Season's Greetings

Holiday Happenings

Our Winter Celebration was so much fun! We certainly appreciate all that Mrs. Darden, Mrs. Olsen, and Mrs. Dembosky did to make our holiday celebration so special. Take a quick peek at our celebration!

Happy Holidays!

 

May each of you have a truly blessed holiday season. Enjoy your special family moments. 

 Ms. Cranfill and I want to wish each of you a very blessed and happy holiday season with your families. Each of the children are dear to us and we hold them close in our hearts. Thank you for sharing your child with us as we make this second grade journey. 

From my family to yours, Merry Christmas!

December Events!

All classrooms are busy places, especially during the month of December! This year our little ones have been engaged in a Reindeer Unit, a Gingerbread theme, a special "Geometry Project", another global technology project, and have traveled "around the world" with the other second grade classes to learn more about people and their traditions. Enjoy a snapshot of our world in these photos!
December Snapshots on PhotoPeach

Our Old Salem Field Trip

Our second grade classes traveled to Old Salem to learn more about the traditions and customs of the Moravians. We began our tour inside with ladies who talked with us about candle making, an Advent Wreath, preparing food in the old kitchen, and a little bit about what life was like long ago in this special Moravian village.
Our Old Salem Trip ... Part 1 on PhotoPeach



Our Trip to Old Salem Part 2 ... on PhotoPeach

A Family Moment

Life is very busy, both inside and outside Room 309! My classroom children are always asking when my "real children" are coming to visit them. Like all of my little ones, these real children are busy with school work. I thought you may enjoy this snapshot of the twins...two of our four children. Over the weekend my husband and I enjoyed being with our boys at their college ring ceremony. It's hard to believe they've grown so fast, as it seems that just yesterday they were second graders like each of you!

More Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Reader's Theatre on PhotoPeach

Our Thanksgiving Feast

After spending some time reading and discovering more about life in the early settlement of Plymouth, we slipped into the roles of Pilgrims and Native Americans as we prepared our lunch and celebrated the holiday with our own class Thanksgiving Feast.

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Pumpkin Day 2010

Our class joined other students from around the globe to determine the number of seeds in pumpkins. We worked in teams to make estimates and then used our counting/addition strategies to determine our seed count. Our five pound pumpkin had 475 seeds! We also engaged in some other math and literacy pumpkin activities throughout the morning. Special thanks to parents who helped us with this fun learning activity! The pumpkin treats were delicious!

Pumpkin Day on PhotoPeach

Butterflies All Around....Our Painted Ladies

The children have so enjoyed our Life Cycles Science Unit. We have many future scientists in our class! Each day the children excitedly entered the classroom to observe the butterfly cage. They could hardly contain their excitement when the day finally arrived to release these special creatures. Notice the beautiful smiles on the children's faces. You can actually feel their excitement as you watch the pictures. Enjoy!

Butterflies All Around ... Our Painted Ladies on PhotoPeach

How Do Butterflies View the World?

The children have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly this quarter. Did you know that butterflies have compound eyes? That means they can see in every direction simultaneously.

How Do Butterflies View The World? on PhotoPeach

A Day in Our Classroom

We've been polishing our measurement skills in math. Look at our pictures to see us use both nonstandard and standard measurement tools. Our literacy groups have been reading about Forest Animals. We chose an animal and visited one of our Computer Labs to gather information about our animal. Using an online resource, we read and used a graphic organizer to record our findings. Later on we will use this information to write a report. We certainly enjoy using the computers. In the last pictures you will see us reading a book at TumbleBooks.

A Day in Our 2nd Grade Classroom on PhotoPeach

Snapshots of Our World....Math & Literacy Activities with Apples

Using food is a fun way to practice our math skills. This special Apple Activity provided opportunities to work as a team to problem solve, sort, count,and compare numbers. We're learning how to use adjectives to make our writing more descriptive, so smelling, touching, and tasting these yummy apples helped us create some interesting descriptions. We love to eat! Our crockpot applesauce turned out to be a hit, even for those who said they didn't like applesauce before.

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Second Grade SNAPSHOTS

It's hard to believe we've been in second grade for 6 weeks! We have been quite busy in our classroom. Take a look at one of our technology projects using Oreo cookies. Our class joined students around the globe to determine how many cookies we could stack before our towers tumbled. We used estimation, counting, and problem solving as we worked in teams. Later on we used our cookies to complete a writing activity. Of course we enjoyed the yummy treats too!

All About Second Grade - WELCOME to our class! We are excited to have you join us on our 2nd grade journey.

Super Kids

 Our favorite police officer came to our school to help us learn how to make wise choices so that we can be "Super Kids". Thank you Officer Ruff!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Read Across America Day

On March 2 we celebrated the birthday of Dr. Seuss by having a special "Read Across America Day" event. Our guest readers were Mrs. Lyerly's daughters, who were visiting in NC for their spring break. We were actively engaged in reading and math activities throughout our morning. Of course we had a special snack because second graders love "food math"!

Weather, Wind, Penguin Projects

Math All Around

Do you know what "capacity" means? We read the book "The Giant Jam Sandwich" and then "experimented" with different bugs, spiders, and butterflies to see how many would fit onto our "slice of bread".
Capacity - The Giant Jam Sandwich... on PhotoPeach

All About Time

Tick-tock around the clock... Telling time on an analog clock? In the digital age, we discovered that reading an analog clock was a little tricky! We made our "Human Clock" and practiced moving the hour hand and minute hand. We are becoming time experts because we can use our math strategies to help us find time right down to the minute! View the video to see how we created our "Human Clock" to help us better understand the passing of time.

Happy Birthday Mrs. Cranfill!

Our Polar Animal Projects

We have been reading and learning many facts about polar animals in our classroom. We made fact booklets, created Polar Bear Powerpoint projects, and then completed a home project about our favorite polar animal. Now we are making bottle penguins in our classroom. We think they will be really cute! Take a look to see some of our projects. Visit our class website to view our Powerpoint projects.

Helping Hands - A Benevolent Project

There is so much need in our community. It has come to our attention that a Southeast Middle School student has started a project called "Brotherly Love". This project involves supplying gift bags for premature babies in the NICU Unit at Forsyth Medical Center. You can read about this young man's project in the February issue of Forsyth Family, available for download at the magazine website or you can email projectbrotherlylove@hotmail.com. Throughout third quarter our class will collect items for this project. Doctor approved items include diapers, baby wipes, hand sanitizer, pacifiers, bottles, onesies, receiving blankets, socks, hats, Vaseline, or baby lotion. You can find a complete listing of supplies in the magazine article. Watch the class website for more details about "Brotherly Love...Helping the least of us with Life's Beginnings". This is a completely volunteer project.

Happy Reading

Visit this library site and link to TumbleBooks. Happy reading!

Fuel the Brain

Visit this website, developed by a North Carolina second grade teacher, to practice your math!
http://www.fuelthebrain.com/

EYES ... The Window To Our World

Our class read about eyes in our National Geographic magazine. Then Mrs. Lyerly's daughters, optometry students, came to talk with the class. Watch to see some of the activities the children completed. Take a look at the pictures on the class website to better understand what the children were doing. Click HERE

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Learning About China

Aimee's mom shared information about Chinese traditions and customs. A special treat was trying to learn to use the Chinese Jump Rope. Watch the video clip and listen to the "in, out, side, side, on, in, out". Do you think you're ready to jump? Also take a look at the pictures on our class website. We appreciate our guests!!!