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

This past week...we had some Halloween Fun!!! It was so fun to see the students dressed up for Halloween...and I am so grateful for the wonderful Mother Helpers who put on our Halloween party for us!!! You are all awesome!!!! We also had some great science experiments this past week as well....

And we had a School Student of the Month for October....

Congratulations Cambree!!! And of course...we lost another tooth....

And also had a "Star of the Week"....

 The past week in Mrs. Spencer's Class.....

 

We lost more teeth......

We had more GREAT Science Projects!!!

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

And...most importantly (according to the kiddo's)...we had the first Snow Fall!

 

Upcoming Items....

Box Top Contest...please send in your box tops this week!

Reflections Contest Entries are due November 1st!

Halloween Parade is on Halloween at 9:00 am!

A Fun Week....

This past week was a lot of fun....

We had "Parent's and Pastries"...It was so fun to see all of the kiddos come with their parents to read books and have doughnuts!

We also had a great "Look Who's a Mathematician"....

Hyrum's mom showed us how she uses math to do Quilting!

We had some more great science experiments!

We had some "Star's of the Week"

And we had to say good-bye to a classmate who is moving :(

Good luck Madisyn!!! We love you and will miss you!!!

Back to School Again....

I hope that everyone had a great Fall Break!!! I know that I did :-) I was very glad to get back to school though and to my sweet second grade class! Here is a few of the highlights we had from our short week before Fall Break....

We had Bridger's mom come to do our "Look Who's a Mathematician". She works in a pharmacy and she showed the students how she uses math every day in her job...particularly how she counts by 5's!

She then allowed the students to get to try counting out skittles by 5's and then placing them in a bottle. The bottle was labeled with what the students learned about prescriptions and how and when they should use them. It was great! Thank You!

The students who had read over the required monthly amount during the month of September also got to be put into a drawing for some great prizes. These two lucky students got a new furry pet!

And we had a birthday over the weekend!!! Happy Birthday Madison!!!

*Note to parents....Tomorrow is Parents & Pastries from 8:00-9:00 at the school. Your child will be coming home with a note about it today.

Also: The PTO Book Fair is going on in the Gym this week. Please stop by if you can and look through the books with your child.

Thanks!!!