Wednesday @ BC...

...is going to be very busy! We're heading to City Hall @ 9. We'll return in time to eat lunch and begin our Christmas party (12:30-1:15)!

Thursday...we're getting ready for 2nd semester. We'll be watching a movie (Prancer) and cleaning up our classroom to prepare for January 7th!

During the holiday break...your homework is to READ, READ, READ!! Read books, read the newspaper, read the cereal box or a recipe, read our blog. I'm sending home a few old passages, also...it's very important to continue reading over the break...
2nd graders are expected to read 90 words per minute during the 2nd semester of 2nd grade! Not to mention, reading is a REALLY FUN way to learn while we're out of school for a couple of week.

December 15-18

We have a very busy week ahead...We'll be reading Out and About at City Hall, which leads us on a quick little field trip Wednesday morning - we're going to visit the mayor of Decatur @ City Hall (as long as the buses and the weather cooperate)!! After lunch Wednesday, we'll be having our Christmas party (12:30-1:15). Thursday, we're watching Prancer and going to art!! Friday, YOU GET TO SLEEP LATE!!!
We will work with our spelling and vocabulary at school, but we will not have tests on them this week. We will have a passage to read nightly!!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas

We will be having a Christmas party from 12:30-1:15 on Wednesday, the 17th. I sent home a note to see if anyone was willing to send anything to the party. Just let me know by tomorrow or Monday so I'll know what else we need. Thanks!

Winter Wonderland

IT'S SNOWING (at my house)!!! This is not a real picture of what it looks like, but the ground and the trees really are covered! Will we be snowed in tomorrow?!?!

I apologize for not blogging much recently - my camera WILL NOT work at all now, so I can't take any pictures. I promise I've begged Santa for a new one, so hopefully he'll deliver! Just wanted you to know I haven't forgotten, or even gotten too busy...

December 8-12

Jalapeno Bagels
Spelling List: dry, tie, fight, why, tow, soap, below, bike, cone, oak, July, twilight, shallow, cocoa, thigh
Vocabulary List: jalapeno, culture, international, ingredients, dough

** Sorry I don't have a picture this week. Hope Santa brings me that new camera!!

December 1-5

Our story this week is In the Money. (I'm sorry the picture is sideways. I don't know what's going on!) This is an expository text - it's about real people, places, and things.

See the Lookybook @ the bottom of the page - it relates to this week's story.)

Concept / Question Board - Students are encouraged to bring in items for our "Around the Town" board. They can bring in articles, pictures, and items that have anything to do with our community. We already have pictures of places in our communitym, as well as "cars" and "homes" on our pretend street.

Spelling & Vocabulary

Is that a reindeer?

No, it's our Win! He was not too happy about wearing the reindeer ears!

Here's Coach Davis trying to get Win to look @ the camera!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

in our classroom.

We put our Christmas tree up Friday so we'll be ready for Christmas when we get back from our week off!

Math Journals

Here we are working hard in our Math Journals last week.

Thanksgiving Lunch @ BC

More Pie in the Face

Pie In the Face Results

Okay...I've tried to get my camera to come on since Friday night, but I'm still having no luck! Don't worry: new camera is on my Christmas list! So, I'm giving you a hodge-podged post here so you can see what we did at school last Friday.

Hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving week!

Ms. Davis received the most money in her coin drive jar, so she had to take a
in the face! She put on her scientist goggles and pulled her hair back and took that pie in the face like a champ! I think the kids thought she was going to get really upset if she got the pie in her HAIR!! You did a great job, Ms. Davis!
Coach Rooks ended up getting a pie in his face, too, so the kids got the best of both worlds!

Our Field Trip to Sci-Quest

We went to Sci-Quest yesterday and had SO MUCH FUN! We washed clothes, cooked lunch, played in a tree house, and played music on a life-size piano in the Children's Playhouse. We also played with the burping machine (I know, yuck!), tried to build a water dam, played virtual soccer, experienced an earthquake, and so much more!! We had a really good time - many of us said we were going home to ask our parents if we could come back sometime!

Sci-Quest continued...

After we'd played in the playhouse and explored in the science shop, we went to see experiments performed by the Science Chef, with our help, of course. We learned many cool experiments that we can try with household items - WITH AN ADULTS HELP!!

Coming soon to a blog near you...

Sci-Quest field trip picture show!

November 17-21 - Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me

Vocabulary Words: practice, public, recognize, automatically, perched

Spelling Words: pie, night, fly, pile, child, right, shy, lie, mice, try, recognize, skyscraper, style, knight, mighty

Awards Day

Yesterday was Awards Day @ BC. Certificates were awarded for All A's, A's & B's, and Perfect Attendance. Here's our class after we received our awards. Congratulations, kiddos!

This one's for you, Tomas!

Yesterday, instead of our a Friday Squiggle, each student had a blank sheet of paper to draw on. Tomas made me a crown with his paper - very creative! Then, he gave it to me and wanted to take a picture.
Thanks, Tomas! It's very sweet that you think Mrs. Davis is "queen of our classroom."

Check out our Book of the Week at the bottom of the page. I'll change the book weekly. You can click on the little "eyes" for a larger image...read this book with your family!

Don't forget to bring in any leaves you want to add to our leaf collection. Hint: Fun Friday will be all about leaves!!

Can you guess what kind of leaf this is?

No School Tuesday!

Happy Veteran's Day!

No school Tuesday in honor of our United States Veterans!

November 10-14 - Tell Me, Tree

Last week, we read Birdhouse for Rent, so we decorated a birdhouse to put outside our window at school. Sorry, the pictures are backwards again....not sure what Mrs. Davis is doing wrong!

Our Field Trip to the Princess Theater to see The Paper Bag Players

Sorry the pictures are out of order...

Here we are in the theater, waiting on the show to start.

Here we are waiting on the buses to arrive to take us...

Our bus ride to the Princess Theater...

Wear your yellow shirt!!

I forgot to remind you to wear your yellow shirt for our trip to the Princess Theater tomorrow! Don't forget to bring your permission slip if you haven't already!

Election Day @ BC

Here we are waiting in line to vote...

Here's Tomas in the voting booth.

Jalen just voted!

Here's Keevin coming out of the voting booth...

Here's our class after we voted. We love giving our input into Election 2008.