Patterns, George Washington, and Tikki Tikki Tembo!

From Hailey:
Today we wrote about George Washington. We still need to do our final writing about George Washington. We had a great day.

From Mrs. Clough:
Things have been very busy here in 2nd grade!  Sorry for no post yesterday or last Thursday (Friday was a no school day).  Here is what has been going on, and as Hailey mentioned, George Washington is like our best friend right now-with all of the time we are spending learning and writing about him!

Last week, we had a guest reader!  My husband Ben came to read to the kids at the end of the day Thursday.  The kids have always treated him as a mythological creature and as though I can't possibly have a life outside of school (sometimes I wonder! haha), so they were VERY exciting to meet him. 

As we have been spending so much time learning about George Washington, I decided we would write short reports about him!  So we reviewed the important parts of writing a paragraph!

We worked together to organize our information about President Washington!

Some reminders for our rough draft writing.  Tomorrow we will hopefully begin our final draft of writing that will be saved to share with you at conferences in March, which will be here sooner than I can believe!

In math today we worked with creating two and three unit repeating patterns, as well a review of even and odd numbers.  We also had a guest during math today-Mrs. Asa! :)

A few reminders:

-Parent Group Movie Night is this Thursday at 6:30PM

-NO SCHOOL Monday January 21st (it is also Avery's birthday!)

-2nd grade field trip to UNI for Rosa Parks play on Thursday January 24th

Have a great night!

Mrs. Clough

Happy New Year 2013!!!

From Cole:
We made buildings in math.

From Jakob:
We had art and we had fun.

From Mrs. Clough:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!  It certainly flew by, much faster than I anticipated, but it has been nice to get back in the groove of school! :)  I apologize for slacking on the blog posts leading up to break.  Things became very busy with all of our Christmas Around the World activities.

BUT-we are back up and running with the blog. I've decided that in this new year, I will use mostly pictures to keep you up to date on what is happening in our room on a daily basis, so I hope you enjoy them!  Pictures generally are more fun than reading a jumble of words, anyway! :)

Here is what we have been working on and learning about in 2C in 2013, so far!

We have learned about a table of information and have had to fill in the blanks, while making our "buildings" using counting cubes.  This unit (which we began this week), focuses on ratios and patterns.

Working in pairs to make the buildings with a different number of floors and rooms per building, using counting cubes.

Last week (in our 2 day week!), we wrapped up our unit on data collection and line plot making.  The kids worked in two groups to create a big line plot using the given data.

We learned about celebratory traditions for the Chinese New Year and made our own dragon lion masks!

In Social Studies we have begun our unit on Famous Americans, beginning with George Washington.  We will continue to learn about him and do activities until the middle of next week!

Today we focussed a lot on being respectful.  We have also been reviewing a lot of our expectations and school wide PBIS expectations.  Before compiling tis list, we talked about ways to be disrespectful and then we discussed what being respectful means in general.  From there we broke it down further into ways you can show respect USING WORDS and ways to show respect, WITHOUT WORDS.  I think we came up with a pretty good list! :)

To ring in the new year, we discussed what resolutions are (similar to goals) and we worked on these posters that are hanging up in our hallway that address our resolutions, goals, favorite memory of 2012, and more! 

Finally, the note went home last week about our Winter (Football themed) Reading program/contest.  The kids were divided into two teams and worked together to create a team name, mascot, and team colors.  I have gotten some footballs back for those 20 minute chunks of reading and will get some scores up SOON!  The 2 teams in 2C are: 

The Crazy Cupcakes

and

Team Legos

A few reminders:

-Books orders are due TOMORROW, Thursday, January 10

-NO SCHOOL Friday, January 11

-Parent Group Movie Night (note went home today with more details) Jan. 17 at 6:30pm

-NO SCHOOL Monday January 21

**A yellow note went home tonight discussing our upcoming field trip.  Please sign and send back TOMORROW!!!!!!  Thank you!

Until tomorrow,

Mrs. Clough :)