Science on Tuesday brought observations of our mealworms and brassica plants. Students are working on being good scientist.
Rich McGrath, reading consultant from GWAEA, came on Tuesday afternoon to teach us a lesson on descriptive writing. The kids were an excellent audience!
A busy Thursday!
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| Looking up close at some baby chicks. |
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| They were so cute! |
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| Listening to a story about baby chicks. |
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| Way to go 2nd graders! You did an awesome job! |
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| Practicing for the concert. |
Valentine's party fun!
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| Candy heart relay game. |
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| Stack the hearts game. |
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| Love sucks game. |
Our 100th day of school!
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| Celebrating the big day in style! |
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| A special snack for our 100th day! |
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| We are 100 days smarter!! |
Learning about rolling in science.
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| Working on the spiral challenge. |
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| They mastered the hill challenge! |
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| Having fun with the loop to loop challenge. |
Making arrays is getting us ready for multiplication!
When your teacher visits Mickey Mouse over break, you get Mickey snacks!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our holiday party. Whether it was supplies, snacks, or your attendance, I appreciate your help! Here's a few pictures from our party.
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| Drawing a snowman with directions from Jenn. But wait, we can't look! |
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| Yikes, this is harder than we thought! |
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| Waddle like a penguin race! |
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| Candy cane relay race. |
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| Enjoying some breakfast pizza, doughnut holes, and milk/juice for snack. |
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| Ready...set...GO! |
Holiday Concert! This is one of my favorite days with the kids! I love to see their smiles and hear their giggles during the concert! Here they are singing at the afternoon show.
Looking at a blanket Mrs. Ives brought made of animal skin. It's much like the ones we've been learning about in social studies!
Blue ticket reward - lunch in the classroom!
Halloween party fun ~ wrap the mummy!
Witches Brew for snack today! Blood drops, ghost noses, dead ants, and chicken toenails were just a few of our ingredients!
This week our class did the morning announcements. Here is one group starting our day with happy voices!
Guidance time with Ms. Seivers and Mrs. Knowles:
Pajama Day!
Fire Safety Day:
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| Joey talking to us about staying low when there is smoke. |
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| Getting ready to enter the smoke trailer. Stay low and go! |
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| Stop! Drop! and Roll! |
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| Learning about bus safety. |
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| Class photo in front of the fire truck! |
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| Seeing a firefighter in his uniform and hearing him breath with his tank on. |
Using bubbles to learn about air!
Learning about compressed air and air pressure with balloon rockets!
Experimenting with parachutes.
What can air do? A science experiment.
Setting up our writing journals and writing our first entry.
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| Working hard on our first writing entry in our journals. |
