Wacky Wednesday

Lunch
1. Chicken Patty
2. Oven Roasted Turkey
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

 Last night matthew had a basketball game.  His team, the Pirates had 8 points at half time.  Then they scored 7 more points.  How many points did they score in all?  Good thing they won.  It was a tough team.

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Tagged Tuesday

Lunch
1. Beef and Cheese Nachos
2. Grilled Cheese
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

   what if I forget a period at the end of my sentence today?  What would you do?  I've been noticing you've been so much better at punctuation in your writing  That is usually unheard of.  See, you are a hard working class.

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Marvelous Monday

Lunch

1. Chicken Nuggets
2. Pasta
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

   Today I get to tell you many stories.  i love telling stories.  today's stories have numbers in them though. Oh boy!  We might even use food with our stories too.  No Way!

   Oh and just to warn you, I may have another gross gum Math question for you this afternoon. Yep!

Get ready for a super day!  I couldn't wait to see you.

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

High Five Friday

Lunch
1. Pizza
2. Hot fish Sandwich
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  If we don't get to morning message, I will give you your prize later if you answer the question.  Today we are Going to the Steam Lab to learn about Study Island.  It's a great website that has fabulous games to play after you answer questions.  i love it!

Have a wonderful day!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Thinking Thursday

Lunch
1. chili cheese scoops
2. Grilled Turkey
3. Salad

Dearest Realer,

   I just want to say thank you to layla, rez, and abram.  they did an amazing job helping clean up yesterday.  Any help cleaning up is just awesome. It shows you care about others, not just thinking about yourself.  What a great group of kids.

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Wacky Wednesday

Lunch

1. Chicken Patty

2. Oven Roasted Turkey

3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

wow!  It's amazing what we can do when we work super hard and there aren't as many blurt outs.  I wonder what we can do to keep this going?  I also wonder what the winner should receive?  something to think about and decide.

Love You,

Mrs. Miesner

Tagged Tuesday

Lunch

1. Hot Dog
2. Pasta and Meatballs
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  we are going to move seats today right after morning meeting.  it will be a chance For you to meet new team members and develop new problem solving skills as you work with new people.  What a great opportunity.

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Marvelous Monday

Lunch

1. Cheeseburger
2. Chicken and Rice
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

    today is going to be a great day   I can't wait to learn with you.  Today is the day for the Math gum question.  Gross!!  

    By the way.  Your Friday's Show What You Knows were like, out of this world.  I will show you a few in your SeeSaw folders.  Goodness Gracious, you rocked it!  Keep going this week as we work with Doubles.  It's one of my favorites in Math.  

Have fun today!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

High Five Friday

Lunch
1. Pizza
2. Chicken Pot Pie
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  I can't wait for today.  The first thing is I can't wait to see you show off in Math and Reading today.  it Will be super easy for you. After specials we get to work on our Pledge of Allegiance skits.  Super Cool!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Thinking Thursday

Lunch
1. Hot ham and cheese
2. Beef and Cheese Nachos
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  I'm really excited About our play today.  We get to focus on working together and planning who is going to say what line and who is going to act it out.   You also get to decide if you want costumes or not.  Pretty cool!

Work really hard today.

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Amazing Math Times!!!

The kiddos went to their BUILDS Math stations to work together on different activities all focused around quick ways to make 10.  They did amazing!

Wacky Wednesday

Lunch

1. Chicken Patty
2. Oven Roasted Turkey
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  The way you thought yesterday about the Pledge was amazing. You actually figured it out without me.  The way you spoke to each other sounded like you were in college.  today we will finish.  Then we will create a play to act out what each part of the Pledge means. This is what we will be working on for the rest of the week.  Super Fun!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Tagged Tuesday

Lunch
1. Chicken Fajita Soft Taco
2. Meatball Sub
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

   You are such a wonderful class.  i truly love coming to school everyday just to see you.  you are working so hard as well.  I looked over your Science Show What You knows and man oh man did you do well.  That's only because you worked hard and listened.  That was your choice, not mine.

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Marvelous Monday

Lunch

1. Chicken Nuggets
2. Hot ham and cheese
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

   i can't wait for our lessons this week, actually today.  You are going to be doing the finding, not just having to sit on the carpet and listen to me.  It's so cool to see you grow and be strong enough to do that.  I'm adding in some crazy math things this week as well.  One of them will be held together by gum.  Gross!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

High Five Friday

Lunch

1. Pepperoni Pizza
2. Chicken Patty
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

    i'm noticing you working very hard on your morning Challenge.  We should time ourselves to see how long it takes us.  
    Today will be very busy.  We have a lot to take care of right off the bat.  Let's go!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Thinking Thursday

Lunch

1. French Toast
2. Corn Dog
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  Today is going to be an exciting day.  in Math we get to learn a new routine.  You will love it.  my students last year couldn't wait for BUILDS everyday.  Aren't you loving our new book No Talking.  I can't wait to read it today.  It helps us understand what we are studying in Reading.  Super cool!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Wacky Wednesday

Lunch

1. Chicken Patty
2. Oven Roasted Turkey
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

   What  a wonderful day together.  I can't wait to learn with you about setting and how to get ideas in writing.  i bet you want more writing time today.  i also found some good music that is supposed to help you get ideas.  

Keep working so hard!  You guys are already growing so much.  Remember we need to have all routines down this week.  You can do it.

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Tagged Tuesday

Lunch

1. Chicken Fajita Soft Taco
2. Meatball Sub
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  i caught some of you reading the morning message last week without me.  Wow!  you are already starting to do things without me.  that shows me you are truly a hard working class.  Keep going!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

High Five Friday

Lunch

1.  Cheese Pizza
2.  BBQ Rib
3.  Salad

Dearest Realers,

   Please have your parents check out our blog.  Yesterday was just so exciting.  You learned more than I ever did in Second Grade.  You are truly amazing!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Cow Eye Dissection Lab

We did it!!  In an effort to increase interest in Science and truly practice using our Science tools we dissected a cow's eye.  In addition we learned how closely it resembles the human eye and how our eye works to send messages to the brain.  So much took place in just this one lesson today.  We taught and used our non fiction text features, took notes on a diagram and used our Science observation skills.  Goodness, what a great day!

You can see here, the diagrams we used and how we practiced taking notes.  I feel like I'm back in college, but wait it's just Second Grade at JTSD.  

After I dissected parts of the eye, we passed them around on plates, so the students could actually use all of their senses to gain a better understanding of what we were doing.



No Fear!!  We've got this!






This is me, touching the best lens from the eye that I've ever gotten out of the four years I've done this.  It was AWESOME!  We used the lens to magnify a piece of writing.  Super cool!


Here we are cutting into the Cornea.  Super cool to see!

And, this is the before picture.  The eye just by itself.

Thinking Thursday

Lunch
1.  Cheeseburger
2. Chicken and Waffle
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  Today is going to be such an exciting day.  i can't wait to learn with you.  If you find a mistake in my letter this morning, could you correct it and put it on the Park Your Thought board?

Thank You!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Back to Back Coin Counting Games

This week we're working with coins and of course playing games to see how fast we can count the money.  Oh yeah, we're getting speedy using the tricks we've learned.  Identifying and counting coins is a big second grade skill that is assessed for the first time at this age.  Practice counting your spare change at home.  We've got this!

 X

Wacky Wednesday

Lunch

1. Chicken Patty
2. Oven Roasted Turkey
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  I'm still working on the jobs list.  Please be patient.  What do you think patient means?  How can we be patient with those around us in class today? HMM!!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner

Tagged Tuesday

Lunch

1. Beef and Cheese Nachos
2. Grilled Chicken Sandwich
3. Salad

Dearest Realers,

  You are absolutely amazing!  Each and everyone of you has something special that helps our classroom.   I can't believe how many of you are asking for jobs.  I'm going to work on that today to make sure everyone has a job.  It also needs to be just the right job for you.  

Thank you Realers!

Love You,
Mrs. Miesner