One of the songs from our second grade play is titled "Lotsa Latkes." What better way to bring meaning to the children that by frying lots of latkes in our classroom? Fortunately, Mrs. Morris has a blender recipe and our wonderful parent helpers stopped by to cook. While enjoying the traditional potato pancakes with sour cream and applesauce, the children also learned about a menorah, and played dreidle with Hershey Kisses gelt!
Click on the link to see Mrs. Phillips read this hilarious book of the month!
Happy Birthday Mrs. Morris! Just yesterday we were learning about figures of speech and here we are today learning what 'Over The Hill' means. Just kidding! You are special and deserve a special day! 
Yesterday we used our white board tiles and dry erase markers for calendar math. WOW! Each child got an opportunity to write their own answer. Today we identified the calendar pattern, counted our groups of 5 and 10, showed how to make $.60 using pennies, nickels, and quarters, and other skills. Calendar math will never be the same!
We had a day of orange fun in October. The children helped the teachers clean out pumpkins. We wore orange clothes and ate orange foods (Cheetos, cantalope, carrots, cheese, and Cheese-Its). We decorated small foam pumpkins and played Autumn Bingo. 
