Book Club Orders Online Now!!!!!

It is easier than ever to place book orders for your child.  The link below will take you straight to Scholastic where your orders will earn free books for our students.  There are lots of good deals for back to school so be sure to check it out.  !  https://orders.scholastic.com/GRMJZ

Our classroom code is:  GRMJZ - I believe it will take you directly to our class but just in case. :)

Welcome to second grade.  I am so excited to meet everyone!!!  We are going to have so much fun in second grade.  You even get to pick your own seat during open house - COOL!  We are going to do a lot of reading this year so maybe you should start practicing now so you are ready on your first day :)

I am going to be asking you what kind of teacher you want to have so be thinking about what makes the perfect teacher so you can help me be a "rockstar" teacher this year.  Dust off your thinking caps, polish them up so we can get to learning.

Check out our garden - it has some ginormous plants in it.  We are going to be learning about the garden and having some outdoor classes within the garden space. 

See you soon,

Ms. McGinley

Hello Everyone

Wow, it has been a really busy year. I have not really been as involved with our classroom website as I had intended. I have added a new website called Story Time for Me. Please take a look. Click on "online stories" and scroll down to see the books that are available. The story is read to you while highlighting the words so easily a "Read to Me".

We are having a great year and everyone is making fabulous progress. I am proud of all my students and their hard work. We are having a Christmas party. We will be decorating cookies, reading stories and, of course, wearing our pajamas. Please join us on December 16 @ 1:30.

We did a Reader's Theatre and had a lot of fun. :) Enjoy!!!

It's been a real jungle in our room the past few weeks but we are learning a lot. Be sure to ask you student what is happening with their mealworms and what new life has sprouted in the mealworm homes. Don't stop there, be sure to ask them about some of our new reading and writing centers.

If they haven't already told you how much fun it is to do math on an i-touch be sure to ask about that. We are down to business and everyone is working hard. Thanks for all you do to help them at home in their learning. Here is to a fabulous year.

Hello to Gavin

We are off to a good start this first week. We are missing Gavin who will be joining us after the first of the year. We wish to include Gavin in our classroom from a distance so we have set up a separate blog to communicate. I am experimenting so it may/may not work or be totally user friendly. It is a work in progress but try it and see if you can send a quick hello through the comment section. Let me know.....

Ms. McGinley

Welcome to 2nd Grade

Welcome to 2nd Grade,

I'm glad you could swing by and check out our classroom website. I have some fun learning websites listed along the side to get you started and ready for your first day.

Open house is August 25 at 5:30 - 6:30 so please come and say hello, check out your new room, and let me see how much you grew over the summer.

Wear something jungly if you have it -- this is a clue about our classroom . See you soon.

Ms. McGinley