Jacob Morgan’s Blog

My trip to South Lake Tahoe.  South Lake Tahoe is a rural community.

This is our hotel where we stayed.  It had a lot of plants and a koi pond with turtles in it.

We saw a bear outside our hotel. I wonder if he ever got his lunch?

We went to Taylor Creek visitor center and went on a hike on Rainbow trail. We saw rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon.

Can you find the Salmon.

Can you find the chipmunk?  Chipmunks blend into their environment.

This is a real natural beaver dam. This was made by real beavers but we didn't see any.

We enjoyed the lake and I made a rock maze.

We took a long hike to Eagle Lake. My Dad says this is desolation wilderness. Doesn't this mountain range look cool?

I made a rock marker to mark that we were going the right way.

I climbed up my first rock face. It was FUN!😄

We finally made it to Eagle Lake. It was a long hike. But it was much faster going back.

Doesn't this mountain look pretty cool?

And Pretty Awesome!!

Wouldn't you like to live in Lake Tahoe?  Not me, but I enjoyed visiting.

Hope you found the hidden creatures.

Jacob Morgan

Hi my name is Yuvraj,

This is my blog. I love to swim! My favorite thing is MINECRAFT and Think-O-Grams. I like math. We do chair days. I like to play and go fishing. Here is a picture of me with Mrs. Evans' surf board and fish live in the ocean where you surf!

I used to have 2 fish but they died. I can kick balls really hard and high. I like soccer! What is your favorite part of school?

Hi my name is Emily and this is blog.

I like to go swimming.

My favorite thing to do in school is Think-O-Grams and

I like to do math. Mrs. Evans lets us come up to the board and help teach a math problem. We do special chair days in your class. We have wobble chairs and exercise balls to choose from.

I like to cook. I used to have fish and I got 2 from the

state fair and 2 from Petco so I used to have 4 fish.

They all died.I have a iPad . I  play Minecraft and watch

youtube. What is your favorite chair to sit on in Mrs. Evans' class?

Our first field trip was so much fun!! Check out our Padlet we created!

Created with Padlet

Happy Friday 2nd graders!
I hope you enjoy your first day in the computer lab. Please comment below on your favorite part of 2nd grade.

Meet the Teacher Success!!

Wow, what an amazing Meet the Teacher day to kickstart our 2015-2016 school year! We had a great turnout of new, smiling Second Grade Surfers!! Would you like to learn a little more about Mrs. Evans? Click here to read about my wonderful family and my educational career.

If you were unable to attend, don't worry! Here are some cool things the students got to do during their hour of fun. We labeled school supplies (I'll help you Monday if you weren't at school), we wrote about what your favorite observation was in my classroom so far, and also students took a 2015-16 Back To School Star Surfer Survey. I'd love to get to know you, so please Click here to take the student survey! You can do this at home too and you'll be all caught up!

Here's a quick tour of our amazing classroom. I have so many fun, cool and exciting things to share with you this year. I will be ready to roll Monday morning....will you???

Always a student and teacher favorite...the library! We have so many books they won't fit in the picture!

Last year students were challenged to read 40 books. This year...I challenge you to SEVENTY books by the end of the year! Can you do it? Here's our wall to prove it!

This is our writing center where you'll find all the supplies and tools you'll need all year.

Saved the best for last...my real SURF BOARDS from San Diego (we have 2 in our room). Do you like the beach? I hope so because you're going to be a star surfer for the next 10 months! We are going to have a blast together. Get ready for a wild ride surfing into second grade!

Look how cute our families are! Thank you all for attending! 

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