End of Year Celebrations!

Wow! Can you believe summer is already 3 weeks in and it's almost July 4th? As I cleaned and organized our Star Surfer classroom the past few weeks, the halls were empty. The classroom was so quiet (way too quiet) that it really made me reflect on our year. We had such an amazing classroom and I was truly sad to loose my group of kind, loving and inquisitive 2nd graders. My little ones worked so hard and grew a tremendous amount in just 9 months. Here is a compilation of the last few weeks of hard work and dedication from our 2014-15 Star Surfers!!

During our science and literacy block, each group was able to choose a cultural version of Cinderella and teams began reading these detailed, higher-level books. Some had multiple story lines and took much thought and focus to understand all of the parts. I am very proud of the teams for working through the books and then we learned about the iMovie app on our iPads. Teams created their very own IMovie book trailer to showcase their fairy tale book. This is very exciting for our digital learners!  Cultural Fairy Tale Book Trailers

During our reading and writing block the last month of school, students were given an animal team task.  Teams selected an animal, researched their habitat, physical characteristics, predators/prey, life cycle and jaw-dropping facts. Teams created a Google Presentation on our Chromebooks. We presented these to the class the last week of school!

Rockin' Rattlesnakes

Smart Salamanders

Perfect Parakeets

Fantastic Foxes

Gray Wolf

Great Groovy Gorillas

Super Seals

Last but not least, here are some cute pics from the last month of school! Enjoy and we'll see you in August :)  Last Week Pictures

Petsitting fun!

       

We definitely love our class pets; 2 guinea pigs named Snickers and Butterfinger. But when we had a long weekend recently, one of our wonderful families volunteered to petsit. Aekas and Aekam had a wonderful time feeding and entertaining our furry friends for 3 days! I love that we even got pictures to go with this exciting event! Thank you to our family for loving and taking great care of our little guys!

Gabriel's blog

Hi my name is Gabriel. I’m going to tell you about myself!! my favorite color is blue. My favorite thing to do is learn math. My favorite subject is art and I love painting and the color will be red. I like to do writer’s workshop. I like read at my house and at school. My favorite food is pizza.

This is a picture of me at our 2nd grade Wax Museum. I was General George Patton.

We just got a class pet 2 weeks ago. There are 2 guinea pigs in our cage.

We went bowing for our Forces and Motion unit and I learned that when there's no friction from the bumpers and the ball goes straight, the speed was faster!

Chase's Blog

Hi my name is Chase and I am in second grade. I like Minecraft and we get to play it every Thursday in the computer lab. I have a dog named Leia. I have a cat named Maddy. My sister is Kendall and she's in kindergarten. In second grade, my favorite thing to do is math. Do you like dogs like Leia because she is cute!

This is not my dog, but looks just like Leia!

This is a photo of me working on my art lesson. I love art!!

This is me when my group was working on our Market Day product. We created Minecraft paper crafts to sell to the school. We were learning about goods and services.

Meet Mr. Jonas!

Hi my name is Jonas. My favorite subject is math. I love Minecraft! My best friend at home is Vincent. We went on a field trip with my dad to the Capitol Building. My picture below is from another field trip we went on. 2nd grade went bowling. This is our group picture at the bowling alley for our forces and motion field trip. What was your favorite field trip and why?

THE END!

Hi I am Tresor and I will talk all about me. I love to read, paint, write and color. I like to hang out with my family. I like to ride my bike. My favorite food is pizza. My favorite color is black, purple, yellow and blue. My favorite toy is surfer girl.  

My favorite activity in 2nd grade is doing R.E.A.D and M.A.T.H workshop. My mom has come in our class to read to us and talk about owning a business. This went with our goods and services unit. In that unit, we also did Market Day where my group and I created a nail salon business and the whole school came to get their nails done! It was so fun! You can see my pictures above.

In Mrs. Evans’ class, we just got a new class pet. We have 2 guinea pigs and their names are Butterfinger and Snickers. They like to eat baby carrots, oranges, and apple slices. Fridays will be the days we get to pet the piggies and play with them outside their cage. Right now, we are allowed to watch them and sit and read with them. We adopted them from a really nice family in Roseville and here is a funny video of the piggies with their old owners. Guinea Pig Fun! What do you like to do in 2nd grade?

We've been working so hard in 2nd grade! Check out some fun PhotoPeach photo albums!

4th Grade Buddies Dress Rehearsal :)

Famous Hero Wax Museum

Forces experiments

2015 Forces and Motion Bowling Alley