Field Trips

In March:

  1. Tuesday, March 2, 2010

  2. Hyde Street Pier tour of ships in San Francisco

Special Second Grade Event

Friday, January 29th 9:00 in the Music Room we will hold our play.

Special Events

January

  1. ★Monday, January 4                            School resumes

  2. ★Wednesday, January  6                     Parents Education Event - “Navigating your Child’s Social World “- 6:30 Library

  3. ★Friday, January   15                           Minimum Day - Noon CLOSING

  4. ★Monday, January  18                         Martin Luther King Jr. Day - school CLOSED

  5. ★Thursday, Janary 22                          Diversity Committee Meeting - 7:00 to 9:00 Library

  6. ★Friday, January 22                             Fun Hair Day - all day

  7. ★Thursday, January 28                        State of School meeting - 7:00 to 9:00 Library

February Tuesday, February 2 Parent Education Event - “Race to Nowhere” - 6:30 FAD Theatrehttp://www.bpcweb.net/RTN.htmlshapeimage_9_link_0

Current themes and supporting websites . . .

Healthy Habits and Nutrition

  1. ★Kids: Explore the World of Nutrition with Nutrition Exploration

  2. Play games, see recipes, learn about ways to stay physically fit.


  1. ★Colgate Kids Games and Activities:

  2. Games, puzzles, and coloring pages about keeping your teeth healthy.


Towns, cities, and communities

  1. ★It Only Takes a Little to Be Big - Scholastic and Clifford the Big Red Dog have teamed up to support civic awareness in kids and to promote kindness and caring toward our neighbors and the world around us.

Resource Sites - Internet drill and practice

  1. Internet4Classrooms

  2. This is an interactive site where kids can play games to develop language arts and math skills.  Students can practice punctuation, grammar, telling time, addition and subtraction, and other second grade skills.

Long-term projects

Over the past month or so the students have been working on stories during their computer/creative writing time.  Each group chose a common object to connect their stories to each others’.  Our next step is to make a movie, using our stories as inspiration.  We are currently in pre-production, and hope to begin filming in late January or early February

Suggested Reading

  1. ★Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch by Bill Haduch

  2. ★Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World by Selby Beeler, G. Brian Karas (Illustrator)

  3. ★How Many Teeth? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Paul Showers, True Kelley (Illustrator)

  4. ★I.Q. Goes to the Library by Mary Ann Fraser

  5. ★The Paperboy by Dav Pikley

  6. ★Out and About at the Supermarket by Kitty Shea

Family Excursions

  1. Hall of Health

  2. 2065 Kittredge St

  3. Berkeley, CA 94704

  4. (510) 549-1564