Show Me the Money!

Our last math topic was all about money.  I am really impressed by how well the students did with this concept.  Of course we had some fun along the way as well.  I'm so thankful to be at such an innovative exciting school where we have freedom and do not have to teach by text book alone. :)

Having our very own lemonade stand to make money have a real life application.

Working on lemonade theme money math centers while enjoying a cold glass of lemonade and a cookie.

More lemonade theme money math center fun.

Hard at work!  

Ah a treat makes everything more special!

One happy mathematician!

Running the stand takes teamwork!

Scanning QR codes to check her work.

Planning out her order.

Football Math

We had a SUPER fun week of math leading up to the SUPER Bowl!  We took a little hiatus from our math book and focused on measurement and graphing.  The kids were so pumped on the topic which made our math time just oh so fun!    We learned how to measure with centimeters, inches, feet, and yards.  I may or may not have written my own "It's All About the Length" (a spin off of It's All About the Bass) song to help our learning.  :)  Along with this we learned how to find the perimeter of a shape, how to tell time, and how to graph.

Teamwork to create the Super Bowl field.  It had to be measured out perfectly!

Is that exactly 1 inch?  Oh yes it is!

After measuring out and designing the field, students found the perimeter.

Graphing our Super Bowl predictions.

A Math Snapshot

We have officially finished chapter 2 which covered the foundations of multiplication.  Please be on the look out for your child's math test.  It should have come home last week. :) I have to say I am so impressed with the students' hard work on this chapter.  I was a little apprehensive about starting multiplication so early in the school year, but our kiddos rocked it!  Way to go second graders!  We jumped ahead to chapter 5 and are now focusing on place value.  Here is a little snapshot of some of the math we have been working on in class. 

Skip counting corn. 

Multiplication practice.

Logic problems.

Comparing numbers.

Addition and subtraction fact families.

Place value.

Becoming "living" numbers.

What We've Been Up to This Week

Hello friends!  Our All About Me Unit is coming along beautifully!  Since I last shared the kiddos have created precious family trees and family banners.

We have been having a grand old time with end punctuation as well. :)  Each student created an interactive flip book telling all about the three different types of sentences.  Then, to make our learning authentic, our second graders got to be the teachers and teach their first grade buddies all about end punctuation.  They even helped them think of, and write an example sentence for each.  After we were experts, students had a chance to play a fun game where they figured out the correct end punctuation for each sentence and sorted them accordingly.  Way to go second grade stars!  I am so proud of your hard work!

We have started reading centers, and the students are really starting to get the routine.  Thank you Mrs. Madison for being my right hand gal during center time.  This learning could not happen with out you!  You are so appreciated!  I'm a big believer that centers should be independent learning time, which frees me up to meet with small reading groups.  Research shows that students need to practice reading, writing, and working with words every day...so our centers are based around just that!  Students read independently, or with a buddy, they listen to books being read on the computer, they visit the writing center, and they work with words.  Here are our little readers in action!

Buddy Reading

Serious cuteness overload here!  Taking an AR with a buddy.

Sharing writing

Our Writing Center

Working With Words

Readers Gonna Read!

A quick peek at what's going on in math... We are nearing the end of our first chapter of study; addition and subtraction strategies.  Here are our mathematicians working during centers.  I love center time because it allows time to review and practice key concepts.  I think the kids are having so much fun, they don't even realize they are working! Ha!

Odd and Even Marshmallow Roast

Playing Headbands to review vocab.

Finding the missing addends

Making standard form, expanded form, base-ten block s'mores. 

Hope everyone is having a lovely day!  Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!