Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful end to 2018 in our classroom-my blogging updates leave a lot to be desired...perhaps a New Year resolution for me to update more regularly!

Here are a few late 2018 highlights...

Making OOBLECK in science-what a green mess!

Our holiday party-the Thursday before break. Thank you for all of our volunteers and classroom visitors-so much fun!

 Sticks and Stones! We were AMAZING!!

Candy Cane Experiment-discovering what liquid would melt the candy cane first. Hot water, cold water, oil, vinegar and apple sauce! The apple sauce surprised us!

A fun November so far!

We have been busy this November. Earlier this month we met our kindergarten buddies in Mrs. Walker's class. We plan to partner read with them once a month for the remainder of the year!

 

 

 

 

 

We also worked on our first group project- learning about spiders. It was a great learning experience and we talked a lot about what worked and what was difficult.

Melting Candy in Science!

Today we worked in groups to look at the different 
melting points of candy.

This tied into our science study on matter and when 
certain solids can turn to liquids.

This was a tempting experiment but we did it! We played and 
worked with candy WITHOUT eating it!

Our first Audubon walking trip

Our theme this year seems to be warm! Yesterday was an unseasonably warm day out on the field but we had a wonderful time and enjoyed the experience.

There will be two more Audubon visits this year-one in the winter 

and a final visit in the spring!

What a great start to the year!

We have had a HOT WONDERFUL start to the 2018-2019 school year! Lots of fun getting to know each other and warming up our brains to learn so much together this year. 

The heat finally broke on Friday and we enjoyed "Saving Fred" in small groups. Such creative ideas from every group! We also had lots of laughs during this activity!

And many groups truly did "save" Fred!

Welcome 2018-2019 2nd Graders!

I hope you are all having a wonderful summer and have been having lots of fun and finding some time to read too!

We just got home from Disney World and boy did we have fun!

You won't need any supplies for the new school year for our classroom but there are a few things you should keep at home to help make homework assignments easier.

• pencils and erasers
• a set of colored pencils
• a ruler with inches and centimeters 
• a kid friendly dictionary (let me know if you need help finding a good one!)
• a good selection of books you enjoy reading-the Boxford library has some great ones

Some students like to bring in their own homework folder and that is more than ok. Please just make sure it is a plastic folder instead of a paper folder. I have plenty of plastic folders in the classroom as well and you are welcome to use one of those too.

You will be getting a postcard from me soon but in the meantime if you are reading this have mom or dad send me a picture or two of you having fun this summer. We can share some of our fun summer memories when we get together on August 29th! 

Please email me the pictures:
asalerno@boxfordschools.org

Can't wait to see you in a few weeks!
Love, Mrs. Salerno

Classroom happenings

We have had a very busy end of winter and start of spring but I'll admit I have not been great about updating this blog...
Here are some photos from our DASH program which ran with the help of some wonderful parent volunteers! Thank you everyone who helped make this possible.