A Recipe for Thanksgiving 🍁

The Lower School at Laguna enjoyed a very special Thanksgiving celebration. During this time, each class shared a brief song, skit, poem, or message of gratitude. The second graders worked collaboratively to create a one-of-a-kind class poem that celebrates the traditions, customs, and events that make each  Thanksgiving unique and memorable. Our messages of love and kindness were recorded and combined into a heartfelt video. Click the link below to enjoy!

A Recipe for Thanksgiving

A Recipe for Thanksgiving
By The Second Grade

Add a teaspoon of dogs getting all they can eat – Cielle
Add a dash of family or friends – Simone
Refrigerate for 20 minutes – Rio
Pour in a cup of curiosity – Jacob
Mix in a cup full of hearts – Sophia
Add 13 pounds of turkey – Sebastian
Simmer it with lettuce and ketchup, then put in three ounces of kindness – Tadhg
Bake a pie for family and friends to eat – Natana
Pour a cup of family and friends around the table – Chloe
Hire a hedgehog to do the work and tell it that it is cute – Kellar
Serve with Grandma’s special jello – Kora
A pinch of thanks – Simone
Mix in a cup of Grandma’s kisses and garnish with Dad’s famous orange rolls – Cielle
Whip up with explosive hugs – Kellar
Blend in some nice kindness – Sebastian
Pour in a cup of love – Chloe
Mix in a cup of care – Izzie
Add a tablespoon of acts of kindness – Rio
Add a cup of music and stir it all around – Kaila
Don’t forget to dice up a load of friendship – Jacob
Roast it all with a barbeque for 20 minutes and flip it over to roast the other side – Tadhg
Enjoy it with the ones you love! Happy Thanksgiving! – All

 

 

World Kindness Day!

For World Kindness Day, the second grade celebrated by sharing over 100 acts of kindness and filling our kindness jar for the first time this year. The kindness jar is our way of recognizing and showing gratitude for thoughtful gestures, no matter how small. Every day, we close the day by thanking friends for specific kind-hearted acts that were experienced throughout the day. Typically, students thank their classmates, but occasionally they thank teachers, former teachers, family members, and friends outside of our school community.

Happy Halloween and Fantastic Fall Artwork 🎃

Wow! What a day! Second graders were able to enjoy many fun and festive activities for our Halloween celebration. We started the day with an amazing craft activity with step-by-step instructions shared by Simone and her mom via recorded video. The spooky haunted house scenes were a complete hit! During math time, students each selected a pumpkin of their own to use in measuring and estimating activities. At the end of the day, the entire school joined together for our traditional Skeleton Square Dance, led by our very own Coach Robitaille which was then followed by trick-or-treating all around our beautiful campus. Spooky and silly smiles graced the faces of everyone involved.

 

Our classroom is filled with amazing fall artwork! Check out our polka-dot pumpkins inspired by artist Yayoi Kusama as well as second-grade silly pumpkin stories. And, how about some glow-in-the-dark dog and cat chalk art for Dia De Los Muertos? The creativity is astounding!