Congratulations Henry!  Henry Won the 2nd/3rd Grade "Guess the Weight of the Pumpkin" Contest...He Guessed 6 Pounds.

Thank you, Christian's mom, for being our Mystery Reader!  We enjoyed  Letters From Felix By Annette Langen

Our Teams Presented our Factual Insect Posters

We are Learning How to Speak in Front of an Audience

We Must Speak Clearly, Taking Turns and Pausing to Face the Audience

We Explain our Illustrations as Well...

We Discuss Audience Behavior as Well...We Should Be Active Listeners

We Use Pointers to Help Explain our Posters

We Explain Our Facts About Insects

We Must Answer Questions from the Students in the Audience

We Explain How We Organized our Information

We Learn to Read From the Side of the Easel so We Don't Block the Audience's View of the Poster

Cooperation is Important!

We Watch a BrainPop Jr. as We Eat Our Snacks...We LOVE Moby!

Mrs. Van Deusen, our OT Teacher, is Presenting a Series of Handwriting Lessons to Our Class Each Monday Morning

We Are Gripping our Pencils Correctly & Working on "Same Capitals/Same Lower Case" Letters

Posture is Important

We Grip Our Pencil with "Okay" Shaped Fingers

We Take Our Time

Reading Workshop

We Attended a Student Outreach Assembly Monday Afternoon

Please Consider Donating Food for This Very Important Cause...See the Letter That Was Sent Home Today

Eli's Mom Makes an Appearance as Our Mystery Reader

We Laughed at Those Naughty Monkeys!

Thank You for Sharing Your Mom, Eli

We Attended Our Annual Fire Safety Assembly

Ms. Bacon Dresses as a Firefighter!

Jack Checks Out a Smoke Detector

As We Visited the Truck...an Alarm Sounded & We Watched the Firefighters in Action!!!

We All Agreed That it was Very Exciting Watching the Truck Zoom Away!

Thank You for our Cool Fire Engine Pencils & Bookmarks

Visit the Local Fire Station with Your Family:)

Lilly & Sophia Lead our Morning Meeting

Sophia Chooses a Friend to Answer Her Calendar Question

We Research Information about Insects in our Teams

We Decide What Information We Will Include on a Team Poster

We Highlight Small Phrases to Help Us Remember Facts

We Begin to Design an Insect Poster to Present Our Insect Facts

Learning to Work as a Group to Complete our Posters

Book order forms went home today.  If you would like to order from the October issues, please click on the Scholastic heading up above on the blog site.  I will send those orders in on Monday, October 16th.





Second graders are learning to regulate their bodies...to be in control of their thoughts and actions.

 Mrs. Palagyi's first lesson focuses on how we can train ourselves to be active listeners...more focused in the classroom and at home through "Whole Body Listening."

1.  Our bodies are still.
2.  We look at the speaker
3.  Our hands are in our laps.
4.  We may nod quietly to show the speaker we are listening.
5.  We respond to the speaker when he/she is finished speaking.

Mrs. Palagyi Begins Her 1st of Ten Lessons with the 2nd Graders

Showing What an Active Listener Looks Like

Albert shows that he is "A Whole Body Listener!"

Mrs. Palagyi shares the following...you may cut and paste the following address into your browser if you are unable to click on the link below:

https://www.socialthinking.com/Articles?name=Whole%20Body%20Listening

We enjoyed our 1st Mystery Reader today!

Bryce's friend, Bill, reads The Good for Nothing Button by Mo Willems

We LOVE our Mystery Readers!!!!