Ms. Hunter’s Second Grade Newsletter April 2020

The Zoom Room Exciting things are Important Dates: We have had wonderful happening in Zoom Room attendance! Seven-  Friday, April 3—We will teen out of nineteen students our homes! celebrate Wyatt Jablonski’s have been in the Zoom Room. Students birthday in the Zoom Room. On most days, we have fifteen are learning or sixteen students. The Zoom musical  Wednesday, April 8—Deadline Room keeps us connected. instruments, for logs & order forms. Thank you, parents, for creating art, doing science Rewards will be mailed April 9. enabling this to happen! experiments, practicing math, journaling, and read- WWW.HOLLANDCSD.ORG/ ing. So much wonderful HUNTER reading! Each week there will be a Parents, please take special character hosting our pictures of these happen- daily announcements. Announced ings and post them to See- will be what we will be doing in saw or text them. A video, the zoom room that day and any with no teacher or student other special happenings. The names, will be made to let reward catalog, links to videos, the community know that and other resources are posted This is Spirit Week and Tuesday was our learning continues. on the class site. crazy hair day in the zoom room. Thank you so much!

Large student pictures and full names are not shared on the classroom web site. A complete version of the newsletter is posted on Seesaw.

Character Award Mia Backlarz has Star Students earned the character award A.J. Bigaj and Ella Wander are the Star Students this month for PERSERVER- for April. Star Students work hard and have excellent ANCE. Mia enjoys a challenge behavior. Congratulations, A.J. & Ella! Pound Puppies are and doesn’t quit easily. waiting for you when we return to school. Congratulations, Mia! Top 10 Newly Free Resources 5. Brain Pop Jr. is a subscription- based educational video, game, and In recent weeks, COVID-19 has activity site for students in kinder- dramatically affected schools, teachers, garten through third grade. The main Students, and families around the globe. With page is divided into math, reading and school closures, companies are stepping up, of- writing, science, social studies, health, and arts fering free home access to keep students and technology. Create a free account at reading and learning at home. Here are a few: https://www.brainpop.com/free-trial/? who_am_i=home&promo_code=BPCVFA 1. Epic!—Epic is the lead- Then, to link your account to the class, login ing digital library for kids and click ENTER CODE. Our class code is 12 & under. Students can peak3374. instantly access 40,000 books, learning videos, 6. Time For Kids has quizzes & more. Epic is launched a free digital library to help offering free home access until June 30th. An invitation was e-mailed to families while schools all parents who do not already have access. are closed. Subscribe for free here: https:// time.com/tfk-free/ 2. Mystery Science has pulled the science 7. Khan Academy is a free online lessons that are the easiest learning resource offering to do at home and are lessons, exercises and quizzes. offering them for free. No It has daily schedules for organ- account or login is need at izing at-home learning. On week- https://mysteryscience.com/ days, Khan Academy is also school-closure-planning. For even more lessons, offering daily livestreams on Fa- sign up for a free account at https:// cebook, YouTube and Twitter to help parents and educators best utilize the website’s tools mysterydoug.com/. and resources. 3. Scholastic Learn at Home—Scholastic is provid- 8. For as long as schools are ing 20 days' worth of ac- closed, Audible is open. Kids tive learning journeys de- everywhere can instantly signed to reinforce and sus- stream an incredible tain educational opportunities collection of stories that will help them for those students who are continue dreaming, learning, and just being unable to attend school. kids. All stories are free to stream on your https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/ desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. https:// support/learnathome.html stories.audible.com/start-listen

9. Mo Willems, author

4. PBS PreK-12 Re- of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive sources for Emer- the Bus, will offer a gency Closings— "lunchtime doodle" lesson at PBS Learning Media 1:00 p.m. each weekday where producers and he teaches kids to draw educators have come something new. https://www.kennedy- together to create a center.org/education/mo-willems/ special collection of resources organized by grade and subject area. Find videos, lesson 10. Virtual Tours—Let’s Go! plans, and activities that support learning at For a few ideas, please see home. https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/ the posting for Day 10 on collection/emergency-closings-collection/ http://www.hollandcsd.org/

hunter. Five Main Staples + A New One

1. Raz-Kids—https://www.kidsa- z.com/main/Login/ teacherUsername/1810SHunt29 They are going in the mail today, April 1st. That’s no joke. Everyone will get two 2. IXL—https:// books. This was made possible www.ixl.com/signin/holland by the parents who donated to Student login = 1811+first the Scholastic fund. Thank intial+first 4 letters of you, generous parents! last name+2 digit day of birth. No spaces. For example, Jane Smith born on 9/29/12, her login would be 1811jsmit29. The password is student1. It’s not Throwback Thursday, and this isn’t an April Fools joke, but the following 3. Xtramath—http:// article feels like one. The “Dr. Seuss Birthday www.xtramath.com. Blast” piece would have been on the front page Teacher e-mail = of this newsletter before Covid-19. The Dr. [email protected]. Seuss party seems like so long ago now! We Student login = first name. never got to have the St. Patrick’s Day Login=four digit pin, which was celebration but we still have the party supplies e-mailed to parents. and we can have the pudding for our return party. Yeah, it will be new pudding! Lol! This class is very good at math but so Bring your and equipment to far no one is touching Aiden for math facts. school on the first day back. He has completed 88% of the first xtramath There will not be any party table already. Can anyone beat him to the games. Instead we will have a finish of both tables? Come on, let’s give this competition. If you kid a run for his money! don’t have a beyblade, someone will loan you one and there will 4. www.abcya.com—just a great site be arenas for beginners. I for educational games. cannot wait!

Dr. Seuss’s 5. Go Noodle—It’s important to exercise on these rainy Birthday Blast days. Let’s move like we’re On Dr. Seuss’s still in the classroom at Birthday a Dutchman www.gonoodle.com. And now, Dollar Auction was held. you get to pick every time. Students bought a variety

of items with the money

earned by doing extra The Hour of Code—If we credit. Mrs. Gregory, the were still in school, this is Curriculum Coordinator, the site the advanced read a Dr. Seuss book to math students would be us and we ate a green egg, which was made out using. Next Monday, shar- of pudding and a cookie. ing his screen, Evan will We loved the eggs so much that we had introduce this site to us. Now we can all be in them again during the St. Patrick’s Day the advanced class! https:// celebration. Thank you for the party supplies studio.code.org/sections/GXZZKL Mrs. Smith.