Miss Missouri

Miss Missouri visited Long today and met with the students to share her book Diversity.  

Caterpillars!

Our caterpillars have turned into their pupa (chrysalis) at first the caterpillars were 1/2 inches long.

Monsters!

Today we learned about adjectives and heard the story I Need a Monster on storylineonline.com

Now we are creating our own monsters to use in our descriptive writing project.

Social studies

Morning meeting

Jude's favorite book

N-Jude what's your favorite book?

J- Inspector Flytrap

N-That sounds interesting. Can you tell me about it?

J-sure. It has a sloth in it and a penguin that runs his own restaurant.

N-Thank you for telling me all about Inspector Flytrap

Water is so powerful!

The students have been learning about the power of water.  We were wondering how can alter create a canyon in the Earth.  Today we built a model to help us see how water can impact the landscape.  They simulated 4 rainstorms and observed the changes in the land.  Some groups had holes form in the land.  Others had washout!  

SeeSaw

Today we used SeeSaw to share our understanding from our #MysteryScience investigation earlier this week! 

Mystery science: If you float down a river, where will you end up?

Today we did started our first investigation!  The students  worked in partners to build a mountain model.  They found the rivers of the model and then it began to rain!  Students watched the rivers flow down the mountain.  They had so much fun!  #mysteryscience #scienceisawesome

Question with Alecia

N-how is it like to be in Mrs.Anthes 's class

A-it's good to be in Mrs. Anthes 's class

N-what grade are you in Alecia

A-I am in second grade

Writers workshop

Personal narrative at writers workshop

Tuesday in Room 18

Today we began talking about our 'why.'  Why do we come to school? Why are we here each day? The students worked in groups to think about their why.  Then we came together as a class.  Three ideas repeated: learning, friends and thinking about the future.  From these 3 ideas our next step is creating our class mission statement. 

we also worked on establishing our classroom expectations.  Again students worked in groups thinking about what we need to be successful.  Based on those ideas we continued to discuss and combine until we were left with the top 5 things that should be in place to help room 18 be successful and run smoothly.

Finally, we began practicing reading workshop and selecting reading spots around the room. 

First Day of School 2017-2018!!!!!

We are having a great time getting to know one another.  One of our activities was building the tallest tower.  Each person could use only their 2 pointer fingers to touch the cups! This was a blast to observe and the students learned a lot from the experience. 

Rader's Theater in library

Today I had the pleasure of listing to Mudball  read as a reader's theater!  They did a great job! 

Practicing poetry line breaks

All of the students worked with a partner to set line breaks for the same poem.  They were learning how line breaks impact the the way a poem is read and comprehended by others.

Making iMovies about States of Matter

Each group planned out which objects they would talk about.  In the video students were to tell what the name of an object, it's state of matter and describe a few properties of it.  For the first time using the program in class, each group did a great job!