HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

We have had a fabulous second quarter of school with a lot of fun learning going on in Room A25.  I was trying to put together a slideshow for parents to see on my school website but it would not work.  That school website is so frustrating!!  Since it would not work, I will post some pictures here on my blog.   Here are some activities that you might like seeing that your student enjoyed this last 9 weeks.
Seat back and enjoy READING!!

Students enjoy lunch each month with Mrs. Flickinger if they participate in the Home Reading Program.  These two students read 10 books for the month of November.  Way To Go, Girls!!

The students had a fireman come in and do a presentation about Fire Safety.  He talked about what to do when there is a fire and showed them what he would look like if he was coming in to look for them in a burning house.  The students loved it.

During the month of October we did a pumpkin seed estimation.  These two students were the closest with their numbers.  They were very excited about taking their pumpkins home that they won. 

Congratulations to these students.  They not only particiapted in the Home Reading Program in our classroom but they also passed their Book Adventure tests.  They got a chance to go with Mrs. Flickinger to a WSU Volleyball Game.  It was a lot of fun.

  We were studying Owls life cycles in Science and the students got an opportunity to investigate Owl Pellets.  Can you say excited?  There were ready to start digging in. 

We do stop sometimes with our fun activities and take assessments to check on their learning.  I have been so impressed with this group of students.
They are soooo smart!

I will continue with some pictures later on this weekend. 
I hope you enjoy reading this post.
I will try to keep up with this blog a little better so that you can see what is going on with your child.
I hope you have a wonderful 2014.

Until Next Time,

           Happy Blogging  ~  Mrs. Flickinger

Welcome to a New School Year

Dear Parents,

I am so excited to be starting a new school year at Kelly Elementary.  It has been so refreshing and so exciting to get to know some of you and also to get to know your children.  This blog is dedicated to you throughout the school year.  I will be updating it each month with activities that we have done in the classroom.  I hope you enjoy. :)




If you have not been in the classroom yet this year, here are a few before and after pictures to let you know what your child's classroom looked like before and after I got done decorating.



Here is a view of the Classroom Library area.

 

 

Here is the Classroom Library after I decorated. The children love to work in this area.

 

 

Here is a view of the math bulletin board, classroom door and mailbox area.

 

Here is what it looks like now.  (Close up of the children's mailboxes.)

 

Our first day of school we made Jitter Juice

and the students gave it a thumbs up.

 

A couple of weeks later after routines had been established, we began our unit on Monarch Butterflies.  It was such a fun experience and we had 11 Monarch Butterflies emerge from chrysalises this year.  Here are a few pictures of our experience with the butterflies.

One of our caterpillars decided to make his chrysalis on one of our reading baskets.

   A butterfly emerging from the chrysalis.

We let the butterflies go into the Wichita sky but one decided that he liked the flower bush beside the school.

Here are two of our students experiencing the butterfly on their skin. It was such a few unit.  We will be finished up this unit with making a butterfly that will migrate to Mexico and children in Mexico will watch over it and send it back next spring.  It is an exciting project.

I am very excited to meet and visit with each of you about your child's progress in second grade.  Remember, parent-teacher conferences are coming up October 16, 17 & 18.  Please plan to attend.  I look forward to it.

Until Next Time,

          Mrs. Flickinger