Monday

Today was a great day in 2D! The 2D Rocks are filling up our marble jar! We started our day off right-getting to work immediately on our DLR (Daily Language Review). These quick grammar and mechanics activities help us become familiar with the rules of writing. We continued our focus with an introduction to our Maps and Globes book, a portfolio writing piece, and work on our Open Court reading questions. In the afternoon, we had another excellent Silent Reading time and started Chapter 1 in Math. Keep up the good work, 2D Rocks! You Rock!

Community Day

What a community we are becoming! Check out the team work and friendship demonstrated below with Streets and Alleys, Blob Tag, Duck, Duck, Goose, and free play with popsicles!

Daily 5 - Community Day Tomorrow!

Our Daily 5 time-Check out the 2D Rocks rockin' the books! Wow! What a great bunch!


REMEMBER TOMORROW IS DRESS DOWN FOR COMMUNITY DAY!

A Day of Immense Possibilities

Today we used our Word of the Week, IMMENSE, in our Morning Message. It was a day of immense possibilities that became wonderful realities very early on! The day began with our Daily Language Review which helps us with grammar and writing mechanics. The class did very well and enjoyed correcting their own papers as well as graphing their results. We listened to our first Open Court Story, Ant and the Three Little Figs. Our FIRST-PERSON narrarator is the older brother to Ant. He creates an imaginative version of the Three Little Pigs for his brother. The 2D Rocks are creating their own books for our Pre-K buddies using photographs they took this afternoon. We are making a book of opposites, a book of colors, one of shapes and a book of numbers. We also enjoyed math games, Dicey Choice and Seven to Win. The 2D Rocks will choose one of these games for homework tonight.


Some notes for 2D Families:

• We will be playing many games with playing/number cards this year. Please make sure your child has a set for home. We will continue to send home a set of cards with those who may not have a set available.
• For those families with extra cards, we would appreciate sets for use in the classroom.
• Please let me know if you need a die/dice for home as well. We have very few spare sets.
  
• Finally, I will send home addition flashcards tomorrow with the students that do not have them currently.
  

C Day

Today we:

• Talked about marbles! Ask your 2D Rock how many marbles the class needs to have a celebration day. We will be brainstorming ideas for celebrations tomorrow!
  
• We read Chapter 3 of Gooney Bird Greene. Are Gooney's stories "absolutely true?"
• We are working through our CHANGES book for our Community unit. The class came up with many roles that female adults play in our school community. They also noticed a lack of females in higher leadership roles except for Vice President Saling. Hmm. Food for thought, isn't it?
  
• We played "Memory Tens" which is the math assignment for homework tonight. We also played "Mystery Dice." We have some math wizards posing as Rocks this year!
  

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Today we had Assembly, Spanish and Swimming. Everyone enjoyed the swimming video Mr. Yakscoe and Ms. Moore showed about pool safety. In class we wrote our first friendly letter of the year. To whom you ask? You'll find out tomorrow evening! We also made time capsules, came up with 17 class jobs with some really cool names, read the fist chapter of Gooney Bird Greene, and drew our pictures for our Hopes and Dreams paragraphs. It was another busy day!

We hope to see many parents tomorrow evening for Parent's Night. The evening begins in the theatre at 7:00 where Mr. MacKenzie and Mr. Vorenberg will speak and then introduce Specialists. After the theatre, Second Grade Parents will meet in the Second Grade Hallway just outside our classrooms to discuss Second Grade curriculum.

The video is here! Watch our Me in a Bag project: