Week 4

We had our second STAR of the Week, Denny. Thank you for sharing and bringing in your mom to read that awesome story with the hidden mouse. The kids really enjoyed it.

We also celebrated John-Paul's birthday. He brought in delicious vegan cupcakes. His mom also came and read "Diary of a Worm" to us. John-Paul even read some of the book. He did a great job. Thank you! The kids had a fabulous time.

Phonics with Ms. Cathy

We also have been having Ms. Cathy come in and help us with our Spelling and Phonics the past few weeks. We love having her in the room. She also took us on a "word search" with our spelling sounds. My group had to search for the short and long "I."

 

 

Doing our word sorts first.

 

Thanks, Ms. Cathy for making phonics fun :)

Singapore Math

We've been doing a lot of math lately. We are working on addition with and without regrouping. We use the base 10 blocks to help us visually see how to do it.

The idea is to move from the concrete (the blocks) to the abstract (doing the problems on paper).

Mo Willems: Author Study

The past few weeks we have been studying Mo Willems who is one of our class' favorite authors. He write books like "Knuffle Bunny" and "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus." We discussed the differences in his books and watched an interview with him. Since we are such big fans of his writing, we decided to write our own book. We brainstormed book titles and what it should be about. We finally decided our book should be called "Don't Let the Pigeon Go to the Movies." Each student wrote a page. It turned out great.

 Doing some research...

Some rough drafts...

 

Our final product!

 

The kids love reading their own book!

The First Few Weeks

We've had a great first few weeks of school! We've learned a lot in a short amount of time :)

Practicing our Spelling words with wiki stix...

 

 

 

W also had our first STAR of the Week! Thanks for sharing, John! It was also his birthday that week. Thank you to his mom, Kendra for coming to read us the story about the New Orleans Saints. The kids really enjoyed it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd Grade at a New School

I am so excited to be here at Good Shepherd. This will be my 3rd year teaching and my 2nd year in 2nd grade. I'm thrilled to be a part of the community here at Good Shepherd.

A little bit about me:

I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and moved to Rochester, New York when I was 11. After I graduated from an all girls Catholic high school, my family moved back to Indianapolis. I attended college at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and received both my undergraduate and graduate degrees from there.

I moved to Denver about a year ago and have loved every minute of it. My husband, Matt and I enjoy hiking and biking through the beautiful mountains of Colorado. We like to take our dog, Lucy out for hikes too. In our spare time we also like to try out new restaurants and cook food together. We consider ourselves "foodies." Matt and I really enjoy traveling as well. We went to Rome with my family this past summer and saw the Pope!

I'm looking forward to a great year in 2nd Grade here at Good Shepherd.

Megan Stovall

Walk-a-thon

We had our school's annual Walk-a-thon. It was a gorgeous day outside and we had lots of helpful moms.  The kids did great! They cheered and kept up! We got to eat grilled hot dogs outside for lunch and then a snow cone truck came! The kids loved it. I had one kid tell me "This is the best day of my life!" haha. It was sweet.