A Season to Celebrate!

I have been missing in action for a few months.  Things were busy at school...snow days had taken their toll and we were playing a little bit of catch up.  As March approaches we enter what I like to call "Birthday Season" in our household!  As a teacher, it worked out well that both of my children are spring babies...made for nice maternity leaves and extra time at home.  Now??  It makes spring a little bit chaotic as we celebrate 2 birthdays in 3 weeks, plus Easter.   But we found some time to celebrate! Speaking of celebrating...we also took time in March to Celebrate Read Across America and Dr. Seuss.  Not only did we have fun learning about the author, we also read LOTS of Dr. Seuss books.  I love to choose some of the 'less popular' books to share as read alouds with the kids. Plus Dr. Seuss has many books that have lessons or messages in them and are longer stories.  Second grade is the PERFECT age to share these!  One of my favorites is The Sneetches.  I was thrilled when one of my smarties made the connection to Rosa Parks and MLK!!  I love those moments. We also celebrated with a theme week all based on Dr. Seuss books.  On Monday, we read Fox in Socks and wrote our own tongue twisters!  Of course we wore crazy socks too. Tuesday was Oh the Places You'll Go.  We wrote about a place we would like to visit, and then we got to wear shirts of places we've been or would like to go! Wednesday was WACKY Wednesday.  This was a real fun one!  We dressed in wacky outfits...my team was amazing with their creativity---but if I post that picture here, they may be a little upset with me!  We also make our own wacky posters, and the students enjoyed trying to spot the mistakes. The Many Colored Days was Thursday's theme.  We painted our 'faces' different colors and wrote a poem about how those colors made us feel.  The music teacher helped us out with an activity that related the colors to sounds as well, and the kids really enjoyed it!   Friday was the old favorite, The Cat in the Hat Returns.  We had read the original earlier in the week, and drew these awesome cat pictures.  I had the kids write a reading response of what they would do if the cat came to their house about The Cat in the Hat.   Once we read the second one, they compared and contrasted the two books. It was a fun filled week and sent us right into Spring!  Before I knew it the quarter was over, I was busy with report cards and then relaxing during our way to cold Spring Break! Hope you've not been as busy as I was!  Here's to hoping the last 9 weeks fly by!