Kristen.Krueger@lz95.org 540-5292 http://www.lz95.org/classes/kruegerskangaroos_kkrueger/ Important Info: * Please go on to home access and REGISTER your child for 2nd grade. This allows us to know how many students will be returning next year and how many classes will be needed. Please pass the word on to anyone you know who may be new to MW next year too! * learned about the poetic devices of: rhyming, repetition, * Today the LAST book order of the year was sent home. There are a few alliteration and onomatopoeia flyers to help you stock up for summer * learned about haiku poems & wrote some with the reading. high schoolers on our field trip *The ALS fundraiser, run by the student leadership, goes until May 27th. Donate to see some of our teachers get iced! * planned & wrote opinion paragraphs * wrote advice for next year’s class * wrote a top secret project * Thanks for all the wonderful things this week! I appreciated all the things the kids brought in! *FYI: 5/20 & 5/27 are BOTH early release days! * used 100 charts, digi blocks and what we know about place value, to solve double digit subtraction problems * fractions were introduced * read about what animals and plants need to survive in a habitat * learned about things an animal has to help itself survive (birds have feathers & wings, owls have good eyesight) *Thanks to our mystery readers this week! We heard some great books!