Month: October 2013

Western Terrestrial Garter

Or also known as the Wandering Garter snake.

I had no idea we had snakes in our area or neighborhood until today!

Isabel and I were driving back home from school when I noticed this reptile crossing the main road to our house. I thought ran it over but after stopping the car and getting out, we realized it was still alive. Luckily, I also able to get a photo with my camera too.

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It’s a Western Terrestrial Garter snake (which means it’s not poisonous to humans)
and it can get up to 42 inches in length.
This one was a good size.

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Isabel wanted to pick it up but I told her I wasn’t sure if it was poisonous to us, so we just observed it and it watched us.

Second Grade: Day 34

Today is Monday and it’s music class with Mr. G.

The whole class is practicing hard for their upcoming Christmas program. Isabel was singing little bits of songs after school. Sounds like it’s going to be a fun program. Can’t wait.

This week is going to be quite busy for us and it’s early dismissal on Friday (for Isabel) as well. The first field trip of the school year is this Wednesday and I will be a driver! I love when I am able to participate with her and her class.

This week’s Bible verse is…

“He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,
but everyone to come to repentance.”
– 2 Peter 3:9b

This week’s S.a.T. theme is to share a favorite stuffed animal. Since she had just taken the Lula’s (both) 2 weeks before, I told her she had to take something else. Her next favorite stuffed animal is…

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BIG BEAR (with a Lula shirt on)!
She has had Big Bear since she was 3.

She said that while she had him at her desk several of the girls had walked by her desk just so they could rub his head! They liked BIG BEAR too.

Language Arts for this week is nouns and “The Enormous Turnip“

This week’s spelling words are…

black
pack
crack
snack
horseback
lock
rocket
flock
shock
clock
appreciate
acrobat
grow
last
mouse
enormous: very large
granddaughter: a daughter of one’s son or daughter
planted: put in the ground to grow
strong: powerful
turnip: a kind of root vegetable

Social studies this week the class will be talking about; Governing the people.

Veteran’s Day Chapel will be on November 6th. Special invitations will be sent home soon. Anyone is free to attend and those who have served in any branch of the military are encouraged to attend. This Chapel is a special assembly given by the kids, as their way to thank the many families at school who serve.

Classwork…

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D.L.R.

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Language arts test; Wilson sat alone.

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Last week’s spelling/vocabulary test.

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Last week’s Bible verse test.

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Autumn Leaves

For the past week or so Isabel has been asking us to rake leaves. Normally we don’t have any leaves to rake but since our tree out front has produced enough to actually rake up this year, we let her rake them. We had fun!

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She’s got a big task ahead but she’s excited!

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Daddy helped, while she picked up hand fulls to get her pile big!

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While she was picking up leaves, she found a caterpillar.
It wasn’t moving so I don’t know if it was still alive.

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And now comes the real fun!!

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She runs.

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She leaps.

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She falls.

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She lands!

She did several leaps into the pile until it got to scattered and she didn’t want to rake anymore.

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Hiding in the leaves.

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Making “leaf angels”.

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She found another caterpillar. This one was stuck to the lamp pole.
This one was moving.

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Hurray!
Pure joy!

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Can you hear her giggling?
I can…

Second Grade: Day 32

Today is Thursday and it’s P.E.

For P.E. class today they played their human tangle game and “clean the yard”. Isabel loves playing clean the yard!

She didn’t mention anything else about her day other than they played a new game in class for math.

Classwork…

She brought home a lot of work today and finally had math homework after not having any for the past 2 days. We worked on her Bible verse, spelling and did her reading homework too.

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Bible verse pre-test that they did yesterday.

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This booklet (below) the class has been working on for the past few days getting it colored and filled in. In Social Studies they have been study the continents for the past few weeks.

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The cover of her continent booklet.

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North America

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South America

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Europe

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Asia

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Africa

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Antarctica

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Oceans of the world

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Second Grade: Day 31

Today is Wednesday and that means Chapel!

Today’s Chapel was lead by PASTOR SHAWN! Isabel was super excited after school. She told me all about how he stuck a straw through a potato. When I asked her about what the message was, she couldn’t remember. I’ll have to refresh her memory when the newsletter comes out tomorrow.

BTW: Pastor Shawn’s message was about how much following instructions effects a task. The verse he used was: “Take hold of instructions; don’t let them go. Guard them, for they are the key of life.” Proverbs 4:13

She didn’t tell me anything else about her day, I guess she was to excited about Pastor Shawn!

Classwork…

There was no MAP testing and again no math homework. We worked on reading, forgot to do spelling and the Bible verse.

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Isabel is the only one that likes Thursday and the only reason she likes Thursday is P.E.

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Second Grade: Day 30

Today is Tuesday and it’s music class with Mr. G.

This morning we awoke to a super foggy morning and it didn’t clear up until later in the afternoon.

Isabel didn’t have much to say about her day today. They did do some MAP testing, which I think they are finishing up with this week. So that should be over with soon.

Classwork…

She brought home so much work today and she didn’t have any homework! We did work on her reading homework and her Bible verse and spelling words for Friday, though!

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Was in a hurry to get this one finished I think.