The sound of snow

Our music program this year is amazing.  Watch as EVERYONE gets the chance to play an instrument as they "read" a book called "Snow Sounds: An Onomatopoetic Story". 

Dictionaries

Every year Rotary Club gives every third grader a dictionary. It's a very exciting time of year, especially here in Room 9 because they generously gave the 2nd graders one too!  This morning we spent some of our reading time exploring all that a dictionary can teach us.  Here is what we found.

 Then of course it was time to write thank you notes and share all the things we now know we can learn from a dictionary.

And now I just gave them a choice between reading and exploring some more for the last 20 minutes before lunch.  Usually reading wins.  Now I can't seem to get them to put the dictionaries down!!!
Thanks so much Rotary!

Counting Pride Tickets

We are trying to earn a pajama day for the last day before break so we can just be cozy and read all day and drink hot chocolate.  Here you will see a year's worth of Pride Tickets counted up with some serious math. 

And here is some of the conversation that took place...

Today in Math

Here is a one minute summary of our math learning for today:

Loch Ness Monster

Our study of the continents has brought us to Europe and the elusive Loch Ness Monster.  Here is some of our close read action.

 

sNOw day

It snowed from 8-10.  Did we have a snow day? NO!  Only 19 of us braved the roads to make it to school today.  We decided to play in the snow, examine snowflakes, write about the Loch Ness Monster, and do some winter art.

Workshop time

We had a 25 min workshop today where students could make a Daily 5 choice: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Work on Words, Work on Writing.  Here is a look at what everyone is working on.