Family Reading Night

Our Family Reading Night "We are Thankful for our Families" was a huge success. I am so proud of Will, Braden and Nate for their outstanding performance in the reader's theater. Thank you to all who attended. After the presentation, families shared a snack of pumpkin muffins and juice, made a Thanksgiving glyph, listened to a story read aloud, and browsed the shelves of the book fair. Each child went home with a free book!

The Second Grade Reader's Theatre "The Meal Must Go On!"

Nate wrapping it all up

mmmm, the food all looks good for this meal

Will the turkey  in the "refridgerator"

25 Point Club WOW!!!

Will Pitchford is our FIRST student to become a member of the 25 Point AR Club.
Way to Go Will.

Star Student and 10 point Club

Star Student Hunter Beaulieu

Congratulations to our new 10 point Club Members

Emily, Zander, Baylee, Braden F, Josh M.

Dakota, Peyton, Summer, Jessica, Cameron

Math Facts

Congratulations to Braden, Baylee and Hunter for finishing all of their math addition facts 1-10!

We Voted!

Last week ACPC held a presidential debate featuring Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. We are lucky enough to have Barack in our pod. Elijah is a student in Mrs. Blevin's class. Barack (Elijah) spoke to the student body at morning meeting on Friday promising yummier healthy lunch options if re-elected. 

Yesterday we were able to cast our votes on real ballots. Students cast their votes and fed their ballots into the scanner that Mrs. Sarah Constant brought to school. 

The winner of the Presidential Election at ACPC...

The Ballot

Mitt Romney

Is this a accurate predictor for the real election? I guess we'll see.

10 Point Club additions

Braden, Baylee, and Mary-Grace have earned 10 points in Accelerated Reader
Way to Go!

Compare and Contrast

Today we learned about comparing and contrasting with Skittles and M&Ms. We wrote our findings on a Venn Diagram and then ate all of the evidence,

Fire Prevention

Last week we had the Fire Department visit for Fire Prevention week. The students learned what to expect if a fireman would need to come to your house for rescue.

Everyone also got a good laugh when Mrs. Pedigo dressed in the fire fighting gear.

Math Fun!

Fishing for math facts 

Playing doubles and doubles plus one Go Fish

Addition Quizmo!

Star Students

This weeks Star Student is Joshua Hatcher!

Last week on October 16 was Jessica Moore.

So far this year our list of Star Students is 

Emily Strode, Dakota Davis, Mia Williams, Will Pitchford, Mary-Grace Farley, 

Jaxon Baldwin, and Jasmine Perry

Great Start Back!

I'm not sure how excited the kids are to be back in school but they sure made a good showing yesterday. No one pulled any cards AND we earned extra recess by getting 2 compliments yesterday! Everyone had lots of good stories to share about fall break. I can't say I was happy about having to get up in the morning but the kids made it worth it.

Story Elements

S=setting  T=Talking Characters  O=oops! there's a problem  R=Resolution  Y=Yes! the problem's solved.
STORY helps us remember the elements of a story.

Working in pairs or by themselves, everyone read
Anansi and the Talking Melon and mapped out the
story elements.

The students enjoyed reading 
Hooway for Wodney Wat
to learn about story elements.
Wodney becomes an unlikely hero to solve the class' problem in this delightful story.

Working with a partner makes work fun!

Some students choose to get comfortable
and work on their own.

We like this story!

Happy Birthday!

This month we celebrated with Will and Hank as they both turned 7. Happy Birthday!

10 point Club is getting full!

We have 3 students that have been inducted into the 10 point AR Club this week.

Congratulations to Will, Mia and Jasmine! Keep it up!

Mrs. Devillez visited our classroom today to teach a lesson on self control. She will visit our class once each month. The kids are always excited when Mrs. Devillez comes.

The students all made a "self control remote" to help remind us ways we can control our actions .

Hunter works on his self control remote

Jasmine makes a "walking" button for her remote

First Inductee into 10 point AR club

Congratulations to Jaxon for being the first student in the class to earn 10 AR points. 

Jaxon has assured me that I will walk in a 100 point parade this year!

Friday SPARKLE!

The competition is really heating up in this room with SPARKLE! I'm having to find some pretty hard words for the end of the game. Keep up the good work! Here are the winners lately.

Winner: Hunter
Runner up: Jasmine

Mia-Winner!
Will-Runner-up

Keep Studying
those spelling Words!

It "pays" to be good

The students are racking up those Class Dojo. Many students have already traded their first 10 points. This is a real motivation for the kids and I am very pleased with how hard they are working to earn points. 

Working hard with our shoes kicked off! This is our most popular prize.

 So far we have earned points for turning our homework finished and on time(without being asked for it), following hallway procedures, missing zero on morning work and not pulling a card all day. Keep up the good work!

Learning is even more fun when you get to sit at the teacher's desk!

PTO Membership Drive and PIZZA!

Please take the time to join our school PTO. The Membership drive information was sent home with your child. Anyone can join; your family, your church, your dog...well maybe not the dog but it was worth a shot. the classroom with the most members will win a PIZZA PARTY! So go out there and bring in those members. Just tell them Mrs. Powell's favorite food is pizza.

We've been busy!

I can't count the number of times I have opened the blog to write a post, only to be pulled away from the blank screen by a torn book page or a paper cut crisis. This is not including the two times I clicked wrong and deleted everything I had done. Arrrrgh! Never a dull moment, that's for sure. Nevertheless, we have been busy this week and the students have really helped me with remembering things when the craziness seemed to get the better of me. I would like to apologize for last week's spelling test. It has been graded since Tuesday, and...they have never made it off my desk. They will go home today and hopefully today's test will be with it.

Tasting Grapefruit

Last week we read Poppleton and the Grapefruit from our reading book. This is a funny story about a pig who desperately wants to like grapefruit because he heard on TV that it would make him live longer. The only problem...Poppleton HATES grapefruit. It has been my experience that a lot of the students have never tasted grapefruit when we read this story. So, on Tuesday we did just that. we looked at, smelled, and touched our grapefruit in order to write good descriptions of them. Finally we took a bite! Wow! The kids had some really good ways to describe the way it tastes! Below you can view a video of our experience.

Math Masters!

We continue our study of numbers up to 1000. This past week we have worked on expanded form. We will have a test over Unit 2 that includes expanded form on Monday!

hard at work making numbers in expanded form

working with partners to help each other

our cool way to help us understand expanded form and check our work!

Scholastic Book Order

Tomorrow I will be sending home our first Scholastic Book order of the year! 
All orders are due by September 24th . You may choose to place your order online by following the link below. Just enter  L88F2 when it asks you for the class code. Ordering online earns our class additional free books and gives you access to books that aren't in the flyer being sent home.

If you choose to order the traditional way by sending the flyer back to school please send correct change if using cash and be sure to make checks payable to ACPC with Scholastic Book Order in the for line.

Click here to order

Fall School Pictures

Fall pictures will be September 19th. Please try not to dress your child in green, as the photographer uses a green screen for background images. We will not have class pictures this day, only individual.