Welcome to Second Grade!We had a wonderful first week of school here in Mrs. Bishop's Second Grade Class at West Parish! This blog is a place to get a glimpse into our classroom and see all of the fun things we are doing throughout the day. September 5, 2018: The First Day of SchoolWhat a fun group of kids! We are going to have a great school year together! Our first day was full of activities to get to know each other and learn about our school and classroom. Learning Rules and ProceduresTo learn more about the importance of following rules and procedures, we read a great book called Officer Buckle and Gloria. In this story, we were able to see what happens when rules aren't followed and why we should listen and take them seriously! When Officer Buckle doesn't come to a school to speak with his police dog partner Gloria, a banana pudding spill causes a series of rule breaking that leads to a huge mess! After finishing our story and sharing some of our own personal experiences about rules with each other, we took a tour of the school to see places that we will need to go and how to have proper hallway behavior. Class DojoOne of our classroom management plans that we will use in our classroom is Class Dojo. You can find a bigger explanation of how we will use this tool here: OUR CLASSROOM We had a great time looking on the computer and choosing our own Dojo monsters to represent us throughout our school year! Here we are moving our clips up for the first time on the clip chart! Our First Journal EntryEvery morning when we arrive, we will be doing a morning journal entry. Today we wrote our first entry! It said: "Today is the first day of school. My name is ____________. This is what I look like." We drew a picture of ourselves at the top of the page. Washing Away Our JittersEveryone can be a little nervous on the first day of school and have what we call "jitters." We read a great book called, First Day Jitters to show how students aren't the only ones that get nervous on the first day of school! There is a surprise ending to this book that left everyone laughing! Make sure to ask the kids about what happens at the end of the story!! There is also a fun poem that goes along with this lesson called "Jitter Juice." We read the poem together as a class and recited it a couple times while pointing out the rhyming words! We followed the poem by actually washing away our First Day Jitters with some jitter juice of our own! Then of course we had to make a picture graph to see who liked their jitter juice and who did not! September 6, 2018: The Second Day of SchoolWe came into the classroom on our second day of school, ready to practice our morning routine. We unpacked, grabbed our journals, and chose our seat for the day! West Parish Core Values: CAREIn our second grade classroom, we will be writing our own class rules. We started the process today by digging into the West Parish Core Values and talking about the acronym for C.A.R.E. Each letter of the word CARE represents a different word. We talked about each word as a group and then read a book called The Crayon Box That Talked. In this story, we learned about how important it is to work together and cooperate with one another in our classroom. After the story, we worked in groups to write or draw what each word of CARE looks like in action, then we presented our circle maps to the whole class! Our Reading CenterWe explored our reading center today and had a blast buddy reading! Making FriendsFriendship and community are such important parts of our classroom. We talked about how we should treat one another and how much it matters to treat each other with respect and kindness. We read the book How Full Is Your Bucket and talked about what it really means to take out and put in to someone else's bucket.
We did a fun "Find a Friend" activity after our lesson and learned a lot about each other! Graphing Our NamesWe read the book Chrysanthemum and turned it into a really fun graphing activity. We used Post-Its to create a HUGE bar graph on our whiteboard to show the different lengths of all of our names! This graph showed us how to compare and come up with our own information questions about a graph.
September 7, 2018: The Third Day of SchoolWe had a blast on our third day of school. We really enjoyed some crafting activities and writing our class rules today! Successful Second GradersWhat do second graders need to be successful? We worked together to come up with a list of things we need in order to have a great second grade year! We did a really fun craft activity by making our own list and then putting it on our own backpacks that we made with construction paper! Our Classroom AgreementsThis last few days have been leading up to us writing our own classroom rules. We worked together to answer 5 essential questions that led us into writing up our rules and then promising to follow them. Here we are writing and signing our classroom agreement! If you want to see our document, click the button below to go to the "Our Classroom" page.
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