Holiday Stories with Partners

Learning Keynote

Country Research Project

Special Friends 2012

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Chicken Adventures!

The second and fourth grade reading buddies are writing stories about a chicken adventure!!!  Here is their creative collaboration in action:

Hanging Out at Recess

Pictures from Ellen

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Snapshots from Second Grade

Here are some photo highlights from the past two weeks--the students performed puppet shows with their fourth grade reading buddies, they wrote biographies of each other and presented them at Community Meeting, and they met a real author in the Library!

Fun in the Computer Lab

The students have been working on their About Me box project using Google images and playing math games on http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com

The Paper Chain Challenge 10/1/12

Chicken Visit!

Thanks to Jennifer for bringing her chickens in to visit the students at Science!  It was a great learning experience, and it's a great connection to learning about the lifecycle of a chicken.  Hopefully the students will be able to observe fertilized eggs and see them hatch at some point during the school year...

Highlights from the Week 9/17-921

Here are some of the things we've been working on this week:
-Summarizing the main details of a story after reading (see pictures in the previous post)
-Reading stories about 7 year olds and "making connections"
-Practicing spelling words in a variety of ways
-Developing and showing math strategies to add double-digit numbers
-Learning and playing the Magic Stick math game

Summarizing with Partners

Highlights from the Week 9/10-9/14

Highlights from the Week 9/10-914
-Met our 4th grade Reading Buddies
-Worked on our "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" stories
-Wrote acrostic poems about ourselves
-Completed Math Problems of the Day in our math notebooks
-Practiced different ways to make numbers: 56, 74, 11
-Started self-portrait mosaics

Willy Wonka End of Year Celebration

On the last day of school families came together to celebrate the students' hard work.  This included playing game boards created by the students, reading Wonka summaries, singing a song, and enjoying delicious food!  It was a fantastic second grade year, and this was the perfect way to send everyone off to enjoy their summer vacation!