Happy St Patrick's Day

Luis wanted to share with us something he learned this weekend about the beginning of St Patrick's Day.  I LOVE it when they bring in things they have learned elsewhere and have an excitement to share!!!

Being Helpful

This month's character trait is helpful.  Mrs. Bethany and Mrs. Angel came to talk to all of 2nd grade about their jobs.  They are very helpful people!!! Some of us think we may want to have a job like theirs when we grow up!!

Happy 100th Day of School!!

We celebrated the 100th day of 2nd grade today by making hats with 100 stickers and doing several 100th day activities for Math and Writing. I can't believe we've been together for 100 days!!

We want to live like that...

I asked my little posse to write down four facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. today while we watched a short video about his life.  As we were sharing the collected facts with the class, one of my sweet girls, in her quiet little voice said, "I wrote down that he said, 'hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.'".  It was one of those moments when heaven touches earth and you know that you are in a holy moment.  The class was quiet, my eyes got misty, and I said, "boys and girls, I want to live like that, don't you?".  My most feisty boy yelled out, "I DO TOO, MRS. WOOD!!!!".  Typically, he would have had to move his clip for blurting out, but we let it go that time.  I love my posse.  I hope that they will always live like that...

Learning and growing with iPads

All of 2nd grade has one to one iPads for this quarter, meaning that every student has an iPad.  We are only a week into it, and already the students have learned so much.  Today in Reading, I used an app called edmodo (the central hub for our classroom) to send out an assignment to the kids.  They opened and completed the assignment in an app called upad, then they sent it back to me in edmodo.  Of course, it took some of us more tries than others, but we all did it, and we cheered when everyone finished!! 

Ag in the Class

We learned about beef today in Ag in the Class.  We LOVE Ag in the Class here at Mrs. Wood's class.

 

Easing in...

We are easing back into school with Fruit Friday.  The students have been incredibly hard workers yesterday and today.  I have seen some fantastic choices being made!!  --Mrs. Wood