Today Was Buy-Sell Day

Today was Buy-Sell Day. We got to go to room to room to buy things. Everybody was so excited that it was Buy-Sell Day. We sold lots of stuff today. We also got lots of stuff today. Some of us sold out and some didn't. People were selling really cool things like cars, stuffed animals, bookmarks, balloons, bracelets, cookies, and stickers. Some people made little crayon boxes to sell. We were excited to go out and buy things. People wanted Buy-Sell Day to get here quicker. It's great that people thought of Buy-Sell Day. Our class was last the first round to buy things and first the second time to buy things. We had to rearrange our desks. Have a happy first day of December!!

Getting Ready for the Big Day

Tomorrow is Buy-Sell Day. There will be lots of cool stuff to buy. Some people are selling cars all kinds of toys. Some of us may sell bookmarks, balloons, cookies, locker freshners, and stuffed animals. Buy Sell Day we will buy and we will sell items. We've already decorated our posters. We'll move our posters from our lockers to our desks. We'll have to clean up our garbage after selling. We'll put our sales items on our desk. Tomorrow we need to make sure we have our things to sell in our bookbag. Some of us will be busy tonight making our items that we are selling. We have to be good sales people. We need to be clean so that people want to buy things. On Buy-Sell Day all the second graders will be buying and selling. We might run out of our tickets. We are looking forward to Buy-Sell Day. Buy-Sell Day is going to be FUN!

Earning Tickets

It's really great that we started earning tickets for Buy-Sell Day. Buy-Sell Day is on Friday, November 30, 2007. We have a tan wallet that we put our tickets in to keep safe. The tickets are orange or blue. Before Buy-Sell Day we can look on the lockers to see what everyone is selling. Earning tickets means you need to listen and follow directions the first time. You need to participate in class discussions. Some of us have a lot of tickets, but some of us don't. Some are earning tickets and some are losing tickets. In some of our reading classes we have posters that tell us how to earn tickets. Earning tickets can be fun, but losing them is not. Some of us have more than 50 tickets. Lots of us are trying to be on our best behavior to get more tickets in reading class. Some of us need to work harder to earn more tickets. Remember to be good on Buy-Sell Day or else you might lose tickets.

Tickets

The tickets we are earning are called Wash tickets. We're going to have Buy-Sell Day on Friday. You can buy stuff and prices are going to be 5 tickets or more. All kinds of different things are being sold. On Friday, reading will be different because our rooms will be full of things to sell. You can buy really cool stuff on Buy-Sell Day. Most of us are earning lots of tickets really fast. We went "locker shopping" to see what everyone is going to be selling. Lots of people are selling pencils, paper, and books. Other things are video games, cards, snacks, bookmarks, and other goodies. Stickers are also being sold. We don't know who is going first or last. The teachers will draw out a classroom to see the order. Have a great afternoon.

Thanksgiving

Today is four days after Thanksgiving. Some people had one or two Thanksgivings at their relatives. Others went to their friend's homes. One person had her cousins and go up to her brother and scare him. Thanksgiving food included: turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, corn, beans, peas, jello with oranges, cranberries, bread, snicker salad, hot dogs, mashed potatoes, chocolate pie, rice, cheesecake, vanilla ice cream, apple pie, and lots more. Some people celebrated birthdays and pet's birthdays on Thanksgiving weekend. Some dads went hunting for turkey. Hope you didn't eat too much turkey!

Wednesday

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Buy Sell Day

We need to use good printing to earn Wash tickets. If you are not being good, you may lose a ticket. Some of us need to work harder to earn more tickets. If you are a good listener and worker you earn 5 tickets. If your paper is done well, you earn tickets. You need to bring back a gold paper which has what you are going to sell by TOMORROW! It's your responsibility to take care of your tickets. If you lose them, they may be gone. Some of us have lots of tickets. You will be able to sell your things on Nov. 30th to earn more tickets. People earned different amounts of tickets so far. One way to lose a ticket is to not listen. We call them Wash tickets because that's the first part of the name of our school. Some people call them W tickets or Washington tickets. Buy - Sell Day is one week from this Friday. Have a good day. Tomorrow we'll let you know our Thanksgiving plans.

Buy - Sell Day

Buy Sell Day will be Monday, November 30, 2007. Buy - Sell Day is when all second graders will sell things they have brought from home. We earn tickets by being an active listener. You can earn 5 tickets for that. When you read quietly, you earn tickets. If you get your spelling test correct, you get 5 tickets. We have to sign a sheet for Buy - Sell Day. Some students may be selling stuffed animals, old toys that they do not play with any more, bracelets that they made, paper airplanes, necklaces that they made, football cards, candy, homemade stuff, cookies, juice, pencils, toy cars, brownies, apple cider, and posters. We'll tell you more tomorrow.

Weekend Plans

There are lots of football games on tv and lots of us like to watch them. Some may go see the Hawkeyes play. It's hunting season and some may go hunting for pheasants. Maybe some will go squirrel hunting. Swimming will be fun on Saturday at the YMCA. Some of us will have an early Thanksgiving this weekend with our cousins or grandparents or stepparents. Some of us might watch movies or read books. Others may play outside. Friends may be coming over to our houses and maybe stay over night. Some people will make breakfast for others and help their mom. Others may go dirt biking. A student's family is going to a hockey game, play hockey in Kansas, and then play another hockey game. Some people might be thinking about what they are going to sell at Buy-Sell Day. Others may be going to Council Bluffs. There are six students that will be going to basketball practice on Saturday. Have a "gobbling" good early Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving

Pilgrims couldn't go to the church they wanted to attend. The Pilgrims sailed in the Mayflower. They didn't have much food on their voyage. Some of them got sick and some died. In the beginning the Pilgrims didn't have much to eat. The Native Americans and the Pilgrims had a feast that lasted three days. Native Americans showed the Pilgrims how to plant food and how to hunt. They also taught them to put dead fish as a fertilizer for their plants. They also had to make new homes. They had to use an ax to cut down their trees. After the feast they played games. They had a cornucopia on their table. The Native Americans and Pilgrims became friends. The kinds of food they ate were corn, beans, and squash. We found out that Thanksgiving comes in the month of November and is the fourth Thursday in that month. Have a good day.

Almost a Normal Day

Hopefully today will be leftover day. If we run out of time, we will have it on Friday. Today is an early out because the teachers have a meeting. We are dismissed at 1:00 pm. That's a two hour early dismissal. It's going to be really fun today because we get out early. After school some people may have friends over or go to their house. Today we had Art. One of us might try making an invention. Some of us might go to our babysitter's. One of us has a doctor's appointment. We are first to lunch today. Little smokies will be our lunch today. We will talk to you tomorrow.

Last Day of Basic Skills

We finished Basic Skills today!!! Tomorrow we will have leftover snacks. There are all kinds of snacks left for us. Ethan and Nicole brought snacks. We had cookies and apple juice. Some people worked their hardest on Basic Skills. Some of us thought it was fun. We can't believe we finished them that quick. We worked on Science in our Basic Skills. Some people's favorite one was the question about the plant. Some were easy. Some were hard. We won't have Basic Skills this afternoon because we finished them. The last page was about gardens. One of the last pages had a dictionary on it. It was kind of hard. We are so happy that we are DONE with Basic Skills. We did ten pages today. Basic Skills are fun and some of us are glad that we're done. We will talk to you later.

Day 4 of Basic Skills

People thought the Basic Skills were medium or harder. Today we did the Social Studies part. It asked about what type of buildings people live in big cities. We did nine or ten pages. We did some math today. Tomorrow is our last day for Basic Skills. Cody and Heather brought snacks for today. We had cheese puffs and juice. We think Basic Skills are fun and cool. We had to listen a lot today for Basic Skills. There were some that were hard. One of the hard ones asked about continents. Lots of people thought the pages were harder. We stretch every day after Basic Skills. When we stretch, we stretch for about 2 minutes and then we go back to work.

Day 3 of Basic Skills

We did math in Basic Skills today. We had to listen a lot again on our Basic Skills. Basic Skills were awesome and fun. We won't have Basic Skills in the afternoon again today. We did a lot of telling kinds of money in Basic Skills. We think we completed 10 pages today in Basic Skills. In Basic Skills we also had to do a lot of thinking. There was one that was hard. It was about snow dogs. Another one was hard and it was about math. Some of us thought that Basic Skills were easy, medium, and hard. We need to keep working hard on this next week. Basic Skills also had some graph problems in it today. Basic Skills are cool and really fun. We had cupcakes and juice from Cale and Miranda.

Second Day of Basic Skills

Basic Skills were harder today. Basic Skills are fun. Some people thought they were easier today. Others thought they were medium. Today we were tested on listening and language. Some words were not spelled right. You needed to listen a bunch. We fixed sentences that were missing capitals and punctuation marks. We did nine or ten pages today. Yesterday we think we did 20 pages. We had snacks this morning. Emily and Corey brought snacks. We hope we are really good at them. One was really hard. It was about camping. We aren't having Basic Skills in the afternoon. We'll take some more tomorrow.

Basic Skills

Today in the morning we had Basic Skills tests. Right before recess, we had a snack. We had sugar cookies and white grape juice. Basic Skills are kind of fun. After lunch and recess we will have some more. Because of Basic Skills, reading and math were shorter. We had regular PE and recess. Almost all of the grades are doing them. These are some of the grades that are taking the tests: 2nd grade through 8th grade. We think some of Basic Skills are easy, medium, and hard. We're trying our very best. Talk to you later.

A Great Day

Our class had a great day today. First of all we all followed directions RIGHT away. We ALL brought our homework and did the happy dance after library checkout. We listened and danced to the YMCA song. We were first to lunch. Some people are writing about spiders and insects. Some of us checked out big books. In math today we talked about Venn diagrams. In reading we talked about capital letter and abbreviations. We ran out of time. More to come tomorrow.

Monday

We are back to school after our long weekend. There was basketball practice for some of us. After the practice, we played a basketball game. A lot of reading was done over the weekend. Some worked by using hammers and nails. Others had to do chores like cleaning the house. Shopping was done by some of us. There was a hockey game this weekend. One of the games was won by the girls. Arts and crafts were done by some people. Some of us were practicing for the Iowa Basic Skills Tests. We also visited relatives. Swimming at a hotel was done by some of us. Dance lessons were held at the Y. We all had a good weekend!!

Weekend Plans

Some people will have friends over to their house and may have a sleepover. Others may be going to Grandma's house and spend time with their family. Some of us may go to church on Sunday. It's hunting season and some students may be going along. Another person is having a hockey game in Omaha. Some people will be babysitting because of conferences. Some students will go to a farm and help out. Combine and tractor rides would be fun. Others may be outside riding horses. A few may be going shopping. Going swimming at the YMCA may happen for some students. Some students have swimming or basketball practice. A soccer game would be fun. Have a good weekend and see you on Monday!