Valentines day!

Thank you to everyone who came to our Valentine's Day party! The kids had a great time!  I want to give a big shout-out to Eli's mom- Mrs. Wendel, who planned all the fun games and activities for us! It's obvious she put a lot of time into making sure the kids would have a great time at the party 😃

      

THURSDAY

     We continued our lesson about technology by finding it in magazines and making posters.  We worked in groups to come up with ideas about how the technology we found helped solve problems. 

Thursday was dress like a teacher day.   Nick and Jacob looked slick in their shirts and ties- they chose to dress like Dr. Hamby.  Kaeleigh and Haley decided to dress up like me, wearing boots and pink shirts :) I think they all looked great! 

Spelling tests for next week are: 

Group 2- Tuesday

Group 3-Wednesday 

Group 4- Thursday 

Group 1- Friday

Please study those words frequently, since many groups have those tricky homophones in their lists this week :) 

Enjoy the holiday weekend and I will see everyone on Tuesday!  

Investigating Technology

Yesterday, we started a new unit all about Technology and simple machines. We learned that technology is all around us! Something as simple as a pencil is technology, because it was invented to solve a problem.  We watched a video about Alexander Graham Bell, and how he used technology to solve a problem he had. He wanted people who were very far away from him to be able to hear his voice, so he created the telephone!

We went on a tour around our classroom trying to find pieces of technology, and then wrote about the problem that may have caused a scientist to invent those things. 

Haley even noticed that she can hold technology in her hands! 

Look around your house and see if you can find technology in unlikely places. 

Many of you have requested a class list for valentines day. Here it is: 

We will spend a short amount of time on Friday decorating bags for valentines before the party.  If your child would like to decorate a box at home, that is absolutely fine.  Students are also welcome to bring in additional decorations for their valentines bag if they choose to.  

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.  

Visualizing stories as our buddies read to us!

Congratulations to our class spelling bee winners! Tomorrow they will participate in the second grade spelling bee. The two winners of that spelling bee will be in the school spelling bee next Friday!

Elza                                                   Chase                           Eli 

Junior achievement

We had to make donuts using an assembly line.

Welcome Back!

We are back and anxious to jump into the third quarter in second grade!  We are having fun getting back into our learning routine as well as setting and adjusting goals to help us be successful as we continue getting ready for THIRD grade! 

Here is what we are busy learning in this week...

Reading-We are learning how to visualize as we read.  When we visualize, we are playing movies in our heads as we read books.  This can be practiced at home by reading a book without looking at the pictures and then drawing or sketching what picture is being seen in their heads. 

Writing- We are learning how to write informative stories about something we know all about.  (soccer, gymnastics, dancing, football are just a few of our topics)  Today, we wrote three or more parts of our activity and wrote down notes and pictures to get our ideas out of our brains.  We will be creating a table of contents and going through the writing process to have "second grade quality". 

Word Study- This week, we are starting back to our spelling cycles.  Look for new words to come home this week!

Math- We are reviewing subtraction with and without regrouping.  We have learned how to check by adding too!  Give your child a two digit subtraction problem and have them show you how to check by adding.  :)  Later this week, we will be estimating differences and solving word problems that require regrouping.  Please make sure your child is getting back into the routine of  studying math facts daily and mark it in their binder.  Thank you! 

Social Studies- Mrs. Bond is teaching us Junior Achievement this week.  We are learning about economics and jobs in communities by doing activities that require teamwork and patience.  

Don't forget...
Early Release 1:40 this Wednesday 1/15
Movie Night is Friday night 1/17 here at Sappington! 
No school next Monday. 1/20  Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Have a wonderful 5 day week!