100th Day of School!!!

We had a wonderful 100th Day of school!!! Here are some pictures from our fun day.

We are a silly bunch!!

My sweet boys and girls! I have enjoyed these past 100 days!

Happy 100th Day!

Estimating 

Can you guess how many?

Making words with the letters from the words one hundred

Writer's Workshop and Math Stations

After Christmas we have been working a lot on our writing. My kids are loving Writer's Workshop.Since is it cold and flu season our first writing was about a time when we were sick. We have spent three day on writing our stories and editing them. My students are very excited to publish their stories. I am going to grab a Mac Cart that we can use. Each student will get a computer and get to go through the last step of the writing process. My kids love getting to use the mac books!! Also, I have transformed my math stations. We got to have a review week this past week. I added a trash to treasure center. They loved this center. We have learned how to regroup. On paper I wrote problems and then students had to decide if they needed to regroup or not regroup. Once they sorted all trash from the treasure, they had to solve the problems. I had one stations using playing cards and they students had to work on adding three or more addends.  Here are a few pictures from our Writer's workshop time and math stations.

Any document that I created for my stations I will email them to you. Just let me know that you want them by emailing me Kwilson@albertk12.org

Classroom life lately

The Twins can be a little messy

Making Santa

Special Snack time. We made Santa using pancakes, strawberries, and whip cream

Teacher can have fun too! Tacky Sweater day

Working hard on our flags.

Making a Sweden Flag. That was our Class Country

Traveling Around the World Learning about Christmas

Christmas Around the World

Check out what we have been up to lately. Parents, you check out my Wikispace at http://mrswilsons2ndgradeclass.wikispaces.com/. 

Second Grade Fun

I haven't had a lot of time to post on  here lately we have been very busy. We had homecoming week and red ribbon week back to back. I wanted to post some pictures from those two weeks and also some new things I have been doing at small groups.  Enjoy!

Homecoming Week

With McGruff the Crime Dog

My Little Rock Stars

Saw this on Pinterest. They write on a post-it  what stuck 

with them that day.

We use Magic Reading Glasses at Small Groups

They love these!

Johnny Appleseed and Aggie Day

This past week at school was a very fun week. We celebrated Johnny Appleseed all week. The kids loved getting to do all kinds of apple activities. On Wednesday of this week, my class and all the other classes in our pod set up an apple tasting station. We listened to Mrs. Busha tell us a little bit about Mr. Appleseed and then the students  got to get three different types of apples. The students got to taste a green, a yellow, and a red apple. We when all were finished we graphed our data and compared it with other classes. We have an awesome time learning about John Chapman.

On Friday we had Aggie Spirit day. We played Boaz on Friday night which is one of our biggest games during football season. Although we didn't win the most spirited class, we showed a lot of spirit. I painted all the students faces and we learned some aggie cheers.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

 

 

 

Getting our Apples to taste.

 

Her mom made her a tutu for Aggie Day

 

My Football boys

 

Go Aggies!

 

 

 

 

Down on the Farm

Today was a very busy Friday! Friday is test day in our classroom and today farm animals visited APS. We had a great time but by the end of the day we were all worn out! We managed to get all of our test in, go to farm day, have our art class, and celebrate a birthday. Here are some pictures of our fun Friday. Also, I put some pictures at the end of a reading tool I use in the classroom. Just wanted to share. It is nothing special but it keeps the students engaged. Happy Friday!

Big Green Tractor

Watching someone put shoes on a horse

Some of the great ladies I work with!

We loved the baby Pig!!!

Twin Sisters in 2nd grade 

 Mobile Dairy truck

 Ready for Farm Day...

Almost done

We love reading on our desk instead of sitting in our chair

It makes the story so much better:)

Wanted to share!

My school along with many others is using GO Math this school year. I am still trying to figure out how to teach it. In my classroom we start with the problem of the day first during math. I was letting them write it in their math journals but that was talking to long. Then I decided to just let them turn and talk to their partner and solve the POD together. Well I had some students doing all the talking. So I put some expo markers in their bucket on their tables. I have the POD under my hover cam when they come in from PE. They know to read it first, read it with their partner, and then take an expo marker and work out the problem on their desk. It comes off easily and the students LOVE it!. If you have any tips on how you are teaching GO math I would love to hear them.

Here are some pictures of my boys and girls working on the POD: