We started
the year with a substitute, Mrs. Gendreau. Mrs. Gendreau likes second
grade. She has glasses and black hair. She always wears high heels. She
is really nice. We all like our teachers, Mrs.
Gendreau and Mrs. Bolduc. We will miss Mrs. G. very much.
Mrs. Bolduc has blonde hair. She has a very pretty voice and a great reading voice. She is very nice to us.
We do journals
every morning. We all like to write in our journals. We might write one
and half pages in our journal. We write more each day. One time, Lance
wrote three pages.
Sometimes the teacher uses the overhead on the big screen. Sometimes we go to a workplace. There are six workplaces. There are geoboards, geoblocks, unifix cubes. Some workplaces are games like "Race you to 50" or "Count and compare 5's." In the Count and Compare 5's game, we work with less and more. The games get changed every few weeks.
We have a spelling test every Friday. We have lots of hard words for bonus words. An example of a hard bonus word would be umbrella, octopus or hot dog! Elephant, jellyfish, and petal are three other hard words.
Mrs. Bolduc has blonde hair. She has a very pretty voice and a great reading voice. She is very nice to us.
We do journals
every morning. We all like to write in our journals. We might write one
and half pages in our journal. We write more each day. One time, Lance
wrote three pages.Sometimes the teacher uses the overhead on the big screen. Sometimes we go to a workplace. There are six workplaces. There are geoboards, geoblocks, unifix cubes. Some workplaces are games like "Race you to 50" or "Count and compare 5's." In the Count and Compare 5's game, we work with less and more. The games get changed every few weeks.
We have a spelling test every Friday. We have lots of hard words for bonus words. An example of a hard bonus word would be umbrella, octopus or hot dog! Elephant, jellyfish, and petal are three other hard words.
We are
learning about Johnny
Appleseed. When he moved West, he planted a lot of apple
trees. 
We are
studying apples. We went on
a field trip to the
apple orchard. We picked apples. We did an apple
experiment.
We left out apples on a table and they rotted. It smelled
like apple cider. Some of them got moldy. Some had green fur
on them. The skin was hard, not like a pillow. They kept
getting smaller. They shrank. We tried to see how low they
can go. We weighed them and we measured them. Some people composted
their apples and others took them home to keep watching them.
We are writing a 4 square about Christopher Columbus. When you write a four square, you have four squares on the paper and you pick a topic you are going to write about. Then in each square, you write something that you find interesting about that topic.
We made a quilt out of paper squares. We used wrapping paper. Mrs. Bolduc had cut out the squares for us. It took her a long time.
There is a pig alarm in our closet. When you open the door to the supply closet, it starts oinking. If there is a movement, the pig oinks. If a thief would come into the room, he would be scared away from the pig alarm. The alarm does not stop until you close the door or shut off the light in the closet.
Each day, we tell the temperature by reading the thermometer. The themermometer is a round one that is outside our door. We color a chart showing how warm or cold it is. We have a special folder to put our charts in.
We have guided reading. There are four different reading groups. Some students go out of the room and go to a different room. We might go to a third grade room or the art room or even the guidance room. It depends on what rooms are open for people to work in. We have a lot of different teachers. If we are not in a reading group with our teacher, we do some phonic pages and work in our journal.
We are getting a new playground soon. We are getting a lot of new equipment. We have been collecting Shaw's receipts in a bucket to try and get enough money. We are glad that we are going to have such an awesome playground.
We have specials at school. On Monday, we have library. Mrs. Chamberlin is our librarian. Tuesday is a double day, we have art and P.E. Mrs. Parsons teaches art and Ms. Wilson teaches P.E. Wednesday we have computers. Mrs. Thurber is our technology teacher. Thursday, we have P.E. and on Friday, we have music. Mrs. Ross is our music teacher, but right now we are having a subtitute for a while in music. Her name is Mrs. Berryman.
Second grade is awesome. It is a lot of fun. We like to read lots of good books. We read chapter books. We also like to write in our journals. We have our own desks and we get to keep our things inside of them. We are challenged in second grade to learn about things we have not learned before.
by Beatrice, Anneke, and Lance
We are
studying apples. We went on
a field trip to the
apple orchard. We picked apples. We did an apple
experiment.
We left out apples on a table and they rotted. It smelled
like apple cider. Some of them got moldy. Some had green fur
on them. The skin was hard, not like a pillow. They kept
getting smaller. They shrank. We tried to see how low they
can go. We weighed them and we measured them. Some people composted
their apples and others took them home to keep watching them. We are writing a 4 square about Christopher Columbus. When you write a four square, you have four squares on the paper and you pick a topic you are going to write about. Then in each square, you write something that you find interesting about that topic.
We made a quilt out of paper squares. We used wrapping paper. Mrs. Bolduc had cut out the squares for us. It took her a long time.
There is a pig alarm in our closet. When you open the door to the supply closet, it starts oinking. If there is a movement, the pig oinks. If a thief would come into the room, he would be scared away from the pig alarm. The alarm does not stop until you close the door or shut off the light in the closet.
Each day, we tell the temperature by reading the thermometer. The themermometer is a round one that is outside our door. We color a chart showing how warm or cold it is. We have a special folder to put our charts in.
We have guided reading. There are four different reading groups. Some students go out of the room and go to a different room. We might go to a third grade room or the art room or even the guidance room. It depends on what rooms are open for people to work in. We have a lot of different teachers. If we are not in a reading group with our teacher, we do some phonic pages and work in our journal.
We are getting a new playground soon. We are getting a lot of new equipment. We have been collecting Shaw's receipts in a bucket to try and get enough money. We are glad that we are going to have such an awesome playground.
We have specials at school. On Monday, we have library. Mrs. Chamberlin is our librarian. Tuesday is a double day, we have art and P.E. Mrs. Parsons teaches art and Ms. Wilson teaches P.E. Wednesday we have computers. Mrs. Thurber is our technology teacher. Thursday, we have P.E. and on Friday, we have music. Mrs. Ross is our music teacher, but right now we are having a subtitute for a while in music. Her name is Mrs. Berryman.
Second grade is awesome. It is a lot of fun. We like to read lots of good books. We read chapter books. We also like to write in our journals. We have our own desks and we get to keep our things inside of them. We are challenged in second grade to learn about things we have not learned before.
by Beatrice, Anneke, and Lance