Our Doubles Rap Performance

Oh my goodness, did we LOVE practicing our Doubles Raps today!  The students had a blast singing and dancing, and if the song gets stuck in their heads as much as it does mine, they will have those facts memorized in no time!

I think you will definitely enjoy watching their awesome performance.  Click on the link below to view the video (the video is only accessible to those who have this link).

2A Doubles Rap
SO much fun!

Doubles Rap!

This week in Investigations Math, we are studying all about doubles.  We read "One Potato, Two Potato," a book about a MAGIC POT that doubles any object that goes into it!

Please take a few minutes to watch the Doubles Rap videos below.  Tomorrow we will be learning motions (dance moves-haha) to go along with the rap!

Book Trailers

Yesterday during Daily 5, we learned about what it means to pick "Good Fit" books to read during our "Read to Self" time.  (More on that later.)  :)

One of the questions we ask ourselves when selecting Good Fit books is: "Do I find it interesting; do I want to read it?"

Well, when trying to decide if I am interested in seeing a movie, I watch the movie trailer and ask myself if I want to see it.  Now there are BOOK TRAILERS! 

Below are some Book Trailers that students may view to decide if the book is interesting to them.













I hope you enjoyed these Book Trailers and found one that you might enjoy reading.  I will make this a regular blog update and will continue to add new Book Trailers to check out!

Keep reading!

Longhorns of the Week

We have had two students recognized as Longhorn of the Week so far this year.  In addition to the ribbon given to each student, I wanted to come up with something more to recognize them.  I found a cute little sign on the internet and thought it would be perfect.

Here are 2A's first two "Longhorns of the Week:"

The Longhorns are announced on our morning announcements, and then later I fill in the sentence on the You Rock sign, and the student gets to keep the frame on his/her desk all day long.  They seemed to get a kick out of it.  :)

Thanks to Sweet Blessings Blog, who had this cute printable (and MANY others I have printed as well)!

Force and Motion: Balance Investigation

We have been studying balance in our unit on force and motion in science, and this is always one of the big hits, as far as experiments go.  :)  The students had a blast trying to find ways to balance a pencil on its point, and they did GREAT!

Things we learned:
-You must find a stable position in order for something to balance.
-The counterweights must be placed BELOW the point that you are trying to balance.
-If the counterweights are ABOVE the point, the object will be too top-heavy and topple over.

It was so fun watching the kids figure out how to make the pencil balance and how THRILLED they were when they got it!

Hope you enjoy our pictures of our "Balancing Pencils" investigation.

Human Circle Maps!

We LOVE Thinking Maps at our school.  I am one of the biggest supporters of using Thinking Maps to organize the students' thought process; they are truly a great tool.

Circle Maps are used to "define," so in class, we created "Human Circle Maps" to define ourselves!  So much fun.  The kids got a big kick out of sticking their faces into the hole in the middle, lol!

Hope you enjoy our photos of our human Circle Maps!

Table 3

Table 2

Table 1

Individual Photos (in no particular order, & names edited out, hehe):

YAY 2A!

Talking to your child about 9/11

With the 10 year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, I'm sure there are many of us who are unsure if and/or how to talk to young children about that horrible day.  Here is a link to a great article about this from Scholastic:

Talking about 9/11

I hope some of you will find this helpful in any conversations you may have with your children.  :)

Have a great night!

My New 2A Friends!

Well, we have gotten off to a wonderful start this year in 2A!  I am so thrilled about working with all of my kiddos this year and about getting to know them better.

Here is our class photo (from the 2nd week of school):

The sweetest group of kids!

We are gonna have so much fun in 2nd grade!