Christmas fun!!

Thank you to our wonderful volunteer helpers! We had a great party today!!!

Happy Half Birthday Tim and Anika!!

Preparing For The Birth Of Jesus

We made ornaments for our class tree today to help celebrate the birth of Jesus. Also, instead of a gift exchange, we are having a "compliment exchange"! We are finishing our letter writing unit this week. Each student secretly drew a classmate's name out of a bowl and we are writing compliment letters to our secret person. Later this week we will reveal our secret classmate names and read our compliment letters to the class. It's our way of spreading JOY this holiday season, which is this week's Character Education trait!

Great job by all!!

Congratulations on doing a wonderful job at tonight's concert second graders! 

Happy birthday Chloe!!!

Thank you for the delicious cookies!

Happy birthday Jonah!

Thank you for the yummy dirt cake!!

Filled with gratitude!

Our class did a FANTASTIC job performing their "Thankful" song at Gathering this morning. They get to perform it again at Scattering tomorrow. Everyone loved it! Then we asked the entire school to help complete our Gratitude Tree. It looks great, don't you think?

Sounding off!

We are studying sound in Science. Today we performed a fun experiment on how sound travels! 

Yummy treats!

Laina made fun turkey cupcakes for our class- thank you Laina!

Talking Turkey!

This week we're writing all about our favorite part of Thanksgiving, and our assignment is to write an opening that grabs your attention. We made scarecrow friends to accompany our writings. Great job Nathan and everyone!

Thank you to our veterans!

Mr. Laplander gave a fun and interesting presentation to our classes today all about veterans. Thank you Mr. Laplander!

1st & 2nd Grade Rocks!

1st and 2nd grade won the Student Council Food Drive and earned a dress down pass for winning! We collected 183 food items, and our school collected 544 items total to help other less fortunate families! Thank you for your help!

We Voted!!

We had so much fun campaigning for our favorite pretzels today! Cheddar twist pretzels won, followed by honey wheat sticks, pretzel twists, and finally pretzel sticks. The kids loved voting in a "real" voting booth and then casting their ballot in a ballot box!

2nd grade has the BEST parents ever!!!

Thank you to Jenna's mom, Anika's mom, Gavin's mom, and Laina's mom for all of your help today! We had a lot of fun at our Halloween party!

An Awesome 1960's class!

We did a great job looking like the 1960's today!!

Pumpkin farm

We had a LOT of fun at Green Meadows- and the weather was perfect!

Happy birthday Jack!

We had fun celebrating Jack's birthday- he brought in adorable witch treats! Thank you Jack!

Silver and Stripes

Some of our students did a great job performing a play called Silver and Stripes!

Eating Like Astronauts!

We had a great time making astronaut pudding and eating like astronauts do!

The Lord Told Noah

The 5th and 2nd graders had a surprise today- Mr. Theriault came to sing and play his guitar with them. Their favorite song was one Mr. Theriault wrote called "The Lord Told Noah." We all had a great time!

Chocolate Chip Wins!

We're starting a voting lesson for our Citizenship unit in Social Studies. We talked about why we vote, and then voted as to whether Oreo cookies or chocolate chip cookies were better. Chocolate chip won! Of course, we ate the candidates when we were done!

Word Work

We're hard at work learning our spelling words!

Cooperation is...

We finished our Social Studies unit on cooperation. Thanks to Jenna for showing us some great examples!

Our Community Stars

Today we performed skits in Social

Studies about groups- what helps them and what hurts them. The 1st and 2nd graders did an amazing job making up and performing their own skits!

Whoooooo Knew?

We had a good time reading about owls, making our owl project, and then writing about them. Thanks to Jack for letting us show his work!

Our K4/K5 Community Service Project

We made Trick-or-Treat bags for our K4 and K5 friends to go along with our community and "working together " unit in Social Studies. They have safety rules written on one side of the bag, and we drew a fun Halloween picture on the other side!

Eating Mrs. Theriault's homemade pumpkin seeds!

Our Newest Student Council Members!

Congratulations!

A wonderful time with grandparents!

Learning how to type on a keyboard!

Working hard on math

We learned about "some, some more" in math today, and tomorrow we learn how to order by size!

Learning about shapes and patterns!

Fun in Science

Welcome Back!

We're tired, but still shining! We're glad everyone had a fun weekend!

This week we're learning how to tell time to the hour in math. We're learning about communities in Social Studies - what makes us the same and what makes us different. We'll be working on a fun class community puzzle and talking about diversity in a community.

We're learning all about our Daily 5 centers in class. Today we talked about Work On Writing. We write at least two sentences a day, and this week's topic is: "If I were a teacher, this is what my day would look like." They are having fun coming up with their own classroom ideas!

Please remember to turn in your Grandparent Day form by this Friday. Also, Parent Night is next week Thursday, 9/11. Hope to see all of you there!

A GREAT start to the year!

We started off on a great note today - with St. Joe's first-ever walk of fame! I hope everyone was made to feel special, because you are!

We continued our fabulous day in second grade. Our class worked hard and enthusiastically all day - what a great group of students!

Our school-wide theme is SHINE - we are shining our brightest all year! Our school motto is:
Don't shine so that others can see you - shine so that through you, others can see HIM. Our 1st/2nd grade community team name is Honesty (we have the "H" from the word "SHINE"). We'll come up with a motto soon.

A huge thank you to all the parents for everything you do to support our class and St. Joe's in general. It is very appreciated!