Tuesday, 9-13

First thing this morning, some of us went to Paine Primary Singers, some to the amphitheater, and some to Mrs. O'Connor. The rest of us felt a little lonely, and we watched the video of Mrs. Bruno visiting Winter.

Today, we took a hard math test that everyone in second grade has to take twice a nine weeks. We knew we wouldn't do great, but we plan to improve as the year goes along.

We finished our solids and liquids today. We journaled about what our favorite and least favorite parts of the unit were. We'll begin focusing on solids and liquids in our environment.

Monday, Sept. 12

This morning, we opened our day by reading "September 12th: We Knew Everything Would Be All Right." It was a book written by first graders after September 11th.

Mrs. Johnson's class joined us this morning, and we took our math test. Mrs. Bruno taught us a new addition/subtraction strategy called the "Nine Shortcut." We went to Mrs. Johnson's room and read a passage and completed a response sheet.

Friday's Blog

For our last day of Husky Pride Week, Brody, Peyton, Millie, Drew, and Savannah said the pledge and sang the Husky Pride song.

Drew is our Good Citizen this week. His classmates say he's shown good character, he doesn't play too rough, he's quiet in the hallways, he's nice to others, and he's not mean to others!!! Way to go Drew!!!!!

It's been a very busy morning. We had our timed test this morning on the "Make 10" strategy. Then, we worked on "liquids" word problems. We learned two new games today. "Roll and Count" helped us with our number sense, and "The Popcorn Game" is a way to choose a partner to check your work. We had so much to do in math that we weren't able to get to science.

We've also had lots of discussions about 9/11 and the Twin Towers. The kids had great questions!

We had our third compliment party. That crazy teacher of ours made MAYONNAISE COOKIES!!!! She didn't tell us what was in them until AFTER we tasted them!!! She was scared we wouldn't try them.

Thursday, September 8

Emma, Sarah, Thomas, Carson, and Aidan said the pledge today. The quote about knowledge today was, "The next best thing to knowing something, is knowing where to find it." Paine Primary Singers practiced with Mrs. Murray today.

During reading intervention time, the rest of the class stayed with Mrs. Bruno. We practiced the "Make 10" addition strategy, then talked about the upcoming movie "Dolphin Tale." Mrs. Bruno discussed the differences between the facts of what really happened and what the movie will portray. Mrs. Bruno visited Winter at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in July and can't wait to show us real video and pictures of Winter. Go see the movie on September 23!!!!

The class worked on Math Magician and wrote in our math journal. Our science focus moved from solids to liquids today. We'll be exploring liquids and their properties tomorrow!!!!

Calmed-down day

Today we are back to a normal schedule. It's refreshing!

Gabby, Alaya, Kesler, Maddie, and Creedon said the pledge on the intercom this morning. They also read a quote about knowledge, our character ed trait of the month. "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes" by Peter Drucker.

A few of our friends visited the amphitheater and a few visited Mrs. O'Connor. The rest of us stayed and discussed solids and liquids and what we might find at the arctic!

During math, we put numbers in order from least to greatest and then from greatest to least. We also built towers with solids, then measured them to see which group built the tallest tower. We graphed the measurements and saw that Drew and Lauren had the tallest "solids" tower. We also did Math Magician! Yea fact practice!!!

CRAZY DAY!!

We are SOOOOOOOOOO sad!!! We didn't get to go on our field trip to McWane!!!!! We are hoping to reschedule it!!!

Our class is the Husky Pride class of the week, so we get to send students to Mrs. Schmitt's office each morning to do announcements. This morning Jackson, Lauren, Kamden, Ethan, and Fred said the pledge. They also quoted Mark Twain with a remark about knowledge. "The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so many things that aren't so!" Knowledge is our character trait for the month of September.

We had a seriously, crazy day!!! We didn't even get to school until 10:00. We were only here a precious few minutes before leaving to go to PE. From PE we went to Counselor. We got out late, had indoor recess, and headed to lunch. We finally made it back to our classroom, only to have abbreviated afternoon classes. The class packed up and headed home.

We hope we have a more normal day tomorrow!!!!

Friday, Sept 2

Take a look at our good citizen for the week . . . Ethan!!! Ethan has the best attitude about EVERYTHING. He's always willing to help, and he sets a great example for the other students in our class. We're very proud of him!

Today we got the chance to visit the book fair. If we didn't bring money, we can still bring it next Wednesday and shop.

We started our very first written timed test today. It was on doubles and doubles + 1. I hope we did well!!!! We did some word problems that had to do with our science unit, solids and liquids. Then, we observed some solids and told about their properties. Properties are the things that we know about an object based on our senses (sight, smell, touch, hearing, and tasting). We had lots of fun with that!!

We can't wait for Labor Day! The class will go to McWane the day we come back!!! YEA!!!!!