Our Favorite book is . . .

For "I Love to Read" month each class is decorating their door or area outside their door with their favorite book.  Our class selected Two Bobbies by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery.

Each student made an origami cat or dog  to look like the real animals from the story.  Together we wrote a summary of the book and brainstormed a list of things we can do do show kindness to others.

Our display turned out very well.  The cats and dogs are very individual and realistic looking. 

Here is a link to the Two Bobbies website.

February - I Love to Read Month !

Here are a few things we are doing to celebrate I Love to Read month !

Drop Everything and Read - During the week of February 4 - 8 we are having surprise D.E.A.R. time.  We must be ready to read at any time during that week. 

Door Decorating Contest - Each class has selected their favorite book and is making a door decoration display.  Classes will have the chance to walk through the entire school and see what other classes are reading.

What are You Reading?   - Each student is keeping a log of what they are currently reading.  In second grade we are keeping track of what our class is reading and we are making an all grade level display of what we are reading at the end of the hallway.

Reading Party times 2! - On February 22nd and March 1st we are having a Reading Party!  On February 22nd our class will be having a reading party all morning, kind of like the one we had in the fall.  On March 1st, the entire school will have a reading party the last hour of the day.  It should be lots of fun!

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!