Fall Fun

Welcome autumn! I love the beautiful changing leaves, cool crisp air, pumpkins and gourds, haunted houses, and delicious apple cider that come with autumn. We celebrated the first day of the new season with our Fourth Grade buddies from Miss Campbell's class on Friday. The students listened to a story and wrote acrostic poems about Fall.

Johnny Appleseed's birthday was on Saturday, September 26th. One of the Great Friday Afternoon Event teams performed a play about John Chapman's life in honor of him! Can you tell who played Johnny?

Every morning in Room 110, the first thing the Second and Third Graders do is read silently for about 30-40 minutes. Last week, they practiced reading with a partner. Reading to yourself is always fun. Last week, I saw that sharing a book with a friend is a special treasure! We sure are falling into reading. :)

In writing this week, we read a story called Miss Tizzy. Miss Tizzy reminded us a lot of Mrs. Piggle Wiggle because of her friendly nature and love of children. In the story, Miss Tizzy teaches the children in her neighborhood about true friendship. The Second and Third graders wrote about their friends last week. We worked on editing our work and adding many describing words and details.

In social studies, we continued to study maps and geography. The third graders learned how a distance scale works and used a distance ruler to measure from city to city.

In Second Grade science, the students finished their Insect Flip Books and they are now proudly displayed in our classroom and hallway.

Allyson was the Star of the Week. Allyson wanted to know... What is your favorite food? Each student wrote his or her favorite food on a post it and we sorted them on the food pyramid. Can you tell which food group was the most popular?

Edison was the Virtual Field Trip Planner. He took us on a spaceship to Pluto! We learned all about Pluto and its moons. Thanks, Edison, for an "out of this world" trip!

On Wednesday, a special pink fire truck visited our school. The teachers wore pink shirts and Mrs. Huisinga even sported a pink fireman's coat in honor of the Pink Heals Tour for breast cancer awareness. The kids sat during their lunch recess to listen to the firemen speak about their mission.