Picture Day

On Wednesday we all had our school pictures taken. Then we went back to the room and worked on our spelling. We are working on the short "i" sound this week.
JC got to visit Disneyland a little bit ago. She is showing and telling us about her trip.
Today was also our first day with our 4th grade reading buddies. We will get together once a week and spend 15-20 minutes reading or doing small projects together.
JH and SA are reading some of the old newspapers from years past.
LK is reading to JS.

Sign Language

This is CH talking to us using sign language. He is signing "chair."

Learning Together

Here we are reading sight words together with the use of the projector. This is CC and SB in music class.
On Tuesday we went to the park to celebrate a birthday with the other second grade class.

We played a little while and then had birthday treats. These three like to wrestle.
JW liked the swing.
And EM posed by the tree for me. Have a great Round Up everyone!

Our First Newspaper

Last week we started writing for our first newspaper. Then we went to the computer lab and learned how to use Microsoft Word to do some editing. Our first newspaper will be coming home to you on Tuesday, September 12th.
I am teaching sign language this year. A few years ago I had a non verbal student, so I took some college classes to learn sign. It is a lot of fun being able to communicate with your hands.
We read a book called, The Big Wide Mouthed Frog this week in a reading group. We decided to paint some frogs to help decorate our classroom.
This is our guidance counselor Mrs. T. She will be coming in everyother week to help us learn strategies that will help us throughout our lives.

Spending Our Money

Today (end of the month usually) the children had the opportunity to spend their money that they have earned (2 pennies a day for working hard and making good choices).Here we are learning how to type correctly. Good job keeping your fingers on home row.

Getting to Know Each Other

CS and EM were able to successfully name everyone in our class today while playing the Name Game. We are showing you our monkeys. Each time a grown up comments us for being really good, we add a monkey to our chain. When the chain meets the floor, we will celebrate together.
Here is how well we are working as a group. A small amount of people were playing together and then it turned into all of us together. How fun! They connected enough chain together to make a circle that all 29 of us could fit in.

Learning to Type

Today we made a scrapbook page of our first day of second grade and of our friends. We also are learning how to type using "home row". We are working on the letters: a,s,d,l, j,k,l
Here is JW doing his typing.

Downloading Our Work

Today we downloaded our "Guess Who" work from our Alphasmarts. If you come in, you will have to read them. They are very fun to read.

We had a little time at the end of the day to play at Choice Time. Here are 3 good friends all dressed up!

Thank you for sending back the information on how much your child weighed at birth. If you did not see that paper, would you jot down how much they weighed,how long they were, and where they were born.

Thank you.

A New Year Begins

Wow! It is nice to be back in school.

What a great group of students! They are working so good together as a group.

Here we are eating lunch. Yum!

JS is counting as he works on his math test.

This is EM is taking her math test.

Playing together with some new and old friends.

Water Day

Yesterday we had our water day and had so much fun, what a great way to end the year. I would like to invite parents and/or grandparents to join us at noon on Friday to view our end of the year slide show. Come if you can.

Field Day

Field day was so much fun! Thank you to all of our parents that came to help. This is a day that we will always remember.

This is MM after enjoying her popsicle.
JJ and her mom after all the fun. (ok, I can't line up the pictures, but I know those of you looking will just be happy to see new pictures. :o)


BW getting ready as the anchor in tug o'war.






A few more fun pictures of our day.