Fall Program

The second graders did a wonderful job performing at the fall concert in November.  Here are a few pictures from the night.

Little Miss Pigtails

In October, the Buena Vista Little Miss Pigtails, Macy Sievers and Lindsay Grau, visited second grade. We learned about the many things made from pork and the jobs pork production provides.  They gave us many goodies including pig cupcakes!

Firefighters Visit

It is always a fun day when the Firefighters visit school.  Our class was fortunate enough to ride ON TOP of the fire truck for Fire Safety Week.

Parade

It was a fun and windy day walking in the Homecoming Parade. Our streamers got a workout!

Cy's Visit

Here is a picture with all of the second graders on our Fitness Day.  It was fun having Cy visit our school!

Homecoming Week

 The first dress-up day was Career Day.  Here are the boys dressed up as their future professions.

The girls are all smiles in their career clothes!

Senior Citizen Day...need I say any more?!

Circus Day brought more clowns than usual to school!...along with a horse trainer and a ferocious lion.

Fantasy Day brought out a lot of personalities.

Spinning Wheel

Earlier in the year a reading group had read the book "A New Coat for Anna".  The book showed how a coat can be made from sheep's wool into yarn, which is then woven into cloth, and cut and sewn into a coat.  Marty Olsen, from Newell, has a spinning wheel and showed the kids how this process is done.    We love seeing first hand how things work.  Thanks to Marty for giving of her time and talent.

I 'Mustache" You a Question...

We were working on collecting data.  Each student decided on a question that they would like to do a survey on and collect data.  To make it fun, we took pictures of ourselves with mustaches and used the phrase "I 'mustache' you a question..."  Oh MY!  The giggles we had doing this project!  Here are a few of my favorite mustache photos.

Second Grade Rocks!

We were fortunate to have some real rock hounds come visit our school.  Jason and Erin Ballou came to second grade and taught us about the three main kinds of rocks.  We loved being able to see and touch some very unique rocks.  Thanks to the Ballous for sharing their collection with us!

Mrs. Freese's Second Grade

Look at this good looking group of kids on the first day of school!

Puppet Shows

Poem Video

The students all found a poem they enjoyed. They practiced reciting their poem.  Next, they were filmed reciting their poem in front of a green screen.  Lastly, we partnered up with high school students from Mrs. Carlson's class who helped us find backgrounds to go with each poem.  We hope you enjoy the video.

For the Birds

As I post this, our weather is "for the birds"!  But Katie came and did a neat presentation about real birds.  She showed us some bird books and discussed how birds have different feet and beaks to help them do different tasks.  We loved seeing her live bird.

Science Day

Kathryn came from the Science Center of DesMoines and did many fantastic demonstrations and taught us a great deal about different science phenomena.  Take a look at these pictures of some neat displays.

Legos and Math

We have been working on measurement in math.  The kids partnered up and made a lego creation with a handful of blocks they were given.  They measured their creations with both inches and centimeters.  They used the measurements to answer some addition and subtraction problems.  This is part of the Iowa Core Curriculum for Mathematics.  Here are photographs of the partners with their structures.