We have been busy!

My goodness! Where did November go?

We had a record turn-out for our Charlie Brown Thanksgiving themed family reading night.

Thank you to everyone who came out to join us!

This year we come back for only 12 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas break.Everything is going to start happening at once. Hang on! we'll make it together.

Happy Halloween

After the tables have been wiped down and the floor swept, it fees a little lonely after having so much fun at our Halloween party. We made our own light-up jack-o-lanterns, drank vampire blood punch, made dirt pudding, and wrap each other up like mummies. 

 

Thank you to everyone who helped make this year's party a success.

 

Racing to wrap up our mummy friends.

  
 

Happy Halloween from Mrs. Powell's second grade

Fire Prevention

October is National Fire Prevention Month. Last week we had a visit from Scottsville's Fire Department and Rescue Squad. 

Parent/Teacher Conferences

I will be available for conferences Tomorrow (Monday Oct. 21) 3:00-6:00 and Tuesday 4:00-6:00.

I will be seeing everyone on a first come, first served basis in 15 minute increments. I ask that you sign in as you arrive and wait in the chairs provided for your turn. I look forward to speaking with everyone about the great things we are doing this year in our class. 

We Won!

Thank you for all of your hard work on the SmartCard sales. Our class won first place! We sold the most SmartCards out of everyone in the school. Not only did we receive a Walmart Gift Card for our classroom, we also had VIP seats for the Magic Show last week.

 Summer and Andi even got to help out Mr. Dinky in his show.

Summer match the color cards using her AMAZING mind powers. 

Our next selling project is underway! This just happens to be one of my favorites!
Little Caesars Pizza Kits are for sale now to help us raise funds to renew the old playground in the back of the school. These kits are GREAT to keep on hand at home for a quick, easy and fun lunch or dinner. It will taste even better knowing you're helping out the school.
PLUS the classroom that sells the most gets a PIZZA PARTY!

Sailing our Ships

I tell the students that our motto for each day is "Be Better" In whatever we do I want them to always try to be better than they were before. Better than the year before, better than the day before, and even better than the minute before. As we all learn to live by this motto,it is important to understand that it is not how fast we are moving but that we are moving forward. I chose the quote about the ship to remind us that as long as we are moving, we will eventually get there but a ship that does not sail will eventually sink. 

I am so proud of the work the class has done so far. 

Getting "hands on" with expanded form

First you think about the 3 digit number

find the number on your cups

move each number out to see the value

And that's expanded form!

Sparkle! winners from Friday
2 time champion Madison!
runner-up Brantley

SPARKLE!

SPARKLE is a fun way to review for our spelling test. The kids ask to play every day. We did an AWESOME job on our first test last week The words will get harder in a hurry so make sure your child doesn't get into the "This is easy so I don't have to try mindset."
Today's sparkle winner was Madison, winning by spelling the word uncle. Runner up was Bricen. Way to go!

This week we finished up Unit 1 in Math: Numbers to 1000. We focused on place value and making numbers with base ten blocks. 

working out 3 digit numbers with rolling the dice game

Teamwork in action!

Tracking our thinking

We are learning that good readers don't just read the words on the page, but they also THINK a lot about what they are reading. During our 2 week introduction to Reader's workshop we are learning how to track the thinking we do during reading. Students use post it notes to leave them selves notes about what they have read. I've got some very good thinkers here in Powell's Paradise!