St. Patrick's Day FUN!

On Monday, we celebrated St. Patrick's Day.  The kids came in to find that my friend, Jameson O'Malley (a leprechaun) had left them all a green chocolate coin in their buckets.  Later in the day we made pots of gold and wrote about who is worth more than gold to us. Finally, we had leprechaun punch! Jameson gave me his old family recipe.  While we drank our punch, we danced and partied!!!

WACKY!

Last week we celebrated Dr. Seuss in one fun-filled day! We even had a visit from Cat in the Hat and he read "Green Eggs and Ham" to us.  Below are some pictures from the day.

I was gone last week for a few days and one of my favorite people, Jessica Hewitt, was here.  She said the kids did an excellent job.  I am VERY proud of them!

I will be sending home the unit 11 check up and the geometry test today.  For the most part, I was happy with how the kids did. The Unit 11 test will be on Friday and I sent home a corrected fraction pretest today.  The fraction test will be on Friday.

Book orders are due on March 19th.  I will be sending April book orders out after spring break.

There is a 1:35 dismissal on Friday and then.... SPRING BREAK!

My wacky photo-bombers! 

The morning directions... something is odd...

The kids came in to find the room WACKY! They had to find the weird things and write sentences about them.

All of us with Cat in the Hat!!!

We got to use the first graders photo booth.

Eating tasty Red Fish in Blue Water (also known as Swedish fish in blue raspberry jello)

Editing Eye

Today we began the process of learning how to edit our writing.  We have talked before about checking for capitals and periods but, now we are talking about spelling.  Using Brady S.'s writing, we went through our five steps of spell check editing:
1. Check with yourself
2.  Check the Word Wall
3.  Ask one neighbor
4.  Check your student notebooks
5. Last resort- Check with the teacher

The kids did an awesome job with these steps.  Their writing is improving everyday!

Field Trip money and permission slips are due tomorrow (March 7th).  Let me know if this is a problem for any of you as soon as possible.

On Tuesday, we will be celebrating Dr. Seuss! The whole day will be dedicated to him.  I will be sending home a note about this either today or tomorrow.

I will be gone for two and a half days next week.  Wednesday morning I will be in meetings and then on Thursday and Friday I will be in Springfield at a conference.  My very good friend, Jessica Hewitt, will be here for me.  I will have my phone and I will be checking email. I also told the kids I will be calling her every 30 seconds to make sure things are going well:)  Let me know if you need anything.

The fun fair is next Saturday from 11-3 at the high school.

Tomorrow, we have the Unit 10 test in  Fundations.  It is also the last day of the quarter and report cards will go home a week from today.

3rd Quarter... Where did you go?

Next Friday is the end of 3rd quarter and I have no idea where the time went! Well, actually it might have been the snow/cold days and the concert that made it seem so quick.  But, either way, it came too fast.

The graphing test is tomorrow (Friday) and so is the Unit 10 check up.  I will do my best to get both home to you tomorrow night.

Next week, we will have 1:35 dismissals on Wednesday and Friday.  Friday is also the Unit 10 Fundations test.

That is all I have for now.  Enjoy the rest of your week and the weekend!

OH!!! I almost forgot JAYDEN G. is our Bumblebee of the Week this week! Jayden has been working really hard and he definitely deserved this honor!

The Final Concert

We just got back from our final 2nd grade music concert.  The kids did an excellent job! There are some pictures below.

Tomorrow is the Unit 9 Fundations test.  I will be sending Unit 10 home either Monday or Tuesday next week.

There will be a short check up on graphing tomorrow.  It is a bar graph and the kids need to to answer questions about it.  It isn't too challenging.  They are doing a great job so far with graphs.  Next week, I will be incorporating pie graphs, double bar graphs and measuring/plotting graphs.  The test will be on the 28th.

Payon performed one of her competition dances for us! It was AWESOME!

Some Pig

I hope you all had a great 3 day weekend.  I would have enjoyed it more had the snow not shown up! I wanted to thank all of the parents that helped with the Valentine's Day party in anyway.  They had an absolute blast and so did I.  Thank you all SOOOO much!

This week we are starting a few new things that I am REALLY excited about.  Today, we officially started our graphing unit.  We all tried three kinds of popcorn and then made a tally chart, bar graph, pictograph and finally, answered some basic questions about it.  Next week (hopefully Monday), I will be sending home a study guide for the graphing test that will be on Friday, February 28th.  Most of the kids get graphs but, we will be fine tuning some skills and diving a little deeper.

Tomorrow, we are going to start reading Charlotte's Web.  This was my favorite book in second grade and I can not wait to share it with my class.  They will each have their own copy and will be expected to follow along as we read in class.  After some chapters we will be answering comprehension questions and doing other activities.

Also, tomorrow I will be sending home field trip permission slips.  This is for the big field trip that we will be taking on May 9th.  After you get the information, if you have any questions, please let me know.

The Unit 9 Fundations test will be on Friday!

The end of the quarter is on March 7th.

Below are some pictures from our graphing today, the Blue and Gold Banquet and the Valentine's Day party... Enjoy!

Brady was too interested in the popcorn to smile... 

Kadin always catches me taking pictures and makes a silly face. 

Way to go, boys!

Sam was thoroughly enjoying musical hearts! 

Ethan estimated right and won the jar of candy!

Hearts

So, today is a much better day! The kids and I are starting fresh and they seemed to have taken our conversation to heart.  We talked about it a little again today and I explained to them that the reason I was so upset is because I really love all of them.  If I didn't love them, I told them I would just keep on yelling. Today is better!

This morning we did a hallway hunt for subtraction with regrouping.  Some of the kids needed a refresher.  Afterwards, we made hearts and I put their names on them.  Then, we went around and wrote nice things about that person.  The kids really seemed to like it and enjoyed hearing positive qualities about themselves.  Even more so, I think they enjoyed writing nice things about each other.

Our party is this afternoon! I will post pictures next week.  Enjoy the 3 day weekend!

Here are some other pictures from the week...