Can You Explain the "d" in "Fudge?"

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...

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Journaling with the Dragonflies - Nov. 30th

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...

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What's Your Favorite?

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-oceanSound-trumpetTouch-animalsTaste-tater tot casirollPlease leave a comment - Taylor We are reading a story about e-pals my favorite senses aresight - a sunset  Sound – the seasmell -  perfumetouch – baby skintaste – ice creamwhat are yours ?Please leave a comment...

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Journaling with the Red Spiders - Nov. 28th

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...

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Around the World Champ (Again!)

 The competition is getting tougher, but Krysti still beat out her classmates for the title of Around the World Champion today!  The addition facts were much harder today, as we included all the facts including 12's!  Congratulations, Krys...

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A Visit from a Soldier

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 showed us some great pictures of his uniforms, his boot camp experience and a few from the mountains in Afghanistan! 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....

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Journaling with the Snails - Nov. 27th

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...

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Put Some Gratitude in Your Attitude!

The BUGS sure caught the Gratitude Bug this November! They did an awesome job sharing some of the things they are most thankful for!     &nb...

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Turkey Glyphs for Thanksgiving

We created turkey glyphs to represent our preferences for the Thanksgiving holiday!  We all enjoyed talking with each other about our plans and especially about our menu favorites!It is so fun to be unique!  (And a good thing, too, or there wouldn't be enough pumpkin pie for the rest of us!)&nb...

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Flat Stanley Came to Visit!!

Wow!  What an adventure!  Today I am in a second grade classroom in Paw Paw, MICHIGAN!  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!  After journals, the class practiced neat handwriting.... ...and then they did a spelling dictation sentence about Thanksgiving. ...

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Flat Stanley Came to Visit!

November 20, 2012Wow!  What an adventure!  Today I am in a second grade classroom in Paw Paw, MICHIGAN!  We are having such a fun morning together!  The kids started by writing in their journals (they were writing about making an invention for the playground!) then they did a spelling dictation sentence about Thanksgiving.  They wrote so neatly and carefully!  After they finished spelling, they went over the words, marking all the parts of speech and syllable types that they found.  Whew, these kids sure are smart! After...

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Journaling with the Ladybugs - Nov. 20

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&nb...

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Journaling with the Inchworms - Nov. 19th

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...

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Journaling with the Butterflies - Nov. 16

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...

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Journalling with the Bumblebees - Nov. 15th

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 HaileyI  celebrate Thanksgiving because we eat  turkey  and  we eat chicken for Thanksgiving. By Moises I go to my grandma’s...

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The Joy of Discovery

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...

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Journalling with the Dragonflies - Nov. 14th

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 ...

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The Challenge!

Larz was pretty proud that he could read "competition" in his library book this morning.  Cheyenne thought that was pretty impressive, too, but she was certain he couldn't stump her on a word.  He took his book and searched for another hard word and brought it back for Cheyenne to decode.  She asked for paper and pencil and set to her fish hooking.  After breaking the word into syllables, and remembing that "-sion" is an ending...

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Journalling with Spiders - Nov. 13th

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...

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Journalling with the Ladybugs - Nov. 9th

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  ...

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Journalling with the Inchworms - Nov. 8th

Topic:  Tell a story about a problem and a solutionOnce my friend Michael got in a problem because he didn’t follow what his mom said .by LarzOnce 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 LndyOnce I solved a problem by saying to my friend...

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A Special Visitor

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...

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Our Favorite Animals

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![wpvideo GIKHwsHS]Taylor's Favorite Animal[wpvideo sCno7SZT]Cheyenne's Favorite Animal[wpvideo hnQ0T38Z]Larz's Favorite Ani...

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Journalling with the Butterflies - Nov. 7th

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 ...

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Journalling with the Butterflies - Nov. 7th

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 TrevorI 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 ...

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Working on Math Together

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 sma...

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Journalling with the Bumblebees - Nov. 6th

Topic: Write about a time when you worked together with someone.    Well that is easy because I was at my grandma’s house on Monday with  my cusins. I love my grandma. I had  supper there. Me and my cusins played for a while. I had fun.     Working together is important.      Yesterday I worked  with Delaney.    By Taylor I had worked with Lars at math  together because he’s a good friend and we never play around when we do our math.I  had whent...

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Journalling with the Dragonflies - Nov. 5th

Topic: What does it mean to cooperate?I  one   time   cooperated    with  my   brother .  I   did   not   wont   cooperate   with  my    brother.  I   just  ran   from   him.  I   like  to  run   from   him  some   times .  I   like  to just   run  to  my   room  some  ...

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Journalling with the Spiders - Nov. 2nd

FREE CHOICE WRITE DAY!!!Once I had two cats we had them ever cense they where kittens and  one Died. It was sad .Evry  body is excited it is fun. By AudrieI  have  two  dogs.  Me  and  my  brother   both  have   fish.  We  got  them  on  today.  One  cat  I  feed  him. I  feed  ore   dogs  to.  My   fish  name  is  Ryleigh. by Phoebe.  I was a side that I got...

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Journalling with the Ladybugs - Nov. 1

Topic: Tell about a time when you solved an argument with someone.     I solved a argument last night because I rilly want to go outside but it was to muddy to go outside.  My brother Josh was being mean to me yesterday and we got over with it.     My friend Max was arguing about my other friend Roxy. They were arguing about they cant see out the window yesterday on Holloween. by Krystiana      A time when I solved  argument is when my twelve year old sister and my sixteen year old sister...

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Happy Halloween!

We had a great time celebrating Halloween in Room 18!  The BUGS transformed themselves into zombies, cheerleaders, vampires, Hulk, Mario, princesses, and even a couple butterflies!  We had a great time at the parade and party!  Lots of special grown-ups visited our room to celebrate with us!  We tried to stump them with parts of speech, and then we showed them how fast we can be at our math facts!  Congratulations to Lindy,...

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