Book Character Dress Up

Today, we participated in Character Dress Up Day! We were looking at everyone's clothes, and we were excited! Two different people dressed as Harry Potter. Thomas found out someone else was dressed up as one of the Scooby Doo characters. Lauren found out that Millie dressed up as the same character she did. We took turns making our pictures outside the room. It is evident that we all like different books.


Ethan liked Math Magicican. We used subtraction today. Today, we also, worked word problems in a more "grown-up" way. We were just given the word problem, without boxes for illustrations, model drawings, number sentences, or complete sentences. We had to rely on our brains to remember all of the steps!!!! We practiced our doubles + 1 today in a new way. A CD called out a number, we doubled it, and added 1. We played the Jumping Game before snack. Millie liked doing the Jumping Game.

Tuesday, 8-30

This morning, three of our friends went to the amphitheater, three went to music, and three went to Mrs. O'Connor's room. One person is absent, so that only left ten of our friends in our room. So, we had silent reading time. : )

We worked on Math Magician. Today was the first time that we've practiced subtraction. We used place value dice to make two different 3-digit numbers. Then, we decided which one was larger and put the correct symbol in the equation. Our word problems were about our reading story characters, Frog and Toad. We learned a new way to model draw, called part-part-whole. We can use EITHER way that we prefer to model draw.

We also completed a Social Studies paper to see what we remembered from our first unit.

Alaya liked the math game today. Lauren liked the Social Studies sheet. Ethan favored Math Magician. Kesler enjoyed Social Studies the most.

Tomorrow is storybook character dress up day!!! Look out for pictures of our characters!!!!

The Start of a New Week

Early Mondays are always a little crazy! We worked on comparing numbers today in math. We built numbers with base 10 blocks to see which number was bigger. We reviewed what >, <, and = symbols meant. Then, we practiced sketching two numbers and determining the bigger number. Eventually, we moved to just seeing two standard form numbers and putting the correct symbol between them.

We also worked on our Harcourt Reading Assessment for Mrs. Johnson.

We got to have our compliment party today. We drank KoolAid. We're starting over with our compliment board, in hopes of another party soon!

Put all of that with PE, lunch, and recess, and our day was over fairly quickly! We'll have another good day tomorrow!

It's FRIDAY!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to this week's Good Citizen, Millie! The class voted her Good Citizen because she's been quiet in the halls, she is a good friend to others, and she's helped others this week.

We had a few minutes of silent reading time this morning before beginning morning work. Mrs. Johnson's friends came for a visit early this morning, and we discussed what each morning will look like beginning next week. We'll have both classes in here doing handwriting, math, or Famous Americans, while Mrs. Johnson has reading intervention. We discussed maps this morning, highlighting a map key, map symbols, directions, compass rose, and locating things on a US map.

In math, we played with the place value dice with a partner. We did Math Magician and the Jumping Game. Our newest skill is being able to play "I Have..., Who Has...?" Today, we used place value cards, but Mrs. Bruno has "I Have..., Who Has?" cards for time, money, addition, subtraction, and more. We were excited that Miss Brown played our games with us today!

Thursday, Aug. 25

We've been having some MAJOR Blogger issues since an update was pushed out to our TCS computers. We would type our post, but then it wouldn't publish to the page. I finally contacted Blogger and found out what to do. So, now we should be back on track.

Over the past three days, we've learned the Jumping Game and the Show That Number Game. In the Jumping Game, Mrs. Bruno gives a math problem and we JUMP the answer. It's a great way to practice our math facts. We also learned a new dance. We needed some dessert after The Burger Dance, so we learned the Ice Cream and Cake song! :) Yesterday, Mrs. Bruno introduced us to some apps that were great for learning. She also emailed those home to our parents.

This morning we learned to play 'Da Numba. It's another great way to have fun and practice math facts at the same time. This game has a link on our class website. Millie passed a level for us!!! Yea, Millie. We also worked on Math Magician today. It was Alaya's group's turn, and she found out that she really liked it. She seemed surprised! We worked on "one less, one more" and "ten less, ten more" today, as well as "hundred less, hundred more." We also got our 10th compliment on the compliment . . . which means 2nd COMPLIMENT PARTY (if we don't lose it like we did yesterday). In PE, we jump roped. Caroline got hit in the head.

We read more of the Boxcar Children today. We learned that they were headed to the dump to look for treasure. (Mrs. Bruno, the germophobe, is gagging!!!!)

We also learned that our parents can watch us from the classroom everyday.

Monday . . . back to work!!!!

Gabby liked learning about expanded form in math, and she also liked our game with the hundreds chart. She says she was pretty good at it! Alaya liked switching classes today! Carson wants to know why it's so cold in the school. Emma enjoyed reading "I Like Being Little." Creedon liked when Mrs. Bruno read "Nate the Great" during morning duty. Kamden liked the hundreds chart, as well. Millie liked getting a compliment toward our compliment party because we were working diligently. Sarah liked being in our room! Fred says he needs a little improvement with his hundreds chart game. I bet he beats us all before it's over with, though! Millie liked having our class' name announced over the intercom for being the best second grade class in the lunchroom!!!!!!!! YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Friday!!!!!

Congratulations to Savannah for being our very first good citizen! Her classmates say she is good citizen because she has great self-control, she's been really good, she knows how to stand quietly in the hall, and she's had the most compliments in the class so far.

This morning we finished our spelling sentences for Mrs. Johnson. We have started over today, working towards our next compliment party. We are reading The Boxcar Children and really enjoying hearing the trials of Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. Right now, they've just found an old boxcar to live in. In Social Studies, we discussed the differences between cities and suburbs. We determined that our closest city is Birmingham, and that our community of Trussville is a suburb!!

The PTO fundraiser is beginning. We can't wait to earn some prizes. We glued our names on our self-portraits and hung them for our parents to see next Monday night.

We're excited about the weekend!

Thursday, Aug. 18

We finished our self-portraits this morning, so we will hang them up soon! Millie wasn't too thrilled with the math that we did today. (Mrs. Bruno is going to get her!!!!) Jackson was glad we had a special library time yesterday so we could check out books!!! Gabby really liked math today. We began using our notebooks for the first time. Drew is excited that we're about to head to art. Creedon liked being introduced to Math Magician. He's going to practice at home!!! Kesler wants to do another self-portrait. Millie liked the self-portraits and base-10 blocks. Emma liked the self-portraits, as well. Sarah liked math. Aidan likes being with Mrs. Bruno. Alaya is excited about art. Lauren likes being with Mrs. Bruno. Thomas liked gluing his "Me Bag" stuff on his self-portrait. Fred is excited about our upcoming field trip to McWane.

Wednesday, August 17

We had our first compliment party today!!! YEA!!!! We worked on word problems in math and built numbers to 1,000 with base 10 blocks. In Social Studies, we talked about neighbors and neighborhoods, as well as communities.

Tuesday, 8-16

Today, after checking Husky Pads and morning work, more of our friends shared their "Me" bags. We only have a few left! We had our Caught Being Good tickets handed back out to us. Some of us read from the classroom library. We used our Base-10 blocks to build numbers. Miss Brown helped us with that. We did a few word problems. In social studies we talked about the groups we belong to (family, school, church, sports, etc.). We learned how to do word studies in our notebooks We've gotten TONS accomplished today!!!!!

First Monday of the Year!!!!!

Today is the first Monday we've been in school. We had an exciting morning doing an addition math sheet. We did all of our class-changing before PE today. We had the opportunity to meet a new student aide named Miss Brown. (Drew said she's very pretty!) She'll be with us each morning, as she learns what it's like to be a teacher. She's a high school student trying to determine if education is the career for her. This morning, we worked with Base 10 blocks, learning to build numbers. We also worked on sketching those numbers. We also worked more word problems.

In Mrs. Johnson's room, we edited sentences and read our first basal story. We'll have our first real homework tonight! YEA!!!!

Fun Friday

We finally finished our math assessment. I was surprised how many students didn't want it to be over. They actually liked it!!!! We finished our Chrysanthemum activity by dividing our names into consonants and vowels, giving each a value, and adding them up! No one's name was worth as much as Chrysanthemum's name! We began a conversation game where we each said something about ourselves and then asked someting of a neighbor. We're going to finish up with our homework over the weekend. Mrs. Bruno said that, if we get all of our work done today, we might get to learn a new dance!

Emma said she liked using the Time Tracker today. Kesler enjoyed finishing the math test. Kamden liked doing the math test. Alaya was excited about it, too. Millie did, as well. Aidan was excited that we started math word problems today! Yea!!!!

Thinking Thursday

Today we continued our math assessment. We had to recall how to do word problems, count money, and make bar graphs. We learned about Mrs. Bruno's Time Tracker. We also started a fun activity with our book, Chrysanthemum.

Thomas said he had fun today. Aidan wants to do MORE math. He was sad that we stopped. Carson is itching to get out of our room and to Mrs. Johnson's room. (Mrs. Bruno is crying about that statement!!!) Fred is ready to start science. Alaya liked our math morning work! Sarah liked our Burger Dance song break. We needed our rear ends out of our seat after that assessment!!!! Gabby is ready for the bell to go home. Millie can't wait for PE.

We're such big kids!

We changed classes for the first time today!!! It was so exciting! I got to see each class and started a beginning-of-the-year math assessment. We also read Chrysanthemum. We'll do a math activity with that story tomorrow! I'm enjoying getting to know your kids!! They're precious!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Welcome to the first day of second grade!!!!! We'll blog each afternoon we have time to let you know what we've done during the day!!!

Alaya says she liked everything. Millie liked our "I Wonder" poems after reading Wemberly Worries! Kesler liked our First Day of School Packet. Lauren liked everything. Kamden liked being with her whole class. Drew didn't like his recess injury caused by the zipline. YUCK!!!!! Thomas enjoyed meeting new people, eating cookies, and recess. Gabby liked hearing the Monster story. Jackson enjoyed recess!!! Peyton liked Wemberly Worries. Sarah enjoyed HER BIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTHDAY!!!!!!! : ) Savannah liked her name cookie!!! Emma did, too!! Carson liked the tic tac toe math sheet.

I think the favorite of the day, however, was the thing that had the least to do with school. As is typical in our crazy classroom, we had to end the day on a crazy note . . . doing the Hamburger Dance. You'll have to get your child to demonstrate our 30 second dance!!!!!