Winter Fun!

The students have been working hard on Iowa Assessments this week. They have earned many pom poms and filled our class bucket so we will be having a pajama day tomorrow! Please have the second graders wear their pajamas to school! Valentines Day is just around the corner! Feel free to send Valentines anytime next week. We will be making Valentines bags here at school. I will type out the class list on the bottom of this blog post.

Here are some updates on what we have been working on since Christmas break:

In reading, we have been working hard on comprehension strategies and vocabulary. The students have been learning new vocabulary words from our read aloud books as well as small group books. At home I encourage you to please read every night with the second graders! I hope you are amazed at the progress they have made since the Fall! I found some great resources that you can use at home for practicing comprehension skills! 

Here is the website that I found these tips from: 

http://fun-in-first.blogspot.com/2013/07/tips-for-parentshow-to-help-my-child.html

For writing we have been working on persuasive writings. The students favorite persuasive writing was with a partner. They had to choose their favorite animal, sport, game, or other and then write about why theirs was the best. The students created a partner popplet on the iPads to sort their ideas before the writing. Here are their popplets:

Kaleb J and Ethan

Best Team: Seahawks

Libby and Kiana 

Best Season: Summer

Luther and Maia

Best Pet: Cats

Peyton and Sicily

Best Season: Summer

Sam and Will

Best Team: Seahawks

Emma M, Emma W, Taylor and Hailie

Best Animal: Panda

Caleb B, Conner, and Benson

Best Game: Minecraft

Ian and Dietrich

Best Game: Minecraft

In math we have been working hard on addition and subtraction with and without regrouping, time and money! 

During social studies we have been learning about nutrition and the food groups! Yesterday was the 100th day of school and we did many fun activities. The students favorite was to see how many times they could do an activity in 100 seconds. They had to make an estimation and then try and see how many times they could hop up and down, clap their hands, and write their names in 100 seconds. 

Here are two pictures of the class on the 100th day :)

Class List

Benson

Caleb

Carter 

Conner

Dietrich 

Emma M 

Emma W 

Ethan

Hailie

Ian 

Jarred 

Kaleb

Kiana

Libby 

Luther 

Maia

Peyton

Sam 

Sicily

Taylor

Terrence

William

Halloween, Bats, and Spiders

We had a blast at our Halloween parade and party! Here are some pictures from our day:

We have been researching and writing about spiders and bats over the last couple of weeks! The students are getting very good at researching! They have been working hard with partners to find  information in books and on the web!

On Wednesday we filled our classroom bucket! The students got to chew gum and have 20 minutes of iPad free time! They worked really hard to fill their bucket and they were very excited to fill it 

again  :)

Kenue Park Field Trip, Fire Station and Fishing

We went to Kenue Park to learn more about pioneers! At Kenue Park we had four stations. We visited Ron who talked to us about pioneer life. Then we went to the one room school house to see how school was different in the past. The students learned how to play games that pioneer kids used to play and we went on a nature hike with Charles! It was such a fun trip and the students learned a lot about pioneer life! They created a writing and 30 hands video on the iPads about the field trip! I have also attached some pictures of the students on the field trip.


Here is our video about our field trip! You can watch all of the videos on this playlist or click on it to watch individual videos :)





Here are some pictures from our field trip!

This week is fire safety week so we took a trip to the fire station. The second graders loved learning about the fire trucks and equipment. Of course they loved spraying the water as well! We also created a floor plan of their house and marked all of the exits for each room. Here are some pictures from our trip to the fire station:

Here are some pictures from our fishing trip at the fish hatchery!