Harvesting Carrots for the Food Shelf

Last spring your child planted carrot seeds for the Colchester Food Shelf.  Today your child harvested them and donated them to our local food shelf next door.  What a GREAT community service lead by Jeanne and Ralph Perkins!  Enjoy photos of your kiddos below:

Colchester Food Shelf

Open House - Thursday, October 6th

Open House: 

Our fall open house will be held on Thursday, October 6 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM. This is an opportunity for the students and their families to come and see some of the wonderful learning that’s been happening since the start of the year. We always have a great turnout at nightly events, so parking is usually an issue. Claussen’s allows us to use their parking lot in the evening to help ease the demand. Also, we will be running a shuttle from Creek Farm Plaza. The shuttle will run continuously from 6:15 PM until 7:45 PM. Please park near Partner Tire as to not take spaces for the businesses that are still open at this time.

Story Elements

In reading workshop we are working on story elements.  Today we discussed the character (RL 2.3) of a story and their appearance.  We read the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes and made a chart of Chrysanthemum's appearance traits.  Tomorrow we will discuss a character's traits on the inside.  We are learning that characters have inside and outside traits.

Musical Chairs and Fun with Friends!

We are working really hard on establishing a caring community of learners!  We make sure to have fun together each day.  As part of our morning meeting we played Musical Chairs.  We had such a great day of learning we earned extra time outside to play with our friends!  2nd graders are the BEST!!!

Morning Meeting Activity!  Musical Chairs ~ it was a blast!

Reading Workshop

We have been busy during reading workshop learning what good readers do.  Readers have thoughts about what they are reading.  We have discussed it may be a connection or a favorite part.   It is always important to get our brains ready to read!  Yesterday we practiced Read to Someone and they all did a great job!

We have AMAZING readers!!!

Classroom Rules in Room 12

We did it!  We established rules to learn and live by in Room 12.  They are exactly the same as our school rules!  :)  Now we can discuss our Hopes and Dreams for 2nd Grade.

Check out our classroom "tweet" from earlier today!

Math Worskshop

We have started math workshop and stations in Room 12.  Today went very well!  Ask your child to show you their Xtramath account.  The information will be in their green folder today.

Technology - Xtramath

Tally Marks- Roll the Die

Different ways to make a hexagon