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WELCOME BACK!

Teachers spend a lot of time getting their classrooms ready for the first day of school! The photos below show what C-2 looked like before school began in September. Our classroom theme is BASEBALL, and we are called "The Second Grade All-Stars"! There are four table groups, and each group has a baseball name - Group 1 is called "First Base", Group 2 is called "Second Base", Group 3 is called "Third Base", and Group 4 is called "Home Plate". You can see each table group's name sign hanging above their group. We call our class meeting area (which is a large space in one corner of our classroom) "The All-Stars Dugout". There are baseball tablecloths at the tables where some of our classroom library book baskets are located. There are other baseball decorations hanging around the classroom as well!

GETTING READY:

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL:

"WELCOME BACK" ASSEMBLY

Principal Hunter and the Maple Staff welcomed the students back with a special assembly on the third day of school. Mrs. Hunter shared a PowerPoint presentation with the children about the school rules.

BOOK BOX "SHOPPING"

INDEPENDENT READING

"ALL ABOUT ME" PROJECT

EVERYDAY MATH

PRINCIPAL HUNTER

Principal Hunter visited our classroom to read "The Principal From The Black Lagoon". We liked how she changed the name of the principal in the story from "Principal Green" to "Principal Hunter"! We wrote Mrs. Hunter thank you cards. Thank you, Mrs. Hunter!

MAPLE MURALS

BOOK BUDDIES WITH FIRST GRADE

"HEART MAPS"

We made these "heart maps" of things in our life that we really like or love. We use these heart maps when we write "small moment" stories during Writers Workshop.