2nd Week of Second Grade

This week I was in charge of walk to tiers.  Tiers is only a half hour of the school day.  During this time I read "How To Eat Fried Worms"  by Thomas Rockwell and the students participated in fun activities related to the story.  Mrs. Morris did an activity that I believe the students will definitely remember years from now.  Last week, she brought in hotdogs and had the students pretend they were worms.  The students were encouraged to dip their "worms" into various condiments just like the boy did in the story.  I watched the students and could tell that they had a great time pretending to eat worms.  This lesson has inspired me to try to make each lesson exciting so that the students want to participate.  Tomorrow, I will finish reading the story, and we will celebrate by eating a mud dessert with gummy worms.  Walk to tiers is a valuable half hour out of the school day and my goal is to make the most out of that time.  This week I will be introducing a new unit.  I will be teaching the students about United States symbols.  Each day the students will learn about a new symbol.  By the end of the two week unit the students will have a booklet which will contain nine major symbols that represent the United States.  This will be my first time teaching a Social Studies unit for two weeks.  I hope that the students will find the lessons to be interesting and not boring.  I can honestly say that I never enjoyed Social Studies in elementary school.  

I loved being able to celebrate Halloween with my second grade class.  I was happy to see that every child was laughing and smiling.  The homeroom parents were so kind and put on a wonderful Halloween party for the students.