Holidays Around the World

This week we are doing Holidays around the World. Each teacher is representing a different country. We will visit each country throughout this week. While we are visiting we will learn about the country and its holiday traditions. We will also make a craft while in each country. Our country is Mexico. I read The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie DePoala. Then we each made our own poinsettia. The kids seem to enjoy visiting the other countries, they even have a passport that they made. They must show their passport to each teacher in order to enter each country. We will conclude our Holidays around the World on Friday with Sweden. We will also have our holiday party on Friday, don't forget your book for our book exchange! I hope you all have a wonderful break. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Pictures

We learned some Indian symbols.


Working on our tortilla teepees!

Having some Thanksgiving fun!

Working on our tortilla teepees.

We used ads and cut out our favorite Thanksgiving meal then we tried to see how much it would cost by adding up the prices of everything.

Working on Indian word finds.

Happy Turkey Day!

Our Thanksgiving Feast was a hit. We had plenty to eat, thanks to all of our wonderful parents. Thank you to all who donated food, plates, juice, silverware, etc. The kids were very excited about eating in our room. Yesterday and today we worked on our Native American vests and headbands, deer skins, tortilla teepees, and name place cards. We also created some beautiful turkey place mats. Here a few pictures I snapped during our feast. I know some moms took other pictures so as I get those I will post them for all to see. We had fun. Thanks again to all parents who donated items and their time. I couldn't have done it without you!!!

Pump it up

Here we are being a bit silly!

Here are a couple group pictures of most of the kids from our class that attended the Pump it up party. I know that some could not make it and a couple kids left before we were able to take the pictures. We sure did have fun!

Spirit Packs!

Our class was one of the top classes for the donation campaign. We actually raised enough money for our class to get our very own ELMO, which is a very cool piece of technology equipment. We currently have some that our grade level shares but I can't wait until we get our own to keep. We also got to have a Pump-It Up party. Pump-It Up is a place you can go and they have rooms with large blow up obstacle courses, moon walks and a giant blow up slide. Our whole class was invited last Wednesday night and we shared a room with Mrs. Scogin's class. We had a blast. I did the obstacle course so many times I lost count, but I felt it the next morning. :) Also for raising the money we recieved spirit packs from our Kaufman PTO. I took some pictures of the kids that afternoon that we got them. We had just finished a long day of Stanford testing so they were very excited to get their spirit packs. I hope to post some pictures from Pump-It up soon, I'm going to have to ask the moms who took pictures to send them to me, but for now here are the ones with our spirit packs.

Scarecrow Day!

We had a great turn out for Scarecrow Day, almost our entire class dressed up. We paraded around school this morning then we did our Fall Fun Day stations. For our first station we did a pumpkin toss. They had to toss stuffed pumpkins into buckets for points. The first bucket was quite large and only worth one point, the next bucket was smaller, farther away and worth three points and the last bucket was even smaller, farther away and worth five points. It was fun watching them think about which bucket to choose. They all really wanted to try for the five point bucket but they also wanted to make sure they got some points. They had fun competing against Mrs. Evans' class. I think we each won a game. We had a fun day!!

PJ Day

Here is our class on Pajama Day! Our whole class wore their pajamas! Way to go Mrs. Martin's Class!!!

Nana Pudding

For Red Ribbon Week we had a special guest come. He calls himself Nana Pudding, although I'm not sure why. He is a vantriliquist. He put on a program with some puppets and talked about staying away from drugs. He really did a great job. Here a few pictures of the kids and a couple of him.

Go Team!

Here we are in our team shirts!

Red everywhere!

We had a great turn out for wear red day!!!

Little Old Lady Pictures

We recently did The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid Of Anything readers theatre. They performed for each other. Here are a few pictures from that day.

RED RIBBON WEEK!!!

Don't forget about Red Ribbon Week. It is from Oct. 27-31.
Monday - Wear Red
Tuesday - Wear a team shirt
Wednesday - Wear your PJs (bring tennis shoes)
Thursday - Bring a stuffed animal
Friday - Dress like a scarecrow

Second grade will do a Scarecrow Parade right after announcements on Friday at about 8:15am!

Practice makes Perfect!

Here we are practicing our reading skills. On Monday we read the story of The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. Tuesday I passed out the Reader's Theatre version of the story and we started practicing. On Thursday I split the class into two groups and assigned parts so that on Monday we can perform it for each other. I told the students I would pick the group that did the best performance and they would get a surpise. These are some pictures of them practicing their lines.

Education: Go Get It!

Some of the second grade teachers.


This week is Education: Go Get It week. Each day is a different theme and the teachers are dressing the part. Monday was career day and the teachers dressed up as different careers. I dressed up as an architect. We discussed different careers and how some of the different subjects they are learning now can help them in their careers later on in life. Today, Tuesday, we wore our college shirts and we talked about college. I talked to the students about my alma mater, Sam Houston State University and I showed them the website. We talked about going off to college and living on your own and all the responsibilities that come with that. Tomorrow, Wednesday, we will be discussing trades, the military and other options besides college. Thursday we will talk about the transistions between grade school, middle school, junior high and high school. On Friday we will talk about how to pay for college and all the different options such as loans, grants, and even scholarships. We are encouraging our students to think about school past high school and continuing their education. At home you can use this week to discuss college and careers as well. I am posting a few pictures from the last couple of days.


Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Trout. I was an Architect and she was a Scientist.



Mrs. Sheltraw, Miss. Overbeck and Mrs. Shaw. Mrs. Sheltraw was a pilot and Miss. Overbeck and Mrs. Shaw were doctors.



Mrs. Sudduth, Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Cordaway. Mrs. Sudduth was a doctor, Mrs. Evans was a chef and Mrs. Cordaway was a veterinarian.



Look at all of those colleges!! Losts of Horn fans, sorry Aggies. :)



My silly class. I always ask that we do a serious picture first then I tell them we can do a silly picture. Here they are, at their best. :)



Myself, Mrs. Trout and Mrs. Evans all went to Sam Houston State University. So did Mrs. Shaw but she chose to wear an Aggie shirt. Eat'em Up Kats!!!