State Parade Floats

We have been covering states and capitols in Social Studies and did a states parade! It was so much fun and the students did amazing work!! Each students drew a states name out of a bucket and had a list of criteria that had to be included on their float.

Wisconsin

Illinois

Hawaii, Alabama & Connecticut

 

Nebraska

Georgia

So proud of my kiddos for working so hard!! We have had a great time learning about all of our States and Capitols! 

I Stand Amazed!!

As I sit here with my students writing attentively I am overwhelmed by who they are becoming as young men and women.  I was lucky enough to have many of these students in 3^rd grade and have gotten to see them grow not only educationally, but also see their personalities blossom.

The assignment was to write a letter thanking an adult on our campus. My instructions were simple…why are you thankful for this person and what would you want to tell them if you had the opportunity. As a teacher I shamefully admit that I thought this assignment would be sloughed off by the students seeing as it is the week before Christmas break. To my surprise and delight they have proven me very wrong.

Each one of them thoughtfully considered who they would write their letter to. They brain stormed their ideas (many filling a page with a bubble map of ideas and reasons they were thankful). Then they set to writing. Usually in my classroom there is a low dull noise of talking…not this time. It was silent! They were working fiercely and thoughtfully. The sweet writing that came from their hearts had me in tears after they went to P.E.

Each letter had been filled with genuine reasons of thanks! I was so proud of my 5^th grade babies, not only for their technical skills but also the way that they wrote from their growing little hearts.

Teaching is a difficult profession with daily challenges, but after reading those letters I am reminded of how precious an opportunity I am blessed with everyday, growing the minds and hearts of our future adults. Thank you Lord for this honor you have given me! 

NEW YEAR NEW GRADE!!!

Woo Hoo!!! It is time to head back to school and this teacher could NOT be more excited! I will be teaching 5th grade ELAR and Social Studies. We kick off with meet the teacher on Tuesday night 5:30-7:30- this is the perfect time to drop off your supplies and come meet my smiling face! Our FIRST DAY is Wednesday the 19th!

We have an amazing team this year and we are so excited and honored to be teaching your kiddos! I will be posting contact information and classroom pictures soon!! Stay tuned for more on this aMANESing year!!

Our Disguised Turkey's

This year our kiddos got to disguise turkeys from the holiday eaters! They also wrote letters that explained to the hungry families why they should not be eaten.

Our top answers were
- My babies will miss me
-It would ruin my trip to Disney Land
- My boss expects me at work the next day
-Christmas is my favorite holiday and I DONT want to miss it!

The kids worked very hard on their turkey's and they turned out AWESOME!!

WOW NOVEMBER!!!

So obviously I have not done a fantastic job keeping up on my blog! It has been a crazy year this far! My 6 weeks of maternity leave flew by and I have been busy getting to know and falling in love with my new second grade kiddos! I must admit it was quite an adjustment going from 3rd to 2nd, but I am loving it more and more everyday!!

We have been busy working on addition and subtraction and those dreaded WORD problems!! These have been tough! I wanted to share some awesome sites that can help with math...

www.abcya.com- This is good for math, reading and spelling

www.turtlediary.com

If you have access to an Iphone or an Ipad there are also Apps. that will help. Simply search second grade math and multiple will pop up. There are some that cost however there are some that are also free. If we can make it fun and add some competition it helps with their excitement in math learning.

There are also games that you can print and play at home. Email me if you are interested and I will send them to you. amy.manes@advantageisd.org


Hopefully I will update again soon!!!

It's a New Year!!!

ITS A NEW YEAR!!!!!

I am so excited for this year! I am in SECOND grade and totally pumped to tackle this new challenge! I am out on maternity leave until September 22nd and loving every minute with my precious baby boy, but sure am missing my second grade kiddos!

I will be posting our class schedule as well as pictures of our Pirate classroom very soon!! Parents, if you need to contact me my email address is amy.manes@advantageisd.org. My phone number is also listed on our classroom welcome letter!

Parent/Teacher Conferences

Just wanted to remind everyone! Parent/Teacher conferences are tomorrow evening. If you are interested in meeting please contact the office to set up a time! I hope to see all of you there!!

Thanks!!

Amy Manes