So many spring events!

Our Pre-K Buddies in The Bear Case



Working on our recycled bulletin board


Our decomposition bin-Ask your second grader how our class objects are decomposing.




A Mystery Reader: Mrs. Klug
Let me know if you are still interested in coming in to be a Mystery Reader! All relatives welcome!


Biography Projects

















Alexandra: From Star of the Week to Birthday Girl...

Post-Spring Break

A birthday boy!

A Magician: Bill Boaz


A pair of Stars of the Week

Friday, April 2, 2010

Have a wonderful sunny weekend! Come back some time in the near (weekend) future to take a look at photos of Bill Boaz's Magic Show along with photos of our birthday girls and boy.

A Fool of a Day

Welcome back to a sunshine-filled week here at Academy! We are glad to see everyone well rested and ready for spring.

Our first week back from Spring Break has been filled with writing and math, social studies and handwriting, reading and art.

Today the 2D Rocks were a little slower at deciphering the Morning Message and our morning routine this morning. And although they are a quick bunch, they couldn't quite figure out how to make their Amazingly Easy Origami Rock this afternoon. We'll keep perfecting this ancient art with practice whenever possible.

Happy April Fool's Day. Don't forget to sign your 2D Rocks permission slip this evening for our field trip. It will be out of this world!

A Warm Wednesday

I would like to say this is quite a busy week, but that would an accurate description of all of our weeks. Second Grade is moving at the speed of light! Here are some "high-lights" of the beginning of this week:

*Assembly-Fourth Grade Boys basketball team won the state championship! Their coach, Mr. Friedman presented a very large trophy to Mr. V. Also at assembly, we watched video of several different types of dragon and lion dances for Chinese New Year.

*Mr. Glimcher brought in chicks from his family farm, Circle G Farms. The fuzzy little ones are already sprouting adult feathers despite being less than two weeks old!

*Core is our Star of the Week. Core would like to be a roller coaster designer when he grows up.

*We continued to write cerlihew poems (a pair of couplets about a famous person) about the people we saw at the Wax Museum.

*We wrote thank you notes to Julia Codispoti, a geologist from the Byrd Polar Research Center that came to visit us. She shared her rockin' knowledge in science class on Friday.

*We finished up chapter 11 in math and moved from addition with regrouping to subtraction with borrowing!

*We practiced using guide words in the dictionary.

*Mr. Razek came in as a Mystery Reader to share the book 365 Penguins. He also shared some tasty penguin cookies straight from the Antarctic for a very special black and white treat.

*We are putting finishing touches on our many biographies to create our biography books. We can't wait to share these with you when we come back from Spring Break!


The chicks






Mrs. Razek's Mystery Reader story-A Yoga Tale-From last week...

Photos From The Last Few Weeks

Here are photos from several great events!
Valentine Party and a Valentine Mystery Reader:











Jump Rope for Heart:










The Real Eyes Presentation with Dr. Nichols and Dr. Nichols:

Thursday, March 4, 2010

This week the 2D Rocks have:

learned that our Star of the Week, Katelyn, can only give her favorite book 4 stars because the ending was "not as great as [she] thought it would be."

researched a famous person and worked on creating a biographical poster that represents that person,

used saws and other woodworking tools to create wooden animals in art,

visited a Wax Museum with amazingly life-like statues,

created incredibly imaginative cerlihew poems about the said life-like statues,

continued their amazing run as addition wizards regrouping with two- and three-digit numbers with gusto,

played that p.c. game called "Nuke 'em" in P.E.,

laughed at Ramona's four-year old antics during class readings of Beezus and Ramona,


practiced yoga during a moving Mystery Reader event with Mrs. Razek,

continued to be pencil-toting members of the cursive club,

and completed a host of rigorous physical endeavors including, but not limited to, the arm-stretching "Sit and Reach," the belly-burning "Curl ups," and the much anticipated "Pacer Test."

What will Friday bring?!