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Grade 2K
Richards Elementary School
5812 N. Santa Monica Blvd.
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin USA
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2K End of School Newsletter - 2000-2001

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ART - This year in art we did lots of activities. These are some of the activities we did: sun pictures, masks, bad dream pictures, night pictures with scary stories, and making up an animal never found before. At the end of class, we played games.

MUSIC - In music, we sang songs and got ready for the Spring SING. We did a play called "The Selfish Giant". We sang a song at School Meeting for the moms and dads who helped us. For the Festival of Lights, we sang "Santa Lucia".

PHY ED - In phy ed, we played games like Wizards and Galflings and Dinosaur Tag. Our units were basketball, baseball, tennis, gymnastics, and track and field.

LIBRARY - We watched videos, read books, and checked out books.

SCIENCE LAB - In science lab we did lots of activities which had to do with science. In science lab we sorted shells. We had a lab that had to do with water.

GUIDANCE - We talked about friendship and made a friendship chain. We watched videos so we could learn more about friendship. We made friendship buttons and gave them to a person whose name we picked out of an envelope. We wrote a paragraph about that person.

READING - For reading we read books and did literature circles with discussions. We wrote about things that happened in our books. We drew pictures to match. We read books for Reading Counts.

SPELLING - We had 32 units with 8 or 12 words on pretests and 12 words on our unit tests. We studied for spelling tests by doing Big Activity, Flip Folder, Spelling Tic-Tac-Toe, Spelling Sentences, and Spelling Sorts.

HANDWRITING - We learned cursive. Sometimes we used cursive, other times we used printing.

WRITING - In writing we made Imagination Station stories. Almost every day after lunch recess, we wrote in our writing journals. We had writing tests so we can be better writers.

MATH - In Math this year we did Journal pages. We did 106 Math Boxes and we did 102 Math Home Links. We learned division and multiplication and adding and subtracting.

SCIENCE - We planted Brassica, sunflower, and bean seeds. We planted the seeds and studied them. We studied air and weather.

SOCIAL STUDIES - We had 6 units in Social Studies. Our units were: We Belong to Many Groups, Where We Live, People Make History, We All Work Together, Being a Good Citizen, and Our Neighborhood Near and Far.

iMAC LAB - We learned how to save and how to type better. We memorized how to get into KidPix by ourselves. We learned how to use KidWorks Deluxe PPC.

2K WEB PAGE - When we do projects for the web page, we have to cooperate in groups to finish them. When we are done writing on the web page, we draw pictures to go with it. On the web page, there are photos and we had to write about them.

Have a great summer!

EDITORS: All 2K Students worked in M-F groups to write this final newsletter for the 2000-2001 school year.

Word processing done by Ms. Kreul

 

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Updated June 9, 2001


 
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