Secret Elf

Secret Elf gift exchange was a great success!

Landforms

We've been studying about different landforms in science, and 

we got a chance to make our own using Play-Doh.

                         

 

Christmas Concert Information

🎄 🎶    Concert Time!  ♪♫ ⛄

Preview: We decided to practice one of our concert songs during writing time!

We had a groovy 70th day of school! ☮ 🌈

70's Day

Book Fair

Thank you PTA!

Each student got to take home a free book from the Book Fair! 📘  🙂  📚

Collections

Last minute......students may bring something they collect on Friday, December 1st. One of our vocabulary words this week is collect, and they thought this would be a good idea! Let me know if you have any questions.

Thankful for..

Yo-Yo

Yo-Yo Assembly

Turn in yo-yo forms by Friday!

         

Veterans Day

Monday wear Blue

Tuesday wear Red

Wednesday wear White

Halloween Party!

🕸🎃We had a great time during our Halloween party! The kids played Don't Eat Pete and Halloween Bingo. Then we watched "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown while they enjoyed their treats. We also got a nice surprise from the Clarinda PTA. The class won a popcorn party for winning the Boxtop container contest! Thank you to everyone that voted on Facebook. Also, thank you to Lilly & Gabe for bringing the treats, Paityn for the bringing the drinks, and Abby for supplying the plates and napkins. 👻🕷

McTeacher Night

Join the teachers for dinner at McDonald's Monday, October 23rd from 4:00-8:00. 

Mr. Hill will be there from 5:20-6ish. 🍔 🍟

Red Ribbon Week

October 23rd- Jersey/Team Wear

                                                                       October 24th- Western Wear
                                                                       October 25th- Mix Match Day
                                                                       October 26th- Hawaiian Day
                                                                       October 27th- Red/Cardinal Attire

Flashlight Friday

Flashlight Friday to finish up the day!

             

           

Spelling Pracitce

Busy Wednesday!

Trip to the Landfill ♽

This morning the class went out to the landfill to see where our trash goes and why we should recycle. First, we went into the weighing station to better understand how the process works. We learned that trucks must weigh-in before and after. We also learned that around 50 trucks come a day! 

Top Left: Recycling truck leaving after being weighed.               Top Right: This is a baler that smashes the cardboard.
Middle Left: Learning about the old landfill hole.                        Middle Right: Learning about the weighing station.
Botton Left: Bales of cardboard                                                    Bottom Right: Bales of paper

Video of the baler- each bale of cardboard is around 1,300-1,500 pounds!

🚒:  Fire Prevention Day 🔥

A huge thank you to the Clarinda Fire Department for teaching the kids fire safety. The firemen showed/told them students what they should do during a fire. They also got the opportunity go in the safe house, see inside a firetruck, and look at all the equipment. We had a great time learning how to be safe!

Reminder!

Tomorrow we will be heading to the landfill. Please make sure your kiddo brings a jacket to school!

Recycling

In science we have been talking about recycling. To show an example of recycling, we used Cheerios (which represented tires) and crushed them up, mixed the Cheerios with plaster and water, and then spread them out on to paper to make roads. We then used paint to make lines to complete our roads. This experiment, plus other class discussion, has helped the students to understand that it's important to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Shaving Cream Spelling!

We got a chance to practice our spelling words using shaving cream. It was a little messy, but really FUN!

Reminder!

  Due to the fact that we don't have school Friday, our spelling and vocabulary tests will be tomorrow!

Supplies for Texas

Mrs. Hill's and Mrs. Hiser's classes teamed up to send supplies to a school down in Texas. Thank you so much for the generous donations! We have two huge boxes of supplies heading south!

Flag Football

On Thursday, I went and checked out some flag football. All the boys and girls did a great job!

                             

Box Top Competition! 

Our Box Top competition started today and goes through October 27th. Help the 2nd Grade class win a pizza party on Halloween! The sheets will go home tomorrow. All you have to do is tape or glue the box tops onto the sheets.!