Halloween Fun!

Our Centers had a halloween theme this month :)

We read the Story Stella Luna and worked on the Parts of a Story

The next day we did some practice with Beginning Middle and End

At the beginning, Stella was happy flying with her bat family

Then she got lost and was taken in by a bird family

And in the end she found her bat mother :)

We hung the finished product by the ceiling to make it a bit more 'spooky' in here for the season :)

We read the book "The Very Busy Spider" by eric Carle and then made our our version- The Very Busy 2nd Grade Spider" and wrote about all the things we have been doing in 2nd grade so far this year!

I hung them in the hall for all you parents to see and enjoy 

All the kids dressed up for the halloween parade and party!

The kids decorated pumpkins with our classroom moms :)

Wednesday, Oct. 27th

Today in reading and writing we worked on our haunted house story.  We focused on the Promblem and Solution part of our story which was hard for some students.  We came up with some great problems ("I was ate up by a monster!") but forgot that we needed to have a solution to that problem at the end of our story.  We will continue working on these stories tomorrow!

In math we did geometry with the geo-boards.  We made pentagons, hexagons, octogons and trapezoids.  The kids loved working with the geoboards :)

We also got a chance to go to computers today! yaye!

Hope you all have a good night :)

PS- The kids did end up voting on a name for the guinea pig- it was a close one but the name is MEATBALL. haha :)

Tuesday, Oct. 26th

Today was the fall festival for all kids who have had good behavior at school for the past month! We had fall candy, did a fall art project and watched the movie version of the picture book "The first snow in the woods."
In writing/reading today we talked about characters and charater traits.  We started developing some of our characters to use in a "creepy haunted house" story.  Hopefully the stories will be done by Friday for you to enjoy at home on Halloween!
In math we are using base-ten blocks to model different numbers up to 999.  Tomorrow we will be moving on and starting with geometry and building different shapes while learning about perimeter and area.

Friday Update: Halloween parade at 8:45, Halloween Party will take place between 10:15 and 11:15. Dismissal is at 11:30.

** I am in need of empty, clean peanut butter jars (or any plastic jar with a screw off top) for a math center.  If you have one that you are about to toss, pleae send it to me! Thanks!!

Monday, Oct. 25th

Today in reading and writing we read the book "The Very Busy Spider" by Eric Carle.  We then made text-to-self connection and listed the ways that we are also "very busy" and talked about what we don't have time for because we are busy.We made our own spider and listed the things we've been busy doing (we also took this oppurtunity to again list the ways how spiders are different than insects).
In math we work a lot with time and anolog clocks.  We also reviewed place value and coins.
In science we finished up our insect ABC books.  About half the class is done and is moving on to a new project starting tomorrow.  We will be starting our first social studies unit so it will bea great time to introduce the new project.

Hope everyone had a great night. 

Remember: The Halloween parade is Friday at 8:45 followed by an assembly and then our party.  Dismissal will be at 11:34 that day. 

Friday, Oct. 22nd

Yet another busy Friday in 2nd grade today! In the morning we went to reading groups and read about animal habitats and animals that live in ponds/wetlands.  We practiced with some unknown words and new vocab.  After reading groups we did our spelling test (THANK YOU to Molly's mom for coming in to help us with those!!) and read the book Stellaluna about a baby bat.  We started a story map about the book that we finished after lunch.  In the afternoon we also made a fun project that helped us visualize the beginning, middle, and end of the story as well as identify the main events and put them in correct sequence.  Our project is now hanging from our ceiling in the classroom :) We also made time for math in the afternoon which included counting money (4 dollars in change today!) and reviewing other skills from earlier in the week (time, place value, adding, subtracting, etc.)
Homework binders went home today (Thanks to Louis' Mom!!) Please check the orange folder for other fliers and work we have completed during the week.

Have a good weekend!! :)