Mrs. Adair's 2nd and 3rd Grade Class

Can you find the perimeter of this shape?  Leave a comment showing your work and your answer.  Good Luck!

Can you figure out the perimeter of this shape if the space between each peg is 1 unit? 

Can you define perimeter?

Our class had the pleasure of having a visit from one of our former students, Alexa.  What a fun day to have her visit!

Our kids had so much fun making Easter wreaths together.

Such good friends!  They were all so excited to hang out for the morning.

Thanks for visiting, Alexa!  We have missed you and we hope you will visit again and keep leaving comments for our class.

Here is our latest estimation jar. It is filled with marshmellow bunnies.
The first clue is:
It is a 2 digit number

The second clue is:

It is an even number

The third clue is:

The number has a zero in the ones place.

Happy estimating!

This month we are studying poetry and learning how to write our own poems.  We are using two resources for our study;

www.timeforkids.com/poetry

and a wonderful website done by Kenn Nesbitt

http://www.poetry4kids.com/

There is also a video that you can watch of Kenn reading one of his silly poems about his hamster.

I can’t wait to hear some of your silly poems that rhyme.  Here is one that I made up today.

My cat named Ernie is fat.

He looks like he swallowed a rat!

As he comes down the stairs

His meow lifts my hairs 

as he cries for more food, that fat cat!

I thought you might enjoy a picture of my fat cat Ernie to go along with my poem.

I wonder if anyone can figure out what kind of poem I wrote.

What silly poems can you come up with that rhyme?  I can’t wait to hear them!

You can see live footage of animals in nature in their natural habitat at this website.  Check it out!

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildwatch/

We have been studying the human body.  Some of our students made a video showing the bones in the skeletal system and where they are located.  Watch and enjoy!

http://www.schooltube.com/video/d02d5ee3898a4b689ac9/

Our wonderful librarian, Mrs. Hembree got us all excited about dressing up as our favorite book characters.  Check out our flipbook to see all the amazing characters!

http://www.seussdude.com/oh-the-places-youll-go.html

This week is National Read Aloud week and also Dr. Suess’ birthday!  At our school we have some fantastic activities planned.  One special way we can celebrate Dr. Suess is to share our favorite stories written by him.  My very favorite book he wrote is Oh, The Places You’ll Go!  I love that story!  Dr. Suess is so good at making interesting subjects sound funny and making the reader want to turn the page to find out what will happen next.  I also love how he makes words rhyme and they sometimes get stuck in your head.

What is your favorite Dr. Suess book?

Why do you like it?

Do you know any fun facts about Dr. Suess?

Written by our student Eleni about her trip to Disneyland.

Dear Mrs. Adair,

A few weeks ago I went to DisneyLand and had a very exciting
time.  My favorite things in DisneyLand were the Pirates of The Caribbean and Big Thunder Mountain.Then there is a much newer Theme
Park called Disney Califonia Adventure and my favorite ride there
was California Screaming which is the second  biggest
roller coaster in the United States! The funny thing is that it goes upside
down but I didn’t scream at all! I also saw quite a few
characters.  One of them was the Evil Queen from Snow White.   She was in character very well! I had an autograph book for her to sign so I handed it to her and I gave her a pen as well.Then she said, “Don’t point that thing at me!”  Those were only a few things that happend on my trip but I can’t name them all.

From,

Eleni