Time

Today, I introduced TIME ROUTINE. We discussed the difference between an analog and digital clocks.


After determining how the two clocks were different, we focused on telling time to the hour.





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Daily 5

We Began Daily 5 this week! We are focusing on Read To Self right now. We are working on stamina! As of today, we read for 4 minutes with no disturbances. Our goal is 30 minutes!!!!





Each child has a book box with books that are "Just Right" for them.


They take their book boxes to their boom nook and "Read to Self."









They are doing great!!!

Spelling

Every Monday, we will meet in Mrs. Watkin's room with Mrs. Davis' class to come up with our spelling words for each week. This week's words revolve around the short a sound. After the first week, I will help the children compile their lists of words by selecting words from List 1 and/or List 2. This week I required my whole class to use List 1. This is for assessment purposes for me. Each week, the students will also be responsible for 5 sight words.





Their spelling words will be in their DOG book weekly. Tests begin this Friday!!!

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Grand Opening

Ruff and Stuff was open for business last Friday! They had a wonderful time cashing their "good behavior" checks at Central Bark Bank before going shopping!!!











Decisions, decisions, decisions!


Thank you parents for sending in some great stuff!


Our baskets were full! Thank you, parents, for your generosity!!!





Cameron making sure his money is stored safely in his wallet before long.




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GLYPH

All About Me Glyph

The boys and girls did a great job following directions.

They used a key to help them create a face about them!

We learned lots of information about one another through this activity!

Assessments

We have spent some time this week doing assessments to help Mrs. Coon know what she needs to focus on this year in 2nd grade.

The boys and girls are taking a math assessment.

How Many Letters Are in our Names?

Today, we read Chrysanthemum!  We talked about Chrysanthemum's name having 13 letters.  We wanted to know how many letters our names had.

We discovered that AdriAnna had the most letters in her name.  Most of the names in our class had  4 or 5 letters in them.  The boys' names totalled 48 letters, and the girls' names totalled 50.  We have 98 letters in all in our classroom.

Writer's Notebook

Working on our Writer's Notebooks was the highlight of our day!  They enjoyed this time so much!!!

Happy Birthday

Today was Kevin's birthday! His mother and baby brother brought us a yummy snack to help him celebrate!!!





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Find A Friend

We went on a friend scavenger hunt! Ask your child about it??






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Getting Know Each Other

We used M&M's yesterday to help us tell the class about ourselves.












I think their favorite part was eating the M&M's after everyone shared!

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Busy with Bellwork

Every morning the children will come in and complete their DOL and Math 4 Today!


They are doing a great job learning their morning routine.


We will have our first DOL quiz and Math 4 Today quiz this Friday! It will not count, because I just want to get them acquainted with these two tests.


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First Day Jitters

Our first poem in our poeTRY notebook!!



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First Day Jitters

We washed our jitters about 2nd grade away with some Jitter Juice!!!







The boys and girls tried to guess the ingredients of my Jitter Juice.
























Ask your child if he/she liked it?



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