A Four Day Week Starting With Tuesday

JF is this weeks Super Star student. He did a great job of presenting his very entertaining board. Please stop by and see it if you can!
Our amaryllis just bloomed again! We now have 4 blossoms.
Today, we continued our discussion on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We watched part of his "I have a dream..." speech. We also shared our dreams and what we could do to make them a reality. (We tweeted many of them on our Twitter account @ obumblebee)

I have a dream that someday...

...every person in the world will have the same amount of money and have peace. (GR)

...I will be a guitarist and a singer. I'm going to be rich and help my family. (AG)

...people will not fight as much. We will do better things and good things will happen. (EKM)

...the world will be healthy and strong, and no one will litter. (EH)

...every homeless person will get a nice house and wrestlers will not wrestle becaues it hurts their brains. (ER)

...every homeless person has an apartment or a house to live in. (CD)

...everyone will be nice, kind, and respect everybody and not fight. (JM)
...no one would bully. (JA)

....I will be a Lego creator for Star Wars and be rich. (CB)

...everybody would treat people really special in this world. (JF)
...everybody can have a good time in a museum (RK)

...everybody will recycle. (OC)

...people will stop killing endangered animals for fun. (EM)
...everyone will help the environment so the whole world will be green and healthy with respect. (BK)

...we will stop cutting down trees and use more recycled paper. (EJ)

...people will not pollute or throw trash into streams and nature. (IP)
We wrote fraction problems in math and then presented them on the document camera. We had to show 3 parts: The story problem, an illustration and the two fractions shown by the illustration.

Example: We have 17 people in our class. 9 are boys. What fraction is boys/what fraction is girls? (Answer: 9/17 boys; 8/17 girls.) (And, of course, there would be an illustration there.)
Tuesday is Garden Day! This week's crew got to harvest some vegetables.

Mrs. R will wash the broccoli and snow peas so we can taste them tomorrow. She also said we will have enough veggies to make a veggie pizza before the year is out. Can't wait!

Don't forget: we are singing our famous "R-E-A-D" song for the BookSpring kickoff on Friday. We need to be on the stage at 7:30 am and all parents are more than welcome to join us.

I have begun the TPRI/DRA testing, and these kids can READ! Have I told you lately what a wonderful year we are having in second grade? Well, consider yourself "told"!