Playing Catch-Up!

Welcome back to the blog everyone! I think I FINALLY have this figured out :) I have had so much fun getting to know all the super second-graders over the past few weeks.  

Last week, Eli was our all-star of the week. He brought in Krispy Kream donuts for us, showed us his pinewood derby car, and read us one of his favorite books, Turkeybowl, by Phil Bildber.  Thanks for the great read, Eli! 

On Wednesday of last week, we celebrated the books we wrote during our information writing unit.  We wrote books about something we knew all about that had to do with force and motion.  We had several books about soccer, hockey, gymnastics and dance.  Others wrote about cleaning, playing video games, and fast animals.  We had a great variety of books and the kids loved sharing them with each other during our celebration.  They set up their published books on book stands and we took a book-walk around the room.  We read our classmates' books and then wrote reviews to go with them.

This week, our new All-Star is Kaeleigh! She kicked off the week by sharing her wonderfully colorful poster, complete with tie-dyed tape, 3D stickers and a bedazzled name! We learned that she loves Sea World and the Cardinals, Mac and Cheese, and Art class.  The class loved her awesome poster, which was a piece of art in itself! 

We began a new unit in writing this week- Writing about Reading. We have been writing letters about our favorite character in stories and also our favorite parts inside books.  We are addressing our letters to Class 49, so that other readers and writers can read our opinions about the things we read.  We are simultaneously learning how to be a close reader so that we can dig really deep into our books and find out all we can.  

We finished our unit in Economics in Social Studies and ROCKED the test- good job everyone! We will be moving into science and discovering simple machines for the next few weeks, so keep your ears open for details on machines we are building in class.  

Last but certainly not least, we will begin a new math unit all about money on Thursday.  

This week's spelling test schedule is:

Team 2: Monday (had to do a Monday test bc of our field trip on Wednesday)

Team 3: Tuesday 

Team 4: Thursday

Team 1: Friday

Don't forget that we are going to Powell Hall on Wednesday! Please try your best to get to school on time- the bus is set to leave at 8:45.