Megan's Mom Entertains Our Class as the Mystery Reader!

Thank You for Sharing Book! Book! Book!
by Deborah Bruss

Megan Enjoys Listening to Her Mother

Shantanu's Mom Shares an Old Classic, Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Shantanu Enjoys the Story

Thank You for Being Our Mystery Reader:)

Second Graders Work with the Attribute Blocks During a Geometry Lesson

Team Work!

Experimenting with Different Designs Using the Polygons that We Know

Looking Good!

Using Our Imaginations

Some Pretty Fancy Designs!

Mikolaj's Masterpiece!!!  See the Sun with a Cloud Raining Down on the Flower?!?!

Interesting Things Happen with Attribute Blocks!


Can your child identify the following?

Circle, square (4 sides of equal length), triangle (3 sides), rectangle (4 sides with 2 equal pairs of sides), pentagon (5 sides), hexagon (6 sides), octagon (8 sides), trapezoid (4 sides with 2 sides parallel), parallelogram (4 sides with 2 separate pairs of parallel sides), rhombus (4 sides...a parallelogram with sides of equal length) , quadrilateral (all polygons with 4 sides), cube, sphere, cylinder, cone, pyramid and rectangular prism?

Can your child explain...
vertices/vertex (points), edges (where 2 flat faces meet), faces (flat side of 3D shape), angles

solid figures (3D) versus plane figures (2D)

This unit has a HUGE amount of vocabulary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep practicing analog time...children are still not mastering this.  MUST PRACTICE BASIC FACTS-we are adding and subtracting 3-digit numbers with regrouping sometimes to the thousands place...and children who still count on their fingers are taking excruciating amounts of time to work through complex problems with inaccurate results.

xtramath on the computer takes less than 5 minutes per session, the students can do this independently and the results are proven successful...currently there are 3 out of 24 students who take advantage of this quick and easy program on a consistent basis.

We will continue to review regrouping in mixed 3-digit addition and subtraction problems when we return from April Break.  The last units focus on Money, Measuring Length in Metric and Standard Inches/Feet, and Analyzing Data by Reading Charts/Graphs.  Count mixed coins at home for practice: quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies and half dollars.


Enjoy your April Vacation One and All...See you in May!!!!

It Was a WHOLE TOMMY FAMILY EXTRAVAGANZA MYSTERY READER DAY! Yeah!!!

Tommy's mom shared Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss & What Do You Do With an Idea by Kobi Yamada

Tommy Listens 

So Does Sweet Baby Matthew!

Thank You to Simon's Mom & Charlotte's Mom for Teaching the First of 5 Junior Achievement Lesson in Conjunction with our Social Studies Unit:  Communities

We Learned About Who Works in a Community (Like Bethlehem) and the Many Jobs/Careers that We Can Have as We Grow to Adulthood!

This is...Officer Drew!

Answering Questions

Ready to Share Our Ideas

Second Graders Enjoy a Presentation from the Voorheesville Area Ambulance Staff in conjunction with two of our 2nd Grade Units of Study:  Communities/Service Providers (Social Studies) and The Human Body Shop (Health/Science)

Students Listen to What a Typical Day Would be like as a Trained EMT (Emergency Medical Technician)

We Asked Great Questions

The Best Part Was Visiting the Ambulance!

The Students Examine the Equipment

We Wait Patiently to See the Inside of the Vehicle

We Get to See All the "Secret Compartments!"

We Learned A Lot!!!

Finally...inside the Ambulance

We Were Able to Fit All 24 Kids and 2 Adults...it was Much Bigger Than We Expected!

We Even Got to See the Pneumatic Stretcher Move In and Out of the Ambulance!

Thank you to Drew's mom for being our first April Mystery Reader!

We listen to a great new book, The Day the Crayon Came Home by Drew Daywalt

What a Great Read!!!

HMMMMM....where are all your chairs, kids?!?!

The Second Graders Were Terrific Sports When April First Arrived!

The Students Did Their Work Sitting on Their Desks, Standing Up at their Desks or at the Rug Area because.....Mrs. Reiss Had an April Fool's Trick Up Her Sleeve!

No Chairs For a Day:) and the Students Loved It!  The Kids Were Able to Move Freely/Get Their Excess "Wiggles Out!"  Maybe Standing Desks ARE the Way to Go!!!!