Practicing our Easter reader's theater

Time Science

How long is a minute?  We know!  We chose a strategy, like how many times we can write our name in a minute, or how many jumping jacks we can do in a minute,  and others.  We practiced our strategy with sand timers, then used our strategy to judge how long a piece of music was - less than a minute, exactly a minute, or more than a minute. After practicing our strategy, our predictions were more accurate!

Brenden timing his partner

Jackson practicing his
jumping jack strategy.

Amelia is seeing how many
smiley faces she can
draw in a minute.

Newsletter 3-22-13

        Next Thursday is Beach Day and the Limbo Contest in the gym at 1:45.  Students may bring a beach towel, wear colorful clothes, hats, and sunglasses to celebrate!  No swimwear, please.

No school on Good Friday.

We will continue to practice telling time in math.    Please talk about time as you go through your day with your child and ask them to read the time on clocks as you do your daily activities.  This helps out so much as they are learning this lifelong skill!


Spelling list 24 for test on March 28
closest   nearer   softest   strongest   younger   bird   fire   drier   shirt   third   their   won't   won   thing

Upcoming events:

Mar. 28 – Beach Day – bring sunglasses, hats, and
beach towels – limbo contest @1:45 in gym
Mar. 29 – Good Friday – No School
April 1-5 Spring Break
April 8 School resumes

Newsletter 3-15-13

The school spring carnival is tonight!  Details came home Thursday on a pink sheet.  Hope to see you there!  Mrs. Stump and I will be running the popcorn machine from 5:30 to 6:30.  Be sure to stop by and say hi!

We have been working on telling time in math.  In second grade we learn to tell time to 5 minutes.  Please talk about time as you go through your day with your child and ask them to read the time on clocks as you do your daily activities.  This helps out so much as they are learning this lifelong skill!


Spelling list 23 for test on Mar.21
batch   bridge   hitch   judge   ledge   her   clear   cheer   earth   learn   thank   that's   very   went

Upcoming events:

Mar. 15 – Spring Carnival – Dolphin diner open 5-7pm, games open
At 5:30-7:30pm
Mar. 28 – Beach Day – bring sunglasses, hats, and
beach towels – limbo contest @1:45 in gym
Mar. 29 – Good Friday – No School
April 1-5 Spring Break
April 8 School resumes

Our last day with the iPads...

     Here we are, working away, enjoying the iPads...

Here we are, sad faces, refusing to give them up to another class...

Goodbye, iPads, we have loved learning with you dearly.  Hope we meet again soon...

Soon Mrs. Hays will be posting our Toontastic animation links!  Come back soon to see them!

Ronald McDonald visit

Ronald came to visit today.  He shared with us how important is is for us to give to others of our time, our talents, and our gifts.  Emma even got to help him out and dress up just like him!

Books we made in the Storykit app

Click on the links below to see our stories.
Emma's story
Evan's story
Amelia's story
Marissa B.'s story
Esther's story
Blair's story

Newsletter 3-8-13

   We are still collecting up new items for the second grade auction basket for the Spring Carnival.  Our theme is Baby Basket.  Please send in any new items, big or small, to help fill up our basket for this worthwhile PTO fundraiser.  We need all items in by Tuesday!

The new web address above, for Kidblog, is for our student blogs.  We will be accessing them while we still have the ipads in our classroom.  Students can reply to posts I send to the class and to each other.  This can be accessed at home as well from the internet or any Apple device with the free Kidblog app.  Students must login with their colornumber password.  This week we each posted a popplet mind map we made in the popple app.  Have your child log in to Kidblog so they can show you.


Spelling list 21 for test on Mar.7
knee  knight   wrap   wreath   written   part   care   hair   shark   heart   writing   it's   saw   skate

Upcoming events:

Mar. 15 – Spring Carnival – Dolphin diner open 5-7pm, games open
At 5:30-7:30pm
Mar. 28 – Beach Day – bring sunglasses, hats, and
beach towels – limbo contest @1:45 in gym
Mar. 29 – Good Friday – No School
April 1-5 Spring Break
April 8 School resumes

Time popplet

Here is our class mind map (made in the app Popplet).  To see our individual popplets, go to Kidblog.

March lunch calendar

Click for March lunch calendar

Newsletter 3-1-13

        We are collecting up new items for the second grade auction basket for the Spring Carnival.  Our theme is Baby Basket.  Please send in any new items, big or small, to help fill up our basket for this worthwhile PTO fundraiser.

The new web address above, for Kidblog, is for our student blogs.  We will be accessing them while we still have the ipads in our classroom.  Students can reply to posts I send to the class and to each other.  This can be accessed at home as well from the internet or any Apple device with the free Kidblog app.  Students must login with their colornumber password.  This week we each posted a ScreenChomp screencast of our mental images from the book Pass It On.   Have your child log in to Kidblog so they can show you.

Back to Thursday for the spelling test next week!

Spelling list 21 for test on Mar.7
won't  I'll  wasn't  we've  you're  shone  light  sneak  way  drew  don't  with  school  didn't

Upcoming events:

Mar. 28 – Beach Day – bring sunglasses, hats, and
beach towels – limbo contest @1:45 in gym
Mar. 29 – Good Friday – No School
April 1-5 Spring Break
April 8 School resumes

Warrior Winners and Dr. Seuss' birthday

See Kidblog to see these posts!