Happy Hump Day!

It was a great day in second grade! Students gave some great examples of how to follow our classroom rules, and acted out some funny poor examples (how not to behave). I introduced a couple of centers to the class. They are not big fans of my random groupings. It seems that they would prefer to play with the same friends at all times. They made the most of it after the initial shock and had some fun.

One of my favorite things to do is to read aloud, using different voices for the characters, so it was gratifying to have a student tell me today, "I love how you read with the voices!" (I think it was Kamryn.) They LOVED the book Interrupting Chicken! Ben even created a skit about it.

Before lunch, pairs played a dice game in which each student rolled 1 die, they added the total of both dice, and the first person to correctly call out the answer received a tally point. I noticed most students giving tallies to their partner even when they won and the partner lost. Very kind, indeed.

There was a cicada that crash landed near a group of students during recess. A huge group of kids tried to help him back onto his feet and get him feeling better. He ended up with a huge hole in his chest, so we laid him to rest underneath a tree and said prayers for him. Tammy took lots of pictures of the scene.

In the afternoon, we played "Cooperative Musical Chairs." In this version of the game, no one is "out." Instead, when the music stops, everyone must make room for everyone else on the remaining chairs.