Spelling Words for week of 4/30/12

Compound words:
1.  inside
2.  myself
3.  bedroom
4.  football
5.  birthday
6.  baseball
7.  downtown
8.  cannot
9.  outside
10. into
11. cupcake
12. forever
13. everywhere
14. anybody
15. underline
16. spaceship
17. treehouse
18. sunset
19. underground
20. eyeball

Upcoming Events- May/June

The last few weeks of school are jam packed with fun activities!  Thank you to Stacey for emailing out to all the families.  

Friday, May 4th: 2A Mother's Day Celebration Lunch, 12-12:40pm in Room 7 

Monday, May 7th: State poster reports due

Thursday, May 10th: Teacher Luncheon. 2nd grade is responsible to staff this event with volunteers.  A volunteer link will be available soon. 

Friday, May 11th: 2B Mother's Day Celebration Breakfast, 8:45-9:30 AM in Room 8

Thursday, May 17th: Spring Tea  in the evening, time and details to follow

Friday, May 18th: Flight to China & Japan, 8:30-9:45 AM

Please sign up here to bring food for the flight or to help out- sign up on  Google doc here.

Monday, May 21st: Field Trip to the San Francisco Japanese Tea Gardens.  Field trip forms with chaperone opportunities will be sent home shortly. 

Thursday, May 24th: All States and Capitals Test

Thursday, May 31st: Rap of the States, Assembly

Tuesday, June 5th: 2B Greek Play, 8:45-9:15AM in Room 8

Wednesday, June 6th: 2A Greek Play, 8:45-9:15AM in Room 7

Friday, June 8th: Last day of school Paddington Party, 11:00-12:00

Weekly Highlights- Ms. Der Yuen, 4/27

Spencer: I liked everything! I liked Dancing Sushi, starting origami, more Japan, geography test, spelling test, computers, and graveyard in PE.

Kayla: I liked Dancing Sushi, origami, geography test, seeing the science fair, and getting Paddington.

Alex L.: I liked playing with rubberbands in science, Paddington, writing postcards from the Northeastern states, science fair, practicing the rap, geography practice and test, Indian in the Cupboard, making sushi arrays, and Dancing Sushi. Basically, I liked everything.

Nina: I liked my all about me poem in computers, science, geography, the spelling test, seeing my sister’s work in the science fair, and volleyball in PE.

Brennan: I liked Indian in the Cupboard, geography, and I LOVED Dancing Sushi!

Lindsay: I liked everything! I mostly liked Indian in the Cupboard, making sushi arrays and watching Dancing Sushi, Japan and sharing my origami crane, having gymnastics outside, science, art, and computers.

Alex C.: I liked everything but the thing I liked most was playing graveyard in PE. I liked experimenting with magic and making faces with the magnet balls with Mihir.

Riley: I liked watching Dancing Sushi, Paddington, seeing the science fair (especially the earthquake proof buildings), and computers.

Matt: I liked geography, computers, math, art, PE, states rap, Indian in the Cupboard, sharing our highlights and everything! I liked Brynn’s Paddington pictures the best.

Brynn: I liked “All About Me” in computers, PE, sharing highlights, origami, getting to bring Paddington home, that my buddy got first place in the science fair, and everything!

Mihir: I liked the geography test, spelling test, sharing highlights, sushi arrays, computers, writing postcards (mine was from Massachusetts), practicing the states rap, and the magnet balls with Alex C. and you can’t imagine how much I liked the Dancing Sushi!

Maya: I liked sharing my Al Gore autograph, Brynn’s Paddington journal and photos, computers, gym, geography, and PE.

Mishal: I liked everything! I liked gymnastics outside, PE, science, and everything else.

Dancing Sushi!

Sharing highlights this morning, a number of students emphatically raved about watching "Dancing Sushi".  It's a silly animated series on Nicktoons that we watched a couple clips of while wrapping up making our sushi arrays.  If you can brace yourself for neon flashing characters and high pitched decibels, enjoy the show!  Links below-

Dancing Sushi
Dancing Sushi- YouTube

Billy Bug- Coordinate Math

We introduced coordinate planes today, referring to the points on a graph as (over, up).  The kids enjoyed practicing their new graphing skills playing "Billy Bug and His Quest for Grub"- check out the link below.

Billy Bug

Spelling Words Week 4/23/12

Homophones:
1.   paws
2.   pause
3.   would
4.   wood
5.   bored
6.   board
7.   wait
8.   weight
9.   plane
10. plain
11. dear
12. deer
13. here
14. hear
15. tale
16. tail
17. our
18. hour
19. meet
20. meat

Delaware

The kids did a great job performing Perry Como’s “Delaware” at assembly! Thank you to the many of you who were able to attend, it was encouraging to see your smiling faces in the audience.

Flat Stanleys Abound!

Below: 1)  Oliver and this Texan Flat Stanley.  2) The group that has received their Flat Stanleys as of midweek.  3) Aidan receiving his Flat Stanley in the mailbox in Tennessee via smartboard and yes 4) Flat Stanley had a difficult time driving.  Somebody, please design a booster chair big enough for him.

Weekly Highlights 4/20/12

And the weeks just keep zipping by. It's hard to fathom that there are only seven weeks of school left and that your child will be a third grader. Moms, please keep May 4th at 12 noon open for our annual Mother's Day Luncheon in room seven. This is an event that you do not want to miss. Also, we are looking for parents to help bring in pot stickers, sushi, and fortune cookies for our flight to the Orient on May 18th. We are enjoying receiving the Flat Stanleys from all over the country. Texas Stanley arrived in the mail the other day with his ten gallon cowboy hat, boots and spurs. In math, we covered a unit on probability and odds. We continue moving up with our multiplication. And in Social Studies, we are learning about just how rough our pioneers had it coming out on the Oregon Trail. They were true heroes.

 Ivan - I liked the creative writing piece on my favorite person, P.E., watching, The Adventures of a Cardboard Box and the Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday video. I also liked making clay pots in Mrs. Switkes' class.

 Kenna - I liked the Mardi Gras and Adventures of a Cardboard Box video, working on our notes in music and receiving my second Flat Stanley from New Jersey.

 Rohan - I liked the Mardi Gras video, the Adventures of a Cardboard Box, and writing my second Flat Stanley letter.

 Aidan - I liked playing handball in P.E., art and getting my Tennessee Flat Stanley and my Virginia Flat Stanley. That's so cool that he went to the Clarksville Train Station where the song by the Monkees was inspired.

 Liam - I liked P.E., art, our creative writing paper, I chose President Lincoln, Mrs. Barulich and the Mardi Gras video!

 Oliver - I liked getting my Flat Stanley from Mrs. Barulich's niece, Elizabeth in Texas. He has a cowboy hat, boots and even his own personalized belt buckle. I also liked the Mardi Gras video, P.E. and art.

 Vicki - I liked the Mardi Gras video, receiving my Flat Stanley and making the pots with Mrs. Switkes.

Madeline - I liked Art, P.E., science and creative writing on Thursday.

 Stefan - I liked handball in P.E., art with Mrs. Switkes, watching the Mardi Gras video and sending Miss Nelson a Flat Stanley.

 Renee - I liked the creative writing we did on Thursday, music, the Mardi Gras video and our Flat Stanley project.

Nathan - I liked the Adventures of a Cardboard Box video and P.E.  I did NOT like getting sick this week.

Rap of the States

We are going to start practicing our "Rap of the States" that the whole second grade will perform on Thursday, May 31st. If you want to practice singing along at home, here it is!

Delaware

Thank you to the many parents who were able to cheer on our class this morning!  They did a fabulous job singing and performing.

Spelling Words Week 4/16/12

th words:
1. they
2. teeth
3. those
4. than
5. tooth
6. these
7. moth
8. them
9. both
10. thank
11. through
12. their
13. they're
14. there
15. another
16. beneath
17. author
18. thoughtfully
19. weather
20. whether

Wishing all of you a very wonderful spring break!

Egg Hunt Photos

We had so much fun chasing the bunny around the playground while searching for eggs this morning!

Three is a Magic Number!

To help us learn our times three facts, we've been singing "Three is the Magic Number".  It's amazing how much staying power School House Rock has!

Enjoy- the lyrics are included on this version.

Three is the Magic Number (YouTube)

Which state is the biggest state besides Alaska? Students enjoy playing Great States on Friday.

Don't forget that our Middle Western States test is tomorrow.

Just how do carpet and floor layers know how much to cover a floor? Second graders learned how to measure area today.

Spelling Words Week 4/2/12

sh words

1. shine
2. rush
3. shoe
4. cash
5. short
6. dash
7. bush
8. shore
9. wash
10. shout
11. splash
12. demolish
13. shampoo
14. finished
15. shallow
16. sharpen
17. shelter
18. shoulder
19. freshly
20. shadow