Five For Saturday

Another late Five for Friday post! Oops!

Writing fiction stories for Writer's Workshop. I was reminding my students to include details, descriptive language, and dialogue in their stories and one of my students was like, "Ms. Wu, they all start with d!" Why yes they do! So now we have the 3Ds of story writing. Now if only I had time to make this into a pretty anchor chart...

Whoooo's ready to dissect some owl pellets??? These kids are! We got lucky with these pellets and found tons of bones!

I have a personal chef in the classroom. She made me breakfast with a pomegranate smiley face! 

Mixing primary colors to create secondary colors using pastels. 

Creating some sunset horizon artwork with our smearing/mixing skills!

And since I'm late I guess I'll add a sixth since this is the reason why I didn't post yesterday!

Met up with some friends for some late night dessert! Honey toast! :)

My Truth Monday - Becoming a Teacher

I found a new linky that doesn't take too much time with blogging on the weekday! (I hope!) Guess we'll see what happens...

hosted by Sunny Days in Second Grade 

Can't wait to read what others have to say! Be sure to join the linky! :)

November Currently

Long and crazy week so I'm just going to post this month's Currently and be over with it for now! :D

yummy pin:

Halloween Puppy Chow

(I know Halloween is over, but it still looks yummy!)

Five for Saturday!

[update]
Well apparently I forgot to publish this when I wrote this yesterday. Guess it has now become a Five for Sunday???

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Oops, did I miss Five for Friday? Well, you see, I decided to go out to dinner with a colleague on Friday so by the time I got home from work (around 5:30pm), I had an hour to write and email out our class weekly newsletter before getting picked up for dinner. Of course, after dinner, we spent an hour or so in the car just chatting and I didn't get back home until 10:30pm. Took a shower and went straight to bed. So I guess it will have to be Five for Saturday this time! :)

Partner reading of various bat books.

Addition with regrouping Scoot.

A visit from a nearby wildlife museum with a presentation on bats.

Using nylons to create wing membranes, which in turn, make us into bats!

A live bat!

Science investigation on balance. Trying to balance a tagboard crayfish on our finger with the help of clothespins. 

Creating q-tip skeletons!

Short and sweet! Happy weekend!

Teachers Are Fun. I Don't Know.

Another tiring day. But I just had to share this video that popped up on my newsfeed. Fellow teachers and teacher bloggers, this one is for you all! :)

Five for Friday

I really wish I could blog more often, but I simply just don't have the energy! I barely have the energy for Five for Friday but I'm trying to at least commit to this! This week was conference week so we had three minimum days. These conferences are only on an "as-needed" basis so I only had six conferences but boy am I still exhausted! I can't imagine what it will be like when December comes and I meet with all 27 children's parents! @@

Finally mailed our thank you letters for our first DonorsChoose project. The main donor for that project was one of my college friends. Of course, I told my students that so these thank you letters are much more personalized. :)

My last post shared some inventive spelling. Love this one too! :)

Learning about bats this week. The kids came up with some great questions!

Reader's workshop reading strategy...chunking words! We looked for familiar words or parts in these words to help us with reading them.

While looking for things to do with bats online, I stumbled upon a webquest made just for 2nd grade! First, we watched Stellaluna on Storyline Online. Then they completed the webquest in the computer lab. It was great to see the kids so engaged and focused doing RESEARCH on the computer (and not playing games!). They learned so much and were so excited to do it! I am definitely going to have to find some more webquests to do in the future. 

Second grade math finally started! Learned about regrouping starting with adding a one-digit number to a two-digit number. 

Then moved on to adding two two-digit numbers. 

Sorry for the quality. I was too lazy to go turn on the lights for this picture.

My kids were having so much difficulty remembering to show their work properly (carry that ten!) so I spent a night searching the internet for some ideas. Finally, I stumbled upon this poem on regrouping

Found on Pitner's Potpourri

Unfortunately, this came out blurry when I printed it out, so I made my own version. Up to grabs! :) 

Click on the image above to download it!

Okay, all done for today/the week! :)