Thursday, August 30, 2012

Today we learned about near doubles in math.  They can help us get faster at math.  We finished our maps in Social Studies and shared them with our class.  There is no school on Monday.

Matthew and Madison

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Today we learned some new math games to play during math workshop.  Mrs. Schlickbernd has been giving us spelling inventories to learn what words we know how to spell.

Matthew

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Today we learned how to do Read to Someone in Daily 5. We took our first math test. It was on the computer. Matthew and Isaiah

Monday, August 27, 2012

My name is Matthew. I am the blogger this week. Today we visited the Wakefield Train Depot Museum. The model trains were cool! We practiced for a fire drill. Matthew

Friday, August 24, 2012

Today we learned how to fill out our reading logs.  We celebrated Madison's birthday.  On Monday we are going to visit the Depot Museum to see the trains.

Megan

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Today we learned that the words how many more actually mean to subtract.  We had a visitor named Carine.  She teaches first grade in Belgium and she told us about her school and spoke to us in French.

Megan

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Today we wrote subtraction sentences. We learned how to choose good fit books.  Mrs. Schlickbernd brought shoes from home.

Megan

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Today we did math workshop.  We learned how to write addition sentences and joining stories.  We learned about realistic fiction books in reading.  We got to pick one for our book boxes.

Megan

Monday, August 20, 2012

My name is Megan.  I will be the blogger this week.  Today we had to practice rug.  We had computer time.  Mrs. Schlickbernd showed us our reading binders.  Math small groups start tomorrow.

Megan

From Mrs. Schlickbernd

What a whirlwind the first days of school can be!  We have been busy in the classroom setting goals and expectations for our learning and behavior.  To emphasize our classroom rules, we each created a puzzle piece with something that we do in our classroom.  It will hang on our wall all year to remind us that if one piece is missing, it isn't a complete puzzle.  Likewise, if we stop doing one of those things, there will be a big hole in our classroom.

 We also started learning about our first Daily 5: Read to Self.  We spent a lot of time creating our anchor chart and going over student and teacher expectations.  Then we practiced, practiced, practiced!  Our goal is to reach 20 minutes of non-stop independent reading.  Here is a picture of our anchor chart.

It has been a joy to get to know your children so far and I am looking forward to an exciting year in second grade!

Today we got started on Xtra Math.  We will do Xtra Math on the computer every day to help us learn our math facts and do them fast!  It was funny when Mrs. Schlickbernd forgot to send us to recess on time!  We were really late, so she came outside and gave us 10 extra minutes.

Regina

Thursday, August 16

My name is Regina.  I am the blogger this week.  Today was our second day of second grade.  We made a big puzzle with our classroom rules on it.  We learned about our gathering place.  When Mrs. Schlickbernd makes the windchime sound, we go to the rug.

Regina

Classroom Photos

I took some pictures of our classroom before Meet and Greet tonight, but I wanted to do something fun with them. So I made this quick video using Animoto to show them off. We will use Animoto many times throughout the school year! I look forward to meeting my new second graders tonight!