Meet Jake!

We had a very special visitor waiting for us when we arrived at school this morning!  We have an elf!  This elf spends his days in our classroom watching our activities and behavior and at night, he reports back to Santa himself!  After his first day in our classroom, I think Santa will be very happy with the report!

Our first mission was to name our elf.  After some brainstorming and a vote, we have chosen to name our elf Jake.  Jake will be with us everyday until Christmas break.  Every morning, when we show up to school, he will be hiding somewhere in our classroom!

Food Drive

Along with reading, writing, and math, NBE strives to teach its students how to be good citizens and caring individuals.  Last week, we reached out to the community and held a food drive to benefit the Loami Food Pantry.  Although it was a competition among the grade levels, the real winners are the Food Pantry and the families it serves.

Our class donated 169 food items alone!  In all, 2nd grade donated over 300 food items!  As a school, we donated over 2,000 food items!  The workers at the food pantry commented that their shelves have never been this full!

 

The donaters!

 

This is just 1 table full of food!  The custodians had to keep setting up more tables throughout the week!

 

Check out the overflow on the floor and under the tables!

Thanks to the students of NBE, area families will have a wonderful, plentiful Thanksgiving this year!

Halloween Party

We had such a great time at our Halloween party on October 31!  We haven't had much time for fun yet this year, so we went all out!  A huge thank you goes out to Mrs. Tirey for creating the crafts and bringing ice-cream sundaes and a huge thank you goes out to Mrs. Pecoraro for planning our games!

October Awards

My Rockin' Second Graders are working so hard this year!  We're 50 days into second grade and they have made so much progress already!  I think I'm going to have to find some more challenging stuff for them - especially math!

We recently celebrated our October successes with awards and celebrations.  Check them out!

October's Homework Hall of Fame... these students turned in every single homework assignment!

We had lunch in the classroom with The Lorax and ice-cream sundaes!

 

Awesome Behavior... these students' clips never went below green all month!

They celebrated with a special trip to the goody box.

Congratulations!  You're hard work is really paying off!

Red Ribbon Week

New Berlin Elementary celebrated Red Ribbon Week during the week of Oct. 22-25.  The goal of Red Ribbon Week is to raise awareness about drug abuse and educate children about the dangers and harmful effects drugs have on their growing bodies.  We discussed that drugs hurt your body and your brain and talked about healthier choices we could make (eating healthy foods, staying busy, playing sports, and getting exercise).  To garner excitement about the week, students participate in dress up days.

Monday:  Crazy Sock Day

 

 

 Tuesday:  Sports Day

 

Our baseball fans

 Our football fans

 Our racing fans

 Our all-things-Pretzels fans!

Wednesday:  Red Day

 Thursday:  Pretzel Pride Day

 

Our boys showing off their orange and blue

 

Our girls decked out in their orange and blue

You Read to Me, I'll Read To You Poems

During benchmark test week, we worked so hard on our tests that we deserved to have a little fun.  So, we worked on You Read to Me, I'll Read to You:  Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together poems.  Students worked in pairs and practiced until their fluency was perfect.  Check out our performances!

September Awards

At the end of each month, we celebrate students who have achieved significant milestones.  Check out our award recipients for the month of September!

 

Rockin' Readers:  These students completed their September reading logs.

We celebrated their accomplishment with a party Friday afternoon!

 

Homework Hall of Fame:  These students completed every homework assignment in September.

We celebrated by having lunch in the classroom - and I brought dessert!

 

Awesome Behavior:  These students never moved their clip below green all of September!

These students got to choose something from the goody box!

Congratulations on your accomplishments!  Keep up the great work!