Field trip!

Here are some pictures from our adventures at Strong National Museum of Play!

Lessons included learning about money at Bear Bucks, nutrition at Health Nuts, old time games at Playthings and Pastimes, and solving a mystery at Who Dunnit?  The kids also had time to explore other areas of the museum.  I really appreciate all the parents who volunteered! Thanks so much!  It was a great day! 

Thankful

Here are all of our Super Second graders I am so very grateful for!!! 

Hi families!!

We've wrapped up November,  month full of reading, writing, math, a study of Veteran's Day, and a study of the history of Thanksgiving.  We've also learned about facts and opinions, and 2 digit addition! 

Thank you all for attending Parent Conferences this week and if I missed seeing you, I will be in touch to schedule a time to talk soon! 

Here's are some pictures of our recent projects and a group photo of

 Toy Day!

I want you to know I am thankful for each and every one of your children and feel very blessed to be their teacher! 

I wish all of you a happy and safe Thanksgiving! See you in December! 

We read the book A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting and had to make our own turkeys!!

Here we all are on Toy Day!  It was fun to finally celebrate earning 5 Brownie Points! 

Contractions

We preformed "surgery" on contractions last week! We wore protective masks, cut away the parts of words that don't belong and put them together with a band aid!! It was such fun to learn about apostrophes and the two words that make up our commonly used contractions.

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Dr. Emma combines I and have

Dr. Janely combined he and would!

she+ will = she'll

Our group of student doctors preparing for surgery.

Halloween

The fifth grade teachers.

The First grade teachers were the 5 little Monkeys
Jumping on the Bed!

Ms. Frizzle was here!

Happy Halloween from the 2nd Grade team!
Mrs.Marsh and Mrs. Wiggs were part of the Word Wall.
  Mrs. Shaw was Ms. Frizzle and Miss Kessler was Super Girl, while I went as Wonder Woman!

We measured their height with snap cubes
 and the circumference with string!

We had a fun day on Friday, October 31st!! We spent the morning learning about pumpkins.  We studied their properties, made predictions about the number of seeds and measured them in different ways!  We weighed the pumpkins and measured their circumference and finally cut one open and counted all the seeds in groups of tens!!   541 total!

We also measured how many pumpkins tall we are!! Check out our pictures below!

They were heavy!  I think our heaviest was about 16 pounds!

Here are our heights in pumpkins!

Here are more of our heights in pumpkins!

In the afternoon our celebration and parade were both so much fun!! Thank you, Mrs. Ajavananda for coming in and helping out!!
Thank you to everyone who sent in treats or pumpkins!

Ww cut it in half and counted 54 groups of 10 plus one extra!

Here is my favorite candy corn ever in the parade!

Guest reader

We had Logan's mom come in as our first guest reader!! She read Dr. Suess's ABC book!! It is a favorite!! Thanks so much for coming in, Mrs. Schnitzer! 

Open house

Thank you thank you everyone!! I really enjoyed seeing all of you who were able to attend Open House last night!  Our students did such a wonderful job showing everyone around!! 

Interactions!

In science we are beginning the study of interactions.  We have experimented by putting two different objects together to see if they effect one another.  We put a candy in water, used a magnet to attract a paper clip and figured out how to make a light bulb light using only a D cell battery, a copper wire and a low watt light bulb.

Today (10/3) we used our breath to change the pH of water from a neutral to an acid with our carbon dioxide!  BTB (a chemical that detects acids and bases) was diluted into water and just simply blowing into it with a straw was all it took to turn the blue solution into a yellow-green color!  The sounds of the bubbles we created in the quiet room cracked me up, so I had to take a video!! Science is hilarious (and fun too)!