Saturday, September 1, 2012

WELCOME TO FIFTH GRADE!!

It has taken me 11 years to get to 5th gade, but here I am-I finally passed 2nd grade (hehe)!!  I am so excited to start this new journey with all of you:)  I just know we are going to have a WONDERFUL,fun-filled year packed with all kinds of learning!! Have a fantastic weekend and I look forward to seeing you all here on Tuesday.
~Mrs. Curtiss      

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Dinosaur Diggers

Here are the kids practicing to be archaeologists.  They worked very hard on getting the chocolate chips and M&Ms out of the cookie without breaking them.  This is like an archaeologist because they work with small tools and have to be careful too!











Here is our dinosaur egg.  In this picture it is starting to hatch.  My kindergarten daughter was worried that it would hatch over night and be running around the room in the morning.  The second graders knew it was pretend, but still enjoyed watching it hatch!

It's a baby Stegosaurus!
We named him Stego.

Now we are the real deal.  We are digging bones out of rock to solve a dinosaur mystery.  What kind of dinosaur will it be?  Everyone is having fun chiseling the rock away.  We have to wear safety glasses so we don't get any flying rock in our eyes.  This is so much fun, but after 2 days of chiseling we still have not uncovered our first bone! 















There is a bone in this picture, can you see it?

Wednesday, April 25, 2012


Click on the United States to Hear
The 50 States That Rhyme


THESE KIDS HAVE LEARNED
THE 50 STATES SONG AND HAVE
EARNED A CANDY BAR FOR
GETTING UP IN FRONT OF THE CLASS
AND SINGING:
Lexie Mize
Colton Williams
Anna Schatzlein
Sam Kubishta
Sydney Moore
Darla Herbert-Holden
Fallon Burgess
Josh Iles
Victoria Keene


Monday, April 23, 2012

Dandelion Monday


DANDELION

those little yellow tokens of love

are just weeds,

to the ignorant.

but in the eyes of a child,

they are priceless,



-by Emily Haws

April 30, 1995




How could Monday not be delightful with a jar full of dandelions sitting on my desk?
Thank you second graders!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Spring Collage

Easter Egg Hunting and Gotcha Assembly
We are having FUN!!!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

At Home Space Projects!

These are all so wonderful! Take a minute and look what you all did. Mr. Cope came down and raved about how good these were, so good they could have been in the science fair! Keep up the good work second grade kids and parents. You are AWESOME!!!!
















Thursday, March 22, 2012