Our reading series took us on a non-fiction journey this week. We read "A Visit to the Emergency Room" as the class discussed hospital workers and wrote about a personal experience with a hospital. We shared a lot of stories and we had some great writing.
The class is really moving forward as we grow in our writing. We have been studying different kinds of nouns throughout the first quarter. It has been challenging as we discussed possessive nouns, plural nouns, pronouns and proper nouns. We have decided that there are just too many "P"'s when it comes to nouns. We finished our weekly assesment on Friday and our writing is really looking good.
Friday was also our Halloween party. We had a lot of great "Mom" help as we enjoyed a lot of treats and few tricks. We have a life size teaching skeleton in our room and he helped us celebrate. We had a Fall Fest and Halloween parade on Monday. Check out some pictures on the WHE page. I picked up the dreaded stomach flu on Monday but the other awesome second grade teachers led the crew as the "Pirates of the Reading Treasure."
The first quarter is over and report cards went home. The class did very well and many awards also went home. We had several on the effort honor roll, the star wall, and perfect attendance. We look forward to the next quarter and making many more second grade memories.
Our class pets are doing well. We have enjoyed our new ant farm. We have watched these busy workers as they move sand and dig tunnels. Buddy the frog is growing and as one student commented - "isn't near as much fun to watch as those ants". We plan to write a compare/contrast story about the working ants and the "lazy" frog.
