Happy Holidays!

Code at home! Teach your parents something!

Click this ---->  Hour of Code Student Resources 

Look at our Can Castle!

Room 11 brought in over ONE HUNDRED CANS! It really feels great to help others!

Congratulations team for a job well done!

#focus #skillful #lifelonglearners

We'll miss you Miss Stephanie!

Thanks for all your help in our class so far! We can't wait to see you again next year!

The HOUR of CODE is here!

This week we have been working on the HOUR OF CODE. We must admit that we've actually coded for longer than an hour because the students are having so much fun and learning some high-level concepts. What a great opportunity!

Look who won his certificate:



Keep up the good work class!

Best Friends Forever!!

Mr. Slay really likes to monkey around!

Spaghetti Cat.

Use your BRAINz! Don't use drugs!!

We're working on our Red Ribbon Week Door!

Just wait until you see what these artists came up with!

Exciting SCIENCE leads to great WRITING!

Ziploc bags .......... $2.99

Box of pencils .......$1.49

Giving students something memorable to write about: PRICELESS

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Natalie October 22, 2015 

The Science Experiment

This morning we did a science experiment. First we needed to get the supplies. We got sharpened pencils and Ziploc bags. Next, we filled the bag with water. Leonardo turned the water on for Mr.Slay. Then Eddie and Angel held the bag of water over Heaven’s head. Last we poked pencils through the bag one by one. Not a drop came out. Mr. Slay put 24 pencils through the bag in all! It was cool. I hope we can do it again.

The future is bright, NO DRUGS in sight!

ELD Links Season Sorts!

Crystal will knock you off your socks with GOOGLE DOCS!

Tonight she can login to show her parents what we did!

Eat your vegetables...

... Or they might eat you!

Look who showed up during our COLLECTIVE NOUN lesson!

How to PROPERLY INTRODUCE yourself!

courtesy of ELD Links.

Adding the SMART way!

High-level VOCABULARY

Marcos isn't PERSNICKETY about learning!

Natalie is one of our Jiji Masters!

Rubber, Metal, Cloth

These vs. Those

So what do you think of second grade so far?

No way!! Noe is doing Algebra? In second grade?!

Noe has demonstrated an understanding of Fact Families that is so deep, that even a High School Algebra teacher would be impressed! Great work!

Heaven shows us Fact Families on an iPad!

English Language Development!

Cactus Art!

Look what these artist made today!

Fact Families! Plus: Tonight's BONUS!

Introducing the 2015-2016 Second-Grade Class!

This is a smart group! It's going to be an AMAZING YEAR!

Today Angel received an award from the POLICE CHIEF! Way to go Angel!

Want to Practice Telling Time (Click Here!)

For the FIRST TIME in the HISTORY of SECOND GRADE... (scroll down!)

***** Drumroll please!!! *****

Now that's what I call 

ACCELERATED READERS!

How long are Angel's glasses? Let's find out!

The girls use TEAMWORK and COOPERATION to measure Miss Maya!

A career-oriented bunch of SCHOLARS!

This smart group can be whatever they set their sights on! 

I know these kids will definitely be living their dreams!

McTeacher Night!

What a GREAT TEAM I work with at Betsy Ross! Thanks PTA for the fun opportunity to help out!

More ENGINEERING?! Yes please! Thanks to our ROBOTICS LAB!

Ages 15 and up? Not for these overachievers!

STEM: Engineering

This week our class focused on the ENGINEERING aspect of STEM. Not only did the kids learn to build using 3-dimensional objects (and shapes), they also learned to find problem-solving insight from their build attempts in order to make future builds more successful.

We call this PERSEVERANCE and GRIT. You can call it LIFE SKILLS.

So what SHAPE do you think it was that the kids found out was the sturdiest? 

Do you think it was a CUBE?!

It turns out the PYRAMIDS are the strongest shape to build with! Good job!