Today is Wonderful Wednesday and it’s music class with Mr. G.
This morning for breakfast Isabel was showing me her math skills with her cereal…
3 + 3 = 6
2 + 3 = 5
(as she begins to eat them!)
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Today is also “Move-Up” Day. Preschool-5th grade get to “move-up” and see what the next classroom is like! Parents are invited (and encouraged) to attend.
First grade Teachers Mrs. B and Mrs. T combined both first grade classes to visit Teacher Mrs. A in second grade!
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Teacher Mrs. A showing the first graders all the books (3 bookcases full!!)
that second graders get to read! The first graders were all wow’d by this!
Teacher Mrs. A told us that as second graders we will read a lot. We read books in class, in the library and in our own Bibles. In the Bible we will begin to look up verses in the Bible each week! We will write in journals and have more science and social studies. “In January (of next year) we will begin to learn CURSIVE writing! We won’t learn to do it well, that’s for third grade, but we’ll begin to form the letters.” Teacher Mrs. A said. Awesome!!!
Teacher Mrs. A showed the first graders her power point projector. This was very cool too (at least the kids thought so)! Teacher Mrs. A can use the projector to project anything from a book or magazine or whatever onto the wall for everyone in class to see! She can also use her computer on her desk (at the back of the room) to display things to the class!
Teacher Mrs. A told us about behavior in class and what is expected of us. When we are really really good, we can get into her “treasure chest“!! Teacher Mrs. A showed us what is inside her “chest” that we can pick from if we follow the rules in class. There was candy, bookmarks, sports cards, and pencils! Looks very cool!
Teacher Mrs. A told us about each bulletin board in her class. The “special student” board, I thought was interesting. Each week a student is chosen to be on the “board”. That student fills out a questioner about themselves and for the whole week that student is on the “board”. There are also picture on the board of the student that is chosen. Awesome!
Bella Bear and ???? Bear.
(Can’t remember the boy bear’s name)
Teacher A then explained her 2 bears that were sitting at the front of the classroom. Both bears are given a “home” on the weekend when a classmates (1 boy 1 girl) name is draw on Friday each week. When your name is randomly drawn, you get to take a bear home and the bear’s “story” book for the weekend. Over the weekend, you are encouraged to write (or continue) the bear’s story. You can draw a picture or even take a picture with the bear and add it to the book. This continues throughout the year and at the end of the school year, Teacher Mrs. A picks 2 classmates (1 boy 1 girl) to take the bear story (NOT the actual BEAR) home! Very cool idea!!!!
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Today in music with Mr. G, he taught the class a new song. It’s a cute little song and I got Isabel singing it on video. I’ll have to add that video soon. Isabel said they were going to music class tomorrow too because Mr. G wasn’t going to be at school on Friday for class.
Tomorrow is going to be a busy busy day. Music class, P.E., computer lab and story book testing. The story book testing is something they do each and every week. Isabel is in the “cougar” group in class. The cougar group (along with the other groups in class) read a story together during the week. On Thursday the whole class listens to the story on tape and then they are tested on it. They also write in a journal about the story that they read. Isabel said she has 5 classmates in her group.
Today’s math was learning about congruent shapes.
A congruent shape are two shapes of the same size and shape!
The class got to work the the “Geoboards” again. They made congruent shapes!
Front: color the picture that matches the slide word.
Back: name the picture and then write the word.
Front: write the word that completes the sentence.
Back: read the story and answer the question.
Front: write the word that completes the sentence.
Back: write the word that completes the sentence.
This page was part of their Social Studies lesson for the day.
Working on homework after school.