Our First Class Blog Post

Hello!  We are excited about making our first class blog post.  We are a second grade class in an elementary school in Colorado.  We have an awesome principal named Mrs. Hepworth. 

We have a big playground.  We have the hippo slides (it looks like a hippo and has three different slides), monkey bars, swings, a jungle gym, a big hill, and places to play basketball.  When there is no snow on the ground we have a bucket with hula-hoops, jump ropes, basketballs, footballs, soccer balls, and regular balls on the playground.

Our school has two classes in each grade level except for first grade.  First grade has three classes.  We have pre-school through fifth grade in our elementary school.  Our class has 18 students.  We have 9 boys and 9 girls.  We have classroom jobs.  We get to keep these jobs for an entire month.  Everyone has a job.  Our jobs are: pencil sharpener, calendar helper, special helper, line leader, computer helper, paper passers, lunch box helpers, librarians, attendance helper, line ender, floor checker, mailbox helpers, and light helper. 

We get to do our calendar math on the SmartBoard.  We are learning about measuring with centimeters and meters.  We measured things in our classroom.  We take ACE tests after reading books.  These tests are also called AR tests.  We are writing personal recounts or to tell about a time stories.  We are learning how to type using Dance Mat Typing.  It is one of our favorite things to do.  We are getting to be very fast typers.  We get to go to P.E. and Music four days every week.  We go our school library one day a week.  We go to the computer lab one day a week.  Sometimes we earn extra computer lab time by doing our homework.

We have been checking our weather every day during our calendar time.  We have had mostly super cold days-10 degrees and colder.  Today the temperature was 11 below zero degrees at 8:40 am.  We haven’t been able to go outside for recess for at least one week!  It has been too cold.