Halloween Party Pictures

The Halloween party was a hoot! Here are some cute pictures of our little ones in costumes and the party festivities! We decorated treat bags, passed out party treats, ate cinnamon sugar donuts and drank cider, paraded through the building and played pass the pumpkin! It was hard to get a clear photo with everyone moving about! :)

Fluency Practice at Home

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! :)

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! :)

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!

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.

 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!

 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!

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!