2B Christmas Card 2010

Another free greeting by Smilebox

2B Turkeys 2010

2B Turkeys 2010 on PhotoPeach

2B Joins Progressive Story Project

2B Joins Progressive Story Project
We are participating in a month long collaborative project involving 4 other schools with boys and girls from New York to Australia. We are writing a story together with our friends in New York writing the first part while other students in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Australia wrote the middle paragraphs. 2B wrote the ending, and our writing will soon be combined into a voice thread story from around the globe!
We are planning to talk via Skype with two of our cooperating classes soon.

2B Flying Pigs Go on a Mapquest!

Flying Pigs on a Mapquest on PhotoPeach

Flat Stanley Spends a Day in 2B!

Adventures of Flat Stanley at Presbyterian Day School on PhotoPeach



Flat Stanley recently made his way to PDS due to our fantastic Martin Institute Teaching Resident, Bridget Lowery. As you can see, he had a fun time on his visit. Who knows? He may turn up again at PDS as a PDS boy!

2B Traverses the Rock Wall!

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2B recently spent some time traversing the PDS rock wall! This required strength, agility, problem solving, and encouragement from coaches and friends. We are very fortunate to have a rock climbing wall at PDS.

2B Traverses the Rock Wall! from Beth Diaz on Vimeo.

Pine Park Mystery

The Pine Park Mystery on PhotoPeach

Parade of Book Characters

Dress up Book Reports from Beth Diaz on Vimeo.

Today was our annual Dress Up Book Report in which 2B boys dressed as a book character and paraded through the First Grade hallway. It was quite exciting to see all of the wonderful characters! It made us want to keep reading!

Dear Mrs. Jarratt- Letters to our science teacher about animals we discovered in our backyard





Dear Mrs. Jarratt- Letters to our science teacher about animals we discovered in our backyard.
Please comment. Boys would love to hear your thoughts!

2B Birthday Friends 2010-11

Free digital scrapbook personalized with Smilebox

My Favorite Day in Second Grade

What was your favorite day in second grade? What day was the most fun or the one you remember the best? What day would you like to have again if you could choose one day from this year?

Showcase Your School Voicethread

Our class participated in a project called Showcase Your School. Here is the link to the voicethread we created to share all about PDS with everyone!

2nd Grade Memories

More Cool Book Commercials

More Cool Book Commercials

More Cool Book Commercials

Cool Commercial Book Reports

Would you buy a used car ( I mean book!) from this young man???

These are a few of our very cool commercial book reports that 2B boys presented recently about a fiction or nonfiction book of their choice. You'll definitely want to read a book after watching these "book commercials"!

Please feel free to comment or recommend any of your favorite books.

My Father's Dragon and Kerpoof!

My Father's Dragon and Kerpoof! on PhotoPeach

My Big Backyard Field Trip

My Big Backyard on PhotoPeach

Jack at the Winter Olympics!!

Jack F., a student in 2B, recently attended the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, with his grandmother.

Here are some excerpts from Jack's travel journal!

We went in a limo. It was awesome. Then we went to Nonni's friend's house. We saw a hockey match between Switzerland and USA. The score as 1-3 and USA won! We went on the sky train. It was awesome!! We went skating and looked at pins. I loved the pins! We saw speed skating. Canada was in first place for the gold and Netherlands was in 2nd and 3rd places. It was awesome! We saw curling. It was France vs. USA. USA won! There were 3 more games. One of the games was Canada vs. Denmark. Canada won! I got an Olympic mascot named Sunni. I saw a gold bar and went to a dolphin show. We saw manatees, dolphins, and otters. I saw Miga, another Olympic mascot, and I saw the Olympic cauldron.

Yipes Stripes, 2010

Yipes Stripes, 2010 on PhotoPeach

Flying Pigs Celebrate World Math Day!

Flying Pigs Celebrate World Math Day!

This year we have enjoyed World Math Day in a big way and have participated along with 2 million other students in 200 countries in this very exciting online event! What was it like to participate in World Math Day? What was interesting and exciting about this big event on March 3, 2010?
Think about the day and the practice time you had before March 3, and post your comments.

Abraham Lincoln - Our 16th President

Mr. Lincoln's Boys is one of the stories we read which helped us think about the fun times that the Lincoln boys had in the White House!

What if Abe Lincoln were to visit the United States today? How has the world changed since he was president in 1861-1865? What would you tell Mr. Lincoln about the world of 2010? What new inventions do we have? Do you think our world of 2010 is better or worse?

Tennessee Postcards

TN Postcards on PhotoPeach

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater tells the unusual story of a man who dreams big about exploring the North and South Poles! In this book he is surprised to find a penguin delivered to his door one day and sets about making room for this penguin in his family's home. If you could adopt any odd pet, what would it be? How would you take care of this strange animal? What would you feed him ? What would it be like to own a _______?? Think about it and post your thoughts on our first blog post for the 2B Flying Pigs Blog in 2010!