Adventures of a Young Educator : 2013

My New Classroom :)

Welcome to Ms. Gibson's 2nd grade classroom. It's finally finished! It took almost three weeks to get to this point, but I'm so happy with the way it turned out. I went with a black and neon color combination to give the classroom a exciting look.

My door with some positive words of wisdom.

I used chalkboard paint on the back of this old bookshelf. The children can create beautiful drawings whenever they want.

Cozy library corner

My reading chair. It's one of my favorite parts of the room :)

Open House is tomorrow...wish me luck!

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Math Madness

Since this past week was PSSAs, I wanted to give the kids a break from the serious stuff and show them that math can be fun.

Students were given a shopping list and grocery store guides. They needed to find the items on the list using the shopping guide and add up the total.

We played a review game to refresh our memories on the concepts we've learned over the past few months. When a team answered a question right, they got a piece to create a burger. Once their hamburger had 10 pieces, they win the game.

We reviewed bar graphs using Froot Loops. Yum!

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Earth Day

With Earth Day right around the corner, I had my class write their promise to help make the environment a better place. We colored globes and decorated them with oatmeal painted green to look textured.

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Post PSSA Celebrations

Ahh I can't believe I haven't updated in over a week. Well we had the lovely PSSA testing over the past week and Wednesday was our last day. I figured the kids were going to need to celebrate their accomplishments so we made our own homemade chalk. I also had the students create tennis rackets out of paper plates and we used balloons as the balls. The kids had a wonderful time out in the sun.