Test Week Day 1

To a wonderful start to testing week!

To my students surprise when they arrived to class today they found a little something waiting for them. They discovered a letter sent to them with a little treat for being there today. I always look forward to do these little something for them, in order to encourage them to try their best.

Free Download of:    Letter           Label

Today's treat was a plastic Easter egg with candy inside. The students were not allowed to eat the candy nor to open it until they got home today. The egg had a label saying: Don't forget to try your "Egg"stra hard! I did put the disclaimer out there that you do not spell extra with the word egg . My purpose was to play with the word extra to put egg into it for the egg that they received. My students loved their treat and were laughing at my "egg"stra joke. : ) You can find the letter and the egg label for FREE on my teacher store either on TPT or TeachersNotebook.

Even though in 2nd grade we do not give the AIMS test, we do however take the SAT 10. In order to get my students motivated, I showed them a song that I found online. They did not only love the song but they eventually started singing along. We were blasting our music that the assistant principal went to our classroom to ask me to lower the music as it was loud and could be heard outside the classroom. 

There are many different versions of this video, but I believe this one to be the best. Kudos to the person who recorded this version of the song, and who created the video. Best of all it was uploaded to teachertube.com which means that it could be showed at school, and it is not blocked. : )