Yesterday was a very busy day! We did not get to blog so we are filling you in on what we did Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday was an outstanding Monday! We visited the library for the first time and checked out some great books. Thank you, Mrs. Elder, for letting us come see you!

We continued working on our subtraction. Make sure you are practicing your doubles every night. We used our doubles to help us subtract today. Hopefully tomorrow we will get to go to math centers.

We talked about what real readers vs. fake readers were. I think we all know what it looks like to read to ourself. We have been practicing that every day and have done a great job.

We also got our new spelling words today. They are: into, has, more, her, two, other, many, there, they, and to. We wrote them in our planner today so that we can practice when we get home.

Today we continued working on our subtraction, started writing a story about a time we had fun, and began our Weather journal for this week.

Math homework begins TODAY! Please see the note attached to the homework for details. Thank you for all of your comments! We have enjoyed reading them. P.E. tomorrow – wear the right shoes!!

I hope you enjoyed your Labor Day holiday! I know I was glad to spend the day with Alea!

Today with took a math test over addition. On Thursday we will start our chapter over subtraction.

We continued with our Black Lagoon series reading The Music Teacher from the Black Lagoon. We also continued working on our stamina for ‘read to self’ and ‘read to someone.’
We went to PE today and we will go again tomorrow. Please wear the correct shoes!

Today in math we learned to make 10 – helping us with our math facts. We also played ‘Sink the Boat’ (like hangman) practicing our math vocabulary words.

We practiced some of our no excuse words and then pur our first names in alphabetical order.

We read The School Secretary from the Black Lagoon and compared it to The Teacher from the Black Lagoon using a venn diagram.

Tomorrow is music class. Make sure you read tonight and get your reading log filled out!

Today in Math we practiced our addition problems and used doubles and neighors to help out know our facts quickly. We know that 5+5 is a double. If we know that 5+5 =10, then we know our neighors – 5+6=11.

We practiced our ‘read to self’ time addding another minute to our total. We also started learning what it looks like and sounds like to ‘read to someone.’

We started reading The Black Lagoon series and talking about the story elements in the books.

Tomorrow is P.E. day – please wear the right shoes. Also, see the blue take home folder for an important note regaring our classroom!

Hello my new 2nd grade friends! I am extremely excited about the 2010-2011 school year. We are going to have a great time and learn as much as we can this year. Please check back to see what we are doing daily, any announcements, and special information that might be important for you to know. This is going to be a great year at White Oak Primary!

Today in math we worked on adding and subtracting money. We also made our funny Valentine date cards for Number Corner.

We just finished writing stories about a time that we were scared. Now we are completing our state research packet and report. Each student picked a state of their choice and researched them in from the Encyclopedia.

We went to Music instead of PE today because Mrs. Kimbley wanted to pass out parts and start practicing for our musical – Bugz.

Tomorrow we have PE and Character Ed with Mrs. Crossland. Don’t forget about our Valentine’s party next Friday.

Happy New Year!

In Writer’s Workshop we started learning about letter writing. The parts of a letter are: heading, greeting, body, closing, and the signature. We will continue working on letters all week.

During math we reviewed addition and subtraction with and without regrouping. We are all starting to get very good at this! Continue working hard at home. We also colored our calendar pieces – a snowman and a snowflake.

Tomorrow is P.E. and Thursday report cards go home!

Happy Birthday, Jacob!

Today in Math we started our subtraction chapter. We subtracted tens today. Soon we will learn how to regroup while subtracting.

During Writer’s Workshop we started a retelling of The Legend of the Poinsettia. Each student will start writing their own retelling tomorrow.

Our Christmas tree is up and full of lights! We will start decorating it will ornaments this week!

During Science we read Bat Loves the Night and Stellaluna. We are learning about bats so we can create our bat reports.

In Writer’s Workshop we started planning our monster stories for Halloween.

During Reading we read Pumpkin Pumpkin and created pumpkin life cycles.

We have read 67 books for Team Peyton! Way to go! Keep reading!

Our class has started a reading project with Scholastic. If we read 100 books, we help other students around the world get books. We picked Team Peyton (Manning)! Every night that we read a book, we get a sticker. When we get to 100 books, we send in our poster and help other kids! Please help us read our book every night!

Spelling test tomorrow!!