Community Day

On Tuesday, we spent the morning traveling around our "Community"! Each of the second grade classrooms was transformed into a part of Stratham we know and love. After we turned our classroom into the Post Office, we traveled to the SPCA, The Police Station, and The Bank! 

At the SPCA, we got to check out some awesome stuffy animals up for adoption and we got to fill out an adoption application! Mrs. Healey told us all about her dog Tucker she adopted, and we were really wishing we could have taken the animals home with us, but we know they went to good homes in the Owl Class!

When we went to the Police Station, we got "fingerprinted" to make our very own ID cards. We learned about all that the police do in our community to keep us safe, and we also learned Ms. Donlon's dad used to be a Police officer! 

After snack, we got to make some deposits at Buckyville Bank with Ms. Bucklin! She told us all about how banks help us save money, and we even got a lollipop at the end of our visit :) 

We're RICH!

Afterwards, we came back to the Giraffe Class to write and deliver some letters to some awesome SMS Staff from the Post Office. We learned that Ms. Riley's Grandpa was a mailman for over 30 years, and we were excited to become mail carriers ourselves!

Forever 2R Stamps!

We learned all about all the things you can do at the post office as well as how to address a letter. Once we wrote our letters and added our stamp, we sorted out all the mail that was in our mailboxes and we went out to deliver each of the letters to their recipient.

Limited Edition Snowy Day Stamps!

Everyone really loved getting their sweet letters from the 2R Mail Carriers, and we had so much fun exploring our community and all it has to offer! We are so lucky to live in the amazing town of Stratham, and we are even luckier to share it with the amazing people who call it home :)

Preparrrring for Our Play!

Hello, Families!

When we return from vacation, we will be very busy preparing for a very exciting end of the year! We will be working hard to prepare for our play How to Be A Pirate, which we will perform for families on Thursday, June 2nd at 6:30 pm. Students will be asked to wear a simple costume for our play: boys will wear black t-shirts and girls will wear white t-shirts, and everyone will wear jeans. Each classroom will also wear different colored bandanas (the giraffes will be sporting blue this year!) In order to pay for the bandanas, we will need $2 from each student by Friday, May 6th. Letters will be coming home on Monday regarding the bandana order, and we ask you to return the bottom of the letter to school with your child's name and their bandana money

We arrrrrrr so excited to begin practicing our songs and dances! 

Coins Coins Coins!

On Monday, one of the giraffe alumni came back to 2R to teach us a bit about coins. He began collecting coins himself, and in turn has learned even more about coins than Ms. Riley even knew! Since we've been working hard all year to learn about coins and count change, Ms. Riley invited him back to 2R to share his knowledge with us:

We got to see some pictures of the coins in his collection as well as some actual coins he thought we would find very interesting, such as the NH State quarter! He explained to us that all money is made in a mint. The U.S has mints in Philadelphia, Denver, West Point, and San Francisco.  Many coins have the first letter of the city they were minted in stamped under the year in which they were made:

He told us he only recently began collecting coins, and already he has found a penny that dates back to 1907-- that means it is 108 years old! He did a wonderful job teaching us about coins and giving us tips on how we could start our own collection. 

Thank you for sharing your expertise with us!!