Immersion Celebration Help Needed

Dear Second Grade Parents:

We are currently looking for volunteers to help organize/execute this year’s Immersion Celebration. As you may remember this event marks the passing of 18 months since last year's kindergarten students have been in our program.  We have a ceremony during the school day where each of the current first graders and any other students who started with us in August 2009 receive a certificate. 

This is a celebration for the first graders.  However, we are hoping to tap into your invaluable insight and start a new tradition.  Given most kindergarten parents are not familiar with this event and most first grade parents would like to share this time with their child, we are proposing that the 2nd grade parents will not only volunteer to help out, but be excited about the opportunity to use their previous years experience to create a memorable moment for 1st grade families.  You know better than anybody what worked and what can be done (if anything) to make the event better.  Each year we’d like to pass the torch to the previous year’s first grade parents, and so on.  I personally vow to chair the committee next year (did I just do that in writingJ).

The event is scheduled for February 24th  so we would like to get a meeting scheduled the week of January 23rd.  Please contact me directly if you can help.


Sincerely,

Sherri Brown (parent of Ayla Delaney TFS 1st grade)

882-6191

sbrown@swanpackaginginc.com

Bonne Année!

Happy New Year to our Grade 2 families!

We hope you got to spend some time with your families over winter break, and that you are ready for a wonderful 2012!  

To kick of the new year, how about joining Madame Wilson and Madame Jennifer in our support of the Read, Right and Run program?  This is part of the Go St. Louis Marathon, where they encourage students to read 26 books, do 26 good deeds, and run 26 miles!  Don't worry, the running will be covered by Mr. Francois in gym class :)   The kick-off event is a pajama party on Friday, January 6, where Mr. Conrad will read two books - one in English and one in French.  Invitations went out today in binders.  

The 2nd grade lead teachers will be walking the half-marathon (13 miles!) so we are getting excited to meet this goal.  You can register your child for the Read, Right and Run program through January 6.  If you need a registration form, they are available at the front desk, or email your child's teacher.

Speaking of teachers... the 2nd grade team has grown a bit in the new year. We would like to welcome Rémi Corpelet, who will be joining Madame Jennifer's class as an assistant teacher.  Madame Virginie will become the assistant teacher in Madame Wilson's class, and with Madame Maimouna returned from her trip to Sénégal, each second grade class now has an intern too!  We are very excited about the impact this increased staffing will have on student learning.

Field Trip permission slips will be coming home this week for our field trip to the St. Louis Symphony to see the Magic Flute in February.  Madame Michelle's Donors Choose project grant is subsidizing some of the cost of the trip, so the student contribution is $5.  

Water bottles

Keeping hydrated is important!  Please make sure your child has a water bottle for school... labeled with his/her name please!

 

Storytime Pajama Party

Mark your calendars: Storytime Pajama Party, Friday January 6th, 6pm-8pm.

Get dressed in your PJ's and head back to school to join Monsieur Conrad and for a story (one in French, one in English)! There will be cookies and hot chocolate, and every child will get a book to take home.

See you there!

Informé et Instruit

For our current unit of inquiry, students are reading about the way different items are made (such as oil paint, ice cream, ballet slippers) and then drawing the system used for the fabrication and distribution of the item. Through this, students are becoming more knowledgable ( one of our PYP profile traits) and are also demonstrating an understanding of human-made systems.

Grade 2 updates

Fête d'Hiver

We hope you all can make the Fête d'Hiver tomorrow evening (Thursday) at 6:00 p.m.  Families should send their children to their classrooms by 5:50, so we can all come down together.  Students can wear their formal uniforms or dress nicely.

 

Club SLLIS 

The Club SLLIS forms for Dec 22 and 23 (next week) and Jan. 2 and 16-all on one form- are due on Friday.  Please let Lisa Berman know if you need another form: clubsllis@sllis.org

 

A trip to the Symphony!

Thanks to a Donors Choose project that Madame Michelle put together, the 2nd and 3rd grade students are going to the symphony on February 8!  We are very excited about this opportunity to take the students to see a performance of The Magic Flute by Mozart.

Fête d'Hiver / Winter Celebration

Regarding the fête d'hiver  (this Thursday, 12/15 from  6:00 - 8:00), your child can either wear their formal uniform or dress up.  This is not a potluck, but families may bring a tray of cookies to share.

Please send your child to his/her classroom at 5:50 so that we can come down together as a class. 

In class, we have started our new unit of inquiry, and we are excited to see how the students are approaching are approaching the question of human-made systems. Today we learned how oil paint is made and last week we explored the distribution of bananas- how they make it all the way to our plates.