Get ready for a colorful year

In our classroom we have a board in the back. It has crayons with our names on it and it says, "Get ready for a colorful year!" It has a crayon box. The crayon box says 32 because there are 32 crayons in the box. It also says 32 because there's 30 students and 2 teachers. The board makes me feel good because it's colorful. It makes us feel special to be in 2MC.
By: Leopard

Math is fun!

Today we worked on Math Rotations. We had three stations. We did "Mathletics". It's fun. We had paper station. We worked on Math to get ready for our test on Tuesday. We used Legos to do number patterns. The blank ones were hard. We had to figure out the missing number in the pattern. It was good. I liked it.

This week we also played math battleship. My partner, rattlesnake, won! We had to give clues to our partner. They had to guess our 3 digit number. It was hard because it was really high.

Math is really fun in Second Grade.
By: Cobra

All About Me

We made ourselves on a piece of paper and then we wrote what we liked and what we wanted to be when we grow up. And when the Back to School Night came our parents had to guess who we are. It was fun making them in Second grade. By: Komodo Dragon

One cool friend

One cool friend I made is a penguin. Every time I open my cubby door I can see him standing right next to me when I open my cubby door. I love my penguin.

We read the book, "One cool friend." It was about a penguin that a kid stole from the aquarium. He becomes his best friend and his father thinks its a toy. We made a penguin and a few days later we watercolored it. Around the penguin we put a lot of friendly words because we wanted to dedicate it to our own friends. By: Black Widow

We are excited to "Bee" in 2nd grade!!

We made the bees to tell how excited we are for second grade. We had to put the eyes on and put them together with glue. Some people wrote that they are excited because the teacher is fun and nice. Other people wrote that they want to learn math and multiplication. We can't wait for a great year.
By:  Turtle

Math Apples

We cut out apples and we cut them up into pieces. Then we put Math on them and glued them down. We put expanded form, word form, number form and tallies. It helped us show how to make numbers in different ways. We put them on our Math board. They are really cool. By: Orca

A Second Grade Blog

As part of the Katherine Drexel Initiative, our school took on Blended Learning this year. As a result, students will be learning with an emphasis on the integration of technology. Not only will teachers enhance their whole class instruction with laptops, ipads, document cameras, and projectors, but they will also be using it to differentiate their instruction to reach each and every child's needs. As a result, they will be able to address an individual's ability, interest and developmental level. 

Teachers will combine their everyday best practices with technology, so as to teach students to think critically, collaborate with others and communicate their understanding. Finally, they will be taught to ethically and responsibly use technology.

This blog is a means by which they can begin to do all that. Each week two students from each class will be in charge of writing a post on their class page about what they've been learning. They will be working in groups to brainstorm, craft and edit each others posts. Students will also be responsible for monitoring visitor's comments, and commenting on each others' posts.

Stories, and projects that students create will be posted for parents to see, enjoy and occasionally download.

This blog will hopefully be a wonderful way to not only teach technology and its various uses, but also to document the year's progress to share with others.

Hope you enjoy it! 

-Mrs. Coulter and Miss Crowley