the most important discussions we can have with our children is about digital citizenship and online safety. Assistant U. S. Attorney Debra Ireland, part of Project Safe Childhood, will speak at a parent coffee hosted by the Lower School on Thursday, February 9th, from 7:35 - 8:35 a.m. She will discuss digital footprints, cyber bullying, online safety and more. Following her presentation, she will meet with 3rd and 4th grade students for an age appropriate discussion on digital citizenship. We hope you will join us for this important conversation.

This event is open to all parents and I would encourage you to attend if possible!

100th Day Fun!

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Sumdog

I have introduce yet another web site for fact practice to the girls. It is called Sumdog. It looks like it would be more motivating to the girls than some of the others. As they practice their facts and compete with other people, they can earn points to "buy" things for their avatar. They can purchase clothes, accessories, and fun items using points that they have earned. You just may have to remind them that the point is to practice their math. They will probably want to spend more time designing their avatar than working on their math facts! You can choose the skill to work on for each session such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, number patterns, etc. It might be a fun alternative during the week as you practice for the fact tests. I put a live link over on the right side of my blog. The girls know where it is and shouldn't have any problem getting to the site independently. Have fun!

Animal Reports

The girls have been asked to do some thinking and come up with three animals that they would like to research. She will only report on ONE, but I would like to have options so that we don't have a repeat of the same animal in our class. They should list them in order of preference. We will be working on a file folder report in class.  More information will be coming home about that part soon. Animal choices should not include pets or farm animals. They should not choose animals that are very rare because information may be too difficult for them to find.

Hooray for Pajama Day!!!

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