Do you like GREEN EGGS & Spam?

I do not like Green Eggs & Spam....I do not like them Sam-I-Am!

Sam if you just let me be, I will try them you will see.....

And every student who cracked an egg found that it was GREEN inside!

SAY! I like Green Eggs & Spam...I do like them Sam-I-Am!

And every student ate Green Eggs & Spam!

It made the hour and a half that I spent making tiny pinholes in 27 eggs and injecting a full of syringe green food coloring into the tiny hole well worth it. I wasn't going to repeat this since it is second grade and all...but I felt I had to for the students new to my class this year.

The leprechaun also visited and put gold covered chocolate coins in every clean/neat desk he found. When class was dismissed there were 4 students cleaning out their desks...without prompting :)

I hope your St. Patrick's Day was filled with fun!

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*DIG THOSE GREEN EGGS AND HAM*

Happy Birthday Johnny

He was born 239 years ago that John Chapman....right when the apples were ripe for pickin'. And that means celebrating with applesauce makin' in kindergarten- along with graphing and counting and eating applesauce of course. In first grade you can get away with it too...but by second, well that's when I had to get a little sophisticated.

 I went shopping...and we did a taste test...

 And we did a little recording and adjective work....

And we tasted and tasted until the apples were all gone.And then we used the apple-corer thingy to core and peel more Fuji apples.
Then we topped off the day with "The Legend of Johnny Appleseed" film circa 1948!

Then the kids wrote the best bios on Johnny Appleseed I have ever read.

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS 

THE TEACHER FULL*

TGIF!

Tomorrow is FRIDAY! It will be the 8th day of school...with 172 to follow. So far I really like my students...while the other 2nd grade teachers are finding the students a bit immature...mine seem so mature- coming from first grade and previously kinder.

On Tuesday we had a 49er/Gatorade Camp come to our school for a 90 minute session. It was a sunny day but the wind was howling! It was well organized- all I had to do was supply ice, a table and 5 helpers. Our 4 second grades, two 4th grades and one fifth grade participated...we could have 150 kids max. It was a fun, amazing time. The kids got to run over hurdles, hit a dummy, throw the football into a target and run a few drills and catch a spiral.

When it ended I helped clean up and the students were to return to their classrooms- coming from kinder and first, I was worried that I was taking too long and who knows what my students would be up to...but when I looked over at my classroom, there they were in line, waiting for me. Now that doesn't happen in kinder...and not likely in first...but next fall....well I think I will be saying my class is immature.

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*READ HENRY AND MUDGE BOOKS*

First Day of 2nd Grade

I wish I had a first day of school photo from when I was a student in 2nd grade...but for the record, today was fun!

And like I said when I went to first grade from kinder...IT IS MUCH EASIER!! I took all the 2nd grader's photos today...100 of them...and I did that in less time that it took me to photograph 25 kinders on the first day!

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*REFLECT ON 9/11*

Let 2nd Grade Begin!!

I taught 2nd grade way back in 1986...and will start again tomorrow :)

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH

HARDER*GO TO SCHOOL*