2nd week...here we come!

We started the week off just great! This week we will be doing a lot of exciting, new things in 2nd grade. We started sketching with Mrs. Shipman in art and we had bus safety. This week we will be making time capsules and our pencil cans. Remember...tomorrow is school picture day!!!!

I want to make a shout out to our principal, our superintendent and our school board who approved us getting new tables. Our classroom is brighter and cleaner with these new additions to our classroom.

This month's core value is citizenship. We think "School Rules" at SES. You can see our poster after tomorrow at Spooner Outlet, or click the link to see a photo of it: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifdGJ1WjhtcmxEZG8

Photo of our new tables: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifUmVrR3JoU3pyTlU

Our weekly newsletter: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifZ3E1eUpLZkRKR0E

If you get a chance look at all the important classroom information to the right of this blog. There are so many important papers to let you know what is happening in our classroom!

NEW, AWESOME WEBSITES!

Today I changed our passwords to IXL! Please visit: http://www.ixl.com/signin/spooner. Here you will need to put your first letter of your first name and your last name in as your username. (example: Melissa Smith is msmith) and then you will need to put your lunch number in as your password. This website is an awesome math tool with a lot of fun games!

We also signed up for Brain Pop and Brain Pop Junior at the Elementary School. Please visit: http://www.brainpop.com/. You will need to log in as: spoonerelementary. The password is school. This website has a lot of fun activities to go along with what we are learning in language arts, science, and social studies.

There is so many great resources out there to use for learning, so have fun!

Just a reminder. My raz-kids username is mrssmith121.

Day 1 of 2nd grade

Today was our 1st day of 2nd grade. Here's what we did today:

1. Learned about our morning routine...attendance, lunch, morning message, morning meeting, morning calendar math, and HORSE folders!

2. We took a spelling test on colors.

3. We talked about summer and school starting. We also read an awesome book called, "New Pencils, New Books."

4. We wrote down as many numbers as we could between 1 and 100.

5. We learned what our classroom jobs are in our classroom and picked one!

6. We went to phy. ed. and technology class.

7. We took a tour of the school and found our new art teacher's room.

8. We talked a lot about school rules, classroom rules, body basics, voice levels, above the line behavior and line rules. We are going to earn marbles for great behavior.

9. We labeled all of our notebooks, folders, and books.

I am sure we did a lot more than that, but we hit the ground running today and I know that we are off to a wonderful 2nd grade year.

Here is a picture from our 1st day: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifSl9jWVFBa1ZwTnM!

- Mrs. Smith

1st day in 2nd grade!

We are off to a great 1st day in 2nd grade! We have already learned about all our classroom rules, body basics, voice levels, our schedule, the lunchroom, morning meeting, and have labeled all our folders with our name. After lunch we will be going to physical education, the computer lab and we will even be taking a math and spelling test. If you would like to see our classroom on our first day, there are pictures below.

Tonight remember to look through the HORSE folder with your child and read the weekly newsletter. (Also, attached here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifQkVBOFV6VnpCYkk) Let me know if you have any questions. :) Mrs. Smith

Pictures of our classroom: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifQW0xVnFPRkJvN0U, https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifU3dHR2Y1LWw2YjQ, and https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifbldDUEotZzViSTQ.

Great online resources

To the left of this post is a spot where I have placed great online resources. I would highly encourage you to use these with or without your child.

IXL.com: I handed out a piece of paper at open house that has your child's username and password on it. This is a great math tool.

Raz-kids.com: Click on the link to the left...my username is mrssmith121.

Any educational games and books outside of our classroom just improve your child's learning. If you have any questions about any of the links, feel free to ask! - - - Mrs. Smith

Open House...August 29th

Open house is coming on Wednesday, August 29th from 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m.!

This is such a wonderful time for students to come in and meet their new teachers. In our classroom I will be giving out a lot of paperwork, talking about our classroom, and finding out a lot about my students. Students can also bring in their school supplies and pick their desk. It will be a very enjoyable time!

I sent out a challenge to my students this week for each of them to bring in a drawing of their favorite season. I look forward to seeing these on the 29th.

At open house families will get a chance to see many of the clubs and activities that happen at SES and they will also be given a chance to go to our Buy One, Get One Free book fair. You aren't going to want to miss this awesome book buying experience.

Be sure to mark your time down on your calendar and come visit on August 29th!

What a year!

It has been one awesome year that has went by too quick. We measured ourselves the other day and students had grown from 1/2 inch to 3 and 3/4 inch. I wasn't too surprised though because through all the pictures I have been taking I have seen each and everyone one of my students change and grow. This year they have taught me so much and I know they have learned a lot. I am excited to pass them on to 4th grade because I know that I had 16 wonderful students who will bring great joy to our 4th grade teachers. I will miss my students a lot but I know they will come back to visit. Have a wonderful summer!