Kattre's Korner
Learning together. Growing together.
I'm not quite sure how, but it's been almost a month since I've posted. This can also be followed with how blown away I am that these are the last few days of FIRST QUARTER!! Please enjoy some snapshots of our last month of school I promise to try harder to post pictures more frequently next quarter! Here we have Ally and Sam, who were our banner holders for the homecoming parade. It was a bummer that we got rained out, but we still had a pep rally in the gym, where they got to carry the banner into. After reading Arthur's Reading Race during our reading time, Sam, Cora, Nikolai, and Alex got to perform a readers theater for the class. Each of them took a part - Arthur, DW, Narrator 1, and Narrator 2. They showed the rest of the class what a readers theater should sound like. ->Read with fluency and expression. We've started talking about geography and using maps. The 2nd graders had to work as a team to follow directions and create a map. Everyone had to help and contribute in some way. Here are our final maps. They did an AMAZING job!! Both in their teamwork, as well as their direction following and map making skills. On October 14, the class took a beautiful walk to the Platteville Public Library. We literally could not have asked for better walking weather. While we were there, the librarian read us books, showed us how they organize books in the library, and let us check out some books, too! Just a heads up, these books are due back to the library by November 4th. The wonderfully thoughtful, talented, and kind Mrs. Utley came to our class with a CART ATTACK. After having heard that we were reading books like Henry and Mudge, Arthur's Reading Race (with Arthur and DW), as well as Frog and Toad, she came to us with books with DYNAMIC DUOS. These character combinations make for fun and exciting stories that she shared with us. We <3 Mrs. Utley! We have been exploring the states of matter in science. We talked about solids, liquids, and more recently solids as particles. I told the kids we were making soup with these particles (lima beans, pinto beans, mung beans, rice, and corn meal), had them mix them all together, then pretended like adding the rice was a mistake. We had to brainstorm ways to get the particles separated and back into their containers to start over. We had to work together as a team with everyone helping to contribute in the process. They did AMAZING and were very surprised to find out the Mrs. Kattre was fibbing them the whole time! :) Between you guys and me... this is my favorite science lesson that I teach. :) Thanks for hanging in there through all of these pictures. Again, I'm sorry that it took so long to get it done. I swear I started and stopped 5 or 6 times. Thank you for all of your support and patience this year so far! You (and your children) are a great bunch to work with! BRING ON NOVEMBER!
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Mrs. KattreI'm a 7th year teacher, with a family of three. Join me on this journey as we learn together and grow together. Archives
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