Welcome to February! We've had a very busy and exciting week in second grade. Technology and a groundhog were the highlights of the week! We began our week anticipating the weather forecast from a special groundhog by the name of Punxsutawney Phil! We made weather predictions of our own, wrote & typed letters to Punxsy Phil with our special requests (which we turned into a class book), made "groundhog" graphic organizers, and created a giant pictograph in the hall! Eleven children predicted that Punxsy would see his shadow (more Winter weather), while 8 others thought he would not see his shadow (early Spring). We were super excited to see this video on Thursday morning http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/punxsutawney-phils-groundhog-day-prediction-15497076! 
Here we are using our laptops to type our letters and take AR tests at our desks...
And here is our giant pictograph (as you can see we had to continue the graph on the ceiling)...
Here is one of the links that we used to research Punxsy and his hometown in Pennsylvania-http://www.stormfax.com/ghogday.htm. As you can see, he is sort of a big deal!
As I mentioned before, technology was a big focus this week. Not only did we type our letters on our lap tops (above), we used our class set of Ipod Touches to reinforce skills taught in math. We loved the Math Ninja and Pizza Fractions apps! As you can tell the kiddos were pretty excited!
Finally, we would like to thank Mrs. Lisa Campbell, our own WGS Tech Gal, for bringing the Ipads to our classroom on Thursday! We learned all about how to "hold our Ipads like babies" and how to use them appropriately. We even practiced two-digit addition with regrouping on a cool math app. No pictures are available this time. I was too busy playing with my own Ipad to take any!
Look for our letters to Punxsutawney Phil in the lobby this week. Our class will be in the writers' spotlight for the next two weeks!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Willett
Cool! Looks like everyone had a great week!
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