Thank you!

Thank you so much for reading our blog this year! We enjoyed sharing our classroom with you and we hope you enjoyed learning about all the fun things we did in 2MC! We can't wait for third grade! Have a great summer! 

Love,

The 2MC Animals

Praying the Rosary

Praying the rosary is a special thing to do because it is a very special tool for prayer. We learned that the rosary came from Mary. She gave it St. Dominic. By: Bassett Hound

We learned that there 5 decades of beads, where you have to pray the Hail Mary. We also learned that you start with the Apostle's Creed. We think that it a beautiful way to pray. We are glad we learned about it. By: Red Fox

Fractured Fairy Tales

After reading lots of fairy tales and fractured fairy tales, we created our own stories. We had to make sure that we changed the story, but didn't break it too much. We could change the characters or the setting or even some events in the story. I think it was really fun to do. I loved reading everyone's story. After we wrote them, we got to color them and go over our pencil lines in sharpie. Mrs. Patel laminated them and made them real books! We got to read them to our buddies, the first graders and the Kindergarteners. Finally, we got to use a cool website called Vocaroo to record our voices reading them. Then Miss Crowley, made our recording into QR codes. Now we can listen to them whenever we want! It was so much fun! By: Pika

Sticker Store

The sticker store is when you count all the stickers you have and you get to use them like money. You can buy things at the end of the year sticker store. There are toys and lots of different cool things at the sticker store. The things cost stickers to get them. We worked hard from January to June to get our stickers. We got stickers if we were on green, or if we were good in class. I had so many stickers! It was fun to shop at the store. By: Raccoon

Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Theater

This week we got to do Fractured Fairy Tale plays. We've been learning all about Fairy Tales and Fractured Fairy Tales. We even wrote our own. After we were done with that we got to do plays! Miss Crowley got them from this cool book. My group did, "The Popsicle Boy." It was a story based on the Gingerbread man, but instead of a cookie, he was a popsicle. Another group did, Spiderella, which was about Cinderella but with insects. We got to bring in props and we got to decide how we wanted to stand on the stage. We loved it. We even made these cool poster. We had so much fun! By: Cat

Buddy Cards

Today we made Buddy cards for our Buddies in 5th grade. We are going to give it to them tomorrow to say thanks for being our buddies. We are going to miss being their buddies next year and we hope that they will always remember us. We also hope that they will have a really good summer! By: Puppy

Syllables

We played this game during centers. It's like a maze that you have to make. It tells you how many syllables you need and you have find those syllables in words. When we found one, we put a token on that word. We had to get all the way to the finish square. When we found the maze, we could clean it. We used magnets to clean up the tokens! It was so much fun! I like practicing with syllables. By: Fish

Our very last Project Cornerstone

This week we had our very last Project Cornerstone. We read a book about a little girl that had a hard time reading stuff and she didn't know that she had dyslexia. That means she sees numbers and letters differently. A little boy was making fun of her and teasing her. Her teacher helped her learn to read. He was an upstander and kind and caring adult. Project Cornerstone taught us to help others and be upstanders and to not dip in other people's buckets. We also should always tell a caring adult if we are sad or upset or need help. By: Zebra 

Then we played a game. We had to answer questions from the books we read in Project Cornerstone. We were in groups and at the very end we got these little baggies with a letter that tells us what's in there and why. We are sad that Project Cornerstone is over this year. We want more Project Cornerstone!!!! By: Cat

Prayer Buddies

The prayer buddies sent us letters! They answered our questions and wrote us back! Our prayer buddies are second graders in Denver, CO. We prayed for each other this year, especially before First Communion and Reconciliation. They sent us pictures of themselves and we taped them to our AN's. We are so excited that we have prayer buddies. By: Turtle

Shape project!

We learned about shapes. We learned their vertices, sides and angles. We also learned whether it was 2D shape or a 3D shape. I love shapes. We got to practice naming shapes and playing with them. We even made shape people that talked! We made them talk using chatterpix. Chatterpix is like an app that you slide across and create a mouth. Then when you record, a moth moves for you. You can watch some of our videos. We hope you like them! By: Shark

3D shapes

 

Here we were learning about 3D shapes. We took pictures of things in our classroom that were 3D shapes. We had to make these collages using an app called pic collage. We got to pick a background and label the shapes we found in the classroom. That was so much fun! My favorite part was being with my friends and finding the shapes. It was like a scavenger hunt. The backgrounds were cool. By: Raccoon and Red Fox 

 

Heritage Reports

We just finished everyone's Heritage Reports. You can look at the map above to see all the places we learned about. For our Heritage Reports we had to choose a famous person from our country and learn about them. We had to present them to our classmates and to also share a special surprise like a food or a picture album from our country too. I did my report on Athena the God because I am Greek.  I also brought my dancing friends from Greek Dance and we put on a show for my classmates and others. Finally, I shared delicious Greek food with them. My favorite was the pita. I think they all like learning about Greece. 

These are some pictures of some of the other things my classmates shared. Everyone did a great job on their reports. They were all so cool and fun to learn about. The food was absolutely delicious. I loved learning so many new things about our World and Heritage. Maybe you should do this project too and learn a little yourself and your country. By: Cat

Project Cornerstone Prayer Envelopes

This week in Project Cornerstone, we made prayer envelopes to tell God our worries and problems. We read the book, "Sebastian's Roller Skates" about a boy who is worried to talk and very shy. He learned to roller skate and he finally speaks up. We got to decorate our prayer envelopes with stickers and markers and crayons. We had to write our names on the back, so that we wouldn't lose ours. Miss Crowley sent them home in our Friday Folders. We put them under our pillow and then the next day our worries are gone and God has taken them away. We can't wait to use them for prayer!! By: Arctic Fox

Multiplication Wall

The multiplication problem wall was really fun to create. We each had to pick an item from our house and bring them to school and we glued them to our multiplication problem hands. We made a word problem using the hands and the item. We showed that groups of items is how you learn multiplication. We each had different items. It looks really cool in our classroom. By: Lion

Measurement Me

We made a project about measurement and us. We had to draw ourselves and then measure yourself. We made a small model of ourselves by showing how long in inches our body was. We got to color it and glue yarn hair onto it. It was cool to see the measurement models and we hung on the wall so we could see how we learned to measure. By: Komodo Dragon

Counting Money!

We played a money war game. You get two cards from a deck of playing cards and you flip the two cards over and you try to draw coins to make that amount. We can make it in two different ways. By: Komodo Dragon

We also used a cool app called Neapod. The app asks us questions and Miss Crowley controls it. She makes a presentation on it and we each get to answer the questions in her presentation. It's tons of fun when we use it. By: Koala and Shark

We played a math game called, "Money Spin." We have a pen and a little paper clip and a circle board. You use the pen to spin the paperclip. It lands on different coins. We take turns and add up all our coins to see who can get to 100 cents or $1.00 first! By: Panther

There is also a level on ST Math for money. You get the coins and you put them in a square to get to a  certain price. You have to count the coins and make sure you have the right amount. If you get the right amount then Jiji can get across the screen. By: Lion

We do ST math all the time when we have time and I can't wait to get to the money level. By: Rattlesnake

The money level on ST Math is really fun. It made me think really hard and learn how to count money much better. By: King Cobra

We start with the biggest coin and count each one until we know the total amount. By: Cheetah

We played a cool game with cards. We had to make the money with our coins. By: Zebra

I love using the plastic coins and getting to use the spinner to count to a dollar. By: Wolf

Egg-cellent Multiplication Eggs

When we used the multiplication eggs, we made groups of blocks inside of the eggs. The eggs showed us how to solve multiplication problems. We then used our recording sheet to write down the eggs we created and then we showed repeated addition. It was fun and we loved using them as Manipulatives. By: Horse

The Stained Glass Crosses

For Holy Thursday, we made stained glass crosses at the end of the day. We hid special words inside to remind us when we look at it to be followers of Jesus. They each look different and very beautiful. We liked making them.

We also made crosses in Art House that represented the cross where Jesus died on good Friday. It is important to remember Jesus and his sacrifice during Holy week. By: Pika

Resurrection Eggs and Stations of the Cross

This week we also worked on Stations of the Cross Booklets. They were fun because we got to use iPads to research each station and write about what happened at that station and how we think Jesus or the people there felt. We liked using the iPads and we learned so much about Jesus. By: Leopard

We used resurrection eggs to pray today on Holy Thursday. They are twelve plastic eggs with special items inside showing what Jesus did for us during Holy week. Him dying for us is very special and these eggs remind us how much he suffered and went through because he loves us. They made us feel relaxed, peaceful and grateful that God loves us so much. We loved using them. By: Artic Fox

Famous Person Biography Book Report

We did Book Reports on Famous people in History. We had to read a book at home and then we had to write facts down about that person that we learned and then create a poster. By: Bassett Hound

The special thing about the posters was we had to make a giant hole in them and we put our heads through them, so we could look like the person. By: Tiger

We also got to play something called gallery. Some people got to be the art and some people were art experts. The art experts looked at the picture and pretended their was a button and the art would come  alive and say a fact about themselves and who they are. By: Jaguar

We had to write ten facts about famous person that we did and we had to make our posters look real. I did Amelia Earhart. I had so much fun doing it. By: Turtle

We made our poster and we put our head through them and after we did a game and people pushed our buttons and we said our names and a fact about ourselves and then we froze like art again. By Dog

We did Biography reports about some people. For mine I did Harry Houdini. I loved working on the biography report. We did not draw holes instead we cut a hole and put our own face through it. By: Black Widow

Eucharistic Vocabulary

Last week we learned Eucharistic Vocabulary. We got a tour of the church and saw everything. Father Angelo showed us all the things that we learned about. We learned about the roman missile, the paten, and corporal. We also learned about the chalice, the pyx, the vestments, the alb and the stole. Finally, we learned about the tabernacle and sanctuary lamp. We did a challenge where we had to match the words to their pictures and we also made a picture where we had to label all the eucharistic vocabulary words on a picture. We got to color the priest in vestments. I drew him wearing the color purple for the season of lent. By: Koala

Lilies with Art House

Last week when Art house came, we made flowers. She showed us how to draw them and making them beautiful. We had to copy her the best we could. Then we used a pastel to outline the pencil we drew in black. Then we used watercolors to make the pictures colorful. Everyone of them turned out great! We hung them in our classroom windows to share with the other classes. By: Horse

QR code Writing

Last week during our Wednesday stations, we used the iPads to scan QR codes. We had a cube and we rolled it. Then we scanned the cube and there was a story we had to write. It said what to start with. I got a story about being invisible. I wrote that I would tell my mom and we have lots of fun. We would haunt people and it would be funny. I liked writing with the QR cube. It was fun. By: Moray Eel

Aurasma

This week we did the Aurasma app for a leprechaun project for St. Patrick's day. We made leprechaun stories. We drew a picture of our story and a cover for our story. Then we video taped ourselves telling the story. The app was so cool because when scanned the cover of our story, the video we made came to life and you could hear our story when looking at our picture. We did a story about a leprechaun and a dragon. The leprechaun was looking for gold and the dragon let him have some from his cave. They became best friends and it was great story. 

After we all made our stories, we had a big gallery walk and walked around using the iPads to listen to everyone's stories. It was awesome. I can't wait to use the app again to make a new story!! By: Lion

Math Facts

This week we practiced our math facts. We played lots of games and worked hard to memorize them. We played one game, where we rolled dice and had to add them up. We had to do as many as we could in ten minutes. Then we played an app called Math Slide. We were in groups of two and we battled for speed. We had two minutes to play them and then we switched teams. It was really fun!! 

Finally, we played another game where we rolled the dice and added up them quickly. Whatever the answer, we looked on our game board to see if we had it. Then we would put a circle marker on it. The person that made four in a row first won! We had a great time practicing our facts this week! By: Basset Hound.