Last Days

How is the school year over? How did nine months go by in the blink of an eye?
I have loved my students and their parents this year. With 12 new students it was a wild ride and I wouldn't have changed anything!

The charm bracelet put me over the edge. All day I was holding it together... and then my little ones are suddenly all giving me thoughtful charms and I'm looking into their precious faces and boom.. TEARS.

Teaching is such a wonderful profession because we get such a definitive beginning and end. We get to celebrate every single year. We get to meet 20 new fascinating, wonderful, creative, hilarious children every year.

Last Counselor Lesson

Today was our very last lesson with Mrs. Hougham. We love her so much!
We did a fun cooperation activity with a hula-hoop. Then we watched Kid President. I love that kid.

Good Digital Citizen

I just wanted to share this awesome graphic. 

Thank you Jackie Dielmann for finding it!

Array

A great way to show multiplication is through a rectangular array.

Today we used Amy Lemon's FREEBIE.

Here are the multiplication TEKS:

    2.4A Model, create, and describe      

    multiplication situations in which

   equivalent sets of concrete objects are

   joined

Representation

A huge part of introducing multiplication to second graders involves VISUALS.
Today I had my students create their own representations for four different multiplication sentences.

Field Day

Properties of multiplication

So excited that we're starting multiplication!

The Big Orange Splotch

When I was in kindergarten my kindergarten teacher gave me this book. I have loved it ever since. Today my mother came and read it to my students. 

The story starts off on a street where all the houses look exactly the same. All the neighbors are proud of living on such a "neat street." The one day a seagull drops a can of orange paint on one of the houses. Instead of painting his house back, he paints it to resemble his dreams. "Our street is us and we are it. Our street is where we like to be, and it looks like all our dreams." Then all the neighbors change their houses to represent their dreams.
So when my momma finished the book, my kiddos wrote about what they would want their houses to look like.

The kids came up with such amazing ideas. I had houses shaped like yorkies, castles, submarine houses, lava house, cupcake house, and more!