Slavery Study

We have been studying about slavery the last couple of weeks.

This is CS coloring his picture that illustrates the sentence we will use in our soon to be released movie.

Once the coloring was complete, we scanned each picture.

Unfortunately we had technical difficulties and weren't able to complete the movie yet.

But we will be diligent and keep trying. Hopefully we will be successful on Monday and then share it with you here on the blog.

We also invented a "slave" game today.

I secretly told these students (below) that they would be the conductors in the game.

The rest of the students played the roll of a slave or a master.

Students spent about an hour and a half observing and visiting with

each other, while working, to see if they could find someone that would help them escape

to freedom. The goal of the game was to learn how hard it was to find a way to freedom and that they had to be careful with who they could approach for help. The kids seem to enjoy it and I think it helped us understand a little more about what it must have been like.

Next week we are celebrating our classified staff here at McKay.

We are making a poster for Mrs. Dennis. She helps us with our reading.

The class wanted to make her a mug with cute kids on it.

The boys here are working on the words to go with it.

We are also making signs to put up for Susan our custodian.

We thought for her we would us the Harry Potter theme.

We are going to put brooms all over with nice notes on them.

This group took their Mount Rushmore study on the road today.

They explained why these famous people were selected for the monument.

LW wrote a really good story and then shared it with us today.

It was a busy day. We also make BB his birthday book.

Happy 8th birthday!

At 1:30 we went to our all school Patriotic Assembly.

Here is a short video of our second song.

Mount Rushmore

We are finishing up our display of Mount Rushmore.We added information about why each person was included

on the monument of Mount Rushmore.

Tomorrow we will be presenting it to the rest of our class and the other second grade classroom.

Today was our special birthday lunch with Mrs. Thorne.

Here are our happy February birthday people.

Statue of Liberty

Lady Liberty

We drew the Statue of Liberty today.

Here is SR with his after he finished coloring.
AD and CSH adding color to their art.

GH all done with his for today.

During reading TC and NE did a great job reading together.

KC worked on his oral reading with the help of the computer.

After reading group DL held a reading discussion.

I was impressed at how he listened and answered everyone.

CS practiced her reading too on www.raz-kids.com

This reading group is learning about Mount Rushmore.

Here they are tracing the monument. You will see more later.

Happy Birthday

This week we celebrated LW and DL's birthdays.

We made each of them their own birthday book. At the end of the day we straightened up the room.

This group helped get all our math manipulative's back in the box.

We made our Valentine's Day scrapbook pages today.

This is DE with his book.

During reading groups some of the students are reading about snails.

They each chose a snail to learn about. Here AD is working on his report. On Friday they each shared their reports with us.

LR told us about her snail that smells like garlic.

Then RV told us about her snail that is "good to eat". Yummy!

We are also learning about segregation, slavery, and the Underground Railroad.

Here are SR and TC typing up their opening paragraph about slavery.

Secret Message and Party

We received a secret message today!

It had lines and numbers on it. Then we

figured out the highest number was 26,

so we thought each number might stand for a letter of the ABC's.

Some of us worked on solving it on the big note,

while others worked with a partner.
It turned out to be a surprise game day party with our second grade friends in the gym.

We walked in the gym and they each invited us to play a board game with them.

They had everything from cards to Twister.

After one game, we got to try another game.

It was a lot of fun!!!

Then they served us a chocolate chip cookie along with a drink.What a fun way to spend with our friends.
Thank you room 5.

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Happy Valentine's Day

We had a great time at our Valentine Party this afternoon.

Here is RV passing out the sugar cookies she brought.

HH brought these yummy brownies.

SM brougth these conversation hearts.

Everyone loved how big they were.

Let the party begin!

We ate and visited with each other for awhile.

Then we opened our valentines.

Before we ate our treats, we took pictures with our Valentine hats so we could add a page to our photo albums.

These two groups invited Mrs. Dennis into their pictures.

Earlier in the week we did our writing assessment. Here is NE working on his.

The assignment was to edit the sentence and then write at least two sentences to go with it.

On Tuesday we also got a free R.I.F book.

Thank you to everyone who makes this project possible.

We love to get books.

Monday Mrs. Miltenberger came in and gave us our S.T.A.R certificates

for reading 5 hours in January.

Good job everyone.