After reading How Full is Your Bucket? For Kids we made our own buckets and filled it with ways to fill our own buckets and those of others in our classroom and school.
We have been working on our word study (spelling). The students were given a spelling inventory and, from those results, I will assign them spelling words at their level. This will start in 2 weeks. We will work on word study (spelling) for 2 weeks before moving on to a new list. One week is just not enough time to learn, practice, and use the pattern in their writing. In the meantime, we have been working on the same list so the students can really understand our procedures for practicing word study in the classroom.
sorting the words by pattern
writing the words in their word work folder/notebook
draw and label
We have also been practicing our word work centers (which will be used to practice word study).
We talked about Growth Mindset and the difference between having a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. These books will be coming home soon.
An annual tradition at McPolin--the flag raising ceremony--was held on Friday, September 2nd.
One of my favorite moments is when the entire school signs "God Bless America." Awesome!
We had some visitors in our classroom. The Living Planet Aquarium brought their rainforest van up to our school. They brought along some animals that live in rainforests around the world and talked about how they adapt to their environment.
crested gecko
white's tree frog
2 cockroaches: hissing cockroach and cave cockroach
rainbow boa
blue-tongued skink
Finally, we started our 1st unit for language arts--all about houses and homes. During this unit, we will be addressing many of our 2nd grade standards.
After reading this book, the students wrote about which home they would want to live in and why.
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