Finish Acrostic Poems

Please finish your acrostic poems today. Once you have finished, you may login to Mathletics.  If you need your Username and Password, click on this link:

2nd Grade Mathletics Logins

Introduction to PowerPoint

Today, everyone will create an acrostic poem using PowerPoint.  We will use the word SNOW and come up with descriptive words that begin with S, N, O and W.  We will learn how to:

·                Insert a text box

·                Change the font size

·                Change the font color

·                Insert clip art

Drawing Landforms With Pixie

Using Pixie, everyone will draw a picture that includes at least 4 different landforms.  You may choose from the following list

continents

plains

prairies

hills

mountains

plateaus

canyons

valleys

bays

coasts

islands

peninsulas

When you have finished, you may try out these map games online. Click on the link below the picture.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK ON INSTRUCTIONS FIRST!

http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/gamespages/treasure.html

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/interactive/maps-tools-adventure-island/kd/?ar_a=3

Practice Cardinal Directions

http://www.mathsisfun.com/games/direction-nsew-.html

http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Flight-Rescue-Compass-Directions-420

http://mrnussbaum.com/news-pizza-city/

When you have finished all 3 games, you will login to Mathletics.  Don't forget to use this link to look up your user name and password: 2nd Grade Mathletics Logins.  Make sure you write your user name and password on a piece of paper!

Christmas is coming...

Today, everyone will use Pixie to make a Christmas drawing for someone special.  After you have printed your drawing, you may do anything on my blog.

Welcome to the National Hour of Code!

This year, schools across America are taking part in an "Hour of Code" project.  We will begin by watching a short video about why learning how use code is important. After the video, everyone will click on the link below and play the game to help the Angry Bird catch the pig.

http://learn.code.org/hoc/1

If there is time, we will work on the ipads and use an app called Kodable: 

Spelling Review Today

1) Practice hard and soft g sound - circle the correct answer:
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/files/hardSoft_c_g/hard_soft_g_2.html

2) Hard and soft g sound - true or false:
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/files/hardSoft_c_g/hard_soft_g_3.html

3) Fill in the blank:
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/files/hardSoft_c_g/hard_soft_g_7.html

4) Both hard g and hard c together:
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/files/hardSoft_c_g/hard_soft_c_20.html

5) Both soft g and soft c together:
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/files/hardSoft_c_g/hard_soft_c_21.html

6) Double consonants (GO BACK TO BLOG AFTER DOUBLE CONSONANT GAME)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/activities_y6/activity1.shtml

7) Double consonants (ss and ff):
http://roythezebra.com/reading-games/double-consonants-ff-ss.html

8) Consonant clusters (bl and br):
http://roythezebra.com/reading-games/double-consonants-bl-br.html

9) Consonant clusters (cr and cl):
http://roythezebra.com/reading-games/double-consonants-cl-cr.html

10) Practice with sentences:
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/grammar/gr2/launcher.html?qid=0201