Wow...We made it to the end of the School Year! I love all these kiddos so much! I hope you all have a GREAT Summer....
Here is a link to the Class video if you weren't able to get it to work on your own computer or DVD player!


Mrs. Spencer End of School Year Video

A Fresh New Start.....

Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a great Christmas Break and that we are ready to start the New Year!  We spent this last week learning about New Year's Resolutions. The students each made up their own New Year's Resolution as well.

We celebrated a birthday this week too!!!

And of course, there was a group of toothless kiddos that came back from Christmas Vacation...we keep the tooth fairy busy!

Again...Thank you so much for all of the wonderful gifts! I felt soooo spoiled. It was a wonderful Christmas and it was wonderful to come back to these kids! 

December News.....

December is upon us and we have had another busy week in our Second Grade Classroom....

We had two Student's of the Month for November.....

We had students share their Christmas traditions.....

We had a mom come and share a great Christmas book with us for "Look Who's a Reader"....

We went to the fifth grade Wax Museum...where we spotted some people that looked familiar.......

And we celebrated THREE birthdays in one day........

Happy Birthday to Molly, AubriRose and Preston!

Wow...that was a fast week.....

Wow, parents...last week went by so fast that I am still trying to catch up! I apolgize for being behind in the blog!

We had many fun things going on last week.....

We started it out with a Birthday!!!

Then we wrote some letters to Santa....

We sang to Mrs. Schmidt for her birthday!

We went to the 6th grades' Temples and Tombs Program!

And we had a Star of the Week!

We had a fun lesson on Idioms and read the book "Even More Parts". The kids were a hoot with this!!!!

*This week we are starting our Christmas Traditions Unit. The kids are already excited about all of the traditions we are going to be learning about. If you have had experience in another country and would be willing to come and share that countries Christmas Traditions with us...please let us know!

Thanks!

My Little Turkey's....

Last week was short, but we packed it full of many fun Thanksgiving Day Activities. We wrote about Turkeys and everything to do with them...

We also read the book...Sweet Dream Pie

and then made our own Sweet Dream Pies!

Overall it was a fun week with my little Turkeys!!!

November 25, 2012-Click on picture to see an album of our week!

We are back to business this week :-)
Also, remember that the Scholastic Book Orders are due this week...Here is the link to order online:
https://orders.scholastic.com/LCWQT
Plus...remember that I always put the weeks Spelling Words on to Spelling City...the link is on the right hand side of the blog or here it is:
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=10868029

**Coming up:
Next week we will be starting a new activity where we will be learning about our Christmas Traditions. Be thinking about what traditions you do as a family and we will send home more information very soon. Also if you have traditions that come from other countries  (or if you have lived/visited another country and have a Christmas Tradition you can share from the country...we would love to have you come into our class and share that as well)  More information will be coming soon....

Ready for a short week?

Yeah...I think we are all really ready for a short week! We will only have school for two days this week and we will be doing many fun Thanksgiving Activities!!! It will be so much fun! We won't have homework packets coming home this week. I am, however, going to send home book orders. They will be due on November 28th-so that we can get the orders in time for Christmas. The book orders are a GREAT way to get Christmas presents for your children and family. If you do order books and want to keep them a surprise from you students...just let me know and I will contact you when the order comes in so that you can get it without your student seeing it :-)  Here is a link to our class book orders....
https://orders.scholastic.com/LCWQT

There were several fun things we did last week.... One of the students favorite was an assembly where we had some "bike trick" people come and teach the students about bicycle safety and show them some awesome tricks...

Here is our class with the bike experts!  Here are a few links to videos I took of their performance......
http://youtu.be/iAhjM--uvZQ   and    http://youtu.be/qY8D5YxuTYI

But this was by far the students favorite.....The biker's jumping over Mrs. Killian and Mr. Huffaker....
http://youtu.be/YqWPzYzRCV8

 We also had our final Science Fair Project......

We had a cute "Star of the Week".....

And we had a cute Birthday Girl! 

And of course....another cute kid missing a tooth :-)

Club day, Veteran's Day and more....

We have had another exciting week in Mrs. Spencer's second grade! First of all we had a great Veteran's Day assembly and the children sang one of my favorite songs...here is a little video of it.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOMaAuKQg8&feature=youtube

We also had fun trying to do our club day service....planting bulbs in the front of the school. Some very hard ground and a "little" snow on Friday have put this on hold but as soon as we can see the ground again...we will plant those bulbs! Mrs. Wear's fifth grade class did their club day service with our class...they came and helped the second graders make Thanksgiving Poems. We also had some great moms come and help us this week as well. Molly's mom came and did our "Look Who's a Mathematician". She told the students about how their family raises pigs and how they have to use math in that process...very cool :) We also had Christian's mom come and share a cute monster story with the class for "Look Who's a Reader"! The kids all loved it! I am so thankful for the wonderful things that all of the parents share with my students! Here are some pictures of our week..... (Click on the two links to see picture albums of our week)

https://picasaweb.google.com/cal415/November112012?locked=true&feat=email#slideshow/5809752186310456114


https://picasaweb.google.com/cal415/November11201202?locked=true&feat=email#slideshow/5809756706125290130