Last Day of School!

The excitement is high as we end the school year!  Today our class decorated bags and filled them with their school work from the year!  We also wrote about what we enjoyed in second grade and what we want to learn next year.  In math, we played a game called "Jellyfish Add" and went on the Study Island website.  Tomorrow we'll complete our "Memory Books" and enjoy the school celebrations!  Hope you can join us for the Davis Awards at 10:30 and the 12:00 Simonds Cook-Out!

It's been my pleasure to have worked with your child in second grade this year.  Thank you for your support at home!  It's wonderful to have seen their progress this year.  Have a fun-filled summer!

Best wishes,
Mrs. Mingarelli

Step Up Day!

It was certainly an exciting Friday with Step Up Day!  This morning students each wrote letters to their third grade teachers to share about their interests, hobbies, learning goals, and how they learn best in school.  These were passed along to their new teachers at Step Up Day!  A letter will come home today confirming their next year's teacher.

Today we also wrote thank you cards to our classroom/school volunteers, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Asher.

Yesterday first and second grade students experienced four wonderful presentations for Career Day!  We learned about being a civil engineer, Spanish teacher, land surveyor, and a member of the military. A big thanks to Senor Dunn for teaching us some great Spanish songs!

Career Day tied in nicely to our current social studies unit about community!  We're learning about urban and rural communities, community helpers, and places in the community.

Our class has been very engaged in the online math games on the site abcya.com and playing the "Kakooma" app!  Be sure to have your child share about them with you!

June News

This will certainly be an exciting week at Simonds School!  On Thursday we'll have Career Day and on Friday students will meet their new teacher at Step-Up Day.  First and second graders will learn about four different careers presented by parents on Thursday.  Be sure to ask your child what they learned!  On Friday we'll write letters to the third grade teachers and students will deliver them when they meet their new teacher!  Look for a letter from your child's new teacher coming home in their backpack that day.

On Tuesday we'll travel to Squam Lake Science Center.  An information letter will come home at the end of this week about the trip.  Thanks in advance to all the chaperones that volunteered!  It will be a great trip!

Our class is finishing up some projects about the New Hampshire animals we researched.  Each student created a painting and poem about their animal.  They are very proud of their creative paintings and personal best pieces of writing!  We also finished typing non-fiction information books on Google Docs today.  Our new unit will be about our community!