Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Tongue Twister Exchange Fall 2009

This fall 24 classrooms from the United States joined 1 Canadian classroom and 2 classrooms from Scotland for this year's Tongue Twister Exchange. Each classroom represented one letter of the alphabet and mailed one tongue twister to each of the other classrooms. St. Thomas represented the letter "T". We worked on creating many for the letter and then combined them all into one really long twister. Here's our slideshow:
Clicking on the title of this post will take you to the project WIKI.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Where the Wild Things Went

Second grade has been working on Jenuinetech.com's Online Project: Where the Wild Things Went. First we read the story aloud and to ourselves many times. Then we thought about what might happen next in the story. The original story only has ten sentences so we tried to make our story additions only have ten sentences as well. Some students worked with partners while others decided to work alone. In Technology class we learned to use Microsoft Paint and created our own wild things!


Cameron and Aidan - What happens next?
When he got home he went downstairs and kissed his mom goodnight and said he was sorry. Then he went back upstairs to eat his dinner and go to bed. When he woke up he had breakfast and went to school. When he got to school he played Legos and his best friend did, too. Then he read a book. It was called Where the Wild Things Are. It started to rain so he had inside recess. then he went to his classroom and did schoolwork. After he did that he went home. He did his homework.

Carolyn and Lily - What happens next?
. . . where he found his supper waiting for he and it was still hot.
And that very night he had a dream about the wild things.
A monster said what are you doing here?
I am trying to find my way home.
Then the monster said . . . We don't allow people here, we only allow monsters here.
What is your name?
My name is Max.
You are on the V.I.P. list for the party.
Cool! said Max.
And then the monster ate him.
But it was all just a dream!

Anna - What happened next?
When Max go home he ate his dinner and played King of the Forest. He jumped around and made a lot of noise. His mom said can you be more quiet, please? Ok, Max said. Then he went to bed. In the morning he put on his fox costume and had fun. His mom put him to bed because he was making so much noise. It was just a dream.

Maeve, Tony and Kailee - changing the tense of the verbs.
The night Max wears his wolf suit and make mischief of one kind and another his mother calls him Wild Thing! And Max says, I'll eat you up! so she sends him to bed without eating anything. That very night in Max's room a forest grows and grows until his ceiling hangs with vines and his walls become the world all around and an ocean tumbles by with a private boat just for Max and he sails off through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are. They are roaring their terrible roars and roll their eyes and show their terrible claws till Max says Be Still! and hi tames them with a magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once and they are frightened and call him the most wild thing of all and make him king of all wild things. And now cries Max let the wild rumpus start! Now stop! Max says and he sends them to bed without their supper. And Max king of all wild things is lonely and wants to be where someone loves him best of all. Then all around from far across the world he smells good things to eat so he gives up being kind of where the wild things are. But the wild things cry Oh please don't go - we'll eat you up - we love you so! And Max says No! The wild things roar their terrible roars and gnash their terrible teeth and they roll their terrible eyes and show their terrible claws but Max steps into his private boat and waves good-bye and he sails back over a year and in and out of weeks through a day and into the night of his own room where he finds his supper waiting for him and it is still hot.






Sunday, July 5, 2009

Summer Blogging

Welcome to Second Grade's Blog!

What are you doing with your summer vacation? I try to spend as much time as I can outside. I spend a lot of time weeding and taking care of the flowers and plants in our yard. On hot days I go swimming in our pool.

I started a Tongue Twister Project for elementary classrooms! Together with 25 other classrooms we'll create an alphabet book of Tongue Twisters by mailing our tongue twisters to each other.

I joined Postcrossing, an international postcard exchange. It's always a surprise where you'll receive postcards from. I mailed my first 5 postcards to Taiwan, Finland, Germany, China, and Ohio. We won't receive any postcards until those cards have been registered at Postcrossing. I'll bring any postcards I receive to school in September.

Would you like to leave a comment for us to read in September? Here's how: Click on the word COMMENTS underneath one of the posts. After the last comment you'll see a blank box you can type in. Write your entry. Under the box you'll see the words: COMMENT AS. Click on the down arrow and choose Name/URL. You can type just your name. (A URL would be typed if you have your own website.) Next double click on the button: Post Comment. If a word verification request appears, please type the letters you see.

I look forward to reading your comments! Have a really great summer.
Love,
Miss Miller
http://www.homestead.com/millergrade2

Sunday, June 7, 2009

What was your favorite activity in second grade?


There are many things that I like about second grade; things that I do year after year. Think about which topics or activities you enjoyed learning about the most. Please write about at least one thing and include the reason WHY it was something you enjoyed. Miss Miller

What was your favorite day in second grade?


Take a moment to think about your year in second grade. What was your favorite day in second grade? What day was the most fun or the one you remember the best? What day would you like to have again if you could choose one day from this year? Miss Miller

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Keyholders Series by Dadey and Jones

Grade 2 has discovered a wonderful new chapter book series!! Here are the links to the series authors:
http://www.marciatjones.com/
http://www.debbiedadey.com/


Books #1 and #2 were released in May. Miss Miller read book #1 This Side of Magic first. We absolutely loved it! Then Madeline's Mom ordered #2 The Other Side of Magic online and Madeline brought it to school and we're reading it right now.

Books #3 Inside the Magic and #4 The Wrong side of Magic are coming in November 2009.




Write a comment about this new series!
Miss Miller

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Second Grade Plays



This year second grade wrote their own plays based on fairy tales and folktales. On May 18, 2009 we did our plays and showed them to the kindergarten and first grade. The first play was Cinderella. We were in that play. The second play was the Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig. That play was cool. The third play was the How the Sun Came Back to the Sky. That play was a puppet show. The fourth play was Little Boy Riding Hood. It's Little Red Riding Hood, but it's a boy. The next play was the Magic Fish who was a prince who was turned into a fish and gave wishes. The last play was the Tortoise and the Hare. A hare is a bunny. All the plays are fairy tales. Our favorite fairy tales are Peter Pan and Aladin. You can read our plays at http://millergrade2.homestead.com/StudentWriting/Folktales.html.

Gabriella and Madeline