Autobiography Poems

Here is a sample of the autobiography poems second grade students have been working on this week. Next week we are going to add their pictures.

I am Kaitlyn    

I love school

I need mom and dad

I want ice cream

I dream of horse

I fear snakes

I feel  happy

I am Kaitlyn Nicole Jones

I am Paisley

I love school

I need hugs

I want  cake

I dream of cats

I fear shatos

I feel goodl

I am Paisley

I am Regan

I love gymnastics

I need my family

I dream of being a Docter

I fear of snakes

I feelhappy

I am Regan

I am Cerenitii Gale Bard

I love mydogs

I need aipod

I wantpretsle pizza

I dream of my dogs going swiming with me

I fear a tornatoes

I feel happy

I am Cerenitii Gale Bard

I am  Nathan   

I love My dad

I need My mom

I want A brother

I dream a my mom and dad

I fear A gient crab spider

I feel happy

I am Nathan

Civil Rights and Field Trip

We had a great Civil Rights unit.  Students asked very deep questions.  They thought about equality and the ideas behind segregation.

We got to see some great animals on our field trip.  This silly teacher forgot to get a group shot, though.  I was distracted by the rain.  

Camping in the Classroom

We spent the day before spring break "Camping".  Students visited seven different campsites.  Students event had clipboards and name badges.  Some campsites involved reading and some had math activities.  We also made fire-less s'mores and wrote about our day.  It was a lot of fun!

March Highlights

We made "cootie catchers" to practice parts of speech.

We practiced some adding, logic and spatial skills with tangram pieces.

We used dominoes to graph information and practice adding quickly.

 We used Starburst to make the three different types of rocks.

And best of all -- we got book boxes from Donors Choose!!

February Fun

Working in pairs, students read a book about Abraham Lincoln and wrote the main idea of each section on a post it note.  

We are loving our new audio hub and headphones from Donors Choose.  

This is what math class looked like on Valentine's Day.  We estimated how many hearts were in a box, how many were in a foot, and how many it would take to fill a cup.

Then just for fun, we triedto balance as many as we could on our fingers and make the tallest tower we could.

Mrs. Woods brought a really neat bingo set for us to play.  We used candy hearts as the markers. 

 So many treats!!

This is what was left for each student to take home!!  They'd already eaten quite a bit of sugar!

Mr. Strauman created a stand so that the iPad can be used to project just about anything on to the Promethean.  Here some students are trying to complete a tangram challenge. 

We are using dominoes to practice our fact fluency, graphing and critical thinking skills.  Every teacher loves a three for one activity!  We added the dots on the dominoes, graphed the totals, and then tried to draw conclusions about why each student had more 5, 6, 7 than any other number.

Fortune tellers make practicing parts of speech fun!

Bridges

The challenge:
Put two books 1 foot apart.
Build a bridge between the two books which will support 10 pennies (placed in the center)

Your only bridge building materials - About twenty 3 x 5 index cards

The students worked in pairs or groups of three to complete the challenge.  They only had about 15 minutes. At the very end, a few students figured out to fold the cards for support.  Even thought not all groups built the bridge, they accomplished my main goals -- working together, communicating, thinking outside the box.  We will have challenges like this more often this semester.