Polar Express

The Polar Express has to be one of my holiday movie favorites. We had such a fun time. We read the book, and watched the movie. We enjoyed the movie with Hot Cocoa and cookies. Huge thanks to Richie's mom and Starbucks for providing our Hot Chocolate needs!

 

 

We finished up the day talking about the story structure of Polar Express (Setting, characters, problem, and solution). We wrote all about it on our sparkly Polar Express Trains!

 



Holiday Craft Day

The Holidays just flew by didn't they??! We had a blast learning about holidays all around the world. We also had a fabulous craft day. I am sure you saw many of the ornaments that came home from that day, but look below to check out a few that we did.



Happy New Year!!!!

 

 

Happy New Year! Well our class welcomed the New Year right with a little fun and learning!

We had so much fun doing this class math project!

We all talked about the different times everyone went to bed on New Years Eve or New Years Day for some.

 

We then put the time on a clock that we went to bed. We also labeled it a.m. or p.m.

 I was vey shocked that many went to bed before midnight. They all had great reasons though.

I loved Drew's reason; He had to go to bed so he could go Skiing the next day. So fun!

 

We then made a graph of all the different times that we went to bed. Most of us went to bed between 12:00- 1:00 a.m.

 

They then got to draw a picture of themselves on New Years Eve or New Years Day.

It is now all posted in the hall.

 







No Marley, No!

Have you ever heard of Marley the dog? Maybe you have seen the movie "Marley"? We had a blast reading "A Very Marley Christmas" by. John Grogan as a class. We laughed as Marley the dog made a mess of so many Christmas decorations! We then wrote Marley poems! About what we didn't want Marley to get into during Christmas at our house. Some of the ideas really were hilarious. It was also a great way for everyone to practice contractions as they were telling Marley what he ; can't, won't, don't ect.. do!

KWANZAA!!

The week or so before winter break we got to learn all about holidays around the world. During learning about Kwanzaa we learned about the 7 principles of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is an African American Holiday, and was absolutely thrilling to learn about. I hope everyone who was there at the 2nd Grade "Holidays Around the World" enjoyed our awesome Kwanzaa round we sang and poem.