We Have Mealworms!

We will be learning about the life cycle of a beetle!  We missed the first stage, the egg.  We are now observing the mealworm, the second stage.  Here are students observing their very own mealworms.

Natalie & Allie

 Chloe & Harrison

 Hannah

Hunter 

 Jack

 Kaleb & Tammy

 Nick & Ahlon

Tyler & Andersen

Wednesday's with Bernie!

 Nick, Tyler, Harrison, Jack, Allie, and Kaleb reading with Bernie.

 Natalie, Hannah, Jack, Hunter, and Addison reading with Bernie on crazy hair day! :)

 Allie, Harrison, Tyler, Anya, Chloe, and Andersen reading with Bernie.

 Tammy, Nick, Kaleb, and Bryce reading with Bernie.

Hannah, Tyler, Jack, Addison, Anya, and Hunter reading with Bernie.

Wednesday's with Bernie

Anya, Tammy, Hannah, Chloe, and Andersen were the lucky 5 girls to read with Bernie on Leap Day, February 29th!

Read Across America

Our class was fortunate to have four guest readers on Tuesday, February 28^th for Read Across America Week! 

Mrs. Stauffacher (Harrison’s mom) read The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss.

Mr. Sotiros (West Allis School Board Member) read The Cat in the Hat Comes Back by Dr. Seuss.

Mrs. Levra (Hannah’s mom) read Mr. Brown Can Moo!  Can You?  by Dr. Seuss.

Mrs. Norton (retired reading teacher) read The 3 Little Dassies by Jan Brett, The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, and Ginger Jumps by Lisa Campbell Ernst.

Thank you for reading to our class!  We LOVED it!

Bring Your Family to School Day!

 Allie, Allie’s Parents, Hunter, and Natalie enjoying SORRY!

Addison, Addison’s mom, Bryce, Andersen, and Tammy loving SORRY!

 Daniel, Daniel’s mom, Kaleb, Kaleb’s mom, Alec, and Tyler playing SORRY!

 Anya, Anya’s Parents, Jack, Jack’s Step-Mom, and Abby having fun with SORRY!

Harrison, Harrison’s Parents, Levi, Hannah, Hannah’s Dad, and Nathan smiling while playing SORRY!

Chloe, Chloe’s Dad, Nick, and Nick’s mom engaged in a thrilling game of SORRY!

Jefferson Bear Award



Our classroom won the Jefferson Bear Award TWICE for great behavior in Specialist Classes (Phy. Ed, Art, Music, SEL, & Library) 

Keep up the great work 1^st & 2^nd graders in Room 206!

Star Power Winners



Anya, Kaleb, and Tammy were our first Star Power Winners.  They won the award because they took our school-wide classroom lockdown drill very seriously.  Way to go! J

Wednesday's with Bernie

Finally getting a minute to upload all of the long overdue pictures of Wednesday's with Bernie, enjoy! :)

Tyler, Natalie, Addison, Bryce, Hannah, Kaleb, and Ahlon read with Bernie today (2/22/12)

Allie, Daniel, Nick, and Tammy read with Bernie on February 15, 2012

Chloe, Andersen, Bryce, and Harrison read with Bernie on February 1, 2012

Tyler, Daniel, Hunter, Natalie, Nick, and Bryce read with Bernie on January 4, 2012

Jack, Addison, Hannah, and Anya read with Bernie on January 25, 2012

Harrison, Allie, Addison, and Anya read with Bernie on December 21, 2011





Wednesday's with Bernie

Hannah, Tyler, Tammy, and Andersen read with Bernie on November 30^th

Natalie, Jack, Chloe, and Daniel read with Bernie on

December 7^th



Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour

Here are online games for practice:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/telling_time_gr1/

Partner game:  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/willy/willy.html

Challenge:  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/telling_time_gr3/

Wednesday's with Bernie (last Wednesday)

Nick, Tammy, Ahlon, Allie, Hunter, and Kaleb were able to read with Bernie on November 9th!

Place Value Games

Here are some games to practice place value.

Tens & Ones (easy):  http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/place-value-models-tens-and-ones

http://www.learningbox.com/Base10/BaseTen.html

Hundreds, Tens, & Ones (medium):  http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/place-value-models-up-to-hundreds

Thousands, Hundreds, Tens, & Ones (hard):  http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/place-value-models-up-to-hundreds

Addition/Subtraction Online Math Games

http://www.arcadediner.com/ArithmeTick

More to come...

Wednesday's with Bernie

Bryce, Harrison, Kaleb, and Andersen were able to read with Bernie! 

All four students did a wonderful job, so did Bernie! :)

Raz-Kids

This website has interactive books at the appropriate level for each child.

http://www.raz-kids.com/main/Login

Teacher Username: ehretworden

One your child finds his/her name, click on it.

Student Password: (lunch number, same as Compass)

**Students earn points for listening to books and reading books (without help).  They also earn points for taking a quiz after a book is read.  Once they earn enough points they can buy items for their rocket ship.

Non-Fiction Book

This is the cover of Allie's Non-Fiction Features book.

 Nick completed his "Illustration" page and is now starting on his next feature, the "Map."

Tammy is working on writing the purpose of a "Map" in her Non-Fiction Features book.

Reading with Bernie

Ahlon, Jack, Chloe, Anya, Hunter, and Hannah were able to read with Bernie on Orange & Black day!  Check out Bernie’s hat! J

Compass Learning

This learning website is unique to your child.  The activities are based on how he/she performed on the MAP testing this fall.  This is a wonderful website to help your child get to the next level.  Let me know if you have any questions.

https://www.thelearningodyssey.com/

User Name: lunch code (what is used @ school for hot lunch)

Password:  lunch code (same as above)

School:  wawm

Online Math Games

Here is another website to practice many different math skills.  Great practice or enrichment!  Enjoy :)

http://www.ixl.com/?gclid=CMrkpZzT5asCFYoDQAodoT5vKw

Conference Schedule for Monday (10/24) & Tuesday (10/25)

Conference Schedule

Monday, October 24, 2011

Mrs. Ehret-Room 206

4:30 p.m.      Natalie

5:00 p.m.      Kaleb

5:15 p.m.       Tyler

5:30 p.m.      Hunter

6:00 p.m.      Hannah

6:30 p.m.      Bryce

7:00 p.m.      Chloe

7:30 p.m.      Ahlon

Conference Schedule

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Mrs. Ehret-Room 206

  

4:30 p.m.      Addison

4:45 p.m.      Allie

5:00 p.m.      Harrison

5:30 p.m.      Jack

6:00 p.m.      Andersen

6:30 p.m.      Tammy

7:00 p.m.      Carley

7:30 p.m.      Anya