We want to wish all of our Moms a Happy Mother’s Day. The second graders have shared many special thoughts about mom in this wonderful video. Make sure you have the tissue box handy, and enjoy!
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Today was Miss Haywood’s last day of student teaching. We celebrated our wonderful time together with a great party. Cupcakes, Gatorade, Cookies and Ice Cream put smiles on our faces. Miss Haywood read to us, played another great game of SPARKLE with us and quizzed us on how well we knew her. (I think we knew her pretty well!) We also had double Rocket Math tests and were very proud of how well we did! We know we will see Miss Haywood again as she has a date to substitute teach at the end of the month and we hope she gets called to sub more than that. Miss Haywood is a great teacher and we were very lucky to have her in our classroom! The children had a great time at Uno’s today. They were wonderfully behaved and polite throughout the trip. The bus ride was comfortable - high soft seats! At Uno’s each child created his or her own pizza, enjoyed way too much soda, nibbled on some french fries and saw the kitchen area of Uno’s. They have an enormous refridgerator (it could hold enough ice cream for a year!) and they make a lot of pizza - As many as 600 in one day. (The second graders could probably eat almost that much.) Everyone enjoyed eating the pizza they created and chatting with each other and with our great waitress, Jess. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the children’s amazing reading achievement. We again thank Ms. Dolan for arranging the trip for us. We did do some work when we arrived back at school. Last week we wrote our own version of the Dr. Suess story, A Wocket in My Pocket, and today we each illustrated our line from the poem and rewrote our line. The new poem and illustrations are displayed outside of our classroom. We also worked on place value in math and listened as Mrs. Harju read about Pippi Longstocking.
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Every Student Has Earned 100 AR Points! It’s Time to Celebrate!Posted by: harju in Classroom NewsWe are thrilled to have everyone in the class past the 100 AR point level. Our celebration will be at Uno’s (Thank you Ms. Dolan!) next week Tuesday. The children will make their own pizza, get a tour of the restaurant, enjoy beverages while we wait for our pizza and Eat Great Pizza! We have worked very hard to get to this level and all of the students are excited to have this wonderful opportunity to celebrate. The children arrived excited to learn (well actually they didn’t care for the let’s get to work welcome that I gave them!) We tried something new today that I called 4 Corners. The children have 4 kinds of activities to choose, with two assignments in each category. They could work on what they wanted first and choose partners when needed. They especially enjoyed the two poetry activities. The children had to choose a poem, practice reading it, and have someone else video tape them reciting it. We were able to watch a few of the videos later in the day and learned a few things. We also had a few bloopers — a few people didn’t know they had left the video camera on and one camera person made us a little seasick with the back and forth motion! We will work on these activities more Tuesday. Before Spring Break every child reached our class goal of 100 Accelerated Reader Points! Ms. Dolan promised the class a trip to Uno’s if this happened and we are working on the plans for that. We will let the children know as soon as we have the details worked out. The children have amazed me with their excitement for reading and learning. This class has been great fun to teach! Everyone got to 100 AR points this week! We got extra recess time today because we didn’t get a lot of recess time yesterday. We had the talent show, and the second grade sang the President’s song. Nicole, Katherine, and Elise performed together. Elise did double-dutch while Katherine and Nicole did skip-it. Maddie W. played the drums. Evan’s birthday is on Sunday, Happy Birthday Evan! We had paper-less homework this week as well as a paper-less day today. We watched a movie on how to tell time and how to use a calendar, then we worked in our math workbooks. We were read a lot of AR books this week including: Cowardly Clyde, Huge Harold, Horton Hears a Who, Froggy’s First Kiss, The Principals New Clothes, and Yard Sale. Miss Haywood also finished reading Sideways Stories From Wayside School. We are very excited to start Spring Break. A storytelling mime came to our school today to teach us about writing stories. First he showed us some of his mime stories and then asked us to write stories for him to act out. We worked in groups in our classrooms and later in the afternoon gathered to see which of our stories he would choose. He picked two stories written by second graders to act out. It was fun to see our stories come to life. We will continue to work on the stories we wrote and publish a few of them. We checked out www.Schooltubegames.com today. The children played Add it Up with a partner. To play the game the children find different combinations of numbers that add up to the target number. The more numbers they use in their addition sentence, the more points they can earn. Very fun! We are going to keep track of our high scores on the wiki page. The children spent time today illustrating a story that was written as a class.The Bunny Who Went to His Uncle’s Wedding was inspired by a story that was read with Miss Haywood. The class version of the story was published and each child is illustrating his or her own copy. We will use some of the illustrations to make an online version of the book. A few of the students wrote questions that are now part of the book’s AR quiz. The children will be able to take the AR test tomorrow. Blog Reporters: Emma and Emily We began our day by celebrating Mass with the school. We like sitting up by the altar. Langston, Alec, Bella, and Dakota are in a Schooltube interview! Click the link to view it and don’t forget to rate it! (5 stars of course!) A fun part of our day was using junk to make leprechaun traps. We want to catch a leprechaun so he will leave us chocolate or skittles. We’ll let you know what happens! Blog Reporters: Abbey, Emily, Kennedy, and Ethan We did lots of math today, including Rocket Math. We played crocodile in the Konrad room. Ethan got out first, then Kennedy and Abbey got out. Michael and Malik got to 100 AR points yesterday! Cami got to 150 and Alec got to 560! He’s going to smash the 2nd grade record. We drew bunnies in art today. Miss Haywood read us AR books in the Konrad room. We went to the library and AR tested at the end of the day today. We learned about Force and Motion yesterday by doing cool experiments. Ms. Dolan is read us The BFG. Miss Haywood is doing a fantastic job taking over the classroom. Yesterday we saw an awesome and interesting presentation on Women’s History. We made foldables for our spelling test. |
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