The First Week of School!

Welcome to our classroom blog! My goal is to keep you updated as often as I can about the things that we are doing this year. I hope that it can be a good starting point for you to know some of the things that we are doing and to ask your child about the school day. It has been a busy and fun first few days of school! Here are some of the many things that we have been up to this first week:

We have been learning and practicing many important rules, routines and procedures that will help make our classroom a fun and safe learning environment.

Here are some things that we have been working on that you can ask your child about:   

• Class/Yes
• Hands and Eyes
  Blow and Release 
• Games: Coconut, "Around the Room" and Quiet as a Mouse
• We learned sign language for:
  listen
  stop
  teacher
  sit down
• See if your child can remember the signs!
• We read a great book called Enemy Pie.  Ask your child what the "secret" to enemy pie is!
• Hopes and Dreams - We read the story Amazing Grace and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. Both were great stories about characters who had dreams! After that students wrote about a hope they have in second grade. Ask your child what he/she wrote about!    
• Math Practice - money and time review.
• Brain games - See if your child can tell you about the brain games that we have been learning how to play!

Everyone worked hard this week!  Have a great weekend! Next week will be another great week! 

We learned how to play "tenzi" this week. See if your child can tell you how to play it!

Thursday morning all the second graders had an overview/reminder of Brimhall expectations in the lunch room. 

Thursday is our library day! See if your child can tell you the fun book that Ms. Zbacnik read!