Ms. Hansen's Happenings

Week of November 30, 2015 Dear Parents, I want to wish you an your families a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  I hope you have a restful and joyous holiday.  When we come back, we will have just three week before the winter holiday break. Wednesday, December 2, 2015 will be an early release day.  Second grade spirit night will be on Thursday, December 10.  I am not sure of the location.  The Spicewood calendar says Moonie's Burgers, but I think that has changed.  I will email when I verify.  Monday, December 14 will be our second Principal's Pride.  Thursday, December 17 will be our winter holiday party and the students last day before the winter holiday. Students will return on January 5. When we return from the Thanksgiving holiday, the students will be voting on a class representative for the student council. The role of class representative is different in K-2.  Second grade representatives DO NOT attend the student council meetings. The student council might have on

Week of November 16, 2015 Dear Parents, Please don't forget that Tom the Turkey is due on Monday.  It was a wonderful week in second grade. The field trip was great fun and went perfectly with out study of plants and animals.  The weather was perfect, too.  We enjoyed a Veteran's Day celebration on Wednesday.  The fourth grade put on a fabulous music program on Thursday.  We ended the week with a performance by Poetry Alive where the students found out the secret about teachers (we are aliens).  Ask your student about the alien poem they heard.  I hope to see everyone at the silent auction. November 23-27 there is no school to celebrate giving thanks. Science/Social Studies: We have been learning about the parts of a plant and the function of each part.  The students even did a scientific drawing of a plant.  Next week we will be learning about the how the environment affect animals and plants.  We will discuss how environmental changes cause animals to migrate, hibern

Week of November 9, 2015 Dear parents, What an exciting week in second grade. I hope the class enjoyed their electronics as a class reward. Looking forward to our next class reward.  We are going on a field trip, we have a Veteran's Day assembly, a 4th grade music program and Poetry Alive on Friday.  Whew!  Please send library book on Monday.  We are going to the library on Monday since we will be gone on Tuesday.  Please send your students will a disposable water bottle unless they want to carry on all day.  Please send them in weather appropriate clothes with bug spray and sunscreen applied at home.  Please send lunches in disposable container, also.  This is a very fun field trip led by LCRA volunteers. In science/social studies: We have been working on animal physical features and how those features help the animal to survive. We have also started to learn about the different parts of a plant.  We are learning about how different leaves have different functions to help a