Mrs. Bolduc is a very good teacher. She does lots of stuff with us. She really helps us learn. We do many different things in a day.  She really likes to teach. She is happiest when we are quiet in the room.

    We are learning about time. We can tell time to the half past and quarter past. We also know that 9:30 is the same as half past nine. 9:15 would be a quarter past nine. In math, first we discuss what we have to do on our activity sheets. We have to learn our adding and subtracting facts. Then we work with making number scrolls or math tubs. Once we have written over 1,000 on our number scrolls, we can work on math tubs. Some of us are over 1,000 with our number scrolls. Our scrolls can get really long.  Inside the tubs, there are geoblocks, pattern blocks, unifix cubes, tiles, and geoboards. There are also bugs, frogs,  buttons, shells, and marbles that we sort. We get to choose what tub we work with and we mark down which ones we have already done. 

    We are learning Fundations. There is a writing board with an eraseable marker with a sponge. On the white board, we write sounds and words. We also have a book that goes along with Fundations. We have to write four letters, then we do words. We write two sentences. We also have phonics packets that we have to do.

    We are learning about butterflies in science. We had five painted lady butterflies. Four out of the five are in the butterfly habitat.  One chrysalis fell down to the bottom of the cage, we hope that one will be all right. We are learning about the life cycle of butterflies. We do have to let these butterflies go, they can live in the butterfly habitat. They are very pretty. They are red, orange, white and black. We feed them sugar water and flowers.

    We are learning about apples. We went apple picking at the Ambrose Apple Orchard. We learned about all the different kinds of apples. We go to bring home some that we got to pick. There were Macintosh, Cortland, Liberty, Empire, York, and Honeycrisp apples. There are many other kinds of apples that can be grown like Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Fuji, and Pink Lady apples. When we got back to school, we made applesauce with Miss Charalabopoulos, but we just call her Miss C. The whole school had applesauce for lunch. They were very happy that we had made it. Some of us thought there was too much sugar in the applesauce and others wished that there was more sugar. Some of us thought it was just right!

    We learned about Johnny Appleseed. Not all the stories about Johnny Appleseed are true, some are myths, but there was a real John Chapman that went around the United States planting apples. He lived in Massachusetts and he moved on to the west. At first, he didn't know where the frontier was, but the frontier found him, he didn't find it. He liked sleeping under the stars. He planted lots of apples in the frontier, mostly Macintosh and Empire.

        We have reading groups. Some students stay with Mrs. Bolduc for reading and other  students come and join them. Some go to Ms. Hibbard's room and some go to Mrs. Babcock's room. Others go to Mrs. Blake's room.  We read books, some of us are reading chapter books. We do some writing about the stories in the group. We learned about fiction and non-fiction. Non-fiction means that the story is true.

    We do other writing in our classroom. We wrote summer fun poems. We wrote all about us. We also wrote about our hopes and dreams.  Jacob wants to be a mad scientist. Abigail wants to be a librarian and help children read.

    We are going on a field trip to the Flynn Theatre. We will see the play, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. The book is also in our reading corner at school. Mrs. Bolduc read us the book. Sylvester found a magic pebble. It was flaming red and a perfect circle. It looks like a marble. All of a sudden, Sylvester saw a lion and that frightened him and he wishes he would be a rock so he would be safe. He turned into a rock! The lion circled around the rock and left, but Sylvester was left a rock!  

    We have recess in the morning before school starts. Then we have recess right after lunch. We like to play kickball. Some of us play Indiana Jones with our friends. We pretend that we are chasing a bad guy. Some students play a game at the climbing wall.

    Monday we have library. Mrs. Chamberlin reads us a story. Then we pick out a book that we can read quietly and we check the book out to take home.

    Tuesday and Thursdays, we have physical education. We run around when Ms. Wilson puts on a song. We were playing side-line soccer. We divide up into two teams. One team wears red pinnies. We also play a game called knee tag.

   We have guidance on Wednesday.   We have a jar that is filling up. When we do good things, we get a yes that we can put in the mystery motivator jar. We have already won an extra recess but we haven't gotten that yet.

    We also have art on Wednesday. Mrs. Parsons explains a project to us. Sometimes we paint, sometimes we draw, sometimes we use craypas. We might draw with pencils, copy with sharpies and then we paint. If we finish we work, we can draw in our journal.

    On Thursday, we have technology. At technology, we play on the computers. Some of our favorite games to play are Starfall, Trudy, Sammy and Animal Genius. We sometimes draw pictures using the program Kid Pix.

    On Friday, we have music. We do a movement of the month. Mrs. Whiting has a song that is Wiggle Like a Wiggle Worm. She has it on a CD. We also do clapping patterns. We might say Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Pumpkin Pie.

    This year, we are working on the Square of Life. We went and looked at squares outside of the school and write what is in the square. It is posted on the internet. Schools from all over are posting and we will compare what we find to other schools. We found a baby praying mantis in the square. We also saw small grasshoppers. We saw grapevines and an ash tree sapling.
   
    We do Four Winds this year. Last year, we learned about birds, spiders and flowers. This year, we are learning about bugs and other animals in our environment.

    Our second grade is fabulous. We are already learning a lot and having a lot of fun.

                            By Abigail, Alisdair, Jacob, and Audrey