Well it's been awhile...

Sorry my Cool Cats :/ I've decided that I am going to blog once a month. Maybe more but I think I'll be able to keep up with once a month! I know it's been awhile but we have been super busy in 2nd Grade these past 2 months!  Here we go...our past two months have looked a little bit like this!

Our January was filled with learning Main Idea, ABC Order to the second letter, Present Verbs, Past Verbs, Prefixes Un- and Re-, Helping Verbs and Writing Friendly Letters.

We also had our AR Party and went bowling! Here are some pictures:

We also had lots of fun in our makerspace last month:

 

While February isn't over yet we have done lots of things!! We have learned Text Features that include Title Page, Table of Contents, Glossary and Index, Suffixes -ed, and -ing, Adjectives, Resource Materials (so far just Dictionary), Words in Context, Contractions and Apostrophes, and How to Write an Invitation. We also have had our 100th Day of School, our Valentine's Party, and a week of Science Experiments!!

Here are pictures from our 100th day of school! We also had one of my former students pay us and visit and read a book to us!

 <Testing out our Selfie Stick!

We had lots of singing Valentine's come to our class and had lots of fun at our class party! 

During our week of science activities we:

• Coughed on bread hoping to grow mold (still hasn't so the kids think they don't have germs...)
• Changed the colors of flowers!
• Walking Water
• Grew Valentine Crystals
• Converstation Heart science

 




 

In our Markerspace we got new stations this month and got to make some Lego Movies!

Dec. 14- Dec. 17th

My cool cats had a very crazy week!!

 Throughout our week we:

• Got to watch Reindeer Cam and saw the Grinch!!!
• Went to the STEM Lab twice!! (They loved that!)
• Had the High School Band play us Christmas songs at lunch!
• Got to visit with Santa!
• Made a green screen video! Happy Holidays
• Wrapped presents for Family Members!
• Made a handprint wreath that I will probably keep up all year!
• Watch the Santa Claus 2 with the whole school in the gym!
• and last but not least had an AWESOME Christmas Party!!

Unfortunately for this blog I only have pictures from our Christmas party. My phone started to act crazy on Friday and it would restart over and over but never really boot up. I tried to backup my phone but didn't get to soon enough...I ended up getting a new phone the following Monday but the only backup I could use was from Sunday the 13th :( So i ended up losing all the awesome videos and pictures from the STEM lab, Santa, and our green screen video. Luckily some things I had already uploaded to Twitter.

This break has been awesome but boy am I ready to see my kiddos again!!! All I could think of these past few days with this icy snow storm is I hope all my kids are somewhere warm, safe and have plenty to eat. 

                 


                      
               

                              
                     

                 

                    
                           

                 

                         

December 7-11

This week has been super crazy!! We had different schedules to get ready for the 3rd and 4th grade music programs. Who would have known that such a slight change would throw me so off.

Monday we had an Author visit with Darleen Bailey Beard. The kids loved hearing about her and about some of the books she has written. After talking to the kids she signed some books for those students who bought one of her books. She even ate lunch with a couple of lucky kiddos!

 Our random act of kindness was picking up little from around the school.

Tuesday we practiced as a class using the app ZooKazam for our visitors that came on Wednesday. I had groups of students take a picture with an animal but they didn't know what the animal was until after I had taken the picture! Our random act of kindness was taking everyone in the office candy canes and a note!

Wednesday we had visitors from Altus to check our some of the technology we use. We got into groups and did a research project on Polar Bears. Every student wrote down 3 facts they learned about polar bears from the app ZooKazam.We also took pictures with a polar bear in our small groups and as a class! Later we took those facts and wrote them on a polar bear paper and did a craft for it. Those ended up looking like this:

Our random act of kindness was giving every second grade teacher a flower and a few notes. 

Thursday morning we got watch the 3rd graders practice for their music program. Our class completely missed PE because it was at a different time than usual and I guess my brain decided not to work! I even had it written down in my lesson plans and still didn't remember! Our random act of kindness was giving the janitors little boxes of laffy taffy and notes to go with them!

Friday we watched the 4th grade music program and I remembered to send the kids to PE after it (they would not have let me forget this time!!!)! We played a couple of rounds of sparkle to practice our spelling words and the we had our spelling test, math facts test, and our written math test. 

Educational Recap:

Phonics: Ghost Letter Digraph gn, wr, kn. Diphthong ou and Digraph ou. Diphthong ow and Digraph ow. Suffixes -er, 

-est, and -y

Math: Drawing a number line. Drawing line segments to the nearest inch. Locating points on a number line. Identifying the angles of a polygon. Adding three or more single-digit numbers.

We learned Irregular Verbs, Cause and Effect, and Reviewed Synonyms and Antonyms!

This week was also when we did our December STAR testing.