Official school year is wrapping up

I officially have about 98 days of school left in our school year. We just had our 180th day of school last week. Seattle has had gorgeous weather this week, with plenty of sunshine and temperatures in the mid to high 70's. My classroom got quite toasty today with our giant 2 story window.... 82 degrees Fahrenheit! So I moved my writing lesson to a hallway downstairs. The kids of course love going on "field trips" around the building so this didn't bother them at all. So with their spelling dictionaries, pencils, erasers and clipboards they were ready to write. Today I read the book Meanwhile to discuss transition words further. The kids loved the story. It is set up like a comic book so it was very appealing to my boys.

I actually got a bit of a sunburn yesterday out at recess. We now have to make sure to stop teaching about 10 minutes early to apply sunscreen before both recesses. I forgot how much time the rub-in kind takes to apply. Previously, we were using a spray on sunscreen which worked amazing.

The "school year" is ending in my classroom as we wrap up all of our mandatory curriculum. This Friday will be promotion day for my kiddos. I made cute Promotion Day certificates using a handy Microsoft made template since some of my students will not be enrolling for the new second grade next  year. I will be sad for them and their families to go, but I know they will do amazing in any public school second grade. I had to completely change the wording though. The black rectangles are my school's name. If you want the template just comment with your email address and I  can email it to you.

Next Monday we start the summer camp portion of the school year. For those of you who don't know. I teach at a year-round school. So like other schools we finish up our curriculum in the beginning one June and then can sort of teach what we want to an extent. Manetta made up this summer's science curriculum. About every two weeks we are talking about a different subject. Subjects include: sharks, plants, dinosaurs and nutrition. I will also be coordinating writing to go with it. Math will be a focused review of topics from the curriculum we just finished up. Next week I will start my review of time. I found a great I have, who has for telling time at http://shenanigansinsecond.blogspot.com/search/label/Time 

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