Halloween

     It was nice to see so many little friends enjoying the Wyman School Halloween party Friday night.  The costumes were great and everyone had a great time dancing, playing games and hanging out.  

     As always, the parade on Sunday was a huge hit.  It was a beautiful day to enjoy it and seems many students did.

     Today in school, we rotated through 6 Halloween stations.  We gave the steps for carving a jack-o-lantern, put words in sentences and ABC order, rhymed and even did a little math.  The children seemed to have fun (while learning at the same time) and everyone got prizes when they finished.

    We've been reading a Bailey School chapter book called Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots.  We are getting near the end and the children are LOVING it.  Ask your child if they think Mrs. Jeepers is a vampire or not.  Can they give you evidence from the text as proof?

     I ordered Scholastic News for the class.  If you are willing, I'd appreciate it if you could send in $4 to cover the cost.  I think it's a great addition to our classroom.

     Thursday will be our Halloween Party.  Kids are welcome to bring their costumes to school.  Please label the pieces and leave the toy guns, swords, axes etc at home.  After lunch we will put them on, have a snack and parade around at 2:00.  Please pack your child an extra snack and drink for our party.  Remember no food can be shared with classmates.

    

Spiders

     This week we read Spiders by Gail Gibbons and made our own spider web of facts.  Ask your child to share with you some new things they learned.

     We shared our creepy house stories.  They were awesome.  We've been reading and writing our own fables where the moral of the story is BE KIND.  Ask your child about The Lion and the Mouse an Aesop fable.

     I had other pictures to share but my camera/computer wasn't cooperating.  We're still ROCKIN the math word problem.  Much less whining this week, which makes for a happy teacher.

     Remember, this Friday is the Wyman School Halloween party 6-8.  If you've never been, you are missing out.  It's great fun.

     A special shout out to Mrs. M for sending in these fun craft projects for the class.  The students loved them.

     GO SOX!!!!

Busy Bee

     Today was my last workshop.  This one I was the presenter at, which I was super excited to be asked to do.  It went great but sucked quite a bit of my "home" time for prep.  Which is why it took so long for this post-Sorry.

     This was a nice short week.  We have spooked out some of our lessons.  Here we brainstormed adjectives to describe this house and then wrote a story about it.

      It's hard to see here, but the children wrote antonyms on the bat's wings to decorate our hallway.

      These ghosts are greeting people using quotation marks.

      We searched the room for some fact family cards.

 
    Math word problems have been driving the students MAD.  I'm telling you, I have heard more than my share of WHINING.  The problems are tricky, but I am encouraging the children to try, try, try.  It's OK to make mistakes but never give up.  Their little math minds are being pushed to the limit and I LOVE it.  "Remember, walking was tough when you first learned."

     Best of all we had a new student for Red Sox day!

     Enjoy the weekend!!

   

Red Sox Day Thursday

     Show your team spirit by wearing your favorite Red Sox tee or hat!  Don't have any?  No worries.  A little red, white and blue will work too.  GO RED SOX!!!

Frog and Toad

     It's been a bit of a fragmented week for me.  I attended a workshop on Fundations (our phonics program) on Wednesday and a math workshop today.  Both were great and I came away with strategies that will make me EVEN MORE dynamic than I already am....hard to believe I know.  But seriously, I got some great tips that I'm looking forward to implementing.  One thing that was STRESSED over and over was that the children NEED to be fluent in their addition and subtraction facts.  Xtramath will help with this.  Please be sure your child has some time to log on at home.  Remember, it is part of their homework.

     We have been meeting in small groups to read Frog and Toad chapters.  The students then discussed each chapter to find the beginning, middle and end.  We focused on looking for the main idea, not every little detail.

     In math, we worked with tens and ones and talked about place value as well as fact families.

     Our class is super excited because there will be no spelling test next week.  We reached our goal of 30 cans in only 4 days.  I'm sure many Woburn families are grateful for your generosity.

     We checked out SpellingCity in the computer room.  You can search for our class lists by my last name and the children can play games with their spelling words.  It helps if they have the list in front of them for some of the games.  You should check it out at home.

    Clemson/BC this weekend......can I get a Tiger Roar???  Also, look for me at the Sox game Sat. night if you watch the game.  I'll be the tiny fan waayyyyyyyyyy in the back cheering loudly.

     Here are a few pictures of our week in review.


MATH GAMES

    ANTONYM SORT

HAT DAY

COOL STUFF KIDS DID WITHOUT ME ASKING  <3

Crazy Busy

     I'm not sure what's going on but we are CRAZY BUSY in second grade.  So busy that I have no pictures to share.  Our post cards are finished and ready to mail.  I just need to find time to address the envelope (yup, we are that busy).

     This week is our read-a-thon.  If you bring in a new or gently used book to be donated to different organizations, your child will get double reading points.  Friday is hat day (no donation required).  It's to celebrate the end of our read-a-thon.

     We've created a paper chain.  Each child who brings in a canned good gets to rip off a piece of the chain.  It started with 30 links and is now down to 19.  If we rip them all off, we'll have no spelling test the week of Columbus Day.  The kids are all gassed up about that!

     We read a book about Poor Puppy.  The children loved it.  Mrs. Elin REALLY loved it.  Me? It was okay.  I told the children I'd look for more Poor Puppy books at the library.

     Gym on Wednesday. :-)