Our MVP Jasmyne

 I am seven years old.  I live with my mom, brother, and my dad.  My mom and I travel a lot to pageants.  

 I went to Spooktacular Nationals.  It is a pageant.  There was a pageant and a party there.  Disney characters came to the party.  You got to trick or treat.  Then you get to get a whole bunch of candy and take pictures with the characters.  In this picture it is Mr. Tim and Christina.  Christina is my pageant coach.  Mr. Tim goes to most of the national pageants.  

Our M.V.P. Jared

My favorite subject in school is Science. I like Science because I like to do experiments and find out what they will do. I also like to write in my Science journal.  I hope sometime we can learn about planets because I like space. 

Our M.V.P. Hudson

School is fun because you get to do math, science, Daily 5,word study, and reading.  My favorite subject in 2nd grade is Daily 5.  I get to read chapter books and regular books.  Non-fiction books are real.  They tell you about the facts about animals or people or the Earth. 

Our MVP Josh

My name is Josh and I used to live in Alabama.  Alabama is hot and sometimes it rains.  I had good neighbors.  Mike and Geri had a little grandson who always came over on Wednesdays and Thursdays.  My brother and I always used to play with him.  His name was Alex.  When he came he would come in my house and start playing.  We always liked to play hide-and-go-seek.  I always was it to be the counter.  Me and my brother liked to go to his house too.  At his house we played with his toys.  We played with superheroes and we had a sleepover. 

Our MVP Molly

I went to a wedding and I did it for my best friend's mom.  I was really great.  I wore a dress.  It was brown, pink, and orange.  I liked the wedding. 

OUR MVP JEOVANNI

This is one of my old schools.  I think I was 4. 

I was down at a wolf place and we got to pet wolves.  The wolf was soft.  I was excited to pet the wolf. 

This is me and my dad in a Thomas Train. 

I was on a tractor with my dad and I was really little.  I think I was three. 

I forgot where I was in this picture but Mrs. Heath says I looked cute!!

My name is Jeovanni.  I am seven years old.  My birthday is December 6th. 

OUR MVP Ryan

Yesterday I got to go to a bowling party.  I drove in Mrs. Oak's car to the bowling party.  When we got there, I had to get some bowling shoes on.  Then we walked over to find a ball.  We took the ball to a lane.  We typed in our names.  Olivia, Jackson, and Cheyenne bowled with me.  I hit a lot of the pins down.  I was excited and gave Mrs. Oak's a high five everytime I knocked them down.

After a little while Mrs. Oaks brought me some pizza and pop.  I had pepperoni pizza and Dr. Pepper.  The pizza was tasty.  Finally it was time to go home.  My mom came and picked me up in a little bit.  Bowling was really awesome and I hope I get to go again!

OUR MVP Damen

This year was my second year playing in the Cornhusker State Games for hockey.  Our team name was the Little Lancers and I was the team goalie.  When our team received our jerseys the parents set up the locker room like a professional NHL locker room, it was awesome.  On our way out to play our first game in the  tournament all the parents lined up to give us high fives and tell us good luck.  It was a very hard tournament but our team had so much fun.  Our team even had its own professional photograph with us at all times, he is also the Omaha Lancers photographer.  We all can’t wait to play in the tournament again next summer.

 

Glove save during game.

Damen and fellow team mate celebrating after the Little Lancers scored.

Team locker room

Damen getting ready to go on the ice.

 

 

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Our MVP Talia

Going to Colorado

 

First, we hiked in the mountains.  Next, we rode horses.  My horse's name was Lance.  We had a cabin next to a really fast river.  It was really loud and had a little waterfall.  We caught a trout.  It was a rainbow trout.  Teh best part of Colorado was swimming at the hotel.  We also went on a carriage ride and I jumped off a building on a bungee cord.



We Remember

Today is Patriot's Day, a day that we use to remember the events of 9/11 and those who lost their lives that day.  We took took a break from our learning at  9:11 a.m. to have a moment of silence and then followed that with The Star Spangled Banner.  What a great opportunity to recognize and remember all those that work daily to keep our country safe and free. 

We also had the opportunity to show our remembrance by creating a pictorial representation of September 11th, shared by a wonderful teacher at http://primaryparadise.blogspot.com/2012/09/free-september-11th-craftivity.html The picture shows the Twin Towers, Pentagon, and a badge representing the first responders who were there to help, with the background of our flag.  It is an amazing tribute to all, and a fantastic way to remember and celebrate what makes us proud to be an American!

We hope you enjoy our tribute. 

American Symbols Reader's Theater

Our second grade class has been learning about America, with a focus on the symbols that represent our country and what our rights and responsibilities are as citizens.  As part of our learning this week we completed reader's theaters. Reader's theater is an awesome tool that incorporates the content along with speaking and reading fluently.  Take a look at our performances!

 

Our MVP Katie

We ate in our classroom because we got all of Joe's body parts.  Joe is our potato head.  We get body parts because we are being quiet at the carpet, are being respectful, or get a compliment from another teacher.  If you were cold lunch you got to leave your lunch in the classroom.  If you were hot lunch you got to go down to the lunchroom to get your lunch.  Then we came back into the room so that we could eat our lunches.  I was happy that we got to do that.  It was really fun to do it. 

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