Mrs. Curtis   

       Second Grade Teacher 

Denver Elementary School in Denver, Iowa

 

 

Welcome to my Wiki page!  :-)  In creating this my hope is to be in better contact with my families, keep the lines of communication open!

 

I want to be able to post information on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis here.  For quick notes I'll post information HERE!  To the right, under 'side bar', you can click on different pages and links to view information that is long standing!  Please feel free to comment on this page as a form of communication between myself and other families in my classroom! 

 

Upcoming Events:

Friday     Feb. 12     2:00 Valentine's Day party

Wed.      Feb. 24       No School     Staff Development

Friday     Feb. 26     Students wear Character Counts T-shirts

 

 

                                                  The BEST birthday gift.....

                                                   Click on the link below to watch the video!

                                                          reading fluency.AVI

 

Spelling list for Feb. 3 & 5

 

Singular and Plural Nouns

Change the f to v and add es

1.  leaf

2.  leaves

3. wife

4.  wives

5.  shelf

6.  shelves

7.  elf

8.  elves

9.  life

10.  lives

11.  rooftop

12.  true

13.  bone

14.  draw

15.  whose

 

 

Math website, including worksheets to print, similar to Rocket Math

     www.dadsworksheets.com

 

 

 

Monday, February 1st was our 100th day of school.  To celebrate the student got to choose from 8 different 100 day activities.

1)  Make and wear 100 day glasses

2)  Flip a coin 100 times and make a tally table

3)  Make a name with money, whose name is the closest to $1.00

4)  Journal  "I wish I had 100......."

I can write 100 words

Roll a die 100 times and graph it

Measure 100cm using string

Journal "When I get to be 100 years old....."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Check out our classroom videos...

 

*Watch for the AVI that is a clue that it is a video*

 

 

Tuesday, Oct. 13 David M. Nieves, herpetologist and author of Reptiles Up Close and More Reptiles Up Close, (www.reptilesupclose.net) came to Denver to share with the kids how his love of reptiles helped him become a writer.  He explained to the children that in writing a book about the wonderful reptiles he was finding across the globe enabled him to share/communicate this passion with the children across the globe.  He spoke to the 6 traits of writing:  Organization, Ideas, Sentence Fluency, Word Choice, Voice, and Conventions

 

 

Here are some video links to the presentation we saw:

David Nieves7.AVI     video link

David Nieves6.AVI

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David Nieves5.AVI

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David Nieves4.AVI

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David Nieves3.AVI

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David Nieves.AVI

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**Having troubles with viewing the video links??  You aren't the only one!  First, try to pull up the videos using the application "QUICK TIME".  This seems to work better for Mac users, although I did have success on a PC using Media Player.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To purchase a 2008-2009 Classroom Yearbook please visit:

 

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/second-grade-2008-2009-mrs-curtis/7316679