Immigration Simulation!

I'm sure your kiddos told you about their experience as a U.S. Immigrant traveling to America on a ship across the Atlantic, but here are the pictures to prove it! If you DIDN'T hear about the simulation, I urge you to ask your child about it--it was truly a neat learning experience! Enjoy the slide show from Smilebox!

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Engineering Station

Please visit the websites below to learn more about engineering and Rube-Goldberg and how you can create and build your own creative machines:

Rube Goldberg

PBS Kids Goldberger to Go

Tom's Trap-o-matic: Build a trap to catch Jerry!

Dynamic Systems Physics Game

FOSS Web's Rube Goldberg Burglar Catcher

Ed Heads Simple Machines Tool Shed

Simple Machines Learning Site

Have fun learning, creating, and engineering!

BRAIN BREAKS!

As you probably know, we recently began taking some "brain breaks" once or twice a day, where we get up and move around, dance, and act silly for 5 minutes or so.  Well, below you can find the links to these fun Brain Break videos that was put together by another teacher blogger!  The kids begged me to put these on the blog so they can do some of them at home, too!  :)

Click the links below to enjoy!

20 Brain Breaks from Teach. Train. Love

20 MORE Brain Breaks from Teach. Train. Love


Happy ALMOST Friday!  :)

Weather and Map Skills Websites!

While our weather unit has come to an end, here are some fun, interactive sites where your child can continue his/her learning!

E-Learning for Kids has a great game where you can practice reading the thermometer and predict weather:

Tony the Weather Forecaster

 Explore the 4 parts of the water cycle with Explorer Dan:

The Water Cycle

Ed-Heads has a game where you can learn how to report and predict the weather at the underground W.H.E.D. weather caves:

Weather Activities  

 
National Geographic has some Map Skills games:

Nat Geo Map Games

Lots of Maps Games--Try some out:

Maps Games


I hope these websites will provide you with some fun learning time, 2A kiddos!

Photos of our awesome Weather Lapbooks and 3-D U.S. Maps to come soon!

100th Day Fun!

We had a blast on our 100th day of school in 2nd grade.

I was so sad that we had several students out sick--we missed them and wish they could have been there with us.

Here are some pictures of all the work we did (fun work, of course)!

Create your own picture slideshow

Class Party!

Thanks to everyone who sent in items and helped out that day to make our party lots of fun!

The kids really enjoyed making their edible snowmen and opening their stockings!

Hope you all are enjoying your winter break and the snow! :)

Mike Artell, author

Mr. Artell visited our students today, and he is a funny guy! We enjoyed learning more about him, listening to parts from some of his books, and learning some tips on drawing.

We learned that he lives near New Orleans, Louisiana, and that he can talk in a great Cajun accent!

A great drawing tip Mr. Artell gave us is: "Don't draw what you know. Draw what you see."

Ten Tally Mark!

When our class does a great job at following directions or at doing a nice job in the hallways so other classes can learn, we earn a tally mark.

When we get to ten tally marks, we earn a class reward!

Sometimes we get to take off our shoes for the day, sometimes we get free time to play or draw, and today we are having a popcorn party!

Here we are watching our video and chomping away happily:

Mo Willems Day

Thanks to Ms. Fultz and her hard work, we had lots of fun celebrating author Mo Willems last Friday!

Johnny Appleseed

Check out our cool Johnny Appleseed art and writing!

We had lots of fun creating our portraits and scenery!

Be sure to check them out when you come in for conferences.

How to Draw a Penguin

Click Here to practice drawing penguins!


Ask your child to show you how to draw one! 

Free Crafts for Kids!

Lakeshore Learning Store, located off of 635 and the North Dallas Tollway, offers free crafts for kids on Saturday mornings beginning April 3rd. Ages 3 and up; No reservations are necessary.

Please see the schedule below if you might be interested.
Hours are 11:00-3:00 each Saturday.

April 3 Silly Bunny Puppet
April 10 Personalized Door Hanger
April 17 Earth Day Bag
April 24 Spring Picket Fence
May 1 Shady Sun Visor
May 8 Mother's Day Jewelry Holder
May 15 Mini Megaphone
May 22 Tear-Art Tambourine
May 29 Let's Play Tic-Tac-Toe
June 5 Summer Sunglasses
June 12 Portable Storage Pouch
June 19 Father's Day Notepad Holder
June 26 Summer Fruit Basket

Lakeshore Learning Store
13846 N. Dallas Pkwy.
(972) 934-8866

some fun back-to-school downloads.

Hey guys!

Just thought I would share some fun links I came across today:

Back to school sticker labels:

http://familyfun.go.com/printables/craft-templates/printable/bts-sticker-lables/bts-sticker-lables.html

(Print them out onto sticky printer paper for some fun labels!)

This book belongs to labels:

http://familyfun.go.com/printables/craft-templates/printable/bts-labels/bts-labels.html

Cute! Lunchbox survey:

http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-love-back-to-school.html

(Scroll down a little to see the survey--so cute!)

Lunch notes for every day of the week:

http://www.oliebollen.com/funstuff/index.html

Cute book labels:

http://www.oliebollen.com/funstuff/index.html

Hope you all had a great weekend despite the rain!

--Mrs. C.