Showtime

     I hope you had a chance to watch us perform Friday.  If you were there, I'm sure you are thinking second grade was EXCEPTIONAL!   Our Hippo song had a LOT of words and we totally rocked it and what grandparent doesn't swoon when a kiss is blown their way?  We were awesome!

     We read three great "gingerbread man" stories this week.  Each one had it's own special twist.  We have been sequencing all week using our transition words. So, it only made sense to use those transition words to sequence how we eat a gingerbread cookie. 

     If you haven't already heard, Rudolf the elf has been visiting us all week.  He was hugging Wally, tangled in tape and he even colored a picture of Santa.

     We are still counting coins and practicing addition with regrouping.  On top of that, we did a little measuring with centimeters.  I have a fun Rudolf themed shape bingo game saved for next week.  We better review our 2D and 3D shapes before then. 

      If you are out shopping for the perfect gift this week.  You may want to freshen up your child's school supplies.  By now, almost everyone's glue sticks have run out and most crayons have lost or broken.

Back At It

     It was nice to be back this week after quite a long Thanksgiving break  I am feeling better each day and thank you for all the well wishes.  It's nice to be missed . Stone Soup was our mentor text for the week.  We compared three different version of the story and worked on making sentences "soup"-er by adding more details and proper capitalization and punctuation.  Ask your child to tell you about the stories. 

     We have been working hard on counting coins.  By now, your child should be able to count coins to $1.00.  Please practice at home if your student isn't there yet.

     For fun, students made gingerbread people.  They look very festive on our bulletin board.  We read Gingerbread Baby and The Gingerbread Man then compared and contrasted them.

     We are reading Ready Freddy Second Grade Rules as well.  Freddy is excited to go trick-or-treating with the new boy in school, Josh.  They have a great idea for their costumes.

     Next week, we will be performing in the Holiday Program.  I'm not going to lie, we are fantastic and will probably steal the show.  We practiced Holly, Jolly Christmas for the first time today and we nailed it.  The words to our songs were sent home to practice.  The show is Friday morning 9:00.