Paper Airplane Competition

We folded paper airplanes today and had a class competition!  Our top 3 winners were Michael, Logan, & Dominic.  Then another competition with the top three and Dominic won!  The 2nd grade competition was fun too.  Here's the top winners:

The 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place winners for the 2nd grade competition!

Here's the winners for the Girls' Competition:

Here's the winners from the Boys' Competition:

Hoops

The students made a circle and passed the hula hoop around without using their hands. Since we were over at Crestwood parkwe stopped to play ay the playground before heading back to school. A special thanks to all the parent volunteers! It was a fun filled day!

Stacking Cups

The students enjoyed the cup stacking activity! After that they enjoyed a snack and a break.

Puzzle Fun

Next stop was a puzzle competition. The students enjoyed all the field day activities today!

Laundry Day Relay

Our first stop this afternoon for field day. Lots of fun hanging the laundry!

Social Studies

We just finished learning about America's Government.  They learned about laws and leaders.  They learned about the being a good citizen and citizens' rights and responsibilities.  There won't be a test on this unit.  The students enjoyed putting together a puzzle!

Summer Reading Club

A librarian from the Oak Bend library told us about the Summer Reading Club.  Your child can join anytime now.  Keep track of your child's reading and turn it in by August 9th.  It's a great program to encourage summer reading and it has some great prizes!  I'm so excited about the new incentive this year. If Long School has the most readers participating this summer, Long School will get a special performer to come to our school!  Please consider participating!!

I hope EVERYONE will be reading each day this summer!!

Xtramath News

Congratulations to Conrad on completing Subtraction on Xtramath!  I'm so proud of your hard work and dedication!

Your child can continue to work on their math fact fluency over the summer on this website.

Simple Machines at Home

We borrowed Mrs. Craden's laptops and started our Google Presentation on Simple Machines at Home.  A special thanks to the students who took pictures of simple machines around their house.  The students downloaded the photos to Drive and started their Google Presentations!

Science - Simple Machines at School

Three groups of students had the chance to walk around Long School and find simple machines.  They took their pictures and made a book on StoryKit to show what they learned.  They shared their stories with their group.  We're hoping some students will take a picture of a simple machine at home so we can make a Google Presentation about Simple Machines at home.  Here's a few pictures of the students sharing their stories:.com

Math Review

Tomorrow we'll be reviewing adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers tomorrow and the test for Ch. 29 will be on Wednesday, May 21st.  The students are doing great with this skill!

Fun & Busy Week

The students have worked hard this week!  We reviewed numbers to 1,000 and the students have learned to add and subtract 3-digit numbers!  Whew!  The subtraction is a little tricky but we'll continue to practice more next week!  In writing the student finished their iPoetry books and we also met with our buddies yesterday and shared our published poetry books. Their published poetry books were sent home yesterday and I hope you enjoyed them! The students have really learned a lot about poems and are quite clever writers!  Today was probably the best day of the week since the ice cream truck stopped by Long and we all enjoyed some ice cream! Yum!  Then probably the most fun of all was the Bubble Truck.  The students enjoyed playing and dancing in the bubbles and at the very end of our bubble time it started to rain.  As some students said, "The rain made the bubbles even more fun."  Here are a few bubble pictures!

Buzzing About Bees!

Our next guest speaker is teaching us all about bees!  She showed us some of the different kinds of bees that live in Missouri. Did you know that there are 450 different kinds of bees that live in Missouri?  We also learned how important bees are to our world!  

Guest Speaker from the Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka

We've learned a lot about wolves today.  The students had great questions and they enjoyed touching a wolf pelt.  Ask your child what they've learned!

Earth Day Fun

The students have learned more about Earth Day and are creating t-shirts with an Earth Day slogan on it.  

Mad Science Fun

Our first stop on our Science Day we enjoyed the Mad Scientist activities.  This was our favorite activity because it changed colors!  

Numbers to 1,000

The students have been learning about numbers to 1,000.  They've been comparing the numbers with greater than, less than and equal to signs.  The students have been playing Dino Math Tracks and moving ahead and back by thousands, hundreds tens and ones.  We'll be finishing up this unit and the test will be on Tuesday, May 13th.

Cursive Review

All of the cursive letters have been introduced a few weeks ago.  We are reviewing the letter formation and practicing a bit each day.  I've been encouraging students to write their first name in cursive and some can even write their last name in cursive too.

Photo Journals

The students were very excited to share their photo journals today.  The cover photo is a picture of your child on the 1st day of school and they've grown and changed a bit through this 2nd grade year.  After a field trip or event, the students had the opportunity to write about their experience and now at the end of the year, they have a little photo journal of some of the highlights of 2nd grade.  A special thanks to Mrs. Powell, Mrs. McRoy and Mrs. Atkinson who helped out with the typing. I've certainly enjoyed this year because YOUR children make this job the best job in the world!