September Award Recipients

At the end of each week, students are presented with awards for their accomplishments that week.  Students can earn a Rocket Math award for moving up levels in Rocket Math, a Rockin' Behavior award for staying on green everyday, and a Perfectly Pink award for reaching pink on any day.

We also have awards at the end of each month to celebrate our BIG accomplishments.  These awards come with prizes!  Check out our September award recipients!

Awesome Behavior award recipients... these students NEVER moved below green all month long!

This award comes with a trip to the goody box.

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

This award comes with lunch club - lunch in the classroom, and I bring dessert!

Rockin' Reader Award... these students completed their September reading calendars!

This award comes with an extra recess!

Congratulations to all of our September award recipients!  Keep up the awesome work!

We've hit our groove!

I am so excited to say that we've hit our groove!  This is what I call it when we've learned the routines and our classroom is a smooth operating machine!  I love when we make it to this point in the year because the focus turns to LEARNING!

In science we're learning about health.  We're learning how to keep our bodies healthy.  At the same time, we're learning to research!

Watching a BrainPopJr video to learn about germs and what happens in our bodies when we get sick

Discussing what we've learned with our partners

Recording what we've learned

Happy Grandparents Day!

Happy Grandparents Day to all of our grandparents!  We had a wonderful celebration on Friday!  We set a record for the number of attending grandparents.  We had more grandparents this year than we've had on years where we've had 4 classes of second graders!  I want to say thank you to everyone who took the time out of their day to come to NBE and spend the afternoon with us!

A cafeteria full of grandparents and grandchildren!

Yummy snacks provided by Mr. Ayers and the cafeteria staff

Reading Comprehension

Here is a link to a wonderful article about reading comprehension.  As I tell the kids, the whole point of reading is to remember what we've read.  How many times I've been fooled by the student with perfect fluency... only to find out later that there was no comprehension behind it!  While being able to read fluently is important, the most important aspect of reading, in my opinion, is comprehension and higher-level understanding.

What to Do When Your Child Can't Remember What He Read

Classroom Campout

Last Friday, to celebrate surviving our first two weeks of second grade, we had a campout in our classroom!  Students brought their sleeping bags and flashlights and we had a day under the stars.  Throughout the day we played camping math games, wrote camping stories, and read camping stories.  It was a great way to end our week!

Base "Ten"ts place value counting

Duck pond addition

Camping "Bump"

Camping addition memory

Odd & Even Marshmallow Roast

Moose on the Loose

Here we go!

We've been so busy in second grade already!  We're getting down to business this week.  We started learning about math stations this week.  Each day, students will rotate through four math stations.  The stations include math meeting (with me), math games, number work, and math boxes.  This teaching approach enables me to work with students in a small group setting, which allows me to individualize instruction for each child's specific learning needs.

For the past couple of days we learned how to play math games in partnerships.  We are learning how to get along, cooperate, and encourage each other.

Are you ready?!

Pack your backpack, grab your sleeping bag, and lace up your hiking boots!  It's almost time for...

See you on August 20!