February Vacation

Please share on the padlet below  how you are spending your vacation week. It will be fun to share when we return to school next week.

February Fun

This past week was filled with lots of fun and learning. On Tuesday we celebrated Valentine's Day with a fun party thanks to our wonderful moms. Everyone enjoyed making a fun craft, playing Heart Bingo, and reading valentines. We also had a valentine mystery skype with another second grade class in Illinois. We spread some valentine kindness by sharing our virtual valentine globally.

On Wednesday we celebrated World Read Aloud Day by skyping with author Molly Burnham. The students had a chance to ask Ms. Burnham questions about being an author. Some of the questions were, "How long does it take to write a book?", "How many books have you written?", "How do you make a book?", "How do you get your ideas?" Some students still have some questions so they can add them to the Google Doc in Google Classroom and then we will email them to Ms. Burhnam. Lots of us are excited to read one of her Teddy Mars stories. On Thursday we continued our World Read Aloud celebration by having a reading virtual read aloud with a class in Texas. We read The Mitten by Jan Brett and the other class read The Paper Crane to us.

Mystery Location Skype

Valentine's Day Party

Author Skype with Molly Burnham

Read Aloud Skype 
 

The Mitten
Retold by Jan Brett Read Aloud by Mrs. Kennedy's Second Grade Super Stars

Winter/Snow Day Fun!

Another snow day!!!! What have you been doing on your snow days? Maybe you have been playing outside, reading a book, playing a game, doing TenMarks, Xtra Math,sledding, shoveling, or making a snowman. Please share how you have been spending your snow days on the padlet below.
Please add a picture or comment to the padlet so we can all share our winter time fun.

100th Day of School

February was the 100th day of school at Fuller Meadow! Mrs. Kennedy's Second Grade Super Stars participated in a day full of 100s day activities. During math the students rotated through different centers using the number 100. During writing everyone wrote what they think their lives will be like when they are 100 years old. Then the students recorded their writing. We also shared about what we couldn't do on the first day of second grade but we can do it on the 100th day of second grade. In the afternoon students worked in pairs or groups to create different structures using 100 items such as cups, legos, popsicle sticks, blocks, and pattern blocks. One of the favorite stations was timing an activity for 100 seconds such as clapping, sit ups, and jumping jacks. This was a great motor break as everyone rotated through the stations. What a fun day of hands on learning! I hope your second grader shared this fun day with you. If not, you can see what we did in the pictures and videos below. Now we are closer to being 3rd graders than second graders.