Always shine by using all your talents and skills!

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Show Day!!!

Hello!

I am so proud of the Nelson House!!

Today we used many of our 21st Century Skills to put on Skits!

Bravo 2nd Graders for working as a team!

I'm so happy for you!











Nelson House :-)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Writing Partner

Hello!

Today we worked with a writing partner to get feedback and support on the elaborations we made in our writing!

I am overjoyed and thrilled on the accomplishments of the Nelson House writer!

Bravo!




Nelson House

Monday, October 26, 2015

Working Together!

Today we had a brief "check-in" to see how we are doing on understanding Theme and being able to use evidence from a text to support our identified theme!

A group of students asked for reading support to make sure they could read the passage with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension!

I am so proud of Nelson House!





Smiles,

Nelson House

Friday, October 23, 2015

Working With A Partner to Collaborate and Empower and Socrative App

Hello from the Nelson House

We continue to work with partners to collaborate, empower, share ideas, and reflect.


















We also used Socrative-an online, interactive App to review our vocabulary!













Smiles,

Nelson House

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Schoology Book Club Post

Hello!

Today we shared our Book Club Book Posts which we post online in Schoology with a partner.

Our partner helped us critique our post!


Smiles,

Nelson House



Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Learning About Theme!


Happy 21st,

Today in Language Arts we started to learn about theme in literature.  We watched Rainbow Fish from Storyonline.net and then used Padlet to share what we thought the theme was.











Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Sharing our Revised Seed Stories with a Writing Partner

Hello!

Today in writing the Nelson House students shared their revisions of their seed stories and planning templates with a writing partner.  The parent offered them advice and was able to give them positive feedback on their stories.

Congrats, writers!

Nelson House


Monday, October 19, 2015

Working with our Book Club Book Partners to Read a Pla

Hello!

Today we worked with our Book Club Book members to read a play and answer questions about the text.





Smiles,
Nelson Team

Friday, October 16, 2015

Nelson House

Hello!

Here is the Nelson House!!!


Smiles,

Nelson House

Lunch Fun

Happy Friday!!!

Today I had a group of student who chose to eat with me because they earned 60 PBIS-Behavior Cards!

What conversation we had!


Smiles,

Nelson House

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Witch's Hat-Story Elements

Happy Thursday-It's hard to believe it is the 15th.  Half way through the month!

In Language Arts, we continue to work on demonstrating our understanding of story elements by creating a witch's hat with setting, characters, conflict, 2 plot events, and a resolution.




Smiles,
The Nelson House

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Silent Ball at Team Time!


Hello!
Today Ms. Wenzel's Team played Silent Ball with two balls!   What excitement in the air (literally).






Smiles,

Nelson House

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Online Jeopardy

Hello and happy Wednesday!


This morning Ms. Wenzel's Team students played online Wheel of Fortune.  We spun, we bought vowels, and we solved.



Smiles,

The Nelson House

Monday, October 12, 2015

Preparing for Student Led Conferences

Hello!!!

Today the Nelson House prepared for our student led conferences that will occur over the next two weeks.  We gauged our behaviors, how we were doing on responsibility and showing respect, and also showing personal advocacy.  We also wrote goals for ourselves.

Congrats Nelson House!!



Smiles,

Nelson House

Friday, October 9, 2015

Character Trait Jeopardy


Hello!!!

Yesterday we played Character Trait Jeopardy with a partner on our iPads!  We were able to utilize what we learned about character's actions, thoughts, traits, and finally motives to try to be the first one to score 2,000 points!  Here's the link:


Smiles,

Nelson House

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Go Noodle!

HELLO!

Today in Team we went on Go Noodle and learned how to do a series of handshakes and danced to songs.  Ask your about about our special performances by two students doing the worm :-)




Smiles,

Nelson House

Monday, October 5, 2015

Padlet


Hello!

Today in team we shared our Weekend News in Padlet.

Here's a picture of our responses.

Ask your child about their posts :-)




 http://padlet.com/rwenzel1325/weekend

Smiles,

Nelson House

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Library D

Happy October!

Today we had library!  We were so excited to check out-literally check out the library and find Hot Reads/Must Haves!

Thanks Mrs. Treml!!! :-)






The Nelson House