2B Highlights: 5/8/15

Jackson: My highlight this week was Asher's BOW, dodgeball, and the snow cone sale.

Lachlan: My highlight this week was Asher's BOW and building dominoes for free choice.

Asher: My highlight this week was my BOW.

Jake: My highlight this week was Asher's BOW and the Art Festival.

John: My highlight this week was tech time.

Will: My highlight this week was Asher's BOW and free choice.

Soren: My highlight this week was urban planning and Asher's BOW.

Cyrus: My highlight this week was the snow cone sale.

Adrian: My highlight this week was learning photoshop and library.

Theo: My highlight this week was free choice.

Phil: My highlight this week was urban planning and Music.

Taaran: My highlight this week was free choice.

Jay: My highlight this week was Spelling and free choice.

Alex: My highlight this week was figuring out how many tables could fit in 2B during Math.

Dylan: My highlight this week was urban planning and Asher's BOW.

Mikhail: My highlight this week was Asher's BOW and dodgeball.

James: My highlight this week was free choice and Asher's BOW.

Dyon: My highlight this week was Asher's BOW and Art.

Webb: My highlight this week was Asher's BOW and free choice.

Jarett: My highlight this week was tech time and library.

Cole: My highlight this week was Asher's BOW.

2B Highlights: 3/27/15

Asher:  My highlight this week was Dyon's boy of the week and going to Alta Plaza Park for recess! 

Taaran:  My highlight this week was Dyon's boy of the week and our field trip! 

Phil:  My highlight this week was library and glee club! 

Cyrus:  My highlight this week was Free Choice, Dyon's B.O.W. and the field trip. 

Jackson:  My highlight was Free Choice and Alta Plaza Park. 

Will:  My highlight the field trip, Dyon's boy of the week, and Alta Plaza park! 

John: My highlight was finishing our Cable Cars and the Exhibit and Dyon's B.O,W.

Jay:  My highlight was Alta plaza park, Science and Dyon's BOW

James:  My highlight was Dyon's Boy of the Week, Alta Plaza where we learned the distance of the planets, and the field trip! 

Jarett:  My highlight was the field trip, the planetarium and our podcasts! 

Adrian:  My highlight was the earthquake house at Cal Academy and the lunch on the field trip. 

Soren:  My highlight this week was the field trip and Dyon's Boy of the Week! 

Theo:  My highlight this week was Dyon's B.O.W., Alta Plaza park (measuring the planets), the field trip. 

Dylan:  My highlihgt this week was the field trip and Alta Plaza park 

Webb: My highlight was the field trip, Alta plaza park, and Dyon's B.O.W. 

Ollie:  My highlight this week was the field trip, podcasts and listening to everyone's highlights

Lachlan:  My highlight was the field trip, Dyon's BOW and the Cable Car Exposition. 

Jake:  My highlight was the earthquake house, Alta Plaza Park, and Dyon's BOW. 

Cole: I liked having science at Alta Plaza Park and I also liked seeing my brother and sister at the playground. 

Alex:  My highlight was coming back from the field trip and Dyon's BOW!

Ryder:  My highlight this week was the Academy of Sciences, measuring the planets and how far away they are and, Dyon's BOW. 

Dyon: My highlight was the field trip, art, and learning the solar system song and my BOW. 

Mr. S: My highlight was teaching about the size and distance of the planets. 

Ms. Dionne:  My highlight this week was seeing you all explain your cable car designs to the parents during our Expo! 

2B Highlights 3/20/15

Jarett:  My highlight this week was making the Puzzles at Marin Prep in the Castro and hearing everyone's highlights. 

Phil:  My highlight this week was making our brackets for March Madness. 

Ryder:  My highlight this week was making our brackets, going to the Castro and studying our environment and how to help it. 

Jake: My highlight was Families this week, the party for Ms. Dionne, Reading group and playing knock out at recess. 

Cole:  My highlight was the brackets and drawing still life in art. 

Jackson:  My highlight is hearing all of the highlights and my boy of the week! 

Cyrus: My highlight is all 3 parties this week and march madness brackets 

James: My highlight this week was learning about Space and making our March Madness brackets

Mikhail:  My highlight was making our March Madness brackets and Jackson's boy of the Week. 

Dylan:  My highlight was highlights, March Madness and .... Friday reading group! 

Alex: My highlight was learning more about space. 

Taaran: My highlight was Friday's reading group and hearing highlights! 

Webb:  My highlight this week was doing the march madness brackets, Friday's reading group and Jackson's boy of the week. 

Theo:  My highlight is the wedding party for Ms. Dionne and learning about space

Ollie: My highlight was both parties and finishing up our Lego cable cars with the 8th graders

Soren: My highlight was Ms. Dionne's party and Reading group party and learning about space! 

Will:  My highlight was Ms. Dionne's party and finishing up our cable car project! 

Lachlan:  My highlight this week is finishing our cable car and Jackson's boy of the week. 

John: My highlight was the wedding party for Ms. Dionne and finishing up cable cars. 

Asher:  My highlight was Jackson's boy of the week and learning about space.

Adrian:  My highlight was Ms. Colgate and teaching us about sportsmanship and the sandwich on the field trip to the Castro. 

2B Highlights: 3/13/15

Jay: My highlight was the Mosaic assembly and Art - making the simple machine heads and Jake's boy of the week.

Dylan: My highlight was Jake's boy of the week and Art.

Alex: I liked earning quite time today :) 

James: I liked Art and Jake's boy of the week. 

Will:  I liked Art and Jake's boy of the week. 

Jackson: I liked the mosaic assembly and Jake's boy of week

Jarett:  My highlight was tech time and designing our cable car with the 8th graders.

Adrian:  My highlight this week was listening to everyone's highlights and learning about area in Math. 

Dyon: My highlight was Jake's boy of the week because of the card game and reading group. 

Ryder: My highlight this week was doing the lego cable cars with our 8th graders and studying Jim Thorpe, my changemaker. 

Mikhail:  My highlight was making the cable car with our 8th grade buddies and Jake's boy of the week. 

Asher:  My highlight was probably studying the changemakers, mine was Gandhi and how close we are to winning the 30 seconds or less treat! 

Phil: My highlight was doing my report on Abel Lincoln and Harvey Milk 

Cole: My highlight this week was designing the cable cars

Ollie:  My highlight was the 8th grade lego cable cars. 

John:  My highlight this week was redesigning our cable cars with 8th graders and highlights! 

Webb:  My highlight this week was Jake's boy of the week and making the simple machine heads in art!

Cyrus: My highlight of the week is getting to go to Alta Plaza park and DEAR 

Lachlan: My highlight this week was lego cable cars and the Mosaic assembly 

Soren: My highlight was redesigning the cable car and playing knock-out on the field with my friends.

Taaran:  My highlight was art and making Simple machine heads and we are so close to getting our special treat for 30 seconds or less

Theo:  My highlight of the week is Simple Machine heads in Art, 30 seconds or less 

Jake: My highlight this week was my boy of the week and Art and making our simple machine heads.  That was so fun! 

You Light Up My Life!

For Valentine's Day, the second graders made simple electric circuits to light up a red LED bulb for cards for their families.  They decorated their cards with punny messages, like "You light up my life!", "You're electric!", and "You're the light of my eye!"  Pretty sweet, and sugar free!

If you want to try making your own circuits at home, here are the directions.  We took the project from TapeTricity at Maker Fair.

2A Highlights 2/6

Owen: I liked weaving in art, PE and the obstacle course, learning about screws, playing football with friends, and staying warm during the rain with inside recess!
Clyde: I liked Families, the PE rope climb, weaving, and playing football with friends. I also liked finishing my weaving and Image of the Day.
Asher: I liked indoor recess, rope climbing in PE, the obstacle course in PE, and everything else in PE.
Van: I liked rope climb, PE, recess, and weaving in art because I finished mine.
Finn: I liked finishing weaving in art, Image of the Day (today’s especially, the wheel suit in China), PE, and I will like learning choice. I want to add making screws and watching the video about screws.
Tanish: I liked weaving, PE, and recess.
Henry: I liked writing, art, PE, recess, and Families. We made cards for faculty.
Connor M.: I liked finishing my weaving, Image of the Day, Families because we played capture the flag, and PE.
Will: I liked families with Ms. Der Yuen, recess inside, seeing Rohan’s Boy of the Week, and will like learning choice.
Kenzo: I liked everything especially weaving!
Axel: I liked everything and, like Kenzo, I liked seeing my weaving not on the loom because it was finished!
Kekoa: I liked weaving, science, and getting the ball for selling Fair tickets.
Alex: I liked weaving in art, playing with my friends at recess, and I’m pretty sure I will like learning choice.
Conrad: I liked finishing my weaving, getting my new seat for February, watching the Image of the Day when the guy climbed Niagara Falls, and Jedi training in PE.
William: I liked art, recess, PE, and writing. I am making a map of California for my writing.
Caspar: I liked art, recess, PE, Image of the Day, and writing. My book is about soccer.
Trey: I liked art when I finished weaving, Image of the Day yesterday, recess playing kickball, and making the screw with Mr. D. I also liked writing.
Boden: I liked finishing my weaving in art, families, Jedi training in rope climbing in PE, and the guy climbing frozen Niagara Falls and the scooter board suit in the Chinese Mountain in Image of the Day!
Elliot: I liked math, and especially having recess when it’s not raining (not like today).
Rohan: I liked being Boy of the Week! I will like learning choice, I liked recess, PE and the rope climbing, and music! I also liked the recent Image of the Day pictures.
Frederick: I liked PE when we did training and recess.

We missed you, Liam and Connor B.!

2A Highlights 1/30

Henry: I liked art, PE, and recess. I liked weaving. I want to add going to Alta Plaza.
Connor M.: I liked recess, free choice in PE, and I missed a lot of other stuff being sick.
Connor B.: I liked art and watching Bill Nye! I also liked recess and PE.
Caspar: I liked recess, PE, art, and Tim and Alice. I liked playing basketball at Alta Plaza!
Conrad: I liked holding Alice’s leash at the park, making our sheep, weaving, watching Bill Nye, and the pulley experiment.
William: I liked art, recess, PE, and Tim and Alice to play basketball.
Van: I didn’t do much since I was sick. I liked music, PE, recess, and weaving.
Kenzo: I was only here today, but I liked Morning Meeting, math, and recess.
Finn: I liked Tim and Alice, art, and science with the iPads.
Elliot: I liked being Boy of the Week, learning choice, and all our recesses.
Will: I liked PE, recess, music, and math.
Liam: I liked Tim and Alice, art, science, and Bill Nye.
Alex: I liked recess with my friends, art, Bill Nye, and missing school yesterday. I also liked meeting Tim and Alice. It was really silly when Alice kept jumping at me.
Tanish: I liked Tim and Alice coming to the park, recess, and most of all art!
Asher: I liked art, Bill Nye, and recess!
Rohan: I liked coming back! I liked recess, pulleys with Mr. D., music, PE, math, snack, and everything. I want to add playing basketball at recess and making the zodiac sheep!
Clyde: I liked making the sheep and most of all the park with Tim and Alice!
Kekoa: I liked science, Alice and Tim, recess, Bill Nye, and art. I also liked making sheep!
Axel: I liked everything! I really liked the party at Alta Plaza.
Owen: I liked playing basketball with Tim, meeting Alice, weaving in art, recess, and making the sheep for the zodiac!
Boden: I liked recess! I liked football.
Trey: I liked PE, recess and playing kickball, art, Bill Nye, making the zodiac sheep, and weaving in art.

We missed you Frederick!

Spark Truck Visits Town

Today, we had the thrill of spending the day with Stanford d.school's Spark Truck. Second graders toured the Spark Truck in the morning, learning about the high and low tech tinkering tools on board: 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters, hand tools, craft materials, and more. They were particularly impressed with the freshly laser cut cardboard Spark Trucks they took back to class as a souvenir. As Jackson noted, "They even smelled burned!" observing the connection to their laser production. The visit certainly sparked their imagination and curiosity before embarking on their afternoon challenge.

Did you know we have our own 3D printer in the Upper School STEM lab?

Bipartisan tinkerer

Laser cut Spark Truck!

In the afternoon, they rolled up their sleeves to tackle their own design challenge. They created Vibrobots, a signature Spark Truck activity that's been done with hundreds of kids of all ages across the country. It follows a design sequence of brainstorm, prototype, test, share, and storytell with a strong tinkering element. This iteration had a Town-specific tilt: teachers crafted it to connect to our curriculum. In the midst of studying Chinatown and simple machines, the boys brainstormed zodiac animals and machines to mashup together as zodiac transformers. Their creatures ran the gamut: a monkey wrecking ball, pig dumptruck, snake laser cutter, ox tank, dragon airplane, and even a bouncing bunny bicycle. They got technical tinkering with circuits to build a battery operated motor to make their creature vibrate. Not only did they have to learn how to make them function, but they had to control them and connect them to their creature. Then, using a range of low tech craft materials, they created their creatures. Upon creation, they shared names, stories, and traits about their vibrobots. Who knew the tiger rocket is actually quite shy and that's why he likes to blast off? The activity was capped off in classic 8 year old boy fashion: battle bots! They pitted their vibrobots against each other to see which one would "push" the other off the table. You can imagine the squeals!

If you want to make your own vibrobots at home, check out the lesson in the Spark Truck collection on Instructables.

Vibrobots

Vibrobots

Telling stories about their creatures

Tinkering

2A Highlights 1/23

Clyde- I liked writing to President Obama, art and visiting the Spark truck.
Will S – I liked Ms. Colgate, STEM lab, visiting the Spark truck and recess. I also liked weaving in art.
Caspar – I liked art and science and recess.
Alex – I liked the Spark truck.
Tanish – I liked building the cars with the wheel and axle and recess.
Axel – I liked everything – mostly the wheel and axle lab with Mr. D.
Van – I liked finishing A Bear Called Paddington, recess, and free choice in PE. I also liked weaving in art class.
Boden – I liked looking at the Spark truck, free choice at PE, and recess.
Elliot – I liked when we got to see the laser cutter on the Spark truck.
Frederick – I liked art, lunch, recess and snack.
Liam – I liked art, music, and the Spark truck and PE. I also liked finishing A Bear Called Paddington.
Owen – I liked free choice in PE, seeing the Spark truck, lunch, art and weaving and recess.
Asher – I liked the Spark truck and the laser cutter inside of it, and I liked recess playing paper football with my friends and I liked free choice in PE.
Trey – I liked seeing the Spark truck and all the things inside and recess, lunch and art and I liked doing more of the writing about our informational books. I also liked PE.
Henry – I liked writing, recess, free choice at PE and art.
Connor M – I liked weaving in art, the spark, truck, recess, image of the day, finishing A Bear Called Paddington and everything else!
William – I liked art, recess, PE, and the Spark truck.
Conrad – I liked the Spark truck, finishing my weaving in art and I liked free choice in PE. I also liked finishing A Bear Called Paddington and reading group.
Kenzo – I liked everything, especially the Spark truck and playing with my friends at recess.

We missed you Rohan, Finn, Kekoa and Connor B.!

2A Highlights, 1/9

Caspar: I liked science, recess, and art.
Will: I liked science, recess, and art. I liked the OK Go simple machines video.
Clyde: I liked the OK Go simple machines video and weaving in art.
Liam: I liked art and Image of the Day.
Axel: I liked everything, especially the Ok Go simple machines video.
Connor B.: I liked art, building simple machines and the video! I also liked recess.
Elliot: I liked the simple machines video.
Connor M.: I liked the tech lab! We did the tinkering game. I especially liked the Ok Go simple machines video. I want to add my 3 page long Winter Break News and the assembly and learning about Destiny Quest in library. I liked science, art, and recess!
Conrad: I liked the simple machines video, hearing the a capella concert, music, and the game on the computers at tech lab. I liked Chinatown too!
Trey: I liked art, recess, and tech lab when we did the fun game. I liked the simple machines music video today. I also liked learning about simple machines and Chinatown and drawing for the mailbox. I want to add the assembly.
Tanish: I liked the video about simple machines and learning about Chinatown.
William: I liked art, recess, tech lab, and writing my book about San Francisco.
Finn: I liked art, assembly, tech lab, PE, and spelling. I will like learning choice.
Alex: I liked the video this morning (the simple machine thingamadoo), the assembly, math, and playing with my friends.
Boden: I liked the simple machines music video with the paintball, music, and weaving in art!
Owen: I liked the OK Go simple machines video, tech lab, recess, weaving in art, PE, and assembly for Shades of Yale.
Asher: I liked the Shades of Yale assembly, simple machines in tech lab, and I loved the video this morning!
Henry: I liked recess, PE, and art.
Kekoa: I liked the Image of the Day, tech lab, recess, and the assembly and art.
Van: I liked recess, the video this morning, and PE.
Kenzo: I liked everything and especially our video this morning!
Frederick: I liked the simple machines video, art, and science.

We missed you Rohan!

2B Highlights: 1/9/15

Jarett: writers workshop and tech time
James: shades of Yale assembly and weaving in art
Jake: shades of Yale singers and art
Dylan: weaving in art
Taraan: Simple machines and Chinatown
Cyrus: Simple Machines and Lachlan's B.O.W.
Dyon: Yale singers and Lachlan's B.O.W.
Phil: Reading Group
Ryder: shades of Yale singers and weaving
Asher: spelling and weaving in art
Mikhail: Shades of Yale singers and Lachlan's b.o.w.
Cole: the acapella group and reading group
Ollie: seeing my teachers and friends again!
Alex: touching touching the bunny fur in Art
John: Shades of Yale singers and Chinatown
Soren: Lachlan's B.O.W.
Will: is that I'm finally back at school today!
Adrian: lunch and Ms. Colgate
Webb: weaving in art and Shades of Yale singers
Jackson: weaving in art and Lachlan's B.O.W.
Lachlan: my B.O.W. and assembly
Theo:  weaving in art and Shades of Yale singers
Jay: shades of Yale singers and weaving in art

Victorian House Books are here!

Dear second grade families, 

Below you will find the links to the Victorian Real Estate project we have been working on over the past several weeks.  They boys used their best persuasive writing techniques to write an ad that would make you want to buy their house! In art, they made clay models of their dream home and used characteristics of Victorian architecture to add details to their work. Enjoy the books and a huge thanks to the library and art department for their collaboration on this project!

Have a fantastic winter break!  

Warmly, 

Rachel, Jennifer, Sophie and Eric

2A - http://online.fliphtml5.com/twlz/moda/

2B - http://online.fliphtml5.com/twlz/vqqt/

2B Highlights: December 12

My Highlight this week was…

James:  Owl Moon in Art.

Ollie:  The whole week!

Soren: Having our 1^st Quiet Time.

Theo: The whole entire week!

Taaran: Making our compliment challenge

Asher:  Learning about a parallelogram.

Jackson: Owl Moon art Project

Dylan: Making Holiday Cards!

Cole: Making Holiday Cards

Jay:  The whole entire week!

Alex:  Playing volcano tag in PE

Dyon:  Making Holiday cards!

Lachlan:  Owl Moon  art

Ryder:  Owl Moon Project in Art.

Webb: Glee Club

Will: Owl Moon in Art

Cyrus:  Everything this whole week

Jake:  Making our Holiday cards

John:  The whole entire week!

Jarett:  Owl Moon art!

Phil:  Giving to the food drive

Mikhail:  The whole entire week! 

"Be Aware, Hunger is Everywhere!"

"Everyday is Christmas if you're giving food."  "Give food, give love."  "Be aware, hunger is everywhere!"  These were some of the catchy slogans that the boys came up with for signs to spread awareness of local hunger within Town School.  These signs can be found hanging throughout the building, including some key messages in the lunch room ("Only take what you will eat").

As part of our plant and food study, we learned about issues surrounding access to healthy food.  The boys realized that some people in San Francisco- and all over the world- don't eat healthy food for a variety of reasons: it's expensive, it's not available nearby, they don't know about the health benefits.  When they realized that KIDS LIKE THEM in San Francisco don't have access to healthy food, they wanted to take action and help the community.  We helped mobilize these changemakers by brainstorming solutions and selecting the one with the most direct effect.  As a result, we are holding a second grade food drive for hungry children through Second Harvest.  Here's a list of the most needed children's foods that get distributed at children's organizations.  That said, we are happily donating any non-perishable food.

We will be holding the food drive through Friday, December 14th.  If your family would like to participate in our food drive, your son can bring his food to donate in our collection barrel outside of the second grade rooms.  Even if you aren't able to contribute, we hope you can have conversations with your son about hunger and service.

Open Houses Presented by Tiger Realty

Next week the boys will present their Victorian homes they created with the art team as an extension of our community study of San Francisco history and culture.  After learning about Victorian architecture and our trip to Haas-Lilienthal House, the boys began creating their dream Victorian homes.  They wrote about these homes in real estate listings.  Using graphic organizers, they planned the features and style of their homes, then embarked on writing a persuasive listing.  They studied real estate listings to learn about elements in writing.  Then through the process of brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and now, publishing.  In the art room, they molded clay facades with geometric features and careful glazing.

These beautiful homes will only be on the market briefly!  This fresh crop of real estate agents at Tiger Realty is eager to make some big sales pitches to you at our Open House on Tuesday, December 16th from 8:00-8:25.  We hope you come ready to make an offer.  We will also be sharing their work digitally, so don't fret if you are unable to attend.

learning about Victorian architectural details

sketching Victorian homes on our field trip

learning about Victorian life at Haas-Lilienthal House

drafting our dream houses

glazing our clay facades

thumbs up for Victorian homes!

ta da! ready for the kiln

Hour of Code

This week, Town School is participating in Hour of Code, along with millions of other kids around the world.  While 2nd graders have had the advantage of learning code all fall (with Lightbot and code.org), everyone at school will spend an hour coding this week!  We'll see how many lines we can write... any guesses?

It was only fitting that we spent our Town Families time doing a coding activity.  We learned about binary code, and how it is a simple language with two features.  We used this to make our own binary code bracelets with blue and white beads.  Boys chose two important letters, such as initials, SF, TS for Town School, or anything else important to them.  One boy in my family chose VT because he loves Vermont, and another spelled the word "NO" because he is tired of writing high school applications.

Check out this link to learn more about how we spent our Town Families time this week.  The videos are also embedded in our Digital Media Resources section.

Happy coding!

2A Highlights, 12/5

Owen: I liked estimating the compliments in the jar (I was closest!), playing football in the rain, glazing our houses in art, and I’m looking forward to a project I’m working on.
Rohan: I liked glazing our Victorian houses, playing football in the rain, filling our compliment jar, writing about peace, watching the Magic School Bus Plants on rainy recess, reading groups, and ballpark estimates in math.
Van: I liked glazing our Victorians, football with Mr. Goldman, and PE.
Will S.: I liked everything especially filling our compliment jar!
Asher: I liked filling the compliment jar, glazing the Victorian houses, playing football, and art. I also liked tech lab for Lightbot.
Kekoa: I liked filling up our compliment jar, art, counting our compliments, and playing in the rain.
Henry: I liked everything! A detail is football in the rain at PE.
Kenzo: I liked football in the rain at PE, glazing our houses in art, and everything else.
Conrad: I liked filling our compliment jar, finishing Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3, and PE.
Elliot: I liked everything especially filling our compliment jar.
Alex: I liked glazing the Victorian houses, playing football with my friends, earning our compliment party, and math Jeopardy.
Trey: I liked being Boy of the Week, art and our Victorian houses, math Jeopardy, spelling test, and meeting with Chef Melanie. I also liked tech lab with the Lightbot and filling our compliment jar!
Connor M.: I liked filling the compliment jar! I liked glazing Victorian houses in art, math Jeopardy, playing football in the rain, making peace books, making signs about hunger, and Image of the Day. I also liked tech lab doing Lightbot.
Axel: I liked everything especially math Jeopardy!
Tanish: I liked glazing our houses in art and math Jeopardy.
Connor B.: I liked filling our compliment jar.
Caspar: I liked everything, one detail is filling the compliment jar.
William: I liked everything, one detail is filling the compliment jar.
Frederick: I liked PE, filling the compliment jar, and math Jeopardy. I also liked tech lab doing Lightbot.
Clyde: I liked math Jeopardy, playing football in the rain, Image of the Day, and art.
Finn: I liked art and filling the compliment jar.
Liam: I liked filling the compliment jar, glazing our Victorian houses, math Jeopardy, and Magic School Bus in the rainy recess.

We missed you, Boden!

2B Highlights 12/5

Adrian:  Playing Lightbot at tech time.

James:  Glazing our Victorian houses in art

Ollie:  Sharing my poster in front of the class.

Soren: Starting our Peace books and visiting Chef Melanie

Theo: Ollie’s BOW and peace books

Taaran: Lightbot, Chef Melanie and our peace books!

Asher:  Ollie’s B.O.W.

Jackson:  Peace books and I liked talking to Chef Melanie.

Dylan: Glazing our Victorian houses in art.

Cole: I enjoyed our peace books and the teachers being so awesome!

Jay:  the whole entire week!

Alex:  Reading the One Eyed Giant in Reading Group.

Dyon:  Victorian houses in art!

Lachlan:  Finishing our peace books.

Ryder: Peace books and Victorian ads

Webb: Glazing our houses and peace books  

Will: Glazing our Victorian houses

Cyrus: Ollie’s BOW, lightbot and playing with my friends at recess.

Jake: Glazing our Victorian house and my peace book

John:   the whole week!

Jarett:  Ms. Colgate introduced Bug!

Phil:  Giving hunger a taste of what we are made of!

Mikhail: Peace books and signs against hunger!

2A Highlights: 11/14

Will: I liked recess, Ms. Colgate and morning meeting.
Rohan: I liked Ms. Colgate, the field trip to the Haas-Lilienthal house, recess, and PE. I also liked learning about William’s Boy of the Week too!
Trey: I liked art, recess, Ms. Colgate and math. I liked the field trip and the rain.
Conrad: I liked the field tip because we got sarsaparilla and I liked recess because we got to play kickball.
Clyde: I liked image of the day, Ms. Colgate, field trip and math jeopardy. I also liked art when we made our Victorian houses.
Connor B: I liked tech lab with Mr. D and Mr. Wild, Boy of the Week, math and recess.
Frederick: I liked the field trip, art and recess.
Van: I liked art and I liked math jeopardy. I liked recess and PE.
Kenzo: I really liked everything and one of my most favorites was art because we got to make Victorian house sculptures.
Alex: I liked building the Victorian houses in art and also starting planning our dream Victorian house. I also liked image of the day and recess.
Liam: I liked the tech lab, math jeopardy, art and the field trip. I also liked the rain.
Boden: I liked math jeopardy, tech lab and recess.
Connor M: I liked math jeopardy, tech lab, art, recess, social studies and Ms. Colgate. I really liked learning about Victorian Houses. I also really liked the field trip.
Elliot: I liked the field trip and DEAR time.
Henry: I liked recess, PE and art. I liked that we got to start making our own clay
Victorian Houses.
Caspar: I liked art, recess, and the field trip.
William N: I liked art, recess and the field trip.
Finn: I liked art, highlights and going to the tech lab for our coding activity.
Kekoa: I liked art and recess. I also liked Ms. Colgate and social studies.
Asher: I liked art when we made our Victorian houses, I loved the field trip because I got to go next to the street where you used to live, and I liked math jeopardy.
Owen: I liked Ms. McDonald coming to be with us, I liked going to Haas-Lilienthal house and I liked PE. I also liked the rain.
Axel: I liked the field trip and recess and playing math jeopardy and I liked art when we made our Victorian houses from clay.

We missed you Tanish!

2A Highlights 10/31

Will: I liked losing my tooth today at lunch! I liked the Halloween parade and the nature walk. I also liked making a time machine at recess.
Asher: I liked the Halloween party, Giants dress almost all week, and recess.
Connor B.: I liked math, recess, finishing our Halloween baskets and making a mural in art, and science.
Frederick: I liked art and the Halloween parade.
Van: I liked Ms. Colgate because I got to sleep for 3 minutes, recess, art, costume parade (even though I was burning up), and free choice. I really enjoyed recess today because it wasn’t really crowded, you know how it gets?
Conrad: I liked art, playing at recess, making a block science lab, finishing our trick or treating baskets at art, the costume party, the nature walk, and Ms. Colgate because it felt like we got a nap. I liked making a time machine at recess.
Clyde: I liked the nature walk! I also liked the Halloween parade and Charlie Brown’s pumpkin!
Rohan: I liked the nature walk! I liked Charlie Brown, putting up our world map for our food stickers, Ms. Colgate’s breathing exercise because I slept for five minutes, recess even though it was wet, and Halloween parade! I also liked the nature walk.
Liam: I liked our nature walk in the Presidio, art when we did the poster, and recess in the rain.
Owen: I liked putting our food stickers on the world map, Halloween mural in art, wet recess, and Halloween parade.
Caspar: I liked recess, PE, and art.
William: I liked PE, recess, and art.
Connor M.: I liked the Halloween parade! The Presidio walk, wet recess, and art and finishing our Halloween heads.
Henry: I liked our nature walk in the Presidio, art, recess, and PE in the rain. Also, the parade!
Kekoa: I liked recess in the rain, PE, Halloween parade, and math.
Boden: I liked PE in the rain, finishing our pumpkin heads in art, the Halloween parade and costumes, putting food stickers on our map, and falling asleep with Ms. Colgate.
Axel: I liked everything! Some things I really liked were our costume parade, finishing our Halloween heads in art, and recess in the rain.
Alex: I liked second recess in the rain because we made a time machine, art and the haunted house mural, the Presidio nature walk, and PE today in the rain. I also want to add I liked Image of the Day.
Elliot: I liked everything especially the rain today! I liked our nature walk.

 We missed you Trey, Tanish, Kenzo, and Finn!