| Today, during the Otter Assembly, our class shared information about our service learning project to raise money to help provide nutritious school meals for our friends at Circle of Peace School in Uganda. Everyone was REALLY was really excited to learn that for $1 they can help the second grade raise money for Circle of Peace School AND have a uniform vacation day on Friday, April 28. |
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The children truly enjoyed our read-aloud today, Mo Willems' hilarious new rhyming picture book, Nanette's Baguette. The book follows Nanette on her first solo trip to the bakery. But . . . will Nanette get the baguette from baker Juliette? Or will Nanette soon be beset with regret?The setting of the book is a French village. After listening to the book, the children got to experience the smell of a warm baguette, the sound of the "crack" when a baguette is broken into pieces, and the taste that Nanette couldn't resist (with a little jam). We also watched the short video below that shows Mo Willems making the handcrafted-paper-modeled village he used in the illustrations. One of the skills we have been learning in our current math unit is graphing, and there is no better way to practice graphing just before Easter than jellybean graphing! Each child received a muffin cup full of jellybeans and sorted them by color, counted them, graphed them, and then answered a variety of questions requiring them to interpret the graph and use their addition and subtraction skills. The graphs were GREAT and the children really liked being able to eat a bean here and there and take the beans that they graphed home to eat -- a very tasty treat! |
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April 2017
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