Silly Pictures

 During our Christmas party today we took some time out to take some silly pictures with the props left over from The Polar Express Night!  I hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and I will see you in 2013! 

Pajama Day!

On Friday morning we will be watching Polar Express to kick off Polar Express Night that is on Saturday.  Students can wear pajamas to school that day.  If they want to wear slippers I would send other shoes so they can change before going outside for recess.

2nd Grade Mails Santa Letters

On Friday our class walked down to the post office to mail our letters to Santa.  The students were all very excited to get their letters sent off for the North Pole. 

Christmas Party

On December 19th we will be having our classroom party.  If you would like to send treats please let me know!  We will also be doing a gift exchange.  A boy needs to bring a gift for a boy and a girl needs to bring a gift for a girl.  Please have them wrapped.  On the tag you need to write From: (your child) To: boy or  To: girl  If you cannot buy a gift please let me know as soon as possible and I can take care of it for you.  Thanks so much!

Box Tops for Education

Please save your box tops and send them to school with your child.  We are having classroom competitions to see who can bring in the most.  Each box top brought in is 10 cents for our school.  In the past the money has been used to purchase a new swing for our playground, help with field trips, and purchase items for classrooms from teachers' wish lists.  Thanks for your help!

Community Walk

Today we walked around town and looked at our community.  We stopped at the flower shop, bank, post office, and city hall.  At City Hall Carl talked to us about each of their jobs.  We also learned that long ago our town was a cattle town.  There were railroad tracks that ran through the middle of town.  We learned that it takes math and reading skills to run the city.  The city cop talked to us about being safe.  We enjoyed our walk around town and next we will be working on community murals. 

2nd Grade Field Trip by Mrs. Wright's class

Our class went to Pendleton's Butterfly Garden and Pumpkin Patch.  First we got to look in the butterfly garden.  We got to see monarch butterflies and swallowtail butterflies.  There were also caterpillars.  There was a chrysalis that was about to hatch at any time.  We learned many facts about butterflies.  We learned that you cannot touch a butterfly that is hatching from a chrysalis.  It will freeze in its spot.  Male butterflies have scent spots on their wings.  If a monarch butterfly is born in the summer it only lives for 2 weeks.  If it is born in the fall it lives for 6 months so it can migrate to Mexico.
Walker and Elijah helped release a tagged butterfly.  Elijah put it on Walker's head so it could warm up its wings.  It stayed for awhile on his head and then flew off to Mexico.  
We ate lunch while we were there. After lunch we got to play.  They had a corn bath, a pumpkin slingshot, a no left turn maze, and a tricycle track.  Lots of us had corn in our clothes from the corn bath.
After playing we went to the pumpkin patch and we each got to pick the perfect pumpkin for us!
We wished we could stay forever but we had to go back to school.  We had an awesome day!