Read-a-Thon

During the month of November we are having a Read-a-Thon at Brimhall!  As an entire school we are trying to read 1.5 million minutes.  Students and staff are keeping track of the minutes we read each day at home and classroom teachers are keeping track of minutes read in school.

Happy Reading !

As a part of the Read-a-Thon the Second grade will be having a Read-In  the morning of Wednesday, November 21st.  We will spend the entire morning reading, listening to stories, watching Bookflix etc.  Students can bring one thing to read with such as a stuffed animal or pillow.  They can also bring a special drink, no pop please.  We will also enjoy a special treat.

Please be sure to send the blue Read-a-Thon calendar  to school every Tuesday.  

Keep up the good reading everyone!

Here is a video made by a Brimhall volunteer, students and staff to promote the Read-a-Thon!

                                                          Read-a-Thon Video

We went to the Library and . . .

We listened to Duck!  Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.  It is about a drawing that looks like a duck and a rabbit depending on how you look at it.  This book used speech stems to tell the story.  The two people telling the story disagreed about whether the character was a duck or a rabbit.  In the end they compromised and looked at the drawing from the perspective of the other person.  We liked this story because the illustrator changed the surroundings of the drawing to try and convince us that it was a duck or a rabbit.

Field Trip to City Hall

Today we went to the Roseville City Hall.  It was a wonderful field trip!  We met a police officer and a firefighter.  We even got to meet the mayor of Roseville!  

We learned:
- police officers have a classroom just like we do.
- firefighters wear a lot of gear when fighting fires.
- fire trucks cost a lot of money.
- the city council helps the mayor make decisions.
- the mayor is 44 years old. : )


 Thanks to A.'s mom for going with us and taking pictures.  Thank you also to the people who work at City Hall for helping us have such a wonderful experience. 

Here are a few entries in our Special Times
in Second Grade about our trip.

Serious about series!

Today we went to the library and Ms. Zbacnik introduced us to some popular series books she thought we might enjoy.

Here are the three she told us about:

Ready Freddy 

Amelia Bedelia

Judy Moody

They all looked and sounded really good and we were very excited to start reading!

The Recess Queen

I asked Michael Stanefski, school social worker, to describe his recent visit to our classroom. 

Jeanne Connelly, Jenie Cirilli-Raether and I visited every classroom in the building to talk about bullying. Our goal was to create a common definition of what bullying is (and what it is not), identify different ways bullying can happen, determine strategies for how to address bullying name people students can go to for help. To help us have that conversation we read the book The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill and Laura Huliska-Beith.

Our definition consists of three elements; bullying includes hurtful words or actions, is intentional, and happens more than once. The different types of bullying we discussed were physical, verbal and relational. Students were very engaged in the presentation and excited to identify people they could go to for help.


Thanks to Michael, Jeanne and Jenie for their visit.  It was a wonderful book and discussion!

   

  

Today I earned a Bengal Pride Ticket because...

I got started right away on my morning work.        - C.

I used a Math Reference book when I needed help.           - A.

I got right to work during Literacy time.        - S.

I get started on my journal without being reminded.          - S.

I was working quietly during Daily Word Fun.                   - M.

I got my math journal out and started.                - C.

Please return the field trip permission slip for going to City Hall at the end of October.

Wednesday

Today we:

5.  Got to bring home our medallions from art.  A few people have to wait until next time because their medallion wasn't ready yet.

Marvelous Medallions !

4.  Learned about weighing things and heavier and lighter in math.

3.  Learned more about goods, services and income.  We also talked about spending and saving money.

2.  Started reading books by Doreen Cronin.  We will be reading books by her this month. 

1.  Practiced Literacy Workshop time...boy are we getting good!

Picture day tomorrow!  : )