Gingerbread House Celebration!

 

Room 9 has been doing a fabulous job of being safe, being kind, and doing our best that we filled our Champ Band bin AGAIN!!  We celebrated this time by making foam gingerbread houses as a culminating activity to our folktales literacy unit! The students had so much fun and they were super creative! Check out their masterpieces!

A Day in Room 9

 

Here is as video of what a day in second grade in Room 9 looks like. I made this for UMS Virtual Open House. Check it out!

A Day in Second Grade

UMS State Sponsored Snow Plow

 UMS has sponsored a VT State snow plow and it visited us today!!! We took our picture in front of our sign! Watch out for it this winter!

Conference Sign Up

               

Conferences are over zoom this fall and they will be held on Monday, November 22nd from 10:30 - 6:60 and Tuesday, November 23rd from 8:00 - noon.  Please sign up for 1 time slot per child.

Ms. Collins Zoom Conference Link

Pebbles, Sand, and Silt

We have been having so much fun with our science unit on rocks!!  We've learned that our earth is made up of rocks and that rocks can be weathered down into smaller sizes.  Today, we did a hands-on experiment to see if we could sort river rocks using screens.  We found out that the screens with big holes would catch the big rocks, the screen with medium holes would catch the medium rocks, and that sand easily goes through all 3 screens!  Here are some pictures from our lesson!

 

Starting with our river rock mixture.

Our first try sorting with the big-holed screen.

We were able to catch the medium sized gravel 

with our medium sized screen.

Our finished rock sort! We were successful!

Super Hero Day

UMS has done a fabulous job of filling our Champ Band bin!!! Today we celebrated with the whole school dressing up like Super Hero's!  Check out Room 9!

 

How Our Brains Help Us with Mrs. McCleary

We've been busy learning about the parts of our brain with Mrs. McCleary.  We've been learning that the different parts of our brain can help us control our emotions.  The students have been really interested in this topic and they've been doing a great job!! Ask your child all about their brain, and how they can calm down and control thier emotions.  Check out pictures from our lesson today! Thanks Mrs. McCleary!!