Friday, December 9, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Highlights from the Week 9/19-9/23
Here are some things we've been working on in second grade:
-Starting morning spelling activities in groups of 3-4
-Learning a little about sentence structure and parts of speech
-Practicing different ways to represent numbers
-Playing math games: Gridlock, Countdown, Race to a Square, and more!
-Starting morning spelling activities in groups of 3-4
-Learning a little about sentence structure and parts of speech
-Practicing different ways to represent numbers
-Playing math games: Gridlock, Countdown, Race to a Square, and more!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Highlights from The First Two Weeks 9/6-9/16
Here are some of the things we've been working on in second grade:
-Collaborative projects with room 9A and 9B: Toothpick Togetherness (see pics below), Dreamcatchers, & Mosaic Portraits using color values
-Started talking about geography and explored 2 different maps
-Writing summer stories
-Learned 3 new math games--Gridlock, Race to a Square, and Countdown
-Started our math notebooks and math problems of the day
-Alphabet Alliterations
-Journal Writing
-Met our Reading Buddies
-Found out who our first Mystery Reader was!!!
-Collaborative projects with room 9A and 9B: Toothpick Togetherness (see pics below), Dreamcatchers, & Mosaic Portraits using color values
-Started talking about geography and explored 2 different maps
-Writing summer stories
-Learned 3 new math games--Gridlock, Race to a Square, and Countdown
-Started our math notebooks and math problems of the day
-Alphabet Alliterations
-Journal Writing
-Met our Reading Buddies
-Found out who our first Mystery Reader was!!!
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Logos for 2nd Grade Store
Here are some of the logos that Room 9 students created. Can you guess which two were the favorites???
Bret Conover the Illustrator!!!
Bret came to talk to the students about illustrating a picture book today--it took him a whole YEAR and many many drafts before each picture was completed!!!
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Excitement in the Classroom
Visitors to Room 9 this week: A Mariachi band that came for Cinco de Mayo and Robbie Robbins from IDW Publishing, who's helping us create a logo for our school store products. (Details coming soon about that!)
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Family Trees
Hadley's dad came in to talk about family trees today. He showed us two from his family that date back over 200 years! We found out that Hadley has relatives that were some of the first people to explore California. The students then started to make their own family trees.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Academic Highlights!
Here's what we've been working on recently:
-Comprehension skills--we were focusing on making connections while we read. We have now moved on to answering specific comprehension questions and summarizing stories.
-Writing--we read many versions of The Gingerbread Man (including The Gingerbread Pirates and The Gingerbread Superhero) and the students each wrote their own version. Keep an eye out for these great pieces of writing to come home soon!
-Phonics/Spelling--we have been looking at rules for adding endings (-s, -ed, -ing) to words
-Math--we have studied the main types of story problems. The students practiced solving each type, shared their strategies with their classmates, and wrote their own story problems. These will be in a book coming home soon also!
Here's a peek at what's coming up:
-Practicing taking notes with non-fiction books
-Creating math board games
-Making a heritage "quilt" with the countries from each student's ancestry
-Comprehension skills--we were focusing on making connections while we read. We have now moved on to answering specific comprehension questions and summarizing stories.
-Writing--we read many versions of The Gingerbread Man (including The Gingerbread Pirates and The Gingerbread Superhero) and the students each wrote their own version. Keep an eye out for these great pieces of writing to come home soon!
-Phonics/Spelling--we have been looking at rules for adding endings (-s, -ed, -ing) to words
-Math--we have studied the main types of story problems. The students practiced solving each type, shared their strategies with their classmates, and wrote their own story problems. These will be in a book coming home soon also!
Here's a peek at what's coming up:
-Practicing taking notes with non-fiction books
-Creating math board games
-Making a heritage "quilt" with the countries from each student's ancestry
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