A New Year in 2nd Grade! August 2012

It's been a busy start to the school year! I have a great class. They are so sweet! Here are some pictures of my classroom. This is my behavior chart. Don't know why I didn't think of this before. LOL! I laminated calendar numbers and each child has one. Every day they start on green. Yellow is just a warning. If they go to orange they miss 5 minutes of recess. If they go to red then they miss all of recess and have to fill out a discipline form. They have to take it home and get it signed. If they have a great day they can go to purple.

 At Paloma we have Wednesday College Days! My class has NAU shirts!

 On the left is my reading AR incentive chart.

On the right is my birthday chart!

The first week we talked about how we are all special and completed an All About Me Page.

We read Chrysanthemum and talked about not bullying others. They loved the story and loved making themselves! 

 At the end of the first day we talked about writing. They filled out a graphic organizer with what they wore, who they met, how they felt, and what did they do. We talked about the transition words and then they wrote their stories. I was so impressed.

 We started Day 1 with using a Math Journal. I gave them each a label and showed them several ways to solve the problem. They love it!!!

 We learned about even and odd numbers and each child made either an even or odd house.

 Here are my class rules.

Spring 2012

It was a busy spring so I am just posting tons of pictures. Dr. Seuss week was so much fun! We could have celebrated for a month.

Dr. Seuss

I am so excited about Dr. Seuss Week next week! Our school will have trivia every day. We also have an assembly of Literature Comes to Life!! Students and staff will act out some stories. We have Who Hair Day and Book Character Day! I will read  several stories. Monday we are doing Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! We are going to make the little Who People and write speech bubbles about what we think about. This will be on my door. We will read The Lorax and make Lorax characters and write about it. We are doing The Cat and the Hat and The Cat and the Hat Comes Back. We will make Cat People and write about Our Favorite Dr. Seuss books. We are also going to read both Horton Books. We will make Horton and compare and contrast the two stories. We will write a letter to Horton to let him know what a loyal friend he was. We start our new character trait of Loyalty so it fits right it! We will also write a letter to Dr. Seuss. Here are my links. Enjoy.

I am working on uploading these!

Horton and Dr. Seuss Day

Anchor Charts

After 24 wonderful years of teaching there is now a name for what we have been doing for years....It's called Anchor Charts!! I love it! Here are some of my anhcor charts and also some of my wonderful friends have shared their's with me!

 This is an descriptive paragraph one of my students wrote about me. Ok...he got the year a little off but he did try! LOL! Such a sweet boy!

Lots of Anchor Charts from Spring 2012

 Thanks Karla!!! Great quotation mark chart!!!

 Thanks Mary Jo!!! What a great way to teach about capitals!!!

I loved teaching Amy Lemon's 

Multiplication and Division Unit!

Earth Day!!! They loved this craftity!