Ms. Hibbard is nice. She is a great teacher. She likes to teach math. She also really likes science. She has blonde hair and green eyes.

    We go with our fifth grade buddies outside. We work in the garden. One time we picked tomatoes, red peppers and carrots. We also have an herb garden.  We picked the vegetables, put them in baskets and gave them to the kitchen. The kitchen cooks served them for lunch!

    We are learning about apples in science. We are learning how they grow. They start from a seed and the seed grows into an apple tree. Then the tree gets pink blossoms. The bees take the pollen to another tree. The blossoms  turn white and fade away.  The blossoms turn into green apples and then red apples. Some apples stay green even when they are ready to eat! Inside the apple, there is a seed compartment. There are five compartments in each apple and each compartment has two seeds.

    In math, we are learning about money. We do math baskets. A math basket is a container that has math activities in it. Every basket has something different. We like the geoblocks basket. They are blocks that you can build different things with. One basket has a geoboard in it. There is a game called Race You to 50. We use real pennies and some fake money to play that game.  We also have unifix cubes that can make patterns. There can be up to 4 people in a group working on one basket.

    We silent read after lunch. We have a classroom library that we can use. We can also bring books from home or a book from guided reading.

    We worked on a paper called Hopes and Dreams. We want to be a lot of different things, from a cowgirl in Vermont, a waitress, a rock star and a scientist that study the stars!

    Every Monday in spelling, we get a list of words to practice. Then on Friday, we have to take a test on them. In guided reading, we read the book out loud and then we retell them to our teachers and friends.

    On Mondays and Wednesdays, we have Physical Education. We play games and do exercise. We exercise before we start the games because we have to get warmed up. Sometimes we go outside and play soccer. We play a game called Sideline Soccer inside the gym.

    On Tuesdays we have Art and Library. In art, we are making these vases out of paper. We are using CrayPas and paint. We are inspired by the art of Vincent Van Gogh.   In library, we check books out and read them. We can take two books out a week.

    On Thursdays, we have Music. Right now, we are having a substitute whose name is Mrs. Berryman. We are learning about ti and ta. We are learning about notes. We are learning about the verse and refrain in a song. We do marching and there is a movement of the month. We sing a song and learn a dance to go with that.

    On Fridays, we have computers. We play games. We use Kid Pix which  is an art program.  Kidspiration is a new program that is a graphic organizer. That means we use pictures to organize our thinking.

    Second grade is fun. We like it when we have homework. We think math and science class is the best!

Emma H.,  Aliya H. , and  Anya S.