Our MVP Brody

Minecraft is a really fun game.  There are tons of blocks and there are creepers and zombies and spiders.  You can get swords, shovels, pick axes, and a hoe.  There are diamonds.  Your character can die. 

Our Favorite Things

Today we will work together to write our first class blog post that will tell you all about what we've been working on in writing...

     We all brought blue bags that had three things that we wanted to write about. (Damen)  We wrote about the first favorite thing we pulled out. (Katie)  Then we all learned how to write paragraphs. (Kate)  Our class wrote five paragraphs all about ourselves. (Blake)  All of the essays had the same endings. (Addison) It took us three days to finish it! (Kitt) After we were done writing, we decorated the front of our essay with a self portrait. (Cameron)  Finally we got to share our essays with the class. (Jasmyne)

Ryan is sharing his story.

John is reading his essay.

Damen is writing his essay.

Kitt is writing about her favorite things.

Hudson is sharing the story to the class.

Boo!  Can you guess who is who by our self portraits?

Building Our Reading Stamina

A large part of our daily literacy routine is our Daily 5 Rotations.  Daily 5 consists of 5 (in our room 6) different literacy stations that each child can choose to complete daily.  They complete 2 stations each day, with their third rotation being either a reading group or a reading response assignment from reading group.    The 6 stations they may choose are: 

Read to Self - students silently read books that they have self selected

Read to Someone - students read with a partner from a selection of poems, magazines, and books

Listen to Reading - students utilize Tag Readers or Leapsters to listen to fluent reading and/or play educational literacy games

Work on Writing - students write independently.  Often times they will have a writing activity to complete but after that they can choose to write anything they'd like. 

Word Work - students practice their sight words and phonics skills by choosing from a large selection of word working games including - Boggle, stamping words, rainbow writing words, word wheels, making words, and roll and spell words

Ipads - students may choose to read/listen to books from several sites or play literacy based games

We have learned expectations for several of our Daily 5 centers and will continue to work on doing them correctly throughout this week.  Reading groups will start slowly this week and then in full force next Tuesday. 

OUR MVP KITT

I want to show you some of my pictures when we went behind the waterfall. 

This is Snake River Falls

This is the picture of my cousins and me and my brother and my uncle behind the waterfall.

This is me, my brother, and my mom on a ledge.

My uncle picked me up and put me in the waterfall.

I was climbing on the rocks behind the waterfall. 

A New Year in 2nd Grade!

Welcome new friends to TEAM Heath!  We are off to a fantastic start to our 2014-2015 year.  Our first week of school went smoothly.  Take a look at our shining faces on the first day of school!

On our first few days together we spent a lot of time talking about what makes a good team and reviewing expectations for learning and behavior. Here you can see us listening carefully to Mrs. Glover as she explains what happens if we forget to follow the school rules of Be Safe, Be Respectful, and Be Responsible. 

Of course, we have also taken the time to have some fun in class.  We have played games on the smartboard, learned some new brain breaks and word games that we will play throughout the year, and gotten to know one another better.  Our first game of telephone was fun, but an utter failure!  I guess it still counts as a win if the kiddos are smiling!!

  All and all, it was a fun-filled, fantastic first week of school.  I can't wait to see what the new week, and the rest of the year, hold!!

 

 

Love,

Mrs. Heath