Pumpkin Patch

We had fun at Bellinger Farm’s pumpkin patch today. There were tall skinny ones, short fat ones, and everything in between. We even had lots of colors to choose from. The colors were white, green, yellow, and orange.

Pumpkin Patch

Tomorrow we go to the pumpkin patch! We can't wait to tell you all about it.

We will leave school at 8:30.

Please check the weather to help us know what to wear.

Some of Mrs. Golter's class came over to read us their own stories that they made.

One had lots of words and only one picture. The other stories had pictures and words on each page. One pair of writers even wrote questions to go with their story. One person wrote a story about her life. Their stories were so good that they made pictures in our heads as we listened to them read.

This is our reading chart that tells us what we can do to become a better reader.

The high lighted ones are the ones we have already done this week.

We are working on our fluency and our comprehension.

All second graders in our room passed their math test on subtraction today and we are all really happy about that.

We all tried multiplication (even 2nd graders) problems today and did really good.

We tried really hard to do our best.

We are curious about you, our readers. Please take a moment to leave us your answers to the following questions in a comment below. Thank you!

How many Jack o' lanterns are you going to make?

What was your favorite costume for Halloween when you were a kid?

Thursday, October 6, 2011

TP is playing on the monkey bars at recess.

Mrs. Straughan gave us treats and pencils for the monkey moments.

We made our wish lists at the
book fair today.

During art today, it looked like a tornado blew through.

But it was all worth it. Look at the pictures below.
This is what it turned out like after the storm.
This one is DW's art work.

This is B.B's art work.

We get "Monkey Moments" if our whole entire class gets a compliment from a teacher. We made it to the floor with monkeys, and now we get a treat!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

On Friday we painted paper for our pumpkin artwork.

We used cups, cards, and markers to paint designs on our paper.

CK showing what her paper looked like after squishing it with another persons painting.

GP cutting out her pumpkin.
We will try to finish them this week and share them here with you.

We earned suckers from S.T.A.R with Mrs. Miltenberger today.

We are going to have a Read A Thon this month. We will get our papers tomorrow and share them with you. Maybe you can help us earn money to finish getting computers for the library computer lab.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Every month we have birthday lunch with Mrs. Thorne.

GR, TS, and CF had birthdays in September.

Reminder, tomorrow is Picture Day and the Snack Food Sale.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Here we are with Mrs. Thorne.

She came to tell us about her job and to learn about us.

MC published a new post to his kidblog today.

We hope you are all checking out our kidblogs.

We love the comments you leave.

CK and GP are making a good reading choice during reading time.

They were listening to a story on the i touch.

TP is writing a really long story about Henry and Mudge.

We can't wait to hear it. He might even publish it.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

This Friday we are having a snack food sale. Bring $.50 - $1.00 to get a yummy, delicious treat.

We learned about compound words today and then we made a video of our compound words on Videolicious (i touch app).

Today we went to the computer lab for the first time this year. We did IXL math. IXL math is a subscription through McKay that lets us do all kinds of math skills. We can do it at home too. It was fantastic!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

We made giant ice cream cones for art this week. They have sprinkles and a cherry on top.
They are so neat that you might want to frame them. If so, you can buy a frame that is 18x24 inches and it will fit perfectly.

We are enjoying the comments that everyone is leaving.

Thank you for looking at our blog.

September 21, 2011

Today was our first Library check out.

We can have up to two books and have them for a week.

In our reading group we were playing a reading game to learn new vocabulary.



In Walking Club, CK went around the track 3 times in ONE (10 min) recess today. Wow!
Walking Club is when you walk around the track and a grownup punches a hole in a card each time we go around the track.

Today we got to use the i touches to practice our math. We used the app Balloon Pop. We practiced our addition and multiplication facts. When we see the right answer, we pop the balloon. It was awesome.

September 8, 2011

We learned how to do a Sketch & Jot today when we listened to the story Brave Norman.

We learned how to write a summary.

We had our first Back to School Assembly today with Bucky and Mrs. Sheard got branded.

She is now a true MmmmmmUSTANG. Mrs. Sheard is our college student teacher.

It is ok to go on www.raz-kids.com

Library & Art

These are some of our self portraits we want you to see.

We painted over our crayon coloring but careful not to go over our face.

We learned about the library rules today with Mrs. Naughton.

We will get to use the computers during library to read, write, math or to take AR tests.

Working With Technology

Our first time using expressions, it was fun!

Expressions are like remotes that you can use to put your answer in math, reading, or spelling.

We are on the computers doing reading on www.raz-kids.com

Beginning a New Year

KVL is happy because she won Flip It.

Flip it is a card game that we would like to play at home with you.

Third graders waiting to come inside after recess.
Flip it is fun!
Check back next week to see our artwork that we made today.
Have a great weekend.

Open House 2011

Welcome to 2nd & 3rd Grade with Mrs. Schimel.

Lots to Remember

We have a lot of things coming up.

June 1st only the 3rd graders will be going to the Middle School to participate in the track meet. The will need: sunscreen, water bottles with their names on them, and a sack lunch. They may bring a towel to sit on if they would like.

June 3rd; McNary Dam Field Trip

Students need to wear sunscreen and good walking shoes. They also need a water bottle and sack lunch.

Please let me know if your child would like the kitchen staff to make them a sack lunch for our trips by May 26th. THANK YOU

Go Animate & CoSketch

We discovered a couple new websites where students can be very creative. Go Animate is a site where you can create dialog between two characters and then it will publish it into a movie speaking your words. CoSketch is a site where you can draw with someone else who is on another computer somewhere else.

Oregon Retired Educators Convention

Today we took a quick field trip up the the Red Lion to present how we use technology in the classroom for the Retired Teachers Association. We showed them the Promethean board, Internet sites we us for writing, reading, and math, and our itouches. I know they really enjoyed seeing how well the second graders worked together and how advanced their technology and speaking skills were.

Animal and State Reports

We have been creating Animal and State Reports using Glogster.
Click on the links below to see some of our work.

LG Hawaii

CF Water Buffalo

CC Spotted Hyena

CR Michigan

JC Mississippi

TD Montana

ZJ Texas

TS Alaska

MA Pelican

KM Sabertooth Tiger

GF Koala

More links to come.

CC New Hamphire

TP Oregon

CU Dolphin


GP Red Fox

AB Great White Shark

JA Great White Shark

CM California

TS Giant Sea Turtle

KS Connecticut

TS Florida



JW Zebra

CC Narwhal