Community Helpers

A few weeks ago, our second graders completed the second history book! We finished up the last chapter, Community Helpers, with a special visit from one of our own community helpers, Dr. Wilson. Dr. Wilson graciously volunteered to come in and speak with the first and second graders about what she does as a "kid doctor." She even let the students listen in to the stethoscope, and we were able to discuss being healthy and what it is like going to the doctor. Thank you, Dr. Wilson!

Merry Christmas!!

The students did a fantastic job this past Thursday at our annual Christmas concert! They told us all about the writing of Silent Night and then sang it for us in their beautiful voices. All of their hard work paid off! Merry Christmas!

Before the show

                    

   

Letters To Soldiers

 Happy Thanksgiving! Our class had an awesome opportunity to write Christmas letters to share with soldiers who will not be able to be home for the holidays. The students took a lot of time to make these letters special. What an great way to serve others this holiday season! Here are the finished projects!

Buddy Reading

One of the best way to practice reading is by reading aloud, so once a week we are going to do an activity called Buddy Reading. Students are paired up with a buddy and each week one buddy will get to choose a book and read it to their buddy. Both students may then take an AR (Accelerated Reading) quiz on the book. This is a great opportunity for the students to show off the reading skills they have been practicing during reading groups as well as read some of their favorite books to a friend! Here are some pics of our first buddy reading! 

Ellie and Kinnedi

Gianina and Sophie

Peyton and Charlee

Izzy and Hannah

Lance and Kate

Kandaice, Abigail, and Donte'

Kylie and Abigail

 HAPPY BUDDY READING!!!

Elijah and Rebecca

The Fifty Nifty States

I am so proud of my second graders! We trekked through facts about all fifty states and made some really awesome and colorful maps this year. To finish out our states study we played United States Bingo! Here are some pics for you!

                                                             Abigail and Lance

                                                               Elijah and Gianina

                                                                    Kinnedi

                                                            Kylie and Rebecca

                                                              Abigail and Jacob

                                                           Ellie, Izzy, and Sophie

Telling Time!

So today we did the unthinkable....we wrote on the desks! Oh no!! (Don't worry I tested it before we did it.) Today we learned to tell time to the five minutes. The students drew clocks on their desks to practice telling time. They wrote both the hands for the analog clock as well as the digital time. They did a fabulous job! So parents....don't let your kids ask what time it is!! You can ask them!

                                                                       Jacob

                                                        Ellie, Izzy. and Sophie

                                                                      Kylie

                                                                       Kate

                                                                    Rebecca

                                                               Abigail and Lance

                                                                  Peyton and Kate

Word Surgery

This was such a fun activity that I had to share it with you! The students turned into surgeons in order to perform word surgery. Students were paired into teams and performed surgery on two words to turn them into one contraction. They were given masks, gloves, scalpel (scissors), stitches (tape), and an apostrophe (band aid) to complete their surgeries. The contraction turned out fantastic, and the students had a great time! More importantly we learned to form contractions!  Here are some pictures from the day!

Kinnedi and Jacob

Ellie and Elijah

Charlee, Gianina, and Sophie

Lance and Kandaice

Peyton L.and Izzy

Abigail Jennings and Donte'

Ellie and Elijah

Peyton C. and Abigail Johnson