Gym Class
The First and second graders had fun playing cat and mouse. They like it when one cat chases the mouse and pulls their tail and becomes a cat. The students also played steal the bacon and the basketball shooting game.
Mrs. Rosario
Christmas Around The World
What a wonderful evening was had by all as we celebrated our Savior’s birth! On Friday, December 11th our Elementary School celebrated Christmas Around the World. Songs were sung from different countries and children spoke about the way Christmas is celebrated in places other than America, such as Ireland, Brazil, etc.
Each grade had a special part to play and our Elementary Electives came through with “shining colors”. Our Dance Team danced to “Lord, I Lift Your Name on High”. The children did a great job and it was a beautiful dance. Our Drama Team took care of all of the narration! Way to go guys! Our Junior Chorus sang”This Little Light of Mine” and “Spread a Little Love”.
This was an awesome way to celebrate our Savior’s birth. Thanks for all who helped to make this a wonderful evening.
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Computer Class
Students have been learning how to use the keyboard this month. They are practicing using Ctrl + Alt + Del to log-on to their computers. We are even working on our typing skills. Figuring out which one is the space bar, enter, delete, shift and backspace keys has been very exciting. The students are learning how and when to use each one. We are also discovering how to change font, its size, and color.
Miss Stahler
Music Class
Students are so excited to share their Christmas program with family and friends. They have learned a lot through this experience. This program focuses on countries all around the world and how they celebrate Christmas. After we have made it through the program, students will be able to sing Christmas carols and share what the true meaning of Christmas is for the last week of December. We look forward to coming back in January and continue learning music through instruments, voice and movement.
Mrs. Racoma
Christmas Around The World
Students have been working hard in preparation for the 2009 Christmas Program: Christmas Around the World. Second grade will be singing, Jesus Born in Bethlehem. This has been a challenging song as most of the other grades had familiar Christmas carols. They rose to the challenge though and have been working diligently to prepare. They are excited to have their parents come and hear what they have been working on.
Mrs. Racoma
100 Hungry Ants
100 Hungry Ants is one of the topics we’re doing in math. The book One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor Pinczes was quite humorous in that the 100 ants were traveling to go on a picnic. They were really hungry. As the 100 ants traveled they split up into equal groups of 10’s and groups of 4’s and this had our 2nd Graders thinking……… Not only did they get to laugh as the hungry tummies went by “a hi and a hi dee hoo!” but they got an opportunity to use unfix cubes to actually work out how many groups of 10’s there were in 100 and other related groups. What was very interesting was when we brain stormed about the topic Ants as to the information we already knew; a few children related the ants to our class. Some said they are a team working together to get their food, just like 2B are working together in our class. While others said it was important for each ant to cooperate and walk-in straight lines, when they tried to get their food. They saw that 2nd graders needed to learn lessons from the Hungry Ants. They knew almost immediately that the hungry ants made more than one line because they wanted to get to the picnic faster. It was really a fun project as the kids got to make up problems from what they observed and show how they came up with their answer. It was amazing when a particular student said we all need to follow a leader and each group of ants had a line leader just as we 2nd graders need to follow our teachers and God.
Mrs. Boodram
Seed Exploration
In Science we’ve been learning about the Life cycle of plants. We’ve explored the term Pollination and Germination and our 2nd graders were quite intrigued because they now understood that the dust-like material found in the center of a flower is called “pollen”. Most thought it was just dust, but we found out that birds take this pollen from one plant to the other. We also learned that there are many ways for seeds to travel depending on their weight! When we blew like the wind, the milk seed started to spin around before it fell to the ground and this caused so much excitement. The name “cocklebur”, sounded funny to our 2nd graders and they laughed hysterically when we read that these seeds “hitch a ride” on animals i.e. they stick unto their fur or skin as they travel from one place to another. When I threw the cocklebur seed on my sweater, it didn’t fall off, but it stuck to me. We had so much fun!
Mrs. Boodram
Math
As we continued to explore patterns, shapes and arrays, our 2nd Graders made our very own paper quilt. Each child received a 4 by 4 block of paper and also different colors of smaller squares where they had to cut the squares to make triangles and rectangles and fit them in a pattern. Then we had to figure out how to equally divide the blocks and make a quilt. It was a bit challenging because a lot of the 2nd Graders made 3 groups of 7, but then we were left with one lonely block of paper. We know that quilts are usually even; so then we decided the only way for this to work was to have a 2 by 11 array. Our quilt hangs outside our door and we are proud of it!
Mrs. Boodram
Reading
During our reading class, 2nd grade had the opportunity to read The Best Vacation Ever by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith. We were surprised because instead of reading a story in paragraph form, we found letters that Amanda wrote to her friend Josie. As we read the letters we felt as though we were visiting the places with Amanda, especially when she visited The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee the home of country music. We were able to find the places she visited on the map of the Unites States! Later 2nd grade had fun writing letters to their friends.
Mrs. Boodram
Social Studies
We went on a journey to Spain as Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand financed Christopher Columbus’s trip to find the new World. We looked at a clipping on Brain Pop Jr., which was really exciting.
Mrs. Boodram