Valentines Day

We had a fun filled Valentines Day celebration today!

We sorted and graphed candy hearts

We decorated cookies!

We passed out our valentines.

We made some beautiful "heart art" inspired by artist Jim Dine.

To end the day with some extra fun, we acted out the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Happy 100th Day of School

We had so much fun today. We are 100 days smarter, and to celebrate, we had a fun filled day of activities all revolving around the number 100!

We made crowns and 100 Day glasses, using 100 decorations!

Lily made a 100 man!

Justice made his family out of the number 100!

We worked hard all day to write 100 words!

After using a scale (see below), we documented our findings using a greater than/less than symbol.

We are weighing the various bags of 100 items and comparing their weights.

We can write to 100!

Last, but not least, we made a structure using100 red solo cups.

Penguins

Penguins have taken over Room 2! We learned all about penguins this week. We read informational texts, watched documentaries and read fictional stories about penguins. Here are a few of our activities.

We made these cute penguin addition problems.

More penguin addition facts and number sentences.

We labeled the parts of a penguin.

We practiced our sight words by writing sentences about penguins.

We did a penguin art project that will be on display at Winter Art Gallery next week! We plan to use QR codes, so come to Winter Art Gallery to find out what the QR code reveals!

Mitten

We welcomed in the winter season by reading Jan Brett's The Mitten and The Hat this week!

We acted out the Mitten! Look at all of those animals that fit into the mitten!

The students are anxiously awaiting their part from Mrs. McLean.

Manar was "The Hedgehog" from the story The Hat. She wore the hat and all of the other animals joined her.

Happy New Year!

We started out the new year with lots of snowman and winter activities!

We "rang" in the new year and talked about our New Years resolutions.

Larkin plans to be nice to her sister for the new year!

We read the story of Snowmen at Night and wrote about what our snowmen might do when it's nighttime.

We've been reviewing all of the letters we have learned so far this year and practicing writing our names including our last names!!

One fun activity we did to practice our last names is these silly "last name" snowmen.

Holidays in Greece and Mexico

This week we "flew" to Greece and learned about the tradition of hanging stockings.

We laced our own stockings and decorated them.

We've been learning about combinations of 5 during math time and we made our own fireplaces with stocking combinations!

We have also been working on the teen numbers in math! We sequenced numbers on our stockings and practiced writing numbers 11-16.

We also flew to Mexico and learned the story of the poinsettia.

Holidays Around the World

December is an exciting month filled with wonder and joy! We wanted to learn how people in other countries celebrate in December. In order to learn about other countries, we had to board a "Room 2 Aircraft" of course!

These plane tickets are ready to make our learning reach new heights.

This is your captain speaking. Please find your seat and stow away any unnecessary items.

Did everybody find their seats? Good! Time to buckle up and take off!

Some of us took a road trip around America, and no road trip is complete without wearing sunglasses.We read stories about Reindeer and we created our own Reindeer peeking through a window craft. I wonder what he sees?

Larkin's reindeer saw a tree and candy through her window.

We learned that a Christmas tree originated in Germany.

The Germans also gave us gingerbread. To celebrate this German tradition, we read the Gingerbread Man and retold it by making our own books.

We measured gingerbread men using cubes.

We sang, danced and acted out the Gingerbread Man.

Throughout our travels, we keep all of our "souvenirs" in this suitcase and document all of our experiences in our passports!