2H Class Blog!: Read Across America Week!

What a fun, fantastical week we had!

SMS left for vacation in style after celebrating Read Across America Week! I think it's safe to say, our Owl class loves reading just as much as Dr. Seuss himself!!

Our exciting week started off with Fox in Socks Day! After listening to the tongue-twisting classic, students spent the morning showing off their own fun socks!

During reader's workshop, they practiced reading accurately by tackling some of Fox's tricky rhymes!

On Tuesday, we celebrated Cat in the Hat Day by sporting our favorite (or wackiest!) hats.

Mrs. Belanger shared one of her favorite stories with us: Nerdy Birdy!

On Wednesday, kids came into the class and found things were quite wacky!

We read the lesser known Dr. Seuss book (the use of his Theo LeSieg pen name threw us off!) Wacky Wednesday, then set off to locate all the wacky things we found around the classroom---boy were there some strange things we came across (and I'm not just talking about our outfits!!)

Thursday was Theodore Geisel Day (Dr. Seuss' real name!) and students came to school dressed as a favorite book character! Throughout the school, we saw several Dr. Seuss favorites, such as the Cat in the Hat, and Thing 1 and Thing 2, a whole slew of Harry Potter characters (I thought I was teaching at Hogwarts!), as well as many other favorites like Fancy Nancy, Pete the Cat, Piggy, and Pinkalicious! The fun just never stops!

Ms. Donlon and I teamed up to represent a 2nd Grade Classic!

We're SO lucky to have such a wonderful, fun classroom volunteer!

Pete the Cat danced into our classroom for a read aloud!

While we were sad to see it end, we ended our great week with a wonderful, curl up and read day. Sporting their PJs, students snuggled up with pillows and stuffed animal friends for a whole school "drop everything and read" event. Since we were all snuggled up and comfortable, we figured we'd stay that way and enjoy watching the movie Balto! After reading several stories about Balto and the other great dogs from 1925 Alaska, it was the perfect ending to our week (and will be the perfect start to our Iditaread which will begin after vacation---stay tuned!)