Autumn Festivities!

Autumn has been such a blast in Room 2! October was so super busy with a pumpkin cooking project, pumpkin painting with our parents, a fall festival with the kindergarten and first grade, and a Halloween Parade! Here are some photos that capture the highlights of October! Be sure to catch all the photos in the slide show. Thanks to all you parents who were able to come by for some of the events--we LOVED having you!!!

Rhonicia & her mom!

Jesus & his mom & little brother, Giovanni

Angel & his mom are all smiles :)

Joseph & his dad, Joseph Sr.!

Here are Mrs. Dhillon and me representing one of our class' favorite animals--the marvelous PENGUIN! We had so much fun waddling around together all day!

Here we are tasting our delicious pumpkin treat! Be sure to ask your student how to make our pumpkin pie recipe--they took home the recipe to try with their families!

Here we are at the Autumn Festival, checking out the "Mystery Tubs" & trying to guess what's inside using our Sense of Touch! I heard students describing the items in the tubs as "slimy, squishy, smooth, chunky, cool, and sticky"! I wonder what was inside...

Autumn is here!

I can't believe how quickly Autumn is zooming by! It is almost Thanksgiving! Before we know it, we will be singing Christmas tunes and welcoming the new year!

We have been so busy learning all about Fall! We had an awesome time learning all about pumpkins in Science, and exploring them in Math Workstations!

We explored five stations in Math Workshop, and we kept track in our very own "My Pumpkin Investigations" book:

We counted all the bumps on our bumpiest pumpkins.


We weighed our pumpkins in pennies.


We estimated how many seeds were inside a pumpkin--then opened it up to count them!

We compared and contrasted two very different pumpkins!

We traced our pumpkin, and counted how many triangle pattern blocks fit inside.

We learned so much from our pumpkin investigations, and how each and every pumpkin is so very different!

Measuring Madness!

We had a blast measuring our desks with things from our room: tens rods, popsicle sticks, counting bears, geo boards, hexagons--you name it!!! Did you know our desks are 7 geoboards long, and 28 counting bears long?? I wonder how many dimes long the desk would be!?

Latin America Celebration!

Last month, EPACS hosted a tremendous Latin America Celebration for the community! The Stanford Trees learned a wonderful song they performed for the whole school, and made flags from each country with their parents! Here are some highlight photos from the wonderful event! Our Spanish Teacher, Mrs. Przbila did an incredible job working hard to coordinate the whole event. Thanks, Mrs. Przbila, and thank you Trees for participating!!!

My brother, Juan Carlos and sister-in-law, Greta came to enjoy the great performances and delicious food! They were excited to meet so many Stanford Trees!

Marine Science Institute!!

The Marine Science Institute visited our classroom with amazing creatures! We spent the morning exploring our own mini tide-pools. We had fantastic instructors who taught us about how to pet fish gently and hold sea stars, urchins, and other incredible sea animals. We learned so much about tides and how these creatures survive the rising and falling tides each and every day.


My favorite animal must've been the decorator crab--it grabs things from the ocean to decorate its back and camouflage itself!!! How awesome is that!?

This week in Room 2!

This week in Room 2, we are beginning Expository Writing in Writer's Workshop! Today, we had our first opportunity to write expository text, after we examined a flower from our school garden with our five senses. My writers blew me away with how quickly the picked up the skill of writing to teach their reader, including sensory details, and observing as scientists! Here are a few snapshots from our first day of expository writing! Stanford Trees should feel so proud of themselves!





Here is Emilio wearing the hard worker hat because he was working SO hard during writing!!!!

Literacy Night Fun!

Thank you so much to everyone who made it to Literacy Night last week! It was such a success. Mrs. Dhillon & I had so much fun leading you through our Morning Meeting with a Greeting, Message, and Activity!
It was so much fun waddling around to greet one another like penguins do, reading our message in English & Spanish,
and learning two new activities to play at home with your child: High Frequency Word Bingo, and Speedy Readers

I had a blast and hope you enjoyed the night as much as I did!

EPACS & EPAPA Bbq at the park

EPACS & EPAPA had our first joint event at the park this Saturday! We had so much fun enjoying the beautiful day in the park with great people, delicious food, frisbees, and bocce ball!