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!!!

Celebrating the Season

Wishing You a Very Happy Holiday!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Celebrating Veteran's Day 2009 at OneTrueMedia.com

American veteran Larry Starling visited our class to help us learn more about Veteran's Day.

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Pumpkin Day ... We participated in an online project with pumpkins. We estimated and counted the seeds in our class pumpkin. Then we spent our morning at math/literacy stations about pumpkins.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Our Painted Ladies

Make a Smilebox slideshow

What We Learned About Spiders

Meet Our Cast

Welcome to Second Grade! We are excitied about our special journey together. I will post pictures and information about our class on this blog, as well as on our class website. We're looking forward to a great year!