A Busy Week!

Hi Everyone!

This is going to be a busy and exciting week in Second Grade. We will be performing on Thursday with the Tanner Dance teachers at 10:00. Please have your student wear dark-colored pants, (no tights) and we will provide a T-shirt for them to change in to. We will be singing to each other in our annual "Sing-a-long" on Friday morning. In between we are trying to finish up our holiday writing and craft projects. We will have an abbreviated spelling list this week of important words in our math unit. They are:penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, dollar, cents, money, greater and less.

Reminder: We are counting, and adding money in math. Many of our students are still struggling with recognition of coins and the amount they are worth. It is easy (and important) practice for them to take a handful of change and sort, then add the money. We always start adding from greatest to least. Thanks.

Merry Christmas from my family to yours! (My parents, my husband and 5 of my grandchildren in Durango, Colorado)

So Sorry for the Late Blog!

Oh my goodness, I apologize for the late posting this week. I moved to my new house last weekend (no internet service yet...) and I feel fortunate that I have matching shoes!!

We do have a spelling test tomorrow and here are the words:town, house, sour, frown, cow, clown, found, around, bind, find, kind, mind, attack. smack, black, track. Bonus: Christmas, celebrate, reindeer, ornament. I gave paper copies to the students who were not here Friday. We have been practicing in class as well.

**Upcoming events: Tanner Dance program (parents and family members invited) next Thursday, December 15th at 10:00 a.m. It will be only the second grade so it will not be as long as in the past.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yes, we are getting ready for the Tanner Dance Performance on December 15th. I will give you more information as I receive it.

This week we have an abbreviated spelling list due to the long holiday weekend. I hope you all had a wonderful time with your families! We will be practicing the months of the year for Thursday's test. Yahoo!

January, February, March April, May...etc...:)

Autumn is Awesome!

Hello Miss Cox!

Some of you may know Jocelyn Cox (she is Joni in the office's daughter) She is a student intern in our class on Fridays. We love having her with us for the fall term.

We have been working on place value this week (and next) in math. This is a key concept for our second graders. I have been using a wonderful website during center time I want to share with you. http://nlvm.usu.edu/

It is the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. Go to Grades PreK-2, then Base Blocks, click on show a problem. Great math practice!

Finally, our new spelling words: play, hay, mail, sail, train, they, great, wait, mine, vine, whine, shine, duck, truck, luck, yuck. Bonus: Thanksgiving, Mayflower, Pilgrims, thankful

I Love Meeting with All of You!!

SEP's are a busy time, but I really enjoy celebrating your child's success with you. I do have an adorable class this year! We did not have a spelling test this week because of Halloween and a short week, the words in our planner on page 45 will be for the test this next Thursday. Enjoy your long weekend!

Test November 10th-write, of, do, to, time, went, myself, what, name, too, little, been, right, thought.

Yes for Technology!

Thank you Chevron!!! We are the recipient of a "Donors Choose" grant funded (last night) by Chevron. We never have enough money for technology and I heard that some money was available, so I wrote a grant asking for 2 ipod touches (they use the same apps we do on our ipads.) Now every child in a reading group can be working on a device at our center time. Yahoo!

(And is this the safest internet photo you ever saw??) Short week spelling: when, sheep, both, then, chase, teach, dish, which, boo, food, mood, poof, smile, file, pile, while. Test on Thursday!

Spelling Review for Short Week!

We all know these words...

but we are going to have a quick review just to make sure on Wednesday.

(these, use, swim, glad, brave, next, add, across, grass, goes, space, does, come, want, really) It will be a short day and then I hope you all have a FUN fall recess!

Can You Believe It???

What a week! Two of our classmates have broken left arms! Fortunately they are right handed and both of them are very brave.

Just a reminder that our library day is Wednesday and we need to return our books so that we can continue to choose new ones.

Great job this week on the baggy books! Let's keep reading!

New Spelling words for the week: bell, hill, well, egg, grass, across, add, off, pumpkin, stump, lump, grumpy, stall, football, basketball, baseball. Bonus: Bonus: Halloween , skeleton, ghost, jack-o-lantern

We wrote sentences using great descriptive words like explode, hover, drifting and melting this week. When we got to Tanner Dance we danced our own sentences. Fun times!

A new math packet went home today with a great website for practicing math reasoning. If your child plays the 10 frame games at least 3 times, initial the front cover of your packet for an extra sticker.

A BIG thank you to our parent volunteers! Our centers are going quite well and the children love them. I love getting up and learning in different ways too, I feel so grateful for your support! We will be doing baggy books starting next week.

New Spelling words: there, their, they (there is no a in they poem...) next, glad, trip, swim, space, flute, chute, cute, Utes, lame, flame, game, name. Bonus: salute, famous, soccer, mountains

Welcome Autumn!

We have been getting ready for fall with pastel drawings of leaves and great vocabulary words to do with autumn. Animals habitats are important considerations as the weather changes too. We are working on long vowel words in reading and spelling. Here are our new words...

from, his, her, does, want, really, caught, you, hope, mope, rope,elope, tile, pile, mile, vile. Bonus: antelope, envelope, crocodile, smile

Constitution Day-Tanner Dance & Friendly Football Fun!

Look at these patriotic teachers! Friday was Constitution Day.
These friends are cheering for different teams.

Tanner Dance is fun physical activity for all of us.

We have had a great time ...our students did an outstanding job on their spelling tests this week!

Our new words for next week continue with the long vowel pattern:bone, these, cute, close, those, drove, use, goes, talk, walk, chalk, stalk, hoop, loop, snoopy, goop. Bonus words: habitiat, world, chalkboard, beanstalk

The Caves at Lascaux France-Revisited!

We talked about the art that was left behind so many years ago in the caves in France. (Sam saw them in person last June!) We looked at the kinds of pictures they drew and then we drew our own with oil pastels and paint. It was great fun! Our spelling words have long vowels this week: bite, late, size, made, ate, fine, same, hide, mate , fate, date, late, nine, pine, shine, mine. The bonus words are divine, pine cone, whine (we don't do that in second grade...) and ice skate.

Another Great Week!

It has been a busy and productive week in our second grade class! We took our first spelling test and had library and P.E. Our students are learning the routines and rules of the classroom and trying to get 100 minutes of reading a week. I am so proud of them!

Here are the new words for next Thursday's test...

fox, wet, nut, job, fun, went, hug, from, fit, mitten, lit, pit, sap, nap, laptop, tap. BONUS: September, autumn. awesome, because

First Week of School-One Smart Cookie!

We had a "sweet" week in Second Grade! We got to know each other playing "Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?" We made our own clay cookies and we will be talking about the book, "One Smart Cookie" before we take our cookies home.

We wrote down a short list of simple sight words to help us get going in our writing. These are quick review words which we will do some practice on in class and be tested on Thursday. Here are our words: the, and, said, my, come, it, you, I, at, me, a, be. Bonus words (optional) Brookwood, second, Mrs. Mootz, Mrs. Garrett

We will do a regular list next Friday with word chunks as well. Yea for Second Grade!

Welcome to a Great New Year!

Hello to my new friends in Second Grade! I hope that you have had a fun and relaxing summer. Mr. Garrett and I had a wonderful adventure in Italy and France. I can't wait to do more art with you, we saw a LOT of beautiful art in Europe.

Second Grade will be so much fun-I can't wait!

Last Week of Spelling!

Here we are with our "artistic" butterflies! We did a butterfly parade down the hall to the office ladies to show them off!

Next week will be our last week for baggy books and library books should also be returned as soon as possible.

Our life cycle study has sparked interest in our new spelling words...

caterpillar

larva

chrysalis

pupa

butterfly

molting

wiggle

science

reading, writing, math, art, social studies, lunch, recess, music BONUS:metamorphosis, proboscis, renaissance, etcetera

Busy Week!

Hi Second Graders and Parents...

It has been a very busy week, we are trying to do some year end testing and endure this silly rain! Here are the spelling words for Thursday.

liked

hoping

baked

using

chased

making

closed

hiding

named

riding

teasing

decided

awesome

beautiful

pretty

amazing

Fun Field Trip!

We had a great time on our field trip to "This is the Place State Park!"

We especially want to thank our wonderful parent volunteers for making it possible.

Spelling Words

sky

high

find

fly

try

dry

mind

eye

buy

reply

spy

child

BONUS

alright

dynomite

piper

fireworks

encyclopedia

Field Trip Thursday!! Spelling Test Friday

We have a great week planned-we will have our spelling test on Friday....

enough

something

never

going

coming

tried

started

outside

around

bound

found

hound

pound

rebound

slight

flight

frighten

mighty

night

light

We're Excited For Spring!

Look at these happy faces! We are all excited for spring break. Keep reading and doing your math homework-our spelling words are review words. Have fun!!!

Spelling Review

better

isn’t

happy

clapped

sister

I’ll

lady

stopped

sitting

brother

getting

mother

you’re

silly it’s other they’re wouldn’t angry jogging

We have been trying to get some exercise in while we dodge the snowstorms!!

Here are the new spelling words for the week before Spring Break...

hook

book

soon

took

good

you

school

took

pork

cork

stork

work

tough

rough

dough

cough

Bonus:igneous, metamorphic,

sedimentary, through

In Like a Lion Out Like a Lamb!

Yahoo! March went out like a lamb....and here we are demonstrating our dramatic skills. We have been busy working on suffixes and moving on to verbs in language arts. Keep up those great reading minutes....:)

Spelling words:

puppy

baby

happy

angry

funny

many

silly

only

long

wrong

tongue

bongo

yucky

sucker

ducky

bucket

BONUS

humongous

buckaroo

paragraphs

Tchaikovsky

Meet Miss Jocelyn Cox

We would like to welcome Miss Cox as a student intern into our classroom. She will be observing and interacting with our students on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the afternoon. It is extra fun for me because I was her first grade teacher! She is a senior at Brighton and very excited to be with us.

Yea! Finally we get our regular spelling words!! As you can tell we are working on adding "ing" or "ed" to words so we double the last consonant.

batted

running

clapped

stopped

sitting

jogging

flipped

shopping

mended

end

expend

friend

dive

survive

fifty-five

alive

Bonus-extension, recommended, descended, suspended

No Spelling Test Tommorow! (but it is library day...)

Due to the quantity of short weeks-we did not get new words last week and we are working on Sitton spelling this week-a good review. So no worries tonight! Don't forget your library books!

Welcome Spring!

It has been a strange spring week! Warm and snowy weather made for creative play at recess (see Eli's snow pyramid!) Another short week means quick spelling again. Here we go-

March, spring, rain, snow, rainbow, cloud, weather, Ireland, Irish, leprechaun, shamrock, luck, fairy, gold, mischief, green

Can you tell we will be doing some seasonal writing next week?

SEP's Are This Week!

I am looking forward to seeing you all this week!

Here are the spelling words...done, one, I'll, girl, knew, pretty, don't, you're, hoops, stoop, scoop, whoop, squeal, real, steal, teal. No Bonus-short week! I will be checking reading minutes on Monday for the next 3 short weeks.

We had so much fun preparing for and participating in our dance! Thanks for your support and a special thanks to Miss liz for all of her work.

Spelling Words: clean, keep, tree, read, people, stream. steep, cheap, gnat, catch, chatterbox, static, lumber, plumbing, dumb, umbrella

Bonus: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dumbledore, president

Our Field Trip!

We had so much fun on our field trip last week! (This was before we left-we were good, safe passengers.)

Our spelling words this week are review words because of the short week.

which, teach, wash, tray, frown, please, when, teeth, sheep, than, train, mouse, towel, lunch, snail, around. See you Thursday for Tanner Dance!

It's Cold Outside-But We Are Keeping Warm!

Look at all the great exercise and creativity! We have been enjoying "Tanner Dance" with Miss Liz on Thursdays. We will be presenting a short "Informance" for parents and family members on February 17th @2:30 in the gym.

Spelling Words: house, sour, how mouse, could, should, around, towel, chilly, krill, thrill, windmill, sand, candy, banana, plan. BONUS: salamander, valentines, February, canary

Thanks for Your Support!

Art-a-Palooza was so much fun! Your children are very creative and produced some lovely art. The clay for our projects is sealed, but still quite fragile. I hope that it is a becomes a fond memento from Second Grade.

Here are the new spelling words...

great

train

nail

snail

rain

tray

they

subway

map

slap

trap

flap

sting

cling

sorting

king

BONUS

groundhog

evaporate

something

climbing

New Week!

Hi Parents and Children...

I'm sorry to have missed displaying the spelling words last week. I have been a bit under the weather. Here are the words for this week.

Spelling January 20^th

right

thought

been

name

myself

too

write

to

trickster

kick

lick

sticking

allstar

caller

stall

waterfall

BONUS

kickball

basketball

football

baseball

volleyball

soccerball

Even More Toy Day!

More Toy Day...

Toy Sharing

We had a great time sharing toys that were old and new. Our students worked on public speaking and organizing information as they showed a favorite toy. (Look for more images coming soon!