Coco Our Class Mascot

Coco is our class mascot. He has been part of my classroom since I started teaching in 1999. Coco turned 15 last month! We threw Coco a birthday party. The kids ate cookies and made Coco a birthday booklet.

Each Friday Coco goes home with one of my students. The kids help Coco write down what he does with each of them on the weekend. I have former students, including college grads, that tell me how much they loved taking Coco home when they were in the 2nd grade.

This past weekend, Coco and his host came to say hello to me during church service on Sabbath. I heard he also attended a fellow classmate's birthday party on Sunday. Fun!

Language Lesson: Types of Sentences and Ending Marks

Currently the kids are studying types of sentences and their ending marks. Here are a few videos by Scratch Garden that we watched in class. I promised the kids that I'd post them here so that they could watch them at home.

For more fun educational videos by Scratch Garden, you can check out their YouTube account HERE.

Playground Bugs

Here's a multimedia video (in two parts) that I recently created for a multimedia class I am taking for continuing education credit. I created it as an introduction for our insect unit that we will be doing later in the school year. I thought it would be fun to share it here. Also, I wanted to point out that I took all the photos in this presentation with my iPhone of creatures we found on our school playground.





As soon as the back to school madness settles down, I will post pictures of our first two weeks. So far it's been fun getting to know the kids who are new to my classroom, and I'm grateful for the 2nd graders who are with me for another year. Those five kids have been incredibly helpful friends to the first graders and the new 2nd graders. I'm a proud teacher!