Happy Thanksgiving

 Our Tuesday ended with the annual tradition of schoolwide Turkey Bingo.  Even though we didn't have any winners, we had fun playing!  Have a great Thanksgiving 2nd grade families!

Adjective People

 We've been learning about adjectives all year, and this week we used adjectives to describe ourselves.  We started the lesson by bringing up one of our sweet girls who also happened to be a birthday girl that day.  As the class brainstormed all sorts of adjectives to describe this student, I wrote them on sticky notes and stuck them right to her.  This is always pretty funny to the class, and it gets the students thinking about a variety of adjectives.  The students then had to use 5 words to describe themselves and  complete their adjective people.  They used words such as smart, funny, kind, happy, helpful, artistic, fast, and many more.  There are so many wonderful adjectives that can be used to describe this group of students!

Thankful Writing

 At the end of the week we started an art and writing project to go along with Thanksgiving.  The students completed a directed drawing of a turkey, used their water colors to paint them, and then wrote about what they are thankful for.  It is always so sweet to read about what is important to the students.  They sure love their families!

Crankenstein Books

 Earlier in October we read "Crankenstein" by Samantha Berger and made our own Crankensteins.  We also started working on our own Crankenstein writing.  Everyone brainstormed ideas about what makes them cranky.  In the book the character gets cranky about waking up early, running out of syrup, when his ice cream melts, and many other funny situations.  We shared our ideas and laughed about them as well because we all get cranky from time to time.  This class loves to read each other's writing.  It is really fun to see!

 

Making Bar Graphs

 This week the students made their own bar graphs.  They came up with a question, 4 choices for answers, then went around and asked classmates for their answers.  Answers were collected on a tally chart.  Then each student made a bar graph using their data.  This is always a favorite activity!