Happy Birthday Dr. King

Today we read about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  We learned about his life and how he impacted others.

We learned he didn't give up on his dream. 

We also enjoyed watching this video Mrs. Mulligan shared with us. Have a wonderful weekend,

A Very Busy December!

As we say farewell to 2015 and move on to a new year, I wanted to share some of the exciting activities and events from December. It was such a busy month! 

The students used Versatiles to practice the use of suffixes -s and -es. They wrote creative winter acrostic poems and cut fancy snowflakes to decorate the bulletin board in the hallway. We shared our favorite holiday traditions on the Padlet on our blog. We wrote thank you notes to the lunch staff. The students sang and danced their hearts and feet out at the Second Grade Winter Concert! And finally, the 2nd graders enjoyed a wonderful presentation by Mr. Neal Nichols Jr. during his Geography Game Show.  

The students also enjoyed practicing "Read to Someone" during Daily Five.

 They also completed some really amazing and creative dioramas to conclude our study of Realistic Fiction. (More about that project is coming soon!)

Holiday Traditions

The holidays are upon us.
I'm excited for my girls to be home-everyone under one roof! I always look forward to the traditions we have created as a family. What do you look forward to each year? You can add your favorite tradition below.

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Our Fall Tree

Last week we visited our adopted tree and made observations. We paid special attention to how our tree has changed since we first visited in September, when it was still summer. 

Now that it is fall, we noticed that...

The ground beneath our tree is covered with very long roots. The roots stick out of the ground. We collected the seed pods which we call helicopters. We opened them and found the seeds inside.

The leaves are almost all gone. The leaves were yellow and fragile.

The branches are strong, thick, and overlapping.
The tree's trunk is covered with bumpy bark. The grooves in the bark are shaped like Vs.

We noticed that a lot of leaves fell off from the wind. We also saw that one of the branches was cut, which we didn't see in the summer observation. We think we didn't notice the broken branch because it was covered with leaves.

Then we drew pictures of our tree to record our observations.

                         

                         

                         

Go Noodle

Sometimes we just need to move, so we GoNoodle.

              Here we are moving as we count by 2s, 5s, and 10s!