It's Friday!

This week went by so quickly!  Today was another busy day in second grade.  We started with our morning meeting, during which we finished writing our classroom rules.  We have 8 rules that we all agreed upon based on all of the brainstorming we had done all week.

After that, we got into our Hopes and Dreams project.  We reviewed our plans and then created a reminder for the school year.  This reminder has both our hope and dream written out in words and in a picture.  Ask your child what his/her goal is for the year and how they plan to achieve it.  Here are our reminders above the classroom library:

 Then we went into the reading workshop.  We wrote about the book we are reading aloud together to keep track of the plot and the characters before going into our book baggies to read independently.  Book baggies may go home - but we use them every day at school, so please make sure they come back each morning as well.  After reading, we went back into our math books to continue our pattern block work from yesterday.

Then it was time for lunch and recess.  After that we had our first singing class with Bradley!  We have singing every Friday afternoon to learn songs for Town Meetings, learn about famous song-writers, and have fun!  Then we celebrated a class birthday together.  Finally, though, it was time for Choice Time!  Choice Time is every Friday (when clubs are not in session) and is a time for children to explore areas of interest as well as learn to independently problem-solve and interact socially with one another.  We built with blocks, drew beautiful pictures, wrote in our journals, read great books, and used pattern blocks to make patterns and designs today.  It was a lot of fun!  We ended the week with some reflective journal writing before packing up to go home.

Have a great weekend!

- Liz