The Second Week of Second Grade!

The Life Cycle of a Frog

     Here we are at the end of the second week of second grade! The time is flying by already! We had lots of excitement in our class this week! We traded in the desks we were borrowing for tables! We welcomed a new student, Acram, into our class! We celebrated Saket's birthday by singing him our new birthday song and signing a card for him! We also started learning about the life cycle of a frog! We read a big book about a frog's life cycle that had AWESOME photographs of frogs in different stages. Then we started working on creating our own frog life cycle books. We plan to finish these in school on Friday!

     We started Everyday Math this week! We have been learning about our daily math routines like math journals, homework folders, and mini white boards. We've worked on problems related to money and time. We also learned a fun new math game called Number Line Squeeze! Ask your child to tell you about this fun game!

    This week we also finished illustrating and writing about our hopes and dreams for the school year. (You can check them out on the board by my desk when you visit our classroom.) We then used these hopes and dreams to brainstorm rules that we would need this year if we wanted our hopes and dreams to come true. We started out with 16 rules, but decided that 16 was WAY too many to remember! Today we narrowed them down to our 5 final class rules. They are:

• Be polite.
• Be focused.
• Use self-control.
• Share (but not your food!)
• Have a positive attitude.

We are now working on group posters that illustrate our rules so that visitors to our classroom will know the expectations for working and learning in room 205!

    In reading this week we worked on building our stamina for Read to Self! We are now up to reading silently on our own for 6 minutes at a time. I wanted to try for 8 minutes tomorrow, but the class convinced me that they were ready to go for 10 minutes of silent reading! They love reading!

     Finally, we wrote our first story of the year this week! We wrote about a favorite summer activity. Students wrote about trips to the beach, amusement parks, playing at Dean Park, swimming, climbing through caves, playing sports, and so much more! It sounds like everyone had a great summer!

    We hope that everyone has a great Friday and a wonderful weekend!