I found a fantastic website for all sorts of ideas and links to great sites for printables to work with your child at home on reading fluency! I am using some of these activities in the classroom as well!
http://sqworl.com/6ei12f
Reading fluency is a focus of reading instruction in second grade. Any practice done with your child at home can be recorded as 20 minutes of homework on the reading log! Just write the name of the passage or website used for practice! :)
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Fun Run!
We had a great time while helping to raise money for PTO sponsored events and grade level funds! Thanks to all of the families who contributed pledge money. Here are a few photos of our Walk for Funds. It was a little difficult to get good photos on the track. I had a hard time keeping up! :)
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Great Site!
Chippewa Valley Schools has purchased a license for home access to World Book online!
Visit this website https://www.chippewavalleyschools.org/staff-links/world-book-online/ and enter the following user name and password:
CVSAccess
Chippewa7
I like World Book Kids for our Second Graders! Consider adding it to your favorites!
Visit this website https://www.chippewavalleyschools.org/staff-links/world-book-online/ and enter the following user name and password:
CVSAccess
Chippewa7
I like World Book Kids for our Second Graders! Consider adding it to your favorites!
Thursday, September 20, 2012
First Weeks Fun!
We sure have been having lots of fun while learning these first weeks! Here are a few pictures!
This is our morning attendance check-in on the SMARTboard. It's going to be a sweet year!
This is our interactive calendar math. We review many skills during calendar time.
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The children made this craft for our bulletin board display. They wrote a recipe for a successful year!
Every child painted his or her clothespin for our behavior clip chart and decorated it with stickers to make the clip special!
We write in our communication journals on Fridays. The students enjoyed reading what their parents wrote back!
Math lessons include many investigation activities using counters of all kinds. This one was called mystery bags!
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Making ten with unifix cubes.
These are place value sorting maps and base ten blocks.
This is a card game to practice addition!
On Fridays the children practice estimating at our Estimation Station!
Here Ms. Zelenak models a writing lesson. We devote nearly an hour each morning to our writer's workshop.
We work on a story from our anthology readers each week. This photo is from the day the students received their book and browsed through the stories during snack break.
We have daily story time that includes reading lessons on many skills. The children enjoyed all of the back to school stories during the first few weeks!
On Constitution Day, the children listened to patriotic songs and decorated a headband.
One of the activities in Being a Writer was to do a quick sketch of something in the classroom or out on the playground to generate ideas for writing.
Students share their writing pieces with a partner.
M&M math was lots of yummy fun!
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Back on the second day, each child had their picture taken in this frame! Check in with us often and watch us learn and grow!
Thanks for stopping by!
Monday, August 20, 2012
Welcome to Second Grade and a Suggested Supply List
Hello and welcome to second grade! Chances are, if you are reading this, you probably just found out that I will be your child's teacher this year! I am looking forward to a wonderful year with the students I have gotten to know in first grade during walk to read and hopefully some of my former kiddos too!
Parents, you will want to subscribe to this blog (on the sidebar) by email so that you can be notified when I post a reminder or news about our classroom happenings! I will use this blog this year in place of a classroom newsletter, so check back often! Ojibwa is a green school and we are trying to limit our paper use so this blog will be an important means of home-school communication!
Because my move to second grade happened during the summer, I did not have input regarding a supply list. Your child will need some standard school supplies from the recommended supply list for FIRST grade and a few extras that I suggest. I will not be collecting ten dollars as specified on the Ojibwa website.
Here's what you may want for the first day of school:
backpack
a composition notebook~ black cover
standard sized pencil box
scissors Fiskars (pointed)
5 SHARPENED #2 pencils
1 pack of mechanical pencils for handwriting
pink eraser
covered pencil sharpener
2 boxes of 24 crayons (Crayola preferred)
2 packs of fine point TWISTABLE colored pencils ( do not require sharpening)
1 bottle of antibacterial hand soap (no sanitizer needed)
paper towel or Kleenex
1 box of sandwich baggies
1 box of jumbo 2 gallon baggies
Clorox disinfecting wipes
yellow highlighter
ruler
3 (2 pocket) folders
1 Clearview binder (clear slip-pouch on the cover) 1/2 inch (the thinnest one) for a poetry folder
1 spiral notebook
1 deck of playing cards ( for math games)
1 bottle Elmer's white glue
several glue sticks
art shirt
Donations of the following items are needed and greatly appreciated! I will post additional supply requests throughout the year. Your generosity means so much! Thank you in advance. Ojibwa parents are the best!
m&m's for a math activity
medium sized wiggle eyes
glitter~silver, gold, clear
Lego tub for indoor recess
gift certificates to any craft store or The Learning Tree for educational items and project supplies
additional clearview binders, composition books, playing cards or extra school supplies for students in need
Look for many important notes to come home in the school folder on the first day of school. Students who return their forms the next day get a special treat! Parents, you will have some homework on the first day of school!:) Thanks for helping out the office by returning the forms ASAP!
I am really looking forward to seeing everyone on the first day of school! Get a good night's sleep, eat a healthy breakfast, pack a lunch, bring a healthy snack you can easily eat while you work like a cheese stick or carrots, a squeeze type water bottle and a backpack filled with as many school supplies as you can fit in that backpack! Kids, meet me in line outside the front entrance on the first day with a smile on your face and all set to be a Second Grade Superstar!
Parents, you will want to subscribe to this blog (on the sidebar) by email so that you can be notified when I post a reminder or news about our classroom happenings! I will use this blog this year in place of a classroom newsletter, so check back often! Ojibwa is a green school and we are trying to limit our paper use so this blog will be an important means of home-school communication!
Because my move to second grade happened during the summer, I did not have input regarding a supply list. Your child will need some standard school supplies from the recommended supply list for FIRST grade and a few extras that I suggest. I will not be collecting ten dollars as specified on the Ojibwa website.
Here's what you may want for the first day of school:
backpack
a composition notebook~ black cover
standard sized pencil box
scissors Fiskars (pointed)
5 SHARPENED #2 pencils
1 pack of mechanical pencils for handwriting
pink eraser
covered pencil sharpener
2 boxes of 24 crayons (Crayola preferred)
2 packs of fine point TWISTABLE colored pencils ( do not require sharpening)
1 bottle of antibacterial hand soap (no sanitizer needed)
paper towel or Kleenex
1 box of sandwich baggies
1 box of jumbo 2 gallon baggies
Clorox disinfecting wipes
yellow highlighter
ruler
3 (2 pocket) folders
1 Clearview binder (clear slip-pouch on the cover) 1/2 inch (the thinnest one) for a poetry folder
1 spiral notebook
1 deck of playing cards ( for math games)
1 bottle Elmer's white glue
several glue sticks
art shirt
Donations of the following items are needed and greatly appreciated! I will post additional supply requests throughout the year. Your generosity means so much! Thank you in advance. Ojibwa parents are the best!
m&m's for a math activity
medium sized wiggle eyes
glitter~silver, gold, clear
Lego tub for indoor recess
gift certificates to any craft store or The Learning Tree for educational items and project supplies
additional clearview binders, composition books, playing cards or extra school supplies for students in need
Look for many important notes to come home in the school folder on the first day of school. Students who return their forms the next day get a special treat! Parents, you will have some homework on the first day of school!:) Thanks for helping out the office by returning the forms ASAP!
I am really looking forward to seeing everyone on the first day of school! Get a good night's sleep, eat a healthy breakfast, pack a lunch, bring a healthy snack you can easily eat while you work like a cheese stick or carrots, a squeeze type water bottle and a backpack filled with as many school supplies as you can fit in that backpack! Kids, meet me in line outside the front entrance on the first day with a smile on your face and all set to be a Second Grade Superstar!
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