Spelling Bee

Wow!  The second graders really rocked the 2nd and 3rd Grade School Spelling Bee!  Our class even placed 3rd, 2nd, AND 1st!  Here are some pictures.  All of the students worked hard and deserve the highest praise.

Ella spells her first word!

Garrett spells next.

Joey was in my class last year.  Congratulations to him for his hard work!

Echo has to stand on tiptoes to reach the microphone.

Joey has his award.

Caleb and Joey, both from my room last year, discuss the results after receiving their awards.

Ella (second place) and Echo (third place) have their awards.

Garrett (first place) is standing with Joey and Caleb.

Garrett is the first place winner.  Now he gets to go to the county spelling bee.  He'll have many, many words to study.



Here are our class AND school winners.  Garrett (1st), Ella (2nd), and Echo (3rd) show off their awards.



Earth Day - Save the Truffula Trees

Our Earth Day Bulletin Board

We made Truffula Trees and wrote how we would help The Lorax save them.  I found these wonderful ideas on Pinterest!

Here are our Lorax paper toppers. 

Here a few of our ideas!

Read Across America

      We are celebrating Read Across America with some Dr. Seuss fun.  We brought our blankets and pillows and relaxed while listening to some Dr. Seuss read alouds.  Mrs. Hanshaw, Mrs. Tice, and Mrs. King read some of their favorite books.  We also read on our own and took some AR quizzes.

Mrs. King read The Digging-est Dog.  It was favorite of hers from when she was a little and now Carter enjoys it too.  We sit back and listen.

Let's take some AR quizzes on what we've read and listened to.

Whittany, Hailey Ann, and Hailee M. ham it up at the computers.



Hard at work!



Good friends, Anessa and Hailey Ann, share a book.

Carter and Jordyn get some new books to read.

The Important Book

We read The Important Book and created our own pages about winter.  We used a "frame" and filled in the blanks.  You can read them here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EsIq73eD9rSO25l8W-TgBE7o4aWU8L4t44Cu0fQD32I/edit#

Next we will pick our own topics and write about them to create Our Class Important Book.

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

We performed readers' theaters for the class with a play of  Click, Clack, Moo:  Cows That Type.  What a great story!  The narrators wore bandanas, Farmer Brown wore the hat, and the cow wore the bell.  We were Moo-Marvelous!

Shane helped us out because we needed another reader.

January

Ready for the New Year!  We wrote our New Year's Resolutions.

Torn Paper Art

Our Winter Scenes

(No scissors allowed!)