Habits, Spiders and Handprints

This week we talked about Habit 2 from The 7 Habits of Happy Kids.

We talked about goal setting and and the importance of thinking about our choices.

We were also busy learning about spiders! 

Next week we will dig deeper into our research.

We read The Important Book and talked about what they think is important for others to know about them. Each of the students made a "handprint" that was unique and said something about them.

It was another Oz-some week!! 

2nd Grade Gifted 2014

We had a fantastic 1st day of 2nd grade gifted on Monday! We are ready for an "Oz-Some" year!! Please remember to sign the "Yellow Brick Road Map" each week.

Ask your child how they are going to put Habit #1 of The 7 Habits of Happy Kids into action this year! How will they "Be Proactive?" 

We have a very creative group of kids in our class! I'm sure you admired their amazing binder covers! 

We are going to have a great year! 

Second Grade Adventures in Oz

We had a super day in 2nd grade gifted! We are putting The 7 Habits of Happy Kids into practice this year. Today we discussed what it meant to Be Proactive. Being Proactive means being responsible, taking initiative, choosing your actions, attitudes and moods, and doing the right thing even when no one is watching. Here is how one student will Be Proactive this year:

We had fun with science today with The Balloon Blow-up. Ask your child what they learned.

 

We are starting a unit on spiders. Here is what we know:

Here are something that we want to find out: 

Spiders!

Check out these great sites to learn more about spiders!

www.spiderroom.info/

Animoto

We are using Animoto to create some awesome animal slide shows!! You can sign up for a free Animoto account and your child can create more!

Amazing Animal Books

We are creating some Amazing Animal Books of our own but if anyone has any of these Amazing Animal books from Chick fil a kids meals we would love to have them for our classroom library!!

Book Fair Online till October 22nd

Don't forget to check out the Book Fair!! There are so many awesome selections this year. Here are a few that I picked up for our class: Book Fair Wish List