Greetings from Tennessee- Thinking of y'all!

Mr. LeFevre's parents are acting hillbilly silly!  My apologies to our friends of the South...

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Joy!!!

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Act of giving! Well done!  Food items will be delivered to the food bank today!

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The Winter Sing was a great success! Check "Fun Activities" to view more pictures.

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Good math extensions can be found at the Scott Foreman math link below.  They should focus on the activities in chapters 4, 5 and 6.
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It's fun to share with your classmates!

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Recess spins!

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We had a writing prompt yesterday.  Students were SUPER focused and on task!

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Nature Trail walk today!!!

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The Pumpkin Book Projects arrived!  Sorry for the late posting (hurricane).  Look under "Fun Activities" for images of your favorite pumpkin characters.  A few did not fare well after the LONG weekend (hurricane).

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Strange times!  Be safe - See you all soon!  
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Skip counting is hard!

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If you are having a hard time opening Smartnotebook files, try downloading an older version of Smartnotebook from the following site http://smarttech.com/downloads.  The latest version is 11.0.
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We enjoyed D.E.A.R. today.  (Drop Everything And Read).

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Recess rocks!

We started our first math unit in the Common Core!!!

We started a lesson on place value where we tried to determine the location of certain numbers along a number line - stay tuned for more.
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Today we started FastMath!

This is a computer based fact fluency activity that we will perform 3x week.

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We are counting LARGE numbers

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Hi from Professional Development - The Grade 2 Team

Yeah - Mr. LeFevre was not selected for jury duty!  Civic duty is crucial, but the case was to be one or two months minimum.  I'm glad to be back in class!!!!

Download Smartnotebook software to view/use the Smartboard files we use in class..  You can also use Express Smarttech and use any Smartnotebook file without downloading software...  Click here for both.  I've also put a link in favorite links.
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Town Meeting Today!!!

Running Cast A Spell

check out NASA here

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Cool addition games click here

First writing prompt of the year.  We're focusing on beginning, middle, end - or character, setting, problem, solution...

Ready for math!

Mr. LeFevre learned how to use the blogger ap.

He also found a good online missing addened game at
http://www.fuelthebrain.com/Game/play.php?ID=1&act=Play
 

Thanks for a great open house!!!

Welcome families!!!!

N said, "Crayon resist was fun."

Welcome to the new year!!! Let's go 2012-2013!!!
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NO said, "We had field day this morning.  We also had lunch in the classroom."
MF said, We got to jump hurdles."
SW said, "Mr. P. squirted water on the children."
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ML said, " I am going to Harkness Park with my sister."
BR said, "We have 11 more days of school."
SW said, "Wednesdays are awesome because we can get ice cream."
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It was warm, but our trip to Mystic Aquarium was a blast.  Check out the photos!
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ML said, "We have 50 paws. We need 60 for 2 class paws and a class reward."

Mrs. Govoni says, "Hi" to Mr. LeFevre's class.

We are working on our ocean collages.
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Tomorrow we will take the DRP assessment.  It measures our strength as readers.
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Our Winter Stories are done!  Our Winter stories are done!!!  Right now they are with our art teacher as she will be picking some to share during the art show.  Once she makes her selections for the show, I will get these works of art home!
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Mr. L. said, "Have a safe and exciting vacation."

SW said, "We read 11, 564 books. We beat our goal of reading 8,000 books."

SW said, "We watched Mrs. Veronesi ride a motorcycle and a dirtbike."

NR said, "I can't wait for our next field trip!"

 We have started publishing our winter stories!

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NR said, "We have enrichment clusters. I am doing Zumbatomic."

CR said, "Once you start something, never give up until it's done."

Welcome back!
NR said, "Today we had 61 paws earned.  If we get to 100, Mr. LeFevre will pull 2 rewards."
AW said, "Last week was February vacation."
SW said, "I went to a special art project with DB and Mrs. Veronesi."
SB said, "We made solid figures out of paper."
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It's also the 100th day of school!!!
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Happy Valentine's Day from Mr. LeFevre's class.
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"Congratulations to those New York football Giants - and all their fans!"
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TF said, "We are regrouping in subtraction."

 SW said, "Some classmates got to go to a drumming workshop."
NR said, "I got to go to the drumming workshop.  I got to try a new drum.  I saw some friends from first grade."
NO said, "We learned two new songs."
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SB said, "I made a car into an airplane. I was leader today."
AW said, "We had a firedrill today."
CB said, "I was lunch patrol today."

Happy New Year!!!
AN said, "We started lunch patrol today."