I hope you had a wonderful holiday season! We are back at school and have already gotten back in the full swing of things! But before all that, we did have a little bit of winter art fun! Here are some pictures from our students creating snowflakes. We also did a really fun snowman art project! It was the first time teaching this art project and it was a blast! Such an awesome project and they turned out super cute! Enjoy the pictures!
Andrea, Tim and Lily
Amir and McKenna
Zainab, Kyra and Taverick
For our snowman project, we created the 4 snowmen that were similar yet slightly different. We added each to a different background background color, added details and snowflakes made out of foil. So much fun!
Sital
Amir and McKenna
Joelle
Kyra and Taverick
McKenna
Ms. Senthirajah's finished product!
Hopefully we'll get some snow this winter and can really build some snowmen! :)
This Friday is the annual Civil War Game between the Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers. To celebrate, yesterday was Civil War Day at Cherry Park! It's a big deal at Cherry Park because one of our favorite things is the rivalry we have between our teachers! :) Everyone was encouraged to dress in the colors or gear of their favorite team. Ironically, no students in our class dressed in Beaver gear or colors! And I promise, I didn't influence them at all..... :)
Here are some pictures from the day!
Cherry Park's 2nd Grade Team...Mrs. Zurcher, Mr. Soule and Ms. Senthirajah
Xiao, Leilani, Kyra, McKenna, Andrea and Nayanna
Ms. Lalande and I met when we were both students at the University of Oregon.
Mrs. Straub and I are big Duck fans! But she has to root for the Beavers a little because her husband went to OSU.
Mrs. Zurcher, Ms. Senthirajah and Mrs. Barker
Lots of Duck fans in our class!
Hopefully we have some happy Duck fans after Friday's game! GO DUCKS!
Today was our November Spirit Assembly at Cherry Park. It was an exciting assembly for us because 2nd grade was responsible for teaching the entire school about the new Student of the Month trait! We worked super hard all week, practicing for our skit to teach the trait of being Attentive. These students gave up some of their recess time each day to practice and get ready for our skit.
Here are some pictures from our rehearsals:
Mr. Soule discusses the trait of the month.
Our wonderful actors getting ready to practice.
Malena and Joelle (left) and Bella, Lang and Tre (right)
We had 9 amazing (and very brave!) 2nd graders who participated and presented our skit to the whole school. From our class, we had Leilani, Amir, and Joelle. The students from Mr. Soule's class were Bella, Rose, and Lang. And from Mrs. Zurcher's class, we had Malena, Tre, and Aighlee.
Here is a video of our skit teaching the December trait of Attentive:
(make sure the sound is turned all the way up!)
In addition to the skit, our November Students of the Month were recognized. November's trait was Helpful.
Taverick and Alyssia were chosen as the helpful students for our class! Congratulations to these two very helpful students!
Their pictures will be displayed on the Student of the Month bulletin board for the next month.
Our next assembly will recognize our December Attentive Students of the Month. We are looking forward to that assembly and recognizing more Students of the Month!
Today Ms. Robertson came to our classroom to talk about bully prevention. At Cherry Park, we follow 3 simple rules when it comes to bullying.
Ms. Robertson went over with our class what to do if someone is being bullied, whether it's happening to them or they see it happening to someone else.
First we practiced the "STOP" signal. Then we talked about the "WALK" step. We know that walking away and removing ourselves from a situation sometimes is enough to solve the problem. The last step is "TALK." If walking away doesn't solve the problem, then talk to an adult.
We spent time talking about what to do if we see bullying and how to use these 3 steps as a bystander.
And...we also talked about if you are the bully and are asked to stop....
We ended our lesson by watching the following video, which is called "The Meanest Girl in Second Grade."
This lesson was a great reminder to help with bully prevention at our school! Thank you, Ms. Robertson!
This morning, Ms. Keller's 5th graders visited our Walk to Read class. Each student brought an adventure story that they had written and shared it with our class. Below are some pictures from our fun morning...
Bella reads her story to Malena.
Daeton listens as Erin reads her story.
Faith shares her story with Zainab.
Austen reads his story to Tim.
Kyra listens to Jaden's story.
We really enjoyed listening to the stories written by the 5th graders! And it was fun for me to see the stories written by Austen and Jaden because those two were in my very first kindergarten class at Cherry Park! :) We're looking forward to hearing more stories written by Ms. Keller's class during the school year!
Every year on October 31st, Cherry Park celebrates Crazy Hat and Hair Day! It's always fun to see the creativity of our students and staff members on this day! Here are some pictures from this year's Crazy Hat and Hair Day...
Maddi, Nedel, Nayanna and McKenna (from left to right)
Kyra, Tim, Alyssia and Leilani (from left to right)
Lily, Taverick and Andrea (from left to right)
From Mrs. Zurcher's class...Tre, Daeton, Malena and Maddie (from left to right)
From Mr. Soule's class...Elaine, Bella, Matilda, Amellia and Erick (from left to right)
And...our awesome second grade team...Ms. Senthirajah, Mr. Soule and Mrs. Zurcher
Our monthly spirit days are always so much fun! We're already looking forward to our November spirit day!
