Malawi, Money and Matilda!!

Another busy day in second grade! Lola started us off with a great meeting full of singing, sparkle, and a great greeting! After library we worked with our spelling rule "double O, OO" to sort words according to rhyme, meaning, and categorization! Check out the box to the right and see how COOL and GROOVY our spelling rule really is! Reading and work board filled out the rest of our busy morning! We did manage to squeak in some outdoor recess (YAY) between the mist and rain drops. In math we continued to practice counting and writing money (over a dollar)! Great job! Very impressive! We ended the day getting ready to write our press releases for our Malawi project! Students will invite the school community to guess how many Hershey kisses are in the jar... and each guess will only cont ten cents! Every student will be given a dime and encouraged to make at least one guess, and hopefully, learn a little about our Malawi pen pals in the process! Later students will perform a play while offering a bake sale after... more on that later. As is the case every year, students choose how and what they want their service project to look like, and work toward helping our friends across the globe! Nice! If you haven't gotten your permission slips in yet, please get them in asap. Thanks! Get a good nights sleep and come in ready for Fun Friday!!

Show Me The Money!!

Great day friends! Catching up on work board this morning and meeting with readers! The afternoon was all about counting and writing money! We've learned how to do this when we have less than one dollar, but what's the correct way to write about money when you have over one dollar?? That's exactly what we learned today, and had lots of practice soon after! Friends were able to tackle some pretty tricky coin combinations when it came to counting, but that didn't stop us! Practice makes perfect, and practice we did, and will do again tomorrow! Great job second graders! We listened to Matilda again today, and still wonder how Ms. Trunchbull ever, EVER got into teaching. Ms. Honey... YES!! Ms. Trunchbull.... NO!!! Love this book! Tomorrow we will have library... remember your library books so you can check out some new ones! Great day friends! Let's do it again tomorrow!!

Tuesday Thinkers!!!

Great Tuesday Friends! Danny started it off with a great morning meeting and we were off to our all school sing! What a way to start the day! We came back and practiced our new spelling rule, digraph 00, long... like in school and pool, and short... like in wood and wool! Well done! Jake livened up our morning with a great book he brought in to share highlighting one of our favorite authors Dr. Seuss!! Excellent job Jake! He later shared a couple of stories from this wonderful book at read aloud to a very captive audience! Well done!! Who know spots could be so compelling and complex!! We played a challenging game in math today, stretching our learning with place value and number sense called "high, low. middle"! And if that wasn't enough, we had to add tens, and take a way tens to three digit numbers! Not as easy as you think if your number is 799, right Danny! Excellent job everyone! Remember... when you're thinking... you're WINNING! Especially in second grade! And that's just the way we like it! PE tomorrow... sneakers please.