Gingerbread Houses

On Friday, we constructed and designed our own gingerbread house.  A HUGE thank you to Melissa for making the frosting/glue and all the parents for sending in candy, crackers, and other supplies.  It was great fun!

 Thinking...

 Jack

 Mustafa

 Kiernan

 Mazie

 Vito

 Mackenzie

 Addie

Longshore

 Adam

 Addyson

 Joshua

Hunter

Sydney

 Caitlyn

 Dylan

 Zoe

 Ira

Ava

Biographies

What is a biography?

I think a biography is about people in history. (Ira)
I think a biography is about a real person.  (Addyson H.)
I think a biography is about people a long time ago that died.  (Longshore)
I think a biography is about a person who was famous and passed away.  (Sydney)
I think a biography is a book about someone to learn about.  (Joshua)
I think a biography is a nonfiction book about a person.  (Madison)
I think a biography is about someone famous.  (Jack)
I think a biography is something true.  (Mazie)
I think a biography is about somebody famous.  (Adam)
I think a biography is about someone who risked their life for us.  (Mackenzie)
I think a biography is someone famous a long time ago.  (Riley)
I think a biography is something true about someone important.  (Mustafa)
I think a biography is someone that lived a long time ago who invented something.  (Zoe)
I think a biography is someone who was very old and lived a long time ago and died.  (Kiernan)
I think a biography is someone that was famous.  (Ava)
I think a biography is someone famous and who lived a long time ago.  (Addie)
I think a biography is someone who invented something.  (Dylan)
I think a biography is someone who lived in the past a long time ago.  (Hunter)
I think a biography is someone that lived a long time ago.  (Caitlyn)

Gingerbread Friends

Last week, each child created their own Gingerbread Person.  The ideas and designs were awesome! The Gingerbread People are hanging outside our classroom.  Please take a peek if you are at UMS! Students will be doing a writing piece this week to go along with the art.

 Selecting material to make an outfit

 Material table 

Bulletin Board

Mystery State Skype

Today our class did our first Mystery State Skype.  We asked a series of yes/no questions to figure out what state this 2nd grade class was in.  Each student had a USA map in front of them.  Please ask your child what our very first question was.  :)  Our connection today was not great and we had to keep calling them back.  I was so busy with the technology piece that I forgot to take pictures.  We did finally guess what state they were from.  They have a NBA team called The Bulls.  Can you guess the state?

Baking Gingerbread

Today we baked our very own gingerbread baby!  On Monday we read the story by Jan Brett.  On Tuesday, we listened to Jan Brett teach us how to draw the gingerbread baby as we followed along. Today we baked, frosted, decorated, and ate him!  Delicious!