Students working hard...

I wanted to post some pictures of the students. These were taken this morning. They are working hard. I did a write aloud in class today. This means that I wrote a story out loud and modeled writing to the students. My story was about my trip to the Washington D.C. Zoo. I told the students that I would post pictures from my trip to the zoo. We talked about pandas, elephants, and capyberas. We even read Hooway for Wodney Wat. It has a capybara in it. The students really seemed to enjoy it. We are finally getting used to our new schedule. We will have our first practice Spelling Test on Friday.

Testing...

I have to brag on the class. We took our first leveled Spelling test yesterday and everyone in the class gets to move onto the next level. I am so proud of them. This is the first time in 3 years that the whole class gets to move to the higher levels. It is really a wonderful accomplishment. Tomorrow we are starting a Think Link test which helps them practice standardized tests like the SAT10 test that they will take in March or April. We will be able to do 3 practice rounds before the real test. This should help those students with test anxiety. 3rd grade was able to complete these tests last year and there scores were amazing.

We all survived the first day!!!

Outside our class

Inside our class

Students' desks

We all survived the first day!!! The students were wonderful. We learned all of the rules and procedures at school. The Literacy Lab teacher and the G.T. teacher bragged on how well behaved they were for the first day of school. I am very proud of them. I feel truly blessed to have been given such a wonderful class. We will start the beginning of the year Spelling tests tomorrow. We are hoping to get them in their groups as soon as possible. When I receive all of the permission slips back for the blog I will start posting student pictures.

Open House

Thank you for coming to Open House! I really enjoyed getting to meet all of you. We are going to have a great year and we only have to wait three more days before our year begins.

Welcome to 2nd Grade...

Welcome to 2nd Grade!! We are going to have a lot of fun this year. There are some really great changes coming to our school and I can't wait to tell you all about them. School will be here before you know it and I am looking forward to meeting you. Our new adventure begins in just 5 more days!!!