Adventures at Legoland!

My sweet class!

The entire second grade had a great time at Legoland thanks to the financial support of our fabulous PTA.  The excitement started to build as the children began to ooh and aww over the tall buildings as we neared Phipps Plaza. As they traveled up the escalators and neared the entrance to Legoland they could hardly contain their excitement!

The Georgia Dome!

The girls having fun with the karaoke corner. 

My students had a fabulous time learning about force, gravity, aerodynamics, and teamwork while building their very own race car! We also saw some amazing landmarks all built out of Legos! I was so proud when the children made a connection between the exhibits and our study of the Piedmont Region in social studies. Overall a great time was had by all. Thank you to all of the people who made this trip possible! Enjoy a few pictures from our trip below.


Stone Mountain

Georgia State Capital Building

I think it is safe to say they had fun!

We've got Georgia on our mind!

We have just started our study of Georgia's regions and rivers. The kids were VERY excited when I got out THE PAINT!! They are busy designing their Live Oak trees. This unit is full of new vocabulary. I am so impressed at how hard they are working to make up their own motions to help remember key information from each region! I will be posting a video soon!

Kevin Henkes Author Study

We have enjoyed reading several of Kevin Henkes books over the past few weeks. We have been working specifically on the following skills:

• Identifying character traits
• Identifying beginning, middle, and end
• Using the text to support our answers
• Re-stating the question when writing
• Text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world connections
• Inferences

Check out some of their great work below! 

Red Ribbon Week

We are excited for Red Ribbon Week! Let's help the kids commit to being drug-free and celebrate with the following days: 

Thursday 10/23: Wear 2 different shoes - "Kick drugs to the curb!"

Friday 10/24: Neon day - "My future's too bright to do drugs!"

Monday 10/27: Messy hair/hat day: "Don't let drugs mess you up!"

Tuesday 10/28: Dress for picture day: "Dress for success-no time for drugs!"

(School picture day!)

Wednesday 10/29: GHS (elephant, stomp) spirit wear: "Stomp out drugs!" 

(Field Trip today!)

Thursday 10/30: Favorite sports team wear: "I have better things to do than drugs!" 

Spelling words for the week of 10/13

1. almost
2. also
3. always
4. fault
5. awful
6. fault
7. awful
8. salt
9. walk
10. talk
11. done
12. give
13. saw
14. yawn
15. wall
16. claw
17. lawn
18. small
19. almost
20. always

Spelling words for week of 10/6

1. worst
2. regular
3. work
4. learn
5. worm
6. heard
7. sugar
8. early
9. worry
10. dollar
11. earth
12. word