Mrs. Austin's 2A

2nd Grade Teacher at Mill Creek

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Starting our Small Moment personal narrative writing unit by sharing our plans with a partner for our first story! 📝

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We were proud to share our small moment stories with our friends in 2G! The published stories look great. ✏️✏️

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Practicing building contractions with some candy corn! 🎃

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What a fun way to practice our digraph spelling words! 👻👻

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We are building three digit numbers and working on our place value knowledge!

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What a great way to start our week! We met BMX rider Matt Wilhem who taught us to never give up, to work hard, and the effects bullying can have. He even jumped over some very brave staff members! Thanks to our PTO for organizing such an engaging assembly. The kids loved it!

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This week in Science, we learned all the different ways seeds can travel. Animals play a huge role in seed dispersal. Check out some of our understandings!

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We had fun Friday learning about Maurice Sendak during our Art Explorers presentation. Thanks Mrs. Pignatiello!

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We met with writing partners to clear up confusion and offer feedback on our informational books.

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Today’s mystery readers were Mr. Austin and baby Emmett!!

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Can we stop erosion?

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We welcomed Emmett to the Austin family last week! Check back in January for some 2A classroom updates. 💙

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I still can’t get over the gifts I’ve gotten from my awesome students and their families. Baby Austin is feeling the love! 💙👶🏻 Thank you so much!

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Writing partners help us zoom in on a part of our small moment narratives.

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It’s always a fun day when we practice Read to Someone and build our stamina! We are getting ready to start Daily 5 this month. 📚💙

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Using our whiteboards to show our thinking and solve the daily math application problem. We are really starting to get the hang of it!

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What a perfect day to visit the Morton Arboretum and learn all about Terrific Trees! We learned how seeds travel, how to identify different types of Oak trees and enjoyed lunch outside. 🌳🍂🌱🍁🌳

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Practicing our retelling skills with a 5 Finger Retell. 🤚🏼

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In Science we learned about the different ways seeds disperse. Would our seeds make it out of “The Zone of Darkness”?! @MysterySci #staycurious