October

This is currently what I am proud of!  We read the book Leaf Man, where the "leaf man" blows different places and become different things.  The class then made their own "leaf man" and a story to go with!  Most of them turned out REALLY good.  

I had to rush to get these up because we did them the day before parent teacher conferences.  I wanted to show off the the parents- I think it worked!  But anyways I forced myself to use the laminating machine, which everyone in the building says is the worst.  All I ever heard was terrible stories about it, but I faced my fears and now I AM IN LOVE!  

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I also rearranged the classroom.  This way all the students are facing the board and not each other (and talking).  It's working quite nicely actually. :)

Cleaned the whiteboard off so I can actually use it now!  Except now I don't know what to do with all the space.

 With the rearraning of the classroom, I had to come up with a new plan for the colors and scissors and glue. To make it easy I just placed them all out on the shelf.  Not that that matters, but I wanted to brag that this is day 3 of the kids using these materials and it still looks neat!!

This is my new way of keeping track of "school" and "home" lunches.  I have this wall that is like the soft side of Velcro so I got sticky Velcro and put it on the backside of these little lunch boxes.  One my students said, as I was cutting them out, "Oh! That is going to be so cute!"  And what can I say, my students are smart!

And the best thing is I laminated them and so the names are able to come off so I use these next year too!

Only in Idaho

So this last Friday, the Farm Bureau came to Burton Elementary and they talked about farming. They talked about wheat and the process it goes through to actually make food- then the kids got to grind wheat themselves! I was actually VERY impressed with how much these kids knew about the farming pocess and equipment!

 

 

 

 

They also talked to us about cows! Did you know that one milking cow will produce 8-9 gallons of milk per DAY?!? Then the kids got to milk a life size cow! It was pretty exciting.

 

 

 

And to top things off they got to eat pancakes made from the wheat they grinded!

 

 

And just because I know you were wondering...my class got yet another 4 in PE this last week!  And they continue to get 3's in library, which I am pretty happy with!

Oh and this week I am totally committed to finishing decorating my room.  So look forward to pictures!!!

Mrs. Wilson's 2nd grade :)

Here is my classroom as you walk in.  I only had about three days to get my classroom ready, so this is what I have.  I keep thinking I will have time to work more on it, but that just isn't happening right now.  

I did however finally get all my materials in-as of today! - The school wasn't going to have four 2nd grade classrooms until the last minute- less than a week before school started.  Therefore all my teaching materials for the reading and math programs that we use did not exist.  But two and a half weeks in, I got everything!

Stations- my counter doesn't look so bare anymore...

So I know this is lame, but it was the coolest thing to me to have my name on a phone :)

Now it is time to brag about my awesome kids!  So when the students go to PE or library the teacher will give them a number 1-4.  1 being so terrible that they get sent back to class, and 4 being EXCELLENT.  My students came back from library on Thursday with a 2.  I was really upset about this.  We talked about it as a class and let them know that a 2 was unacceptable.  So Friday they went to PE and came back with 4!!!!  The PE teacher said that they were the first class to get a 4 and they really earned it!  I don't know who was more happy, the kids or me!

Don't mind the mess, you guys know me.  But despite the mess, my class won the "golden plunger" award!!  This means that our classroom was the cleanest in the whole building all week!  Even though this may come as a surprise to most of you- I can keep a clean room :)

Hope you enjoyed!