Class 2OL

INGREDEINST

2APPLES
2 TABLESPONS BUTTER
2 EGGS
1/4 CUP MILK
1/2 ALL PURPOSE FLOUR
1/2 cup cinnamon per apple syrup

SERVES 2

Our graphing presentations were a success. Yesterday our class went to Mr. McFarland’s first grade classroom and presented the graphs to the first graders. Each presentation explained the following:

• The question explored
• Who was surveyed and why
• Type of graph
• What the key represented
• What we found out

The first graders did a great job of asking the second graders questions and giving them compliments. Way to go!!

Here are some pictures from the process and presentations.

is a white fox look like woLF? Does A WHITE FOX RUN faster than CHEETAHS?

I learned how to say some word’s in spanish like Monday=Lunes and Moon=La Luna I like speaking spanish because it is fun.

today wen we war snow shooing we were letterboxing we went to a sematerey thar was a grave that said
abagal fog.

luke b

Over the past month 2OL has been learning about all sorts of graphs. We’ve looked at line plots, bar graphs, pictographs, venn diagrams and others. Some of the key elements of graphs that we’ve discussed are titles, headings, labels, eye appeal and keys. The students have also explored  many different ways of collecting data.

Currently the kids are working in pairs on a data collection project. Each group came up with a question they wanted answered. They also decided who they wanted to answer this specific question. They chose classrooms from kindergarten all the way up to 8th grade. Off on their own, they went into different classrooms collecting data. Now they are in the process of creating graphs to show the information they collected. They truly enjoyed asking other kids from around the school questions like: “What’s your favorite Harry Potter movie?” or “Who is your favorite football player?”

I can’t wait to see the final outcomes!!  Below are some of the graphs we did together as a class. Can you tell who is the tallest student?

Loris is slow at night he is FAST! The animals in the zoo were slow in the day and at night they were FAST! That was the end of the story but Ms. Outsen forgot to erase it took him 1 hour to scratch his bottom _hayden

In this week’s homework, I referred to a bookmark that had ideas for how readers interact with books. We weren’t able to put that together because we didn’t have school on Monday. So, there wasn’t a bookmark included in the homework. Students can still write what they are wondering. We’ve done quite a bit of that in class as the post below shows! Sorry for the confusion!

If you came into our room during our read aloud time, you would think you had walked into a third, maybe a fourth grade classroom! The students of Class 2OL are having amazing conversations about our read aloud selection, The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Bulla. As we read, we are paying attention to our questions. We call them our wonderings, because it’s what we are wondering about the book.

In this picture, you can see the excellent questions the kids generated after looking at the cover, reading the blurb on the back and looking at the table of contents.

After we read a chapter, students record and share their thinking in their Reading Notebooks.

We expect that the students will begin to adopt this strategy of asking questions during their independent reading. We are exploring this strategy in fiction and nonfiction texts.

On the Wednesday before vacation, the second grade celebrated all we’ve learned about nutrition by cooking healthy foods for a winter brunch! Here’s what students of class 2OL said about it:

The brunch was in the cafeteria. There was yogurt sundaes, peanut butter protein balls, biscuits with ham and cheese or jelly, fruit kebabs, applesauce with crunchy dippers, berry muffins and cheese and crackers. It was very fun becasue there was music and 2nd grade friends and there was snowmen and we could sit where ever we wanted. It felt like a wintery wonderland. We had a blast! Because there were puppets hanging from the ceiling. We sat with our friends. - Kelsey and Sophia

We had a great time at the brunch we had fruit kebabs, peanut butter protein balls, and berry muffins and more. The Chex Mix was good. I liked the Skittles in the Chex Mix. The decorations was super. Snowman napkins rings, there was Christmas music and we got to sing with the napkin rings. -Copper and William

Class 2E, 2OL, and 2L had a big brunch. There was music and lots of food. They had biscuits and lots of other things like fruit kabobs. The had decorations like tablecloths and little snowmans for the center. Everybody had a blast! -Gabby and Anna

I liked the food like yogurt sundaes and I liked the decorations. The decorations were snowmen. -Troy

Interview with Ben, by Ben.
I liked the peanut butter balls. I liked the pipe cleaner napkin rings and the long table with food.

Interview with Ben, by Ben.
It was a very good meal because I got peanut butter balls and kebabs and music and pretzels and skittles. There was paper snowman in the table.

It looked like we were in winter having tons of food like fruit kebabs, yogurt sundaes and peanut butter balls. We sung Christmas carols like Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer. 15 people sung. -Ryan and Carter

Today we had a brunch… At the brunch we had yogurt sundaes, peanut butter protein balls, biscuits with ham and cheese or jelly, fruit kebabs, applesauce with crunchy dippers, berry muffins, Chex Mix, cheese and crackers… Class 2OL, 2L, and 2E all made 3 foods. We had brunch at the cafeteria. It was lots of fun. There was lots of food. Class 2OL made napkins…2E made snowmen…2L made table runners… it was Wednesday, December 19, 2007. -Shaylen

I like the skittles in the Chex Mix and the fruit kebabs and the yogurt sundaes. I liked sitting with Jacob and Jacob. -Alena

We had a brunch in the cafeteria. There was so much food and music was playing. I will tell you some of the food. We had applesauce and these yummy crunchy dippers and fruit kebabs and muffins, and so much more. My class 2OL helped make some of the food. And the tables were set so nice. They had table runners and napkin holders. It was so much fun. -Dana

There was music and the fruit kebabs poked Hayden. There was napkin rings. Each class baked 3 different things. A class made snowmen. It has a short tablecloths. The ham and cheese looked like a sandwich. The peanut butter balls were delicious. We ate for over 1 hour. It was fun. We had a good time. The whole 2nd grade and some teachers were in the Cafe. The food was very good. -Luke S. and Hayden

Check out these photos from out brunch!