Math Centers

Happy Wednesday!
       Today we participated in our first math center day! Students participated in 5 centers throughout math class. Here is a quick look at four of our centers! (The fifth center was independent study - completing their math page.)

Race Against Time
Students had to tell the time on the clocks to move ahead on the board game.

BrainPop Jr.
Students watched a video on finding temperature followed with a computer quiz.

Roll 'em, Add 'em
Students rolled two dice then wrote the combination needed to add them.

Money Cups
Students filled cups with certain amounts of money.

Center day was a huge success! I hope they will be looking forward to the next one! 

Playdoh Spelling Words

Greetings!
    To introduce our spelling words this week, we spent today making each word in playdoh letters! It was super fun and a great way to help our brains really think about each letter we are forming to make each word! And who doesn't love Playdoh!?

Seatwork Centers

     Happy Saturday!
  This past week, we started centers during seatwork! If students worked hard on the first four items of seatwork, they got to choose a center. There are three to four centers a week and vary depending on what we are learning! This week students could choose from Book Buddies, Listening, and BrainPop Jr. The goal is that by the end of the week, the students have visited each center! Next week we will add a spelling center to the mix! Enjoy these pics! (I was in working in reading groups so I wasn't able to snap a picture of everyone, but wanted you to get a visual of center time!)

Taking Care of Our Teeth

Today in science we talked about our teeth! We discussed how to keep our teeth healthy by brushing them, seeing a dentist regularly, and of course eating healthy! Here are some pictures of the students cutting out some different food pictures and pasting them under healthy looking teeth or unhealthy teeth! And then of course we had to add some teethy smile pictures!

Puppets!

On both Tuesday and Wednesday, the second grade had some special guests come by the room! The high school speech students dropped in and read a story to us using their puppets! The speech class ha been practicing using puppets while reading to tell a story. The students loved it! Both stories were hilarious and with the added puppets it made for a fantastic time! We heard The Fox and The Little Read Hen and How to Babysit a Grandpa. Here are some pictures!

Table Time

     Today we learned how to tell time to the half hour! With the recent addition of the tables to our classroom, we decided to officially break them in today and write on them! What??! Yes! We used dry erase markers to draw clocks and then practiced both digital and analog times. The students did fantastic and it was fun to write on the tables!

 

And We're Off!

Another great start to what is shaping up to be a wonderful year! What better way to practice our spelling words than with shaving cream. Messy but fun!