Topic: Tell about the best gift you are GIVING to someone this holiday season.
One thing I am giving someone is from the gift shop it is for my brother I got my brother a pen last year. This year I am getting him a cool toy I think he will like it I hope he will like it this year. I am getting my mom and my dad something this year I think my mom and dad will like it to. – by Audrie
One thing I am giving to my sistr this year is my love and hapenis to her this year. By Nick.
Topic: Write about how you can be generous this holiday season.
I was genares by like giving my friend sum of my toys zombie I gave him one of my zombie toys. My friend gave me a toy I said ok. My sister said she would give me a thing that scwerts out water. I would give her a lot of poky mone cards and sum cards with a sweley on the back it is black brown. I woud trade a difrent Ethan his last name is I for got it. But my sister said she would give me a poky mone card that the life is six hungrent and thrddy life. Then I would give her sum money like a tow dollars to day. Now I will give my mom a lot of stuff but my mom and my dad will only open tow presents. By Payton
I was genaerous to my friend for giving some of my play toy to him. I also gave three tops we wer playing with at school at recess. I play with my friends some of the time I gave water to him. He gave me water for being genaerous to him to. I gave my friend a leaf that looked pretty awesome to him to. I like it wen peple are genaerous to me to. I some times eat with my friends at lunch By Sam
When I was generous I gave my brother a painted rock. I have a rock painting set. So I gave my brother one. I also gave my mom one and my stepdad. I gave my mom and my stepdad one along time ago. I gave my brother one for his last birthday. I gave my brother the last painted rock. But I asked for another one. The end. By Cheyenne
When I was generous I gave my mom a gift of love from my heart .Then I gave my dad a gift from Walmart . Then I gave my brother a toy box he liked it. Then I gave my granmpa a gift of joy . Then my friend Cheyenne got a hair dresser. Then Sam got a funny animal . kalab got a life time gift .Zake got a friend ship braslet . By Lindy
Every week, we spend time having friends give us some suggestions on how to make our writing better before we turn it in. This week, Cheyenne and Delaney had a great conversation about more than just fixing periods and capitals. They were talking about adding details, adjectives and prepositions to make the writing more interesting for a reader! Great job working together, girls!
Topic: Write about an animal that goes hunting for its prey
Once I saw a cheetah hunt an animal. It was on Netflix. The cheetah cetched a monkey. It was cool to see. It was danger for the baby cheetah. It was nice for the baby cheetahs to go home. That is nice. I was happy. I saw a bat eat a mouse. It was gross. I am never seeing it a gen. By Dominick
Once a time there was a cheetah and that cheetah ate a pig I said that I was so sorry for your sister is in a good please. I am so sorry for your lost one I said to the pigs crying. And then all of a sudden I herd a big ss it was a snake NO please to not eat a another Animal so he walked away ya evry one yeld you saved my town you are a hereow .By Kourtney
A animal goes hunting. It can hunt for fish or deer. The animal can also eat pig and other animals .If your pet ran awayyou might findhim – by Phoebe
Topic: WaCkY WeDnEsDaY WrItInG! - We rolled two story cubes today and came up with a woman going in a room and dice. Let's see what stories the kids created with their imaginations!
I will write a story. A girl is walking into her mom’s and dad’s room maybe. A dice is in someone had and they are getting a roll maybe.A girl is walking in her room to get a toy for her brother to Play with.
That is my story about wacky Wednesday writing this is fun. By Ryleigh.
A girl walk in a casino with a dice to gamble the .Casino name is for winds is the name of the casino. She play dice games at the casino. - by Jack
A girl walks in her room and finds the dieses on the floor and picks them up and she puts them in the corret order. The girl went in side the Italy Casino and she played with the other people in the casino. - by Moises
WaCkY WeDnEsDaY WrItInG! Today we tried something new! We rolled two of our story cubes to give us a story starter! Today we rolled a clock (that said 4:00) and a footprint. The students had to write a story using those two things! They were so creative!
My story about my wacky Wednesday .At four o ..clock they saw a foot print out side of the door way they where scared they tiped toe away very fast and they ran to the phone and called the 911 and they came to the house. They found the foot print they looked at it for a secened and they looked .he looked at the peoples foots they said I don’t know who it is . The people stared at him they left the room and they cry .They din’t like him at all they said thank you he left the house .They sat down and they cry hard as they can they stopped crying and they left the house and they moved out of the house . by Lindy
My story is about a clock that found foot steps on the ground. He sied I will find the crock sied the clock. I will like to find him if the crock is if is far are low. I will look left are right sied the clock . So the clock ran to the end of the track. The clock was looking in the middle of the window he saw a crock with a cat in his hands. Wen the crock looked at the window he came down the sament. By SAM
Once upon a time there was a clock that was at four a clock. It had a foot on it that was kind of wacky. I was about to say what kind of clock is that. My mom said I don’t know what kind of clock that is. I lighted because it is a combnashon of a clock and a foot print. My mom said are you shar about that. I said yes I am shar mom because the foot is on the clock. My mom lighted because she thaut that somewan stepped on it. By Cheyenne
Topic: Write a letter to someone you care about
I love Miss Wilson and you are the best teacher that I could ever have in my hole intire life and I love you so much. I love my family because you guys are the best family that I could have because you do things for me and I do things for you. By Krystiana
I love my mom. She loves me too! She loves me so much. That it is hard to explain. She is in my family too! So I get to see her every day! I am glad my is in my family. I need my mom in my family. She lives with me also. That is my story about my mom. By: Taylor
When I was at my Grandmas house I wrote a letter it said Dear Grandma I love you. By Megan
When I was three I wrote a letter to my mom . It said : Dear mom , I love writing to you and all that lovable stuff love Delaney like that . but when I got older I started not doing it so I don’t do it anymore . It was fun !! Do you do it to your family ? You should do it if you don’t ! I’ll give you a hint if you put the word love in it your mom would smile. By- Delaney
The BUGS can!! We have been learning about double letters and why we use combinations like -dge, -tch and -ck. Could you explain these patterns?
We all know about using a -ck in words and could even tell the difference, but how many of us realize the rule? What is the difference between "backing" and "baking"? It's the vowel sound, isn't it? We use -ck when we want the vowel to keep saying it's sound, even when we add an ending. That's how we keep "tacking" from being "taking", etc.
The letter 'g' is tricky to double, however. If we doubled it, according to the Super Secret Stealer G Rules (see previous posts) the first g would make the /g/ sound like in "jug". So try to say "fudge" with a /g/ sound followed by the /j/ sound. It doesn't work very well, does it? Because the 'g' can't do the job, we ask the tongue stoppers to come help us. The tongue stoppers are /t/ and /d/ and we use the /d/ before a /j/ sound (like in "fudge") because it is easier to say two noisy sounds in a row than one quiet and one noisy. To put it in "parent terms", it's easier to say "fudj" than to say "futj".
The trouble is, when our language was created, a whole mess of sounds weren't considered for these rules. If a sounder vowel is followed by the /m/ sound, or the /b/ sound, for example, the word isn't ready for the ending! For example, the word, "run". When we make it "running" WE have to add the second 'n' or our vowel will say it's name! We do this for many of our words! Grab- grabbing, plan- planning, hum-humming. It is important that students learn the rules, and what sounds have protection already, so they can recognize when the word needs their help to keep the vowel safe!
Whew! That's a lot to cram into one blog post! If you have any questions, you can start by asking your child to help! They are amazing at this! If you still don't understand, I'm happy to give a much more detailed (and slower) explanation!!
Topic: Free Choice Write!
Yesterday I got a new book .The book is call Haunted Cassle on hollows eve .I have read some. – by Phoebe
Tomorrow my uncle is coming to my house. I like my uncle. He can hook my Xbox360. We play Call of duty Mw3. I like that game. It is fun. I do campaign. By Dominick
Today if I be good my dad and my 2 mom will take me and my brothor to a Christmas prade. My daddy said there will be cookies and hot choclet. Yummy my brothor will prolble not eat anything. And tomorrow we are going agin. By kourtney
In our reading group today, we read a story about e-pals who shared with each other what their favorite things were for all five senses. We wanted to ask all of you for your favorites, too!
We are reading a story about e-pals my favorite senses are:
sight-ocean
Sound-trumpet
Touch-animals
Taste-tater tot casiroll
Please leave a comment - Taylor
We are reading a story about e-pals my favorite senses are
sight - a sunset
Sound – the sea
smell - perfume
touch – baby skin
taste – ice cream
what are yours ?
Please leave a comment Delaney
What are your favorite sight, sound, smell, taste and touch? And I’m talking about all of you in the hole world! People from the country, North Pole and Africa. - By krystiana
Topic: Write a story using the words, "photo" and "plane".
Once I was on a plane to go to Arezona beckaus my Unkle Rick lives in Arazona so when we got done there we flue back home it was a fun trip .The next day we whent to get a photo. By Audrie
I yust to like a plan like me and my brother bild like a bed we haved are old bed fron are ant conny. I put photos to my granpa when he lives in celforn. I was on a plan in a town that is very far like hawiey is far but it is not that. So I mist him. My other granpa he was in a plan he saw us and we wer like a little ant he said yep. But I put photos like I said I missed you I have not seen you like for a month now he said I missed you to. When my sister was in dekader I rited a letter that said wer have you been she said with my dad Trevor then I said ok I get it now you are in dekaed she said yes. So I put my letter to my sister Kyra I said good by Kyra she said good by Payton good by. So my brother Brayden he lives in a town that is very big with a lot of people he said byPAYTON.
A photos is A pixor and A planes is samping you fliyin to go playsis. By Nick
Ryleigh's Uncle David is a Marine, just recently home from Afghanistan. He came to visit our class today and to answer some questions about being in the Marines.
He was very patient with all our questions! He told us that he has to do a lot of writing as a Marine; filling out reports and records and so forth. He says his spelling and penmanship is really important! He also said he has to do a lot of math every day!
Thank you, Lance Corporal David, for sharing your time and experiences with us today! We are so thankful for all that you do for us!
Topic: Tell how we communicate with other people.
Me and my friend Joey me and him can communicate he speks different aksens . Me and my sister can communicate we talk like her she has a funny aksent . Me and my Grampa Joey can communicate with me . Me and brother Geogony can communicate together . Me and my friend Aj can communicate together . By Lindy
We communicate with other people because we share are ides with people. We can tell other people what we are thinking about. We can also communicate with other people by telling people if they want to play with them. If they want to play with them the prsen that asked them and they said yes. So if you want to learn how to communicate ypu want to read this. By Cheyenne
I communicate with my friend out on the play ground. I some times communicate with my brother at my house. I play with communicateing out side with my friends. I like to play out side with my friends to play with me. I also communicate with people that need me to help them. I shuld help people get help wen they need me to help them. I stile help people that need me. By sam
One day me and my friend wrote a note to eachother because we are very good to eachother. One day me and my friend were writing notes to eachother one day that Is my other best friend to each other all the time. One time me and my other best Friend wrote a note to each other because we are nice like that all the time. m And my other best friend wrote a note to each other because we want to Nice to every one always. By Trevor
We are having such a fun morning together!
The kids started by writing in their journals. Some of the kids got to post their journal entries on their class blog, so I thought it would be fun to blog, too!
...and then they did a spelling dictation sentence about Thanksgiving. They wrote so neatly and carefully! After they finished spelling, they went over the words on the board, marking all the parts of speech and syllable types that they found. Whew, these kids sure are smart!
After spelling, the kids went to Gym where they ran around like crazy kids! They had a quick snack after Gym and then went outside for recess. It is about 40 degrees here today, so they put on their winter coats. No snow yet, but they say it is coming this weekend! Brrr!
When the kids came back in from recess, I told them my story. They were very interested in how I got so flat and the adventures I've had!
Then they played a game called Apples to Apples. It’s a cool game that helps them practice using adjectives with their nouns! There was a lot of giggling and working in teams! At 12:15, the kids headed home for the day. They had a half day today for parent-teacher conferences. They are on vacation for the rest of the week to celebrate Thanksgiving. I can’t wait to have some turkey!
Until my next adventure,
Flat Stanley
From North Fort Meyers, Florida
November 20, 2012
Topic: Write about an invention you could use on the playground
I would invention a stamp that on ever ones paper in are class room. They can say like a dog as a stamp or a cat anything they want. A star a rocked ship it will be so cool .I would like a dog and a rabbit and a cat or a kittin. We are the bugs so I will have to get some. – by Kourtney
Topic: Write about what makes you unique.
I am unique because I am different from ather peple . I love to play Hide and Seek and go see dauphin . I love to go to the movie at Kamazoo Ten . also I love to see Santa Claul at the latin mall . Also going to Makedonl in paw paw town . I love watching football and soccer and racer . I love Taylor Lautner from twilit bracing dawn . by Lindy
I am unique because I am different than other pole and I like how that is. I am also unique because I like to color and other pole don’t like to color. I am also unique because I like to play with my barbys and some pole hate barby ‘s. By Cheyenne
Topic: Friday Free Choice Write!
Me and my dad like to work all day becus we want are Musels to be big all the time. Me and my mom like to hug all the time becus I love my mom. Me and my dad Like to make all the stuff that my mom wants all the time becus she is always Hungry. Me and my mom like to lay with my mom all the time becus I love My mom she is knice all the time. Me and my dad like to play ketch withThe football all the time becus we always becus we like to. By Trevor.
Today I am going to my Grandma home and that is going to be so much fun today.
I like going to school because you do a lot math and you have so much fun.I love Miss Wilson she is so nice to us and she is good at math. Today we are going to have so much fun today with Miss Wilson a lot. That is my story today. By Ryleigh.
Once I played with me teacher dog Eli. I love dog ,s her dog is the best dog ever .I sa the at is the best dog I ever sol in my hoi in tieriif . by Ethan
I have too sister name Kaelee and Sarah and.I have too berather name is Dkodu and Matt. Me and Matt and me played hide and sec and he is fore yers old and it is owas good. I played with my sister and we do flashcers and thay owas win so mach. By Shayla
Topic: What are some special things you do to celebrate Thanksgiving?
What are some things you do for Thanksgiving ? EASEY I cook than I invite people over. -By Hailey
I celebrate Thanksgiving because we eat turkey and we eat chicken for Thanksgiving. By Moises
I go to my grandma’s house on thanksgiving. It is fun at my grandma’s house. I love thanksgiving. I play with my cusins on thanksgiving. We go to my mom’s mom. Which is my grandma. We eat turkey for thanks giving there. By Taylor
Sometimes I go to TJ Fridays and my dad says we will have turkey . We’ll will also have a side of gravy and soup Chicken noodle ! My family will be there to ! Also at my mom’s I go to my grandma’s and my grandpa will be there ! Also at my other grandma we will go to I hop and eat yummy pancakes . By-delaney
We have been working on conjugating verbs into simple past, simple present and simple future tenses the past week or so in Room 18. (If you think that's impressive for second graders, just wait until the end of the year when they will be able to conjugate present continuous and past perfect tenses!) We've noticed the regular past tense ending of "-ed" can say three different things at the end of a word. Sometimes it says /t/, sometimes it says /d/ and sometimes it even says /id/. (We noticed that it never says /ed/!) Today, we started to investigate the pattern further, to figure out when it says each sound (we're all about finding the patterns and rules!) First, we noticed that the /t/ and the /d/ sounds are TWIN PAIR SOUNDS! The only difference in the two sounds is that one is quiet (/t/) and one is noisy (/d/)! Hmmmm...Then we noticed that when words end in a quiet sound, the -ed ending says the quiet /t/ sound. We found that when a word ends in a noisy sound, the -ed ending says the noisy /d/ sound! We were really on to something!
The class got really excited as we tried out the pattern. Sure enough, words that end with quiet sounds like "jump", "dress" and "back" all say /t/ when you add the -ed. (Try it! Say "jumped", "dressed" and "backed". All the -ed endings say /t/ don't they?) When we looked at words that end in noisy sounds, like "bag", "buzz" and "barge", they all say the noisy /d/ sound when we add -ed. (Try it!) Pretty cool, huh?
But then the BUGS got stumped. So when does -ed say /id/? Hmm...
The BUGS grabbed their books and started scouring for past tense words. They were on the hunt for the ones that say /id/ at the end.
They wrote down the clues they found and piled them up!
Look at all the words they found! Notice how all the -ed endings say /id/? Now to turn the thinking caps on and figure out WHY!
The BUGS spent some time on their own thinking...and then they got into pairs and thought some more and then some of their faces lit up and they danced around the room saying, "I know! I know!" They wrote down their idea and they showed it to me. They did a great job of discovering for themselves the pattern!
Words that already end in a "t" or a "d" always say /id/ when we add "-ed"!!! Of course, we couldn't leave it at that! We had to know WHY!!
Taylor shot her hand right up and won the Grand Prize of FIVE POWER PAWS when she realized that we cannot say a /t/ or a /d/ sound TWICE at the end of a word, so we have to say /id/! GENIUS!! (She wasn't the only one who realized it, just the first one to shoot her hand up!)
I am so proud of my BUGS for figuring out this puzzle today! They are all very Bright BUGS indeed!
Topic: Tell the special ways your family celebrates a holiday.
My family celebrates thanks giving. I do alot of stof on thanksgiving to help my family. I stele eat the trcy on the table. I also need a nacen. I also eat the rice on thanks giving. I also celebrate chrismis . I get a lot of stof on chrismis. By sam
My family celebrates Thanksgiving . I do it drifent than Sams Holiday. -by Megan
My family celebrates Chrisms difrent. I don’t know if it said Dominick or Thomas on the post card. I don’t know what my presents are. I don’t know if it is a car are not. I do it in the morning when my family is up. By Dominick
Topic: Write about your favorite holiday
My favorite holiday is thakegiving day because it rines me . A Indeein Teacher I wished he wad come a gen to teech me sum mover hunting I like hunting . by jack
I like Crismiss becase you can get toys a lot of. I want a guy that has a forwheeler. So a Smers with a big town. I Crismess it has Santa. Even a ipod my brother broke min. but Santa can get me eney than els he wans. my brother wants a zombie cadey guts that you can eat. My sister wants a puppy I sede you cant get it Santa can not make a puppy.I want to snow today but Santa might not get me what I want. My baby sister I think my baby sister willnot get nothing. But I will leve him a note sun cookies he will wite us a note to us. My friend he said he will get a playstay three mabb he will mabb he wont.Santa is the best. He rocks. Everone rocks so dos babys. MY baby is so cute I love her. So dos my family by Payton.
I like Crismiss beckause we get presents it is my favorite holaday I like it we get toys it is fun to play with the toys . I like playing and making snow angles.I like going on the forweeler we get to ride on the foor weeler it is fun. By Audrie
I love Thancs egiving it is because I get to see my family . I also like the fun. I also like it when you have family over. Maybe you could set games up. - by Phoebe
Topic: Free Choice Write!
Today is free choice and do you know what that mean’s? At the end of the day we will be doing a lot of fun! when we do that at the end of the day we will stack the chairs. Probaly my dad will ride his motor bike when he gets home from work today. On Fridays we will get to play so much games with our friends. By krystiana
My mom and my dad have a pom he is so cute. He is so soft and funny. He is peach and he as a black strip on his back. His name is Bear his nick name is Carbear. When we first got him I named is nick name. When I get home from school he gums on me . by Kourtney
Topic: Tell a story about a problem and a solution
Once my friend Michael got in a problem because he didn’t follow what his mom said .by Larz
Once I solved a problem by saying to my mom when me and my friend we had a problem at her house her doll was stuck . My sister and I got in a problem she lost her favorit staffer . My brother he lost is favorit shirt he was sad. Jack my friend he lost his ghost toy he was scared . By Lndy
Once I solved a problem by saying to my friend when me and her where fighting over something. I said to her that do you want to play tag with me. She said no I said why not. Well because I want to play frees tag. I said we need more players to play frees tag. I said how about school. She said I like to play school. By Cheyenne
On Friday, Jacob (Miss Wilson's high school son) came to visit our classroom (he didn't have school). Some of the BUGS remembered Jacob from last year and greeted him with big hugs.
Others met him for the first time and quickly realized - Jacob is quite huggable!! Jacob was a big help getting some materials printed off for assessments, but he took time out to play with the kids, too. He taught us how to play "Sad, Sad Day!" MMMMMmmmm Hmmmmm!!
We all practiced our narrative writing skills by writing a 4 or 5 paragraph story about our favorite animal (real or made-up). Larz, Taylor and Cheyenne all received perfect scores on their papers and were rewarded with the opportunity to record their stories! Click on the images below to listen to a part of their story!
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Cheyenne's Favorite Animal
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Larz's Favorite Animal
Topic: How can animals help each other?
I will tell you how animals can help each other A animal can help Each other animal like A zebra can help A nother zebra. – by Trevor
I will tell you how animals can help each other.
A animal can help a other animal by let it can let the other animal live with him that is nice to do.
A animal can share a pone with a other animal or two animal and tat will be a nice thing to do for a other animal. - By Ryleigh.
I will tell you about animals what help each other . Lins help each - by Ethan
I no a dog and a nath dog and thay so one dog help. - by Shayla
They get food for each othr and mor food wy dothay. - By Nick.
Topic: How can animals help each other?
I will tell you how animals can help each other A animal can help Each other animal like A zebra can help A nother zebra. – by Trevor
I will tell you how animals can help each other.
A animal can help a other animal by let it can let the other animal live with him that is nice to do.
A animal can share a pone with a other animal or two animal and tat will be a nice thing to do for a other animal. - By Ryleigh.
I will tell you about animals what help each other . Lins help each - by Ethan
I no a dog and a nath dog and thay so one dog help. - by Shayla
They get food for each othr and mor food wy dothay. - By Nick.
We've been working together to solve math problems. It's fun to find the clues inside the word problems. As word detectives, we know that if we see "all" in a problem, it means "ADD!" If we see "how many more than?" we "SUBTRACT!" We aren't going to let silly math problems trick us! We're too smart!
