Scavenger Hunt

We went on a measurement scavenger hunt today for science.  We went throughout the hallway and found the inches and centimeters of many different objects.  They all did a great job working with partners and using quiet voices. 

Box Tops!

We won the 2nd grade box tops contest.  We had 659 box tops in our class.  We voted to have a free dress day on Thursday this week.  Your child will have free dress this Thursday and Friday. 

Thanks for collecting! 

Our Community Mural

We finished our different types of communities today!  We wrote what we learned about them and put it in the hall as one big mural.  They worked hard and it looks great! 

Urban, Rural and Suburban Communities

We have started making our different types of communities with our table groups today in Social Studies.  They will be put together as a big mural when we are finished and we will be writing about them and what resources we get from each type. 

Science

We had Science today in the newly finished Science room.  We are now working on measurement so your child brought home so new vocabulary words today.  They had to measure different types of objects today and record their measurements. 

Ralph Fletcher

Our visit from author Ralph Fletcher was wonderful.  The kids really enjoyed meeting him and hearing about how he writes books.  They were great listeners and they asked intelligent questions.  If you did not purchase any of his books and your kids are interested, they will be at our Book Fair.  His books are also sold at Blue Willow Bookstore. 

Word Study

We played some games today to help us learn our spelling words, patterns and also differentiating between common nouns and proper nouns.  We will be doing this throughout the week, but please make sure they are practicing their words at home as well. 

Collecting and Organizing Data

In Science, we are learning about the Scientific Method.  Today we focused on the data part of it.  We each came up with a question, surveyed the class using tally marks and then turned our data (information) into a bar graph. 

In Math we played the Number Grid Game which is also on Everyday Math Online.  I showed them all how to log on today so hopefully it will work for you tonight.  

Science

In Science lab today we did an experiment to see how much water a penny could hold.  Ask your child about it. 

Math Games

Today in math we learned some new math games that focus on addition, counting and exchanging money.  We also worked in small group to add combinations using two or three numbers to equal 100. 

Sharing our Communities

We have been working in small groups to create a community and today we finally finished and they got to present their communities to the class.  They are hanging in our room now so you can see them tomorrow at Parent Night. 

Communities

 

We are learning about communities in social studies.  We did our first group activity today where we were drawing a community.  We had to work together to decide what it needed and we needed to make sure it had the 4 parts of a community.  They did a great job! 

Reading

We have been getting all of our procedures and expectations down for reading.  We have been busy!  Today we talked about being a real reader and not a fake reader.  We sorted out some examples of both and then went to read, practicing real reading.