Grade Two grows up

This was a day eagerly awaited by Grade Two: the day they would begin handwriting. It's the day when all the rules we'd firmly established when printing got thrown completely upside down. No more would we always, always, always start at the top. We wouldn't be allowed to take our pencil off the paper until we were finished the entire word?? That's quite the change when you consider that it takes 4 different pencil strokes just to complete the printed letter 'w'.

So here they are, industriously working on writing their first letter: e

Back to the Gym!

This was kind of ironic actually. One reason we go to the gym in November is because the weather is too foul to have Phys. Ed. outdoors. This year on our first gym day we happily skipped outside in our shorts and t-shirts enjoying 20 degree weather.

Marvin with his phys. ed. shoes on was ready to join us.

Our trusty bucket of noodles. We never go without those, they're too much fun!

Practicing the overhand throw so Miss J won't throw them off the baseball team when they hit Grade 6 or 7. Ok just kidding....kinda ;)

Here come the noodles! I didn't teach this lesson, but they were playing a noodle tag where they were baby elephants. If they were caught, they had to lay their trunk on the ground and someone could free them by jumping over their trunk.