Toy Day

 

Towers

 We built towers in science, using what we know about properties of solids.  The tower had to withstand the force of wind from a fan on high speed.

Birthday Fun

 

Last day of Virtual School, Friday May 22nd

Congratulations on completing 2nd Grade!  I am so proud of all the hard work you all have put into this year.  You worked through the online learning so well, and continued to learn even when we had to be apart.  I will always cherish our year together and all the memories that we made learning, and growing closer to Jesus.  Here is a Poem for you☺️❤️

Jesus Time-Watch Mr. Petzold's closing chapel live-streamed on the Trinity Website at 10:30 today.  If you cannot watch it at that time, it will be archived so you can view it at a later time.  Click on the  Trinity Website.  It will be about 15 minutes long.

Math-Pretend you and your BEST friend went fishing.  Go to Seesaw and do the Gone Fishing Activity.  Record the fish that you caught on the graph.

Writing-Go to Seesaw and write Mrs. Huff a letter so she can get to know you before you start 3rd grade. The activity is called End of the School Year-Letter to Next Year’s Teacher.  I will print them out and give them to her, or you can print it out and handwrite it.  If you handwrite it you can bring it to me when you come pick up your end of year items.

Shurley Review-Do the Adverb/Adjective Boom Cards on Seesaw.  When done do the Camp Learn a Lot Mad-Lib on Seesaw.

Reading/Social Studies-Listen to me read Little House in the Big Woods Chapter 10-11. There are still two more chapters left.   I will record the last two chapters on Seesaw for you.  You can listen to them when you have time, it does not have to done today.

Last thing to do this year is the Seesaw Activity End of the Year-I Had a Ball This Year!

Make sure to thank your parents for letting you make a tent in the house this week, if you did!  I hope you enjoyed some of the camping activities.

I can't wait to see you at our 1:00 zoom today to give you each an award, sing Happy Birthday to our summer birthday friends, and play a final camping game.  We will have a special guest join our meeting to congratulate you!

Make sure that you had a chance to watch our class imovie

Virtual School Thursday, May 21st

How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.  They cannot be numbered!  I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!        Pslam 139:17-18

Add to, and pray for each other on our prayer board.  Remember to keep each other in your prayers throughout the summer.  You can always come back to the blog and add more requests and continue to pray for each other. 

Prayer Board

Math-Go to Seesaw and do the Fluency Math Poem about counting money.

Pretend you get to go on a camping trip next weekend with your best friend.  The only catch is that YOU are in charge of planning everything out.  You will sharpen your math skills and get ready to plan out the BEST camping weekend EVER!  Go to seesaw and do the Camping Equipment Budget Activity.  You will have a budget of $100, and get to pick out camping equipment for your trip.  Use the directions on the Seesaw activity to pick out your equipment.  Have FUN! I'm excited to see what you pick out with your budget.

Reading-Do the Point of View and the Read and Response Activity on Seesaw from A Camping Spree with Mr. McGee.  If you want re-read the book, go back to the Seesaw activity and view it again.

Social Studies-Listen to me read chapter 10 of Little House in the Big Woods.

Writing-Watch the imovie of memories of  this past year by clicking on the link.  imovie  It is about 15 minutes long.  When you're done watching the imovie, go to Seesaw and watch the lesson on highlights from 2nd grade. The pictures below are from the lesson.  Finally, complete the 2nd Grade Camping Brochure Activity on Seesaw, it has two pages. The brochure will be given to my future 2nd grade class.  You will help get them excited for 2nd grade, I will give them your brochures before school starts next year.  You can complete it on Seesaw, or print it out and turn it in when you pick up your things from school.

Tomorrow at 1:00, we will have our awards ceremony on zoom, sing happy birthday to our classmates with summer birthdays, and if time play a camping game.  Can't wait to see you all!

Virtual School, Wednesday May 20th

I wait for the Lord to help me.  I trust His word.    Psalm 130:5

Continue to add to, and pray for each other on our prayer board.

Prayer Board

Listen and sing with Mr. and Mrs. Huff .

Reading-Do the Summary and Characters Activity on Seesaw from A Camping Spree with Mr. McGee.  You can watch the video of the book again from yesterday's lesson to refresh your memory.

Math-Lesson 129 Finding the Area of a Rectangle-Watch this  Jack Hartman’s Multiplication by 4 Song. You can also skip count by 4 using your 100’s chart. Count from 4-40 forward and backwards each day a couple times.When done go to class fact practice 129A.  Point to each problem and say the answer aloud. When done set your timer for 3 minutes and see how many problems you can complete.  If you don’t finish , complete the rest.  Have someone check your work.  Next go to Seesaw and watch Lesson 129, you will need lesson worksheet 129 A during the lesson.  Finally, do Guided Class Practice 129A, check your work on Seesaw.  Also do lesson worksheet 130-1, and shade in the multiples of each number. You can check this on Seesaw too. Congratulations, this is your last Saxon Math Lesson in 2nd grade.  We will have a camping math review for the rest of the year.

Writing-Go to Seesaw and do the Capitalization Boom Cards. After do the Seesaw Activity, Publish  My Amazing Tent Opinion Paper.  Make sure to have an beginning(introduction), middle(reasons) , and end(conclusion).  Also make sure to check your capitalization, punctuation, and spelling carefully.  I am excited to hear about your amazing tents!

Social Studies-Listen to me read chapter 9-10 of Little House in the Big Woods
Make sure you completed one of the Mount Clemens Timeline activities.
Check out Nora Grace's (a.k.a. 😉 Lauren Bacall)Historical Narrative.

Virtual School Tuesday, May 19th

Wait patiently for the Lord.  Be brave and courageous.  Yes, wait patiently for the Lord.               Psalm 27:14

Welcome to your last week of 2nd Grade.  I have some fun camping activities planned for this week!

Writing-Go to Seesaw and do the My Amazing Tent Activity.  Today you will be in the prewriting stage of writing.  You will read the directions and begin brainstorming and organizing your writing.

Math-Lesson 128 Dividing by 2-Watch this  Jack Hartman’s Multiplication by 4 Song. You can also skip count by 4 using your 100’s chart. Count from 4-40 forward and backwards each day a couple times.When done go to class fact practice 128A.  Point to each problem and say the answer aloud. When done set your timer for 3 minutes and see how many problems you can complete.  If you don’t finish , complete the rest.  Have someone check your work.  Next go to Seesaw and watch Lesson 126, you will need 20 pennies, or 20 of some kind of small objects.  Finally, do Guided Class Practice 128A, check your work on Seesaw.  Tomorrow will be your last Saxon Math Lesson in 2nd grade.

Reading-Go to Seesaw and do A Camping Spree with Mr. McGee Read Aloud Activity.  After listening to the story do the Key Details assignment attached to the activity.

Social Studies-Listen to me read Little House in the Big Woods Chapters 8-9

Finish Social Studies from Friday-Check out the Mount Clemens Timeline.  View it on fullscreen and pull the bottom blue bar over so you can see all the events. Choose one of the assignments to do from below:

1. Choose one of the events from the Mount Clemens Timeline.  Write a short historical narrative about the event and illustrate it.  In the narrative you will pretend you are a person from that time, experiencing what life was like in the past. You can use artifacts and your knowledge about how things were different from today.  The activity is on seesaw.

Alana's Example of a historical narrative

2.  Create a picture book of the history of Mount Clemens using 6 events or more.  Make sure to have a caption and and illustrate for each event, and that it’s in chronological order(past to present time).  I will repost the timeline activity on seesaw that you could use, you could take pictures of your drawings to illustrate each event or pull pictures off the internet to go with each event. 

If you do not use the Seesaw Activities, you can do the assignments in your writers notebook if you would like, and send me a picture through Seesaw of your completed assignment, or your parents can email or text me a picture of it.  You can work on it Friday-Tuesday.  I would like them completed by Wednesday.

Spanish-Hola clase!  I am so super proud of all your hard work learning español from home!  I hope and pray you have a wonderful summer break and I can't wait to see you next year!

Here is one last story to listen to.  Do you hear any words that we have learned this year?

https://youtu.be/oQtDIhxAgoo
I attached the Spanish Community Riddles Worksheet onto Seesaw.