Shayan is student of the week!

We started our day with our Special, Phys. Ed. After Phys. Ed. we completed our morning work and went to morning meeting. During our greeting we stated something that we were thankful for this year. Next, Shayan presented his student of the week poster. After that we read our poem for the cycle, Popcorn! After morning meeting we corrected our sentences for the day and headed out to recess. Following recess, Mrs. Miller read more of The Doll People to us. Mrs. Miller then asked us to review what we learned about popcorn. We created popcorn mosaics and recorded a fact about popcorn. It was then time for lunch. After lunch we worked in Writer's Workshop. We continued to work on nonfiction writing and write in our journals. Three more students presented their pumpkin stories. After writing it was time for Math. Today we worked on expanded form of 2-digit numbers. We used representations of 2-digit numbers to name the place and value of the digits. At the end of the day we took a closer look at popcorn. We watched a short video of a popcorn kernel popping in slow motion and we discussed how we thought a popcorn kernel "popped." We did some research on the internet and found out how it actually pops. (Ask me how!) Next, we popped 100 kernels of popcorn stored at room temperature, 100 kernels kept in the refrigerator, 100 kernels soaked in water and 100 kernels dried in the oven. We counted the number of kernels that fully popped. Tomorrow we will use our senses to describe the popped kernels from each type of kernel. There are some real differences! We will record our observations and make some conclusions. Our homework tonight is math - place value. Tomorrow is Day 4. We have Music.

We started our day with our special, Library. After Library we completed our morning work and had our morning meeting. During morning meeting we created and answered questions about a graph of our favorite Thanksgiving activities. We read our poem for the cycle, Weather, paying close attention to our smoothness and expression as we read. We began a new read aloud today, The Doll People. (Ask me who Kate and Nora are.) During Guided Reading Mrs. Peckmann introduced us to the center rotation schedule and our responsibilities during reading groups. For lunch today we had our turkey holiday meal. Yummy!!! After lunch we corrected our sentences for the day and moved onto math. We continued to explore patterns on the hundreds chart and played a game with a partner where we needed to identify numbers that were 1 more, 1 less, 10 more and 10 less than a number written on a card. After afternoon recess, Mrs. Smeltzer's Kindergarten class visited our data collection stations. We then made graphs of the choices the Kindergarten students made. Our homework tonight is a place value practice sheet and to study for our spelling test tomorrow. Our special tomorrow is Art.

Parent Visitation Day

We began our day be welcoming Mrs. Kari Miller to our classroom. Mrs. Miller is a professional block student from Millersville University who will be spending the next 4 weeks in our classroom in order to prepare for her student teaching in the spring. Mrs. Miller introduced herself to us by showing us some items that were meaningful to her (ask me what she shared!). At morning meeting we greeted each other with animal sounds. That certainly woke us up on a Monday morning! After morning meeting we went to our special of the day, Music. After Music and recess it was time to welcome many parents and other adult visitors to our classroom. Half of us presented our culture projects to our guests using the Smartboard. Next it was time for lunch. After lunch we set up our data collection posters to collect data from the adults who were able to attend this part of our day. After that the other half of us presnted our culture projects. At the end of the day, Miss Gagne, a fresheman education student who spent Monday afternoons with us the past few weeks, presented a lesson on her country of origin, Cananda. She taught us how to say please and thank you in french. We would like to thank all of the adults who were able to visit our classroom today! Homework tonight is math: graphing. Our special tomorrow is Library.

We began our day with our Special - Phys. Ed. After Phys. Ed. we practiced and refined our culture project presentations for Monday. We have all worked so hard and it really shows! In math today we used an interactive hundreds board to "Splat" numbers and follow patterns. At the end of the day we made a turkey glyph using clues about what we do on Thanksgiving. Look for the glyphs on the classroom door when you come to visit on Monday. Monday will be a Day 4. We have Music. Parent Visitation is 10:00 - 2:30.

Wow! What a busy day in second grade. We started our day with morning meeting It is the 56th day of school. Shortly after morning meeting we enjoyed a fluency lesson from Mrs. Thomas using the Smartboard. We had fun reading with accuracy and with proper phrasing and expression. Because of the rain we had indoor recess today. After recess we worked in Writer's Workshop. Some of us are publishing our pumpkin stories while others are working on a nonfiction writing about bats. Mrs. Peckmann met with the red triangle group today. After lunch, Miss Decker's first grade class came to visit our data collection stations. We then made a bar graph of the data we collected. Next our 5th grade buddies came to listen to our culture project presentations. Our buddies gave us feedback about what we did well and what we could improve. Our 5th grade buddies also visited our data collection stations. We also graphed the results from our 5th grade buddies. We had a terrific day! Our homework tonight is graphing. Our special tomorrow is Phys. Ed.