Today was a very fun day! We played a fun spelling game this morning before taking our spelling test. It was called SPARKLE! Ask your child how we played the game. After our spelling test, we read the story "Miss Nelson is Missing". Viola Swamp is the substitute teacher in the story. Everyone thought Viola Swamp was SOO mean. For art class, we then made our own Viola Swamp. They turned out GREAT and will be displayed in the hallway this week! This afternoon we had gym and music. Then it was time for 3rd grade reading buddies. We love getting to see our 3rd grade buddies each week and reading with them. Math today was working with the number 5 and break- aparts for 5. Everyone did a nice job with this! Our day ended with free choice and the grand opening of B-Mart! :) We were all so excited to shop at our classroom store. Many of us got really cool stuff and others decided to save their money. Have a great weekend! I look forward to seeing you back here on Monday!
Today was FUN FRIDAY! We started by having morning meeting where our star student shared her poster and we had a chance to ask her questions about herself. Then we presented her with the letters we wrote to her throughout the week. She has been enjoying sitting in the star student chair all week during reading time.
After that we had our daily 5 centers, fun themed for fun friday! The boys and girls played sight word jenga, write-the-room, an Arthur's Reading Race reader's theater, read-to-self with some of my new books, and a word building board game with the teacher. It was a blast!
After this we had lunch and music, followed by a review math lesson. Then we set up our room like a store. Half the boys and girls were buyers, the other half store owners. They were given various objects with a price tag on them. The buys had to go around with their toy money and buy things. They had so much fun.
We built our stamina up to 7:33 today in read-to-self. Then we went to computer, followed by an assembly about pizza/food sales. We enjoyed spending our 15 turtle time minutes outside to end our week!
Reminders:
$30 for our activity fee due asap. Thanks so much for doing this!
On student told me they couldn't see the pictures on the blog-make sure you click on the blog title to pull up the post.
Enjoy your weekend!
Today we started with math! The special number we learned about was the number 5! STRAIGHT DOWN, COME AROUND......GIVE THAT DUDE A HAT!!!! LOVE IT!! Next, we read the story Miss Nelson is Missing!!! VIOLA SWAMP IS ONE SCARY TEACKER! Then, we made our very own Viola Swamp ladies. They are out in our hallway. Check them out when you get a chance. THEY ARE HUGE!!!! Next, we had phy ed! In phy ed we played freeze tag and circle tag! It was awesome! Then we had lunch. After lunch we went and met our new 3rd grade buddies. Ask me who mine is. Next we took our spelling test! We all did great! Then we had music where we watched brain pop and colored a grandma's feather bed. Then we learned about anew fundraiser we are doing. Check out our folders! Finally, we OPENED CMART!!!!! IT WAS A BLAST!!! I can't wait to see you all on MONDAY!!!! Have a wonderful weekend!
Today was a really good day for us. We started off with our spelling tests, which I just finished grading and they look great! Then we went right into our weekly reading tests. This consisted of vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, usage and mechanics, hand writing, and word recognition. A lot of testing for 2nd graders but they did wonderful and sat very quietly throughout it all. These weekly test scores go into the grade book and get averaged for report cards.
After this we did day 2 of centers. Then we had lunch and music, followed by a social studies lesson on neighborhoods. Then we went to PE and had snack. Today during snack the students had a chance to finish up unfinish work so they dont miss out on turtle time tomorrow (we have already earned 13 minutes of turtle time/choice time).
In math we explored our secret code cards. We talked about teen numbers and how they are broken down into groups of ten's plus more ones. We showed teen numbers using our money strips. Then we talked about word names and matched them to teen numbers.
We ended the day by learning two games called Graveyard (whenever I yell GRAVEYARD, whether during instruction or for fun, the boys and girls have to 'drop dead' until I say "Back to Life." This is something I will use if another teacher comes in to talk with me and we need compete silence for a minute. You can't talk if your in the graveyard!) and Whats in my Pocket (someone puts and object in their pocket and the boys and girls have to ask clues to solve the mystery).
Looking forward to fun friday tomorrow!
Read-to-someone center
Math Lesson
geo shapes exploration when finished with math assignment
Read-to-self center
Reminders:
$30 activity fund
Book orders due tomorrow!
Cereal Boxes
We started today with math. Today we learned about partners. Partners of 4 are 2 and 2, 3 and, 1 and 3. Check our folder for a letter that explains more. We did great with this. We even got a special surprise from Miss C....our very own BREAK APART PENCIL! Then, we had social studies. We learned about moving. We even have someone in our class who moved from China. Ask me who that friend is. Next, we broke up into groups and made posters of people moving now and back then. They were great! Before lunch we had computer. In computer we went Bailey's Book House and worked with letters and made a friend on the computer! After lunch we read a story No Sleep for the Sheep! It was so funny! Then we learned how to add a magic letter to words to make it a new word! THAT LETTER WAS>..................Ss! Cat - Cats! Then we read MAX CAT!! You can read it at home tonight! Then we had music. In music we colored and sang some songs. Finally we ended our day with the Daily 5! I can't wait to see you all tomorrow when CMART OPENS!!!!
Today was another great day! This morning we had Daily 5 again. Our favorite centers so far seem to be read to self and listening to reading. It's fun using headphones and a CD player. It is also pretty fun having someone read a book to us. We practiced building our spelling words with beads and pipe cleaners. We also worked on adding labels and a sentence to our pictures at the work on writing center. We had library this morning too. We got to listen to a good book and learn all about the rules of the library. After recess, we had computer class. In computer, we played on Bailey's Book House. We love going to computer class! Math today was learning about break apart numbers for 4. Using counters and break apart sticks "popsicle sticks" seemed to really help us! For social studies we learned all about moving. We now know that a long time ago people used to move using wagons, but today we use big moving trucks. Our day ended with handwriting. Our handwriting is looking better and better every day! :) Have a great night! I am looking forward to seeing you on FRIDAY!
Today we started out saying The Pledge of Allegiance extra proud! We talked about how September 11th is a day that we are EXTRA proud to be an American. (That was all that was said about today.) Then we went into math. In math, we learned about number 3 and number 4. Around the tree, around the tree....that's how you make the number 3! Boom, Boom, STRAIGHT DOWN! Next, we talked about communities, leaders, and their rules. We then started talking about our own communities that we are going to be making. Ask your child what their community name is! Before lunch we had music. After lunch we worked on handwriting! Our handwriting is getting better and better. :) I sent home a packet of how we write in first grade. This is just to have at home as a resource. Next, we had phy. ed. In phy ed. we jogged, skipped, and galloped. It was a lot of fun! Finally we ended our day with the DAILY FIVE!!! Ask your child what their favorite center was! I can't wait to see you tomorrow! 2 DAYS UNTIL CMART OPENS!!!
Today we had a review day to prepare for our spelling test and weekly reading test, happening tomorrow. The boys and girls did a great job-I think their ready! :)
During center time they worked with their spelling words, robust vocabulary, and sentence writing on their whiteboards. While they were with meet-with-teacher, they read a book at their fit reading level and then played the sight word game BAM. They love this game.
We worked on our silent reading stamina building. We read for 6 minutes before another broke stamina! They earned turtle time minutes for doing so well.
After lunch we did math. We worked with pennies, nickles, and dimes to show amounts of money. We will continue to build to this.
In social studies we talked about maps and globes. The vocab words compass and key were introduced. For review, we did a group writing activity describing a picture of an urban area.
We enjoyed going to computer and PE this afternoon.
Math work-showing our work and grouping using sticks and circles
We reviewed what CVC means (consonant vowel consonant)-and the boys and girls worked at their table spots to sort words.
Read to self time
Reminders-
Book orders Friday-Orders from you earns me lots of points to order more 2nd grade level books!
$30 for activity fund asap (Thank you!! Greatly appreciated!)
School Pictures Friday Sep 27th
Today right away we all did our morning routine without any reminders! Then, we did our calendar. It was time for reading next. It was our first day doing Daily 5. We did awesome! We even earned tally marks. Our daily 5 centers are: read to self, listening to reading, meet with the teacher, word work, and work on writing. Daily 5 was tons of fun! This afternoon, we had music and library. Some of us got to check out another book. Social studies today was learning about a community and leaders. We ended our day with math. Math today was all the numbers 3 and 4. Homework again tonight, don't forget! See you all back here tomorrow!
Today in Language Arts we worked with some new and old robust vocabulary-ignore, dangerous, style, passion, challenge, underestimate, proficient, and heed. We also reviewed sight words, and played a smartboard game about short a's. We did a D.O.L practice sheet, focusing on capitalization and punctuation. We finished up our centers from yesterday. After lunch we went straight to PE, came back and did social studies. There, we talked about different kinds of groups-family groups, school groups, country groups, etc. We tied that to how different groups have different sets of rules.
Meet-With-Teacher center
Free reading when work was complete After music we did more of our 3rd grade math assessment, followed by a math lesson on finding patterns when adding 0's and 1's.
The boys and girls also learned how to earn a reward as a whole class--when everyone is on task they can get turtle time minutes. These minutes determine how much free time they get on Fun Friday.
No math homework tonight! Reminders: Book Orders due Friday the 13th. School Pictures are Friday, September 27 Still Needed: old socks, cereal boxes, and ink cartilages :) Thanks!!
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