Mrs. Knust's 2nd Grade Blog

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Google Slide Shows

Friday we finished our Google slide shows! Everyone did a great job. I can tell that we learned lots of facts about deserts during the week. Some students took it a step further by using the Bundle that I created and researching on the net! To see your child's presentation, click on the Kidblog link and find your child's post. Enjoy!

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Two New Projects

Saying that today was a busy day is an understatement! We started 2 new projects. The picture above is a quick pic that I snapped of one of our literacy stations today. The students did their first podcasting today!!! This is an excellent way for them to practice fluency. You can see their reactions in the picture to hearing themselves. :) We will be working on this in stations the rest of the week and I will try to post them on the blog when we are finished. Today we began learning about deserts. Our story this week is A Walk in the Desert. The students wrote down facts on post it notes and we began working on a Google slide presentation! This was quite the chore to learn but give them 2 or 3 times of working in it and they will be pros. We also blogged this morning, took AR tests, learned about inflectional endings (ask your child to tell you the rules for adding endings), read in our reading groups, practiced inflectional ending words, listened to A Walk in the Desert, played an interactive game called Fish em up! on inflectional endings, learned about declarative and interrogative statements, and practiced our spelling words by movement on a cool site called Go Noodle!