Steam Show Field Trip

Today was our first field trip of the year. We had a great time at the Prairieland Heritage Steam Show in Jacksonville. We rode a train, learned to drive a tractor, bounced around on a tractor driven ride, met young Abraham Lincoln, ate some great home-made ice cream, and shopped the endless flea market. WHAT A DAY!!!!

We made it back to school in time to see the North Greene Homecoming Parade. It was a great parade with fire trucks, the NGHS Band, class and organization floats, and our spectacular Spartan football team.



The class chose a name for our new tadpole. "Buddy" has grown a lot this week. He now has both sets of legs. Our next language arts unit features immigrants and their contribution to our culture. We are learning many new words in our vocabulary units and have really concentrated on new math skills. Next week is our book fair. Check the bubbleopes for more information.


Don't forget to attend the North Greene Homecoming football game at 7:00 tonight!!!

Hello Second Grade Family and Friends,

We have had a fun week at WHE. Our second grade classes have been working on a unit dealing with firefighters and their equipment. We even had our first fire drill this week. We are also anxiously awaiting our first field trip next Friday. We're going to the Prairie Land Heritage Steam Show in Jacksonville. We hope to have some links to pictures up soon!!!

We have a new visitor in our classroom. He is a "see through" tadpole. The class has had fun watching as his front legs grow in. We are having a contest to name him in our class.

Don't forget about North Greene High School Homecoming activities. The big game is next Friday, September 26th. GO SPARTANS!

Welcome to my second grade blog !!! We are having a great year at WHE. We have had a great start to our new year. We have 13 students in our class and I look forward to watching each grow throughout the year. Starting an all new reading series is exciting. We all look forward to discovering our "Treasure" as we navigate through the McMillan McGraw-Hill series.

I have had the wonderful opportunity to "loop" with this grade through the Class Size Reduction Pilot Program. I have seen them grow as their Kindergarten teacher, their first grade teacher and now their teacher in second grade. I stay with the same "class" but not the same students within that class. It is awesome to watch as these kids have grown from K-2.

I look forward to their progression and charting their growth.

Mr. Hoesman