First Few Snowflakes

We couldn't help but take the kids out this morning to let them experience the first few snowflakes falling! They were beyond excitement...I wanted to capture it to send to all of our parents.

If I were President

To begin our week studying about elections, I asked each student to write about what they would do if they were elected President of the United States. Here were some of their responses...I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Sound Website

We have been learning about sound this week. Here is the website to an online activity that we did in class. The children really enjoyed it and wanted to share it with their parents! Just copy and paste the address into your browser bar! Have fun!


http://www.engineeringinteract.org/resources/oceanodyssey.htm

Tonight's Homework

Today we talked about how the heart and lungs work together to deliver oxygen to our bodies. We used this flow map to demonstrate it. See if your child can explain to you how this process works!

Addition with Regrouping

This week we started working on adding 2 digit numbers with regrouping! This is a very hard skill for 2nd graders, but we are learning it quite quickly! Today we practiced regrouping tens using beans and cups! Then we made a flip book with the steps to working out the problems for us to use later as we practice more.

Lots O' Ladybugs!

We recently studied animal characteristics and part of that study was learning about the life cycle of different animals. Our classes have spent the last couple of weeks watching first hand how a ladybug goes through its life cycle. We learned that a ladybug has four stages:

Egg

Larvae

Pupa

Adult

We watched our ladybugs as they went through these four stages of life. Today we were able to take a closer look at our new adult ladybugs and find places on our playground for them to find aphids to eat! The students had a great time getting to know these fascinating animals.

The kids were so excited to get their new shirts today! Here is a look at the 2nd grade teachers sporting all the new class colors!

Pumpkin Math

This week we have been working on an activity called Pumpkin Math. I brought in 3 different sized pumpkins for the children to make some estimates about. We estimated and then measured the actual measurements for height, weight, and circumference for each pumpkin. We also counted how many sections were on each pumpkin and the students estimated how many seeds were in each one. We had some wonderful parent volunteers who took the pumpkins home last night and removed the seeds and cleaned them for us. Today, the students counted the actual number of seeds in each pumpkin, by filling cups full of ten and counting hundreds, tens and ones. They were quite surprised when our middle sized white pumpkin had almost twice as many seeds as the other two. Hope you enjoy the pictures of the students hard at work!

Hugs Not Drugs!

Today students were feeling comfy in their PJ's! We were able to watch Ronald McDonald in a live show reminding us to Just say NO! We couldn't help but get a little silly picture in as well!

Red Ribbon Week

Today was WEAR RED day to kick off our Red Ribbon Week! We had lots of kids in both classes wear red today!

SNEAK PEEK!!

We got a sample shirt from the company making our class shirts...Here is a picture. We should get the shirts sometime this week so watch for your child to bring theirs home!

Measuring Length

Today we began learning about measurement. We explored a few different units and measured some of our class objects with them. The students found that the smaller the unit, the more they needed to measure their object. We will continue our study this week using inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.

Counting Tens and Ones

Today in math we began to explore the concept of tens and ones. The students used marshmallows with small straws to hold 10 cheerios as tens, and individual cheerios as ones. We practiced demonstrating lots of 2 digit numbers as tens and ones during this fun lesson! The kids had a great time and got a good handle on the concept as well. It was a great lesson to end our fabulous first week!

Using Our Senses and Science Tools

This week we have been studying about the various science tools that we will be using this year in science. We conducted Investigation Stations today using our science tools and 4 of our senses. We discussed how it was not safe to use the sense of taste in science when we do not know the substances we are working with! The kids were given 2 similar substances and had to use the senses of touching, smelling, hearing, and seeing to determine if the substances were the same or different. They learned that the safe way to smell in science is to waft the smell towards their noses. There was some terrific discussion among the groups trying to explain to their other members what they discovered! Check out the slides for each class to see the budding scientists in action!

Mrs. Adams' Homeroom

Mrs. Martin's Homeroom

Starting a new year!

We have such a great group of kids this year!

Video Fun

Thought you might like to see a couple of cute videos I took during camp this week!

Field Day!!!

We have definitely ended our year with a BANG! Field Day was a blast as you can see from the pictures. I have truly enjoyed every day that I have spent with each of you this year. I hope you have a terrific summer!