Ms. Hibbard is a fun teacher. She likes to teach about the outdoors. She likes to teach about apple trees, Ashley the ash tree, reading and math.
Every day when
we come to school, we have a morning recess. If it is a nice day, we
can play kickball outside. Some children play tag or jump rope. If it
is raining, we have a game where we try to keep the ball in the air as
long as we can. We play that game in the cafeteria/gymnasium.We have
some quiet games to play when it is raining or we can just visit
withour friends.
We go to our classroom and have a morning meeting.
Next we have Fundations. We learn about words. We
learn about blends and welded sounds. 
Then we have a snack. Some children bring their
snack, some people buy it from the cart outside our room. When we are
done eating snacks, you can read quietly for a little bit. Lions at Lunch Time, a Magic Tree House book is one
good book to read, but we can read whatever book we want.
Next
is reading
groups. Some of us go to different rooms for reading. Ms. Hibbard, Mrs.
Bolduc, Mrs. Babcock and Mrs. Blake all are in charge of different
reading groups. We read books together. We write responses to our
books.
We
have a calendar, math journal, and a workpage that we do if we are not
meeting with the reading teacher at that time.
Mathematics is the next
subject. We work on patterns, sorting, growing patterns, addition and
subtraction facts. We will learn about fractions
and symmetry.
Then
we go to the cafeteria for lunch. We can sit whereever we want at the
second grade tables. Many of our vegetables come from the garden. We
have picked beans, Swiss chard, carrots and beets.
Outdoor recess is next. Some of us
like to play kickball. We can run or walk a mile during recess to be
part of the mileage club. Mrs. Cohn has made cards and each time we do
a lap on the walking trail, she punches the card. Five laps is a mile.
When your card is all full, you get a bracelet and a charm and another
card to fill.
Then
we have silent reading. We read books quietly. Some people are reading
Harry Potter books. Some of us read the Bernestein Bears and Clifford.
Sometimes
we have our specials. Our specials are on Monday is library. Our
librarian reads us a book. Then, we get to pick out two books to take
home to read. Tuesday is Physical Education. Wednesday is Art. Our art
teacher picks what we are going to draw. Sometimes we
work with clay. In October, we made clay ghosts. We get to bring our
artwork home. Sometimes, she displays our art in the school and then we
get to bring it home. Thursday is Technology and Physical Education. In
Technology, we play on the computer using Starfall,
Kid Pix, Trudy's Time and Place, Sammy's Science Place. Friday is our
music class. In music class,
we listen to songs and do the movement of the month.
We
are working on Square
of Life. We wrote a letter to other classes about what we do in
Vermont. The classes are all over the world. Then we went outside and
did a survey of what was inside of a square in the outdoor classroom.
We post that on the internet.
It
is really fun in our second grade. We have a buddy class, Ms. Elson's
fifth grade. They often come in and help us with our science experiments
and exploration.