Fabulous Friday!

Here are the High Five events from our day!

5.  We had a special treat!  We had a Starburst because we have all been doing and returning our homework.

4.  We had Read to Self time for 18 minutes!

3.  In Art, we painted our medallions.

2.  We continued to work on our Monster descriptions.  Ms. A says they look amazing and we are doing a great job of describing our creatures!  We will start drawing them on Monday.

1.  In math, we practiced telling time to the hour and half hour.  We have one page of homework.


Have a super weekend!

Playing 10 more and 10 less

Serious thinking!

Having fun learning!

10 more or 10 less

Monday News!

5.  Art - We started our lions. They have lots of colors and lots of patterns.

4.  We read I Need my Monster  by Amanda Noll.  We are going to create our own monsters and write a descriptive paragraph about them.

3.  We had more Read to Self time.  We are up to 14 minutes!

2.  In math we played the broken calculator game.

1.  We learned about picking "Good Fit" books.

Friday Photos!

Red, White and Blue!

Having fun on the playground

Extra Recess!

Stopping for a quick picture!

Using calculators in math!

Exploring repeated addition

Thinking and learning

Checking my work

Tuesday High Five!

Here are the best things we did today!

5.  We went to Art and started a clay project.

4.  In math we learned about clocks and time.  We also did our first mathboxes of the year.

3.  We went to the Library!  We met Ms. Z and Mrs. McNulty and learned about how to use the library.  We got to check out two books.

2.  Ms. Anderson read us another chapter from Gooney Bird Greene.  It is really funny!

1.  We are building stamina for reading.  We practiced Read to Self for 5 minutes.  It was wonderful!

Read to Self

Reading the entire time!

Getting started right away!

Reading our own books.

Building stamina for reading!

Our First Week!

 Friday, we made quilts to represent our special memories from our first week in second grade.  Here are a few samples of our quilts:

We also worked on our hopes and dreams for second grade.  Each student wrote about and illustrated  their hope.  Here are a few examples:

We are very excited for our week next week!  Have a super weekend!

First Day of Second Grade !

Today was a wonderful day!  It was very hot !  Here are the top five things that happened today:

5.  Ms. Anderson read Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook.  In the book, all of the characters popped out of the story and came to life.

4.  We learned about how to behave in the lunchroom.  We made a chart of what the lunchroom should look like, sound like and feel like.  Ms. Connelly asked us to put it up in the lunchroom.

3.  In math we learned about the numberline.

2.  We went to Phy. Ed. and met Mr. DePrez.  We played a tag game and jumped rope.

1.  Tonight we have four things to share with our families.

It was a super fun day and tomorrow will be even better!

Welcome to Room 109 !

Yesterday was Meet Your Teacher at Brimhall School.  It was wonderful to meet all of the students and their families who will be a part of our class.  I am looking forward to a great year together!

Here are a few pictures of our classroom:

This is our Guided Reading area where we will meet in small groups to learn about how to be good readers.

Wow!  Check our Classroom Library!

Read, Set, Learn!

We will learn about writing letters this year.

Wonderful Words and Literacy Work

Have a fun weekend and see you Tuesday!

Ms. Anderson