Pinocchio!

Today we went to the Children's Theatre to see a play.  We saw Pinocchio and it was awesome.  Here are a few pages from our Special Times in Second Grade.

We made the Blog!

Did you know Ms. Zbacnik, our librarian, has a blog? 

Yep, she sure does and we made her blog!  We were looking at new books in the library the other day and she snapped a few pictures of us and used them on her blog!  Click here to see us! 

We are very excited about all of the new books for our library.  Here are a few favorites:

Crazy Sock Day!

Ms. A's crazy socks!

Geometric Art

Today we made geometric art designs.  Here is how we did it:

 First we had to decide if we wanted to use warm or cool colors.  Then we had to pick three colors to use.  It was very hard to stick to just three colors!




 We had to color our shapes, which sounded easy, but there was one rule, you could not color two shapes that had touching sides the same color.

It really was more of a math problem than we thought, but with some perseverance we were able to do it.

Crazy Sock Design!

Today we made Crazy Socks to get ready for Crazy Sock Day on Friday!

First, in pencil, we made our design.  We used geometric shapes and our pattern block template to make our socks.  

 We worked very carefully and really thought out how we wanted our design to look.

 Next we colored our socks using marker and crayon.  This took a long time because we were being very purposeful in our design.

 Then, we colored our shoes. 

Last, we glued the sock and shoe to black construction paper.  They turned out very cute!

Eight Exciting Events!

Here are the top 8 events from last week at school:

- We went to the 6th grade music concert.  We were impressed by their singing and will always remember the boys who were dressed up and acting out the song.

-  In music we learned a new song and got a chance to try acting it out!  We are very excited for OUR concert in May.

- It snowed last weekend and there was so much snow on the playground!  We loved building snow forts and snowmen.  We also are the first winners of the playground trophy for good behavior!

- We continued reading books by Mo Willems and read Knuffle Bunny Too and Knuffle Bunny Free.  We also watched the first Knuffle Bunny book on bookflix.

-  We got to have lunch in the classroom with Ms. Anderson.  We earned this because of our excellent behavior during Literacy Workshop.

-  We switched desks.  Some of us are very excited while others are learning to live with our new places.  : )

-  We started learning about our heart.  Click here for link to a video to learn more about the heart.

- We learned that we will be going to the Children's Theatre in January to see Pinocchio.

We are looking forward to a wonderful week with some special experiences along the way!

Geometry!

 We have had a busy week learning about Geometry!  

 One activity we did was to sort shapes by the number of sides, color, thickness etc.  Can you guess the rule?

 What's my Rule?

 Another activity we did was to make various shapes on our geoboards.  We found it was pretty easy to make a triangle and square, but it was more difficult to make a pentagon and hexagon.

 We had to record our shapes on our geoboard shapes recording sheet.

 SHAPES!  SHAPES!  SHAPES!

 We had to cut triangles and rectangles and then use them to make other shapes.  It was a challenge!