Hopes and Dreams for 2012

At the start of the school year we each wrote a hope or dream for our year in 2nd grade.  Today, we spent some time talking about those and revisiting the ideas.

Here are some of our Hopes and Dreams for 2012:

-  We hope to learn how to write in cursive.

-  We hope to earn a popcorn party for being quiet and respectful in the lunchroom.

-  We hope that we continue to make new friends.

-  We hope to learn more and get smarter.

-  We hope to find more good fit books.

-  We hope to go on another field trip.

-  We hope one of our classmates is the Bengal Pride winner in the near future.

-  We hope to be as smart as the third graders!

Grrrr...show us your best Bengal Tiger!

Wearing our tiger masks while waiting to go to the assembly.

Showing Bengal Pride!

Yesterday we had our 10,000 ticket celebration!

L and H. tigers

Four tigerrrrrrs.

A. tiger

The whole school went to an assembly in the afternoon.    We made tiger masks to wear to the assembly.

  As a school we have earned over 10,000 tickets this year.  The Second grade has earned the most tickets of any grade level in the school. 

  All the school staff made a great big circle around all of the students to show us that they are here to help us learn, be safe, be responsible and grow to be a better person.

L. tiger

Tigers at the assembly.

Then,  the doorbell rang and the Brimhall mascot jumped out of a box!  The mascot is a Bengal Tiger!  At the very end of the assembly our class got to have a picture taken with the Bengal tiger.  We felt very excited, awesome and proud.

The whole class and the Bengal Tiger!

Terrific Tuesday !

Today we had three artistic opportunities...

We made ours out of construction paper.
They turned out very beautiful!

1.  We made tiger masks to wear to the 10,000 ticket celebration on Wednesday.  We are very excited!

2.  We made paper flowers this afternoon.  It was challenging but with a little help it turned out to be fun.  We hung them in the classroom, in the hallway and even in the front office.

3.  We had Art this afternoon and tired to paint our landscapes.  Mr. Moore said we will do this next time.


Other fun things about today:
- In the Media Center we got to look at new books Ms. Zbacnik purchased for the library.  We saw many books we would like to check out in the future.  We even made her blog!

-  We got to have lunch with Mrs. Anderson as a reward for good behavior during Literacy Workshop.

Miracle Monday

It was a fabulous day in our class!

5.  In gym we did swinging and climbing.  We had to remember to land on our feet.

4.  We learned about the geography of the United States.  We learned many things but particularly we liked the 5 Great Lakes and that we are very lucky to live in Minnesota because we touch a Great Lake and have the Mississippi River.

3.  We made a Symmetry project by folding a sqaure piece of paper in half and cutting on the folded side.

2.  Our guest reader, Mrs. Erdahl read for the last time this year.  She is going to Arizona for the winter and will return April 1st.

1.  In Literacy we studied contractions.  Conttractions are two words that are pushed together into one and some letters are taken out.

We are so lucky because we have no homework except reading for 20 minutes and studying spelling words.

Today I got a Bengal Pride Ticket because...

5.  B got a Bengal Pride ticket because she was being honest and fair while playing the game.

4.  H got a Bengal Pride ticket because he had a neat coat hook.

3.  H got a Bengal Pride ticket because she helped put balls away in gym.

2.  E got a Bengal Pride ticket for being quiet and working on her Daily Word Fun.

1.  E got a Bengal Pride ticket because she was being quiet in line.

Tomorrow we hope to earn even more Bengal Pride tickets!  Keep up the good work!

Wonderful Wednesday

We started the day with the entire class earning Bengal Pride tickets for having a clean and neat hallway and coat hook area.

5.  In Art we started a landscaping project.  We can select an area to draw in pencil and then we will add paint later.  We have to add details like things that belong outside.  We had to start with the horizon line.

4.  We have spent the last two days during writing taking turns trading out our books in our Literacy bags.  We all have new books to read for the next few weeks.

3.  We had indoor recess and watched Tuesday by David Wiesner.  Tuesday is a wordless picture book.

2.  We went to the Library today and read Chalk  by Bill Thomson with Mr. Cutts.  Chalk is a unique book because it is a wordless picture book.  One of our favorite parts of the book was when the chalk dinosaur came to life.

1.  We started learning geography.  We learned about the 7 continents and 4 major oceans.

Thursday

Today is the first time we have had a chance to blog this week!  Here are a few thoughts from today:

5.  We started reading Babe by Dick King-Smith on Wednesday and continued with chapter 2 today.  We are hoping to watch the movie before break.

4.  We went to the media center to visit Ms. Zbacnik and Mrs. McNulty.  We learned about the  Biblioburro.

3.  In Art we are starting a new project.  We are learning about landscapes. 

2.  In health we learned about the importance of having a healthy breakfast.  We are having a test tomorrow about healthy eating.

1.  In math we learned about lines of symmetry.

Tomorrow is Bengal Pride School colors day and report cards will go home.  To show Bengal pride you can wear navy blue, blue, gray or white.