Happy Holidays from 2nd Grade!

Last Friday the 2nd graders had a fun-filled morning of celebrating.  Before heading out for their morning specials, Mrs. Twait come into our room to teach the students how to play the game of dreidel,

After returning from specials, the students couldn't wait to do our gift exchange and begin our holiday party!  What a morning!

Happy Holidays 2nd grade families!  I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday break!

Cookbook Sales

We are now a week into our cookbook sales, and the students are blown away by our sales!  We have currently sold 151 cookbooks, and we've made $186!  It is so exciting to have customers come to our door, and we're very grateful to every person who has supported this project.  As we learned in our studies of economics, people use money to buy what they need, what they want, and to help people.  We also learned that businesses have to pay for their supplies.  With the money we've earned we must first pay back the school for our printing supplies.  We then will pick out items that we need and want for our classroom.  We will also donate money to help a family, and the class has chosen the family in Rushford.  More information will be updated once our project is wrapped up next week!

You've got Mail!

The weeks leading up to our holiday break are full of excitement in 2nd grade!  One of our favorite writing units is the letter writing unit.  Once we review the parts of a letter and the expectations of what the students need to include in their letters, they begin writing and sending letters out in our classroom mailbox!  Who doesn't love to write a letter and receive a letter back!  During our writing block, we meet for a mini-lesson to either write a letter as a class or work on conventions in their writing.  Then we hand out the mail we've received in our mailbox and a few students deliver the mail we've written around the school.  During our writing time I meet with students for conferences. They must conference each letter with me before it leaves the classroom.  Needless to say, we've been writing up a storm and the students love it!

Holiday Reindeer

This week we made these adorable reindeer!  They will certainly spread the holiday cheer down the 2nd grade hallway!