Day #5

We started our Language Arts program, Journeys, yesterday. Our comprehension skill for the week is 'sequence of events.' Today we read Henry and Mudge and made an accordion book, putting the events from the story in order.

We also started math yesterday. This unit will be a lot of review. Today's lesson focused on the tool kits we will be using for math. These tool kits include a clock, measuring tape, money, calculator, and a pattern block template. We explored the pattern block template. The kids came up with some very creative designs:








Don't forget about our Back-to-School night this Thursday, September 1st, from 6:00-7:30 p.m.

We're Off...

What a great first day of 2nd grade! We started out the day by doing a class puzzle. Each student was given a puzzle piece. Each table group's puzzle pieces made a letter. The 4 letters were T, M, A, E. It was then time for the entire class to work together to rearrange those letters to form a word.







TEAM was the word. Then we spent time talking about what a team is and how our class is a team. We need to work together and help each other out.

After our morning recess, we practiced one of our centers--building word wall words with bendaroos. Since we don't have any word wall words up yet, we used students' names.






After lunch, we passed out math journals, did a quick math assessment (completing a 100's grid) before going to music with Mrs. Lundmark. Our afternoon ended with our memory book page ("This is me on the first day of school:") and journal writing about summer vacation.

Just a note that our language arts program (Journeys) and math program (Everyday Math) will start on Monday. Homework will also start coming home on Monday. I will talk more about the homework at Back-to-School night, which is Thursday, September 1st, from 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Who is Mrs. Tullis?

I have lived in Park City for about 3 years. Before moving to Utah, I lived in Alaska for 6 1/2 years. This will be my 4th year of teaching at McPolin Elementary. The Tullis name may sound familiar because my husband, Mr. Tullis, teaches 5th grade at McPolin. We have one daughter, Emma, and a husky/lab mix named Cooper.

Outside of school, I like to hike, bike, cook, bake, scrapbook, and read. I also love an adventure!