Reading

Being a member of Team Wood means loving to read books you choose on your own.  Mrs. Wood puts on quiet music, and we pick a spot in the room, and that's where the magic begins.

Our First Day

We survived the first day, full of learning the routine and putting away supplies.  We are really going to LOVE being together this year!!!

A Whole New Year...

Welcome to a new school year!  I can't wait to be together in our classroom, learning all about each other and 2nd Grade stuff.

We The People

Last month, we studied Government and how it works.  These are some things we learned:

Building communities

These super creative students were divided into community building teams today.  As a team, they had a discussion to decide what type of community they would build...urban or rural.  Then they got straight to work.  I simply LOVE all of their ideas!

Giving Back

Recently, our Reading class read a story called Jamaica Louise James in which a little girl's grandma worked in a subway booth and she beautified the subway station by making beautiful drawings.  Since many of the students in my class only know Subway to be a restaurant, I called upon my friend Tony to help.  Tony grew up here in Marshall and now lives in New York.  He videoed a ride on the subway for us and sent it to our class.  When I asked if he would be willing to make a video, his reply was "I love any opportunity to give back to the children".  I wanna live like that.

Here is the video from Tony:

I sent the subway video out to my kiddos on their iPads, and they wrote down their thoughts and reflections.  Then, they made their own videos for Tony and sent them back to me.  I compiled them and sent them on to New York for Tony.

Here is the students' video:




Our class has a new friend who we never could have visited without the gift of technology in our classroom.  Thank you, Tony, for letting us "visit" the subway!!!  We loved it!!!

Exploring and Discovering

We are learning through discovery with rocks and dinosaur habitats.  We researched on the iPads and then went to town making our own discoveries and habitats.  It's a good day to be in 2nd grade!